Well the story goes that the story about Sio breaking his jaw was just that. You seem to be saying he's definitely out, so let's see.
Back to the "nine"
Returning:
Kelly
Lunt
Burke
Salter

Replaced by loan players:
Tilse (Puletua - young and hungry)
Allgood (Greenwood)

That leaves Walker, Goulding and Graeme Horne. So 3 players. Meanwhile at FC we have injuries to Westerman, Naughton, Bowden, Hadley and Lancaster. Wouldn't be a derby build-up without the usual suspects creating a soap opera about a non-existent injury catastrophe. I don't know why you believe it's necessary considering you have your best attacking side for 20 years.

I tell you what, I hope we always have injuries coming up to a derby because if we didn't you would hyperventilate.

Amended for accuracy.

Hull KR confirm loan signing of Tony Puletua from Salford. Set for Magic Weekend debut against FC.

If you beat us, you beat us. Squirming about and looking for reasons to invalidate the outcome or withhold credit only gives the victorious rival greater pleasure - this history does tell us. Why would I do that?


Hull are currently a decent team in pretty good form. If you win, that'll be the main reason.

Ours to lose IMO. We're better than rovers, end of. They have decent halfs and a couple of decent 3/4's but realistically our forwards should be well on top. Stop campese and we stop rovers. I see our wingers getting peppered with high kicks all game though and if we don't defend these then rovers may well win it

Barista is hyperventilating stop it.

Leave her be, derby week is the only excitement she gets these days

Anyone know if you can move wherever when in the stadium? Know a few of us rovers fans that are now worried because it says Leazes Stand on their tickets. Plonkers.

With the ticket sales being so high on the Saturday, I'd doubt they will allow people to swap stands.

I have tickets for Leazes West corner, will I be able to move into the of that stand?

Yeah the whole stand is unreserved, once you in you can move about, but you can not move from one stand to another

Thought so, just wondered why my tickets specifically said Leazes west corner .

Having re-read my original post I fail to see where I have offered an opinion on Sio being out or in but obviously I cannot ' interpret' your thoughts.
Thanks for posting that Kelly, Lunt, Burke and Salter will be returning, this should certainly strengthen an injury hit squad. Pity Goulding ( you inadvertently forgot him, although to be fair there were a lot to remember) isn't back because I reckon most fans would class him as Rovers number centre at present
You do realise the club had to take loan signings to replace first choice Tilse and Allgood (long term injuries, unless of course you know different) and of course especially at this stage of the season the choice is hardly over whelming.
I could of course have included various fringe players on the injury list, the equivalent of Naughton, Hadley and Lancaster (who by looking at other threads the vast majority of posters would not include in your first seventeen) but I suppose you needed to include because that would have only left Westerman in what is looking your strongest side this season.
I would be amazed if Rovers can get any near in this derby but hopefully come the final derby this season (assuming we don't meet in the CC which I believe AP is targeting according to media reports) then I fully hope and expect revenge in what will be a very one sided match at this weekends MW.

To be fair, you certainly need a win to start to 'even' matches a little in this MW series

With the exception of Lunt and Burke, pretty much on the money, then, certainly on Sio. Wasn't aware of Michaels injury so swap him for Westerman and it's 5 apiece with Rovers all-conquering backline at virtually full strength. Yikes.

lunt will play unless chester wants to go with 4 forwards on the bench (assuming, of course he's been able to scout the RL world and find 4 fit forwards to sit on his bench) to counter our pack

Seems likely. Gutted for Naughton, was really looking the part.

Bet he doesn't. Anyway French John is able and ready.

And young. And hungry.

No kelly either. I'm not bothered by that, Blair is a better player there for me.
FC by plenty, your time to win one and picking from a strong squad by dropping naughton and rankin.

So out of the four you posted would be back only two are in the squad and from them Kelly faces a late fitness test on the hamstring which has already caused him to pull out of training this week. So that could be 25% success rate. Well done

You appear to have again over looked Rovers best centre Goulding as being injured ( he is recovering from concussion unless of course you know different) and you continue to count fc squad players (who from most fans comments wouldn't get near the team in a full strength hull side, which seems very near the case for the MW clash....perhaps I should include the equivalent in the likes of Connor Robinson and co

. JTP posts Sio will be playing with a broken jaw but teeth being wired together doesn't seem the best of preparation but whatever the case not exactly ideal.
But apart from the obvious flaws to your argument you are indeed 100% correct

Naughton isn't dropped, he's injured.

Radford code meaning can't handle high kicks. That's ok, we understand. He's "tweaked" something.

This "you'll win as we have x players injured" tit for tat exchange is getting tedious.

Are people too scared to say they think their team will win through fear that their post will be dredged up should they lose?



Come on guys, it's strangers on the internet, who cares?





FC by 10

There you go, floodgates open.

Campese in his dinner jacket, rovers by 16.

Just want us to be positive and try to take the game to them.
We've been like rabbits in the headlights in a lot of recent derby games.
It's far from the fact that they've been miles better than us its just that we've been scared to have a go.
Us by 14