Lineham and Westerman replace Michaels and Naughton

Abdull, Ellis, Green, Houghton, Lineham, Minichiello, Paea, Feka, Pryce, Rankin, Sa, Shaul, Sneyd, Talanoa, Thompson, Watts, Westerman, Whiting, Yeaman.

...against

6 Maurice Blair, 24 John Boudebza, 23 Terry Campese, 2 Ben Cockayne, 22 Jordan Cox, 1 Kieran Dixon, 15 James Donaldson, 26 Sonny Esslemont, 20 James Green, 33 James Greenwood, 7 Albert Kelly, 11 Kevin Larroyer, 13 Tyrone McCarthy, 4 Josh Mantellato, 21 Aaron Ollett, 34 Tony Puletua, 18 Liam Salter, 5 Ken Sio, 19 Kris Welham,

Sa back to centre then,pity,been impressed with him in 2nd row.Maybe tempted to play Shaul on wing and have a centre pairing of Talona and Sa.

shaul to FB, tala to wing and sa to centre. Sa more effective in the centre IMO, not fit enough for win.

Big raps to ken sio for playing with a broken jaw. Expect lunt to be playing on the day too

Why does Rankin deserve to be dropped?

I don;t think he had one of his better games on Friday and shaul offers more pace and better backing up although rankin probably improves our attack when shifting the ball wide. I just think radford may put shaul in

No wonder we are getting so many injuries seeing as we employed you as the club doctor!
Two fairly decent 19s, expect a good battle.

From a Rovers fans' perspective, I'd much rather Hull played Rankin at full back than Shaul.

I'd have them on a diet of fine brandy and the best cuban cigars if I was doc. You'd improve immeasurably

Why's that.....as Jake says,Rankin improves the attack when joining the line but Shaul a better support FB.Be interesting to see what happens.As a FC fan,I hope Dixon is FB for your and Feka plays so he can run over larroyer again.

Am I correct in assuming probably the strongest FC team of the season to date. Looks like your injuries seem to have cleared up for this match. If I was a betting man I'd say FC by 12 easy.
Jake: Could you post the link about confirmation of Sio's broken jaw please because according to the media reports I have read it was displaced teeth which have been wired up, but big raps to him if you are right and he is playing with that injury. Any information regards Lunt because again he has been injured for several weeks, would be a boost though.

Sorry, I am unable to reveal my sources but can confirm they are better than yours.

Hull's main threat for years has come from broken field plays on the back of Houghton getting away from the ruck quickly, Shaul fits that style better than Rankin for me who, in the past, has shown very little in derbies to suggest he offers anything to worry Rovers.

While we are at it, I hope Talanoa turns up with someone else's hands on and Gareth Hock's brain in place of his own again.

Don't see why we are moving Talanoa back out to wing just to accommodate an out of form Yeamam? Talanoa has looked effective at centre and would have put Sa in as the other centre. Rovers will no doubt kick to Fetuli at every opportunity hoping for a few mistakes.
Just don't get it! With Naughton injured surely our best three-quarters line which shows a mixture of power and pace is Lineham, Sa, Talanoa, and Michaels? Would prefer Shaul at FB for this one as he can be a gamechanger in these type of close derbyshire matches with his extra pace in broken play.

Derbyshire? Sorry, predictive text has gone all 'cricket' on me!

michaels is hopeless under the high ball so he's probably looking for some height on the wings

If Rovers go into the game with Mantellato and Sio on the wings I would hope that whoever is on your wings, Lineham, Michaels or Talanoa, would be getting peppered at every available opportunity.

As someone else has said I'd have Shaul on the wing, Rovers biggest threat us the kick to the corner and we have been hopeless, the main reason we lost last Friday.

Think it probably does our attacking play this season to say that the kick wide is our biggest threat tbh with the tries we have scored but there's no denying that it will probably be a way we seek to exploit Hull.

Cos Yeamans god in defence..........



And agree, KR could (and probably will) win this game with kicks to the corner and Mantellano (whatever his name is) out jumping our wingers and centres.

Although to be fair Lineham aside none of them are exactly Giants.

Be a long afternoon in those corners if we give them too much possession, like we did against Saints on Friday.