Has he travelled? Apparently Holdsworth has.

Can he play when hes not named in the squad?

I can't see Whiting starting not with a centre who is coming back from an ankle injury, think he will be on the bench, otherwise looks good to me

You dont have to name the squads like you do for league games iirc, even though we have

The one thing in your favour is its going to be overcast and only 38 degrees.

You'd trade places with us, though.

Just read the JK article.. Agree with previous posters, any chance Stephen Kearney can pull on a shirt just for the pre match talk.

I heard he spoke after JK did just before the match. Anyone no what he said?

Currently in Portugal and flying back tomorrow, can someone confirm the kick off time?? Bbc site says 4pm but I think that might be the time the programme starts. Hull FC site says 5pm so not sure!!

programe stats at 3.30pm k.o 4pm

Its 5pm local, 4pm uk.

At a team meeting a day or so before the final all the players talked about their motivations for the game. Kearney said that he'd already experienced major successes in his career and that his motivation for the game was to see the younger members of the squad experience such highs.

If Hull FC raise their game.....and they WILL have to..then who knows.

Either way it will not ultimately result in silverware how could it?

A situation that your lot are only too familiar with.

Aye, twenty-seven years since their last major trophy win and thirty-three since their only Challenge Cup win. It must hurt.

Surely Miller would want to be rooming with a player who will be playing, not one who isn't? Or am I looking to much into it?

Very much so, we think our current 6th place is a tremendous achievement, all things considered.

There's even talk that we look likely to finish in the top 8 but we're not going to boast about what we might achieve, what a mugs game that would be.. ha ha ha ha ha..

Hull will win.
As for the Dobbins, I think they are more worried about the result than we are.

You said you were nailed on for sixth last season.

I forgot about that.

An easier run in wasn't it?

Yes, he said something along the lines of five of their last eight games were at home (they lost all of them) whereas we had a majority of away games.

What a mug's game indeed

No excuses today I'm expecting a big performance and a win.

Off out on the p[ii[/iss early doors to get in the groove.

D-DAY.
COME ON THE BOYS!

Head says Catalans, Heart says FC..

Hoping for a good performance no matter what, but Gentle said this is game we've been waiting for.

It's nice to see how the BBC values our sport. On the sports section of my BBC News app, they have stories about women's football, women's rugby and Moto GP, but not a single mention of the Challenge Cup.

The people in charge at the bbc are a set of clowns, I think they come from the same place as the ******* who run the RFL. The licence fee is just another tax that goes on nothing we get a say on. Just look what they have done with football and horseracing, they are cast aside so they can fund a load of **** that no one wants to watch.