Try living in east Hull Paul. A derby win for the obsessed dobbin bandwagon jumpers is really hard work for our 50% of east Hull. Anyway, going in to a derby without Long was bad enough but now without O'Meley, I really do fear the worst. Our pack is a shadow of it's former self without him and it would have been exactly where we would have won the derby.

It's only for bitter fools like you that it's difficult though, the genuine Hull fans get abit of stick and thats it. Idiots like you get that little bit extra

It's only Rovers, we wont need O'Meley.

Exactly, a bit of stick for 24 hrs then it's done with. I don't see the problem.

Says the idiot who's scouring the Hull forum for threads to jump on !!



Go away little boy, get your Dad's 1980 CC final programme and a pair of clean socks. You'll have a much more exciting morning !

Don't see the problem in admitting its the game we all want to win, I know agar and the players will say its just amother two points but in any sports you want win your derbies

Derby's always have and always will hold that extra meaning, not only for fans but also for the players...

The answer to that question is all around you methinks

. Yes it is only another two points like any other game but no it is not "just another game". I don't claim that caring about the derby result makes me a better person than those who don't but I don't think it makes me any worse. And I reckon there are thousands of fans from both sides of the river who feeel the same way.

I also think it matters to both sets of players (so much so that after we beat them at thier place earlier in the season, our team looked weary in the next few games) and the directors.

no, just who is higher in the league after it

It is nice to win a derby of course it is but it is just two games in a long season not a cup final like Rovers fans think, there season depends on beating us.

Agree O'Meley is a massive loss along side Longy , but this is now the time for the likes of Tickle , Manu , Fitzy and Horne to lead like we know they can !!! COME ON U ULLLL!!!!

The Hull derby is a massive game for many people in Hull and long may it continue. The biggest two games of the year to supporters in the city and the only true derby in SL. Of course it means more to the vast majority of fans than say Salford at home.

O'Meley is a big loss but calf injuries are delicate and he has to be right.

whats more important, a win over the unwashed, or a fully fit squad going into the play offs?

As we're nearly there, the play offs, but beating the unwashed is always good.

At the end of the day you get the same 2 points for beating Rovers as you get for beating anyone else. If we lose, we lose, but hopefully we'll have our injured players back for the business end of the season. We might yet end up playing Rovers in the play-offs. That is when we'll need the likes of O'Meley and Long.

absolutely 150%

I assure you that both the club and players may spin out the "its just 2 points" malarkey for the press hounds but in the sheds there will be a raw meat approach to this derby which is a match we have earmarked to win!!
The lads and the club want a top 4 finish trust me

Batman is always better with the Joker.

Places that don't have real derbies try to maufacture them. East Midlands derby, Thames Valley Derby; it isn't the same as an intra-city rivalry.

So Man United fans don't care if they team get beat by Man City ..And the same go for the City of Liverpool/Sheffield ..Like hell they do ..I for one DON'T want HKR win any game, more so against Hull F C

ps it's not just a game it's WAR with them ..Go get your

Agreed. It means more to me than any other league match. Yes it's only 2 points, but it's much much more than that.

what a strange thing to say, just as a matter of interest can you let us know which games you haven't earmarked to win then so I can get down the bookies sharpish

Of course its important to win a derby game, maybe if you've not been a F.C fan since childhood it doesn't have the same meaning but if you've grown up with your dad and grandads as black and whites then its huge. unless we lose in which case having players fit for the play offs is far more important and its just another game

Some games mean more than others. The derby is a game that most fans really want to win. How anyone can say beating Salford has the same meaning as beating Rovers is beyond me. I suspect it has more to do with reducing the pain afterwards if we lose.

just so long as we win it!

Absolutely. I'm sort of hoping that we believe we can win all games and always go in with a level of intensity to do just that. Human nature comes into it of course and just like us fans the players will be more easily motivated for a derby than the likes of Quins but that's where the coaches come in and they have to make sure that the players are up for all games for the full 80. Perhaps a good job that Expro didn't go into coaching!