Anyone venturing down to the park this Sunday? Admission is £10 adult and £5 concessions. Looks like it will be another young team put out but maybe a chance for a few fringe players again to get a run out. London look like fielding a very young team this season so could be closer to full strength a bit like Halifax were.

We are probably going to see a stronger team out for a run in the Batley game

… HDM reckon "Adam Swift, Carlos Tuimavave, Josh Bowden, Marc Sneyd and Scott Taylor all look likely to be in action at Brantingham Park against the Broncos."

Looks like a lot of our main players will be going into the new season with not a lot of game time under their belts. Let's hope it doesn't result in a slow start to the season

Yeh really don’t like it, should of been as close to full strength as we can be in all 3 imo

How many does the Brantingham ground hold ?

Hull FC: Jamie Shaul, Bureta Faraimo, Carlos Tuimavave, Josh Griffin, Marc Sneyd, Chris Satae, Ligi Sao, Albert Kelly, Joe Cator, Matty Dawson-Jones, Masi Matongo, Brad Fash, Jordan Lane, Andre Savelio, Mahe Fonua, Kieran Buchanan, Jack Brown, Ratu Naulago, Jack Sanderson, Charlie Patterson-Lund, Eldon Myers, Ben McNamara, Elliot Windley, Jacob Hookem.

I agree.
I would have liked the proposed first 17 to have at least two preseason games together
Have to hope Radford knows what he is doing.
Still think we are one front row short.In hindsight may have been better to keep Chris Green if we had the cap available.

Do other teams have the full first 17 playing at least 2 games together? Genuine question.

Strong line up.

I said i would have liked to see that.Most other teams will probably not have six new players in their starting 17
You have to consider that the majority of our first team forwards are new and have never played together and you also need to have Kelly,Connor and Shaul aware of how they play and offload in real game time.
Not sure 30 minutes on the field against Batley is the best preparation.
As i said lets hope Radford gets it right because we have a difficult start.

I also think a game against another sl side would have been more useful than games against lower league sides

I know what you said. I asked what other teams do. We have a reasonably settled spine at least compared to clubs looking to integrate new halves. We also know there has been at least one behind closed doors game. And that every pre season match poses the threat of injury of course. I remember one year against Hudds I think we lost several front line players in a friendly before the season started and that went down like a lead balloon. We wouldn't want to lose a big name player in a meaningless friendly, of course.

Does anyone know what, say, Wigan or Warrington are doing for their pre season? New scrum half for Wigan for example and 4 months or so since the last actual game. Just curious.

Ransom question form London fan any sign of lewis bienek making first team or even squad for this season?

… he's got every chance of playing, but sustained a dead leg in his first carry in last weeks friendly at Halifax.

Grand hope he goes well was hoping there chance we got him back.

Stronger squad than I expected. Might start to answer one or two questions about what Radford sees as his strongest line up.

Does anyone know of any reason why Swift isn't involved? All of the other runners and riders for the back line are there. Does he have a knock?

I can't see him in the captain's run photo published today, maybe he's just unwell.

We would all be moaning if we played our big names and they got injured in one of these friendly games.Marathon not a sprint comes to mind

Can you pay on the gate or is it ticket only?

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Thanks

Rain seems to have moved along the coast a bit, not warm by any stretch.Hope it is a good game and all going enjoy.

A few 1st team players in but a lot of second string. Quite a lot of movement in the passing for the first try and Eldon Myers took his try well but the rest was just 5 drives and a kick. Was hoping to see a lot more passing, hope this isn’t the norm, AGAIN!!!!

Good run out. Few more cobwebs blown off. Don't think any injuries. Job done. Move on to next friendly

Good run out.
I was impressed with Ligi Sao . Looks very vocal.
Also Cator went well.