Hull FC squad: Arundel, Briscoe, Crookes, Crooks, Galea, Green, Heremaia, Holdsworth, Horne, Houghton, Johnson, Lynch, McDonnell, O’Meley, Pitts, Seymour, Westerman, Whiting, Yeaman

[uMemo To Peter Gentle:[/u

Don't pin the team sheet up on any of the walls!

St.Helens bench looks a bit weak.

Hohai and Perry out.

COYH.

Same team as last week for me

Agree...Lets see if we can get a bit of momentum going with a settled side.

I think a fair few Saints fans would argue that that makes them stronger.

Same 17 for me, but I'd maybe start Pitts in the back row instead of Galea. I also really hope that Westerman plays all of his time in the 2nd row this week, too. Looked excellent for the first 20 last week IMO.

Pitts is a prop now, he's put bout a stone on since joining us,and gentle said he sees him as one, don't see him playing back row any more.
Agree about westerman.

I'd be tempted to start Johnston. He's looked good so far and green starting as well gives a little initial impact, as well as laying a platform. Would like to see o Meley and Pitts off the bench, with heremia that's some great impact, when you look at saints squad our bench and interchange use could be an edge

Westerman has always looked better in the second row than at loose forward when playing for Hull imo. Runs good lines and has good hands to get a quick pass/offload to set up a try.


Personally, I'd go with a very similar side to that which played against Bradford. I'd like to see Green start at Loose Forward again, with Lynch and O'Meley at Prop, because that gave us some great size and was wrecking the Bradford defence early on.

The only change that I might make would be to move Galea to the bench - don't think he's looked too great in the past few games - and start Whiting in his place.

I'm still not quite convinced he's big/strong enough to be a frontline prop taking the ball up. I thought he was pushed back for fun by Leeds, with a really slow PTB.

Also, it's like Panda says. I don't think Galea deserves his spot, and Pitts has been better than Whiting so far IMO.

It does. We'll bring in Walmsley for Perry, who's a big unit looking to make an impact. And Roby back for Hohaia, so we're better off!

Exactly the same team I suspect which is fair enough. Galea was solid enough without being in any way spectacular. Pitts is small for a prop but got through the line quite well against Bradford. He's playing a similar role to the one Aspinwall played.

I wouldn't make any changes to last weeks side.

Me neither, it worked well as it was.

The only thing I would change is to bring Pitts on earlier - it was well into the second half before he came off the bench, and I think he did well enough to merit a bit more gametime on friday.

I'd start the same then bring Pitts on at 13, use Whiting to spell Westerman and Galea.

Yeah, could be a better idea. I just really hope that Galea is spelled though, how he has the most game time of all our forwards so far is just baffling.

Good test for Ben Crooks being opposite Manu, so to speak

How will we cope with the threat of Turner though

Where did Manu play against Widnes? Seemed to be through the middle against Hudds.

God knows on Turner. If he does his Ali shuffle we'll be chasing shadows.

Heard the team coach has just set off from KC don't want a repeat if last week.

Still trying to work out what Galea has offered in the past couple of weeks which is a pity as when he was over the rive I rated him highly. No way should he be playing 75 minutes again like he did against the Bulls.ae

That's not as daft as it sounds. The team bus is actually leaving at 11am, and they are going to a hotel in St Helen's. as mentioned by AP at one of the forums, they want to prepare better for away games, as that's what let us down last year

Too be fair they still don't know what works best. Plenty of times for away games last yr we went and spent the afternoon in a hotel. Still were rubbish away from home. Saints we actually won!!

I did remark on how beautiful the silver team bus was at Headingley, quite impressive.

Maybe the bus accounts for the SMC's £280k of rugby related costs?

They will have to stop off in Harrogate too, pick AP up.