So after two fantastic wins, we turn to Cas.I'm glad we get to sit back and watch the "top 3" get battered next week by The Aussies.

Barring any injuries can't see any changes to the lineup.

Interesting that all 3 Hull Sports teams are on Sky at home in the space of 24 hours (KR & City at the same time), will probably have an effect on the crowds for all 3.

Shame it's a Thurday night game but should still be a respectable attendance.

We need the stayaways to return and back the club to continue the good start.

Indeed. I'm uncertain though, if you'd asked stayaways pre season what they wanted to see different, what this would have been that the club haven't delivered in the first couple of games? Maybe sustained performances over more matches, but given the last 3 efforts I'd be curious to see for myself I think and enjoy some positivity for once.

Positivity is the key to getting bums on seats I feel, more so than even decent results. We are winning and in an exciting manner which is creating a real happy buzz around the club. We will always be happy if we are winning of course but if we are grinding out low scoring, defensive performances for those wins then the product would not be as appealing. Is a bit annoying it is on a Thursday but I don't think that is any worse than Friday games, peoples work situation is presumably still the same both days. Only thing that makes the Thursday worse is that I always like a game to be the starter for the weekend.

Wish we were playing one of the 3 who are playing the aussies next week. Can see all 3 struggling after that

Yes and during the games with the nrl clubs, could be embarrassing

https://twitter.com/hullfcofficial?lang=en-gb sounds promising

https://twitter.com/hullfcofficial?lang=en-gb sounds promising

Agreed, I can't make Thursdays, will have to wait until the Wigan game for my next fix

Big frank will probably need 3 of those seats.Its a City Jet old BA146 90 seat jet.
Been on them a few times from London City

Looking forward to Tuimavave v Crooks.

I suspect crooks will be more concerned with mini and then Frank coming at him

Can't make this due to being on a Thursday night - should be a cracker though!

Against HKR we were a bit off but the conditions were horrendous - yesterday we were really good and put the cue on the rack after an hour against wakefield...

This Hull and Cas both have eyes on the top 4 this year so this is a pretty good marker for where both sides are at.

I think in the last 7/8 meetings at least, ours is a fixture that's been won by the home side...

But either way it has the makings of a cracker! Two good packs on show where I think the game will be won.

For us to win we need to get a platform for Gale Roberts and Dorn to really run at you.

If we don't do that I think your back-row forwards will dominate us.

Looking forward to the game! All the best

Hope the club pull out the stops to get a good crowd in, even though its on Sky.

Get the lights going again, get some messages out to go along and be part of it all and hopefully the rugby will get people back attending regularly

Should be aiming for over 10k for this one and should we won, we should be aiming for 14k against Wigan.

even at this early stage of the season, its a must win imo, an early chance to open a small gap between us and cas

wakey's defence looked god awful in the highlights bit I saw on the SL site

Just looked at our stats for the season and we still need to improve on our defence. Despite making the least amount of tackles we are 2nd in missed tackles.

Think most of them must of comd in the last 20 of the salford game, cant remember to many in the cats game

two teams who are capable of making clear breaks too

25 against Catalans, I watched it again (Not with a drink) and they broke the line a few times, but we either scrambled or make a mistake, this needs to be tightened up.

However in our defence we have played two teams with some big players, particularly in the backs, who will cause problems for all teams.

Unless Ben has considerably improved his defensive frailties he'll have one hell of a torrid time.

Take out last 20 v salford. Combined with being 1st 2 games.
We had last year and seems again a good scramble defence which is something we work hard with I think. Not too much to read into imo. Also played 2 teams with some real threat. Badly let ourselves down last 20 v salford. If had kept it tight they'd of been on about 10 points same as cats. Combined with 80 points forward I'm pretty happy. Missed tackles don't mean too much if they aren't becoming points against which in the most part they're not

it really was mate - hence we put the cue on the rack. Our last try came after 62 minutes, we were throwing it all over after that but could've had 60 if we knuckled down. We were dominant all over the field though.

With regards to Crooks, thus far he has been absolutely fine in defence - we have only conceded 4 tries in our 2 matches, our defence in general has been pretty solid.

As someone mentioned, two sides here capabale of scoring from anywhere on the field so hopefully it should live up to the hype.

Hard to see where teams are exactly at just yet but it appears we both have our eyes set on similar positions this year (4th, to be precise).

we have both had solid starts - yours being somewhat more emphatic than ours

what about him shooting out the line for rovers last try ? cost you guys the game

Jack Logan also needs to work on his defence and his decision making, it will be interesting to see how he goes compared to Crooks, as very similar at there respective ages.

I actually think Logan is better in attack and makes less mistakes with the ball in hand than Crooks use too, think Logan is a bit more grounded and that was one of the things Radford didn't like about Crooks.