Is Lunt available to play against his parent club? I wonder if he played long minutes against Hull because the club knew he wouldn't be able to play again on Monday. A chance perhaps for Boudebza to come into the side. I think this is possibly our best chance ever to get back to back wins over easter. KR took their foot off the gas second half vs Hull and hopefully saved some energy by being able to coast and see out an easy win. Hudds will have had a day less rest/prep time and that could be a huge advantage for us.

James Green should be back for this game too I think, is there anyone else to come into the side possibly?

As far as I'm aware Lunt can play. Still see this being a tough one. Not a club we generally do well against and I think we may come down with a bit of a bump on Monday.

Hoping for a good performance and a won would be a great.

I'm feeling more optimistic than I usually do going into a match. That's worrying.

going to miss this one as im going away but given my pass to my brother in law who is a hull fan so he can take his lad who is rovers fan hes not happy

Likely to be the toughest game of the season so far, glad Green and Allgood are both back. One blessing is that we only had a light training game on Thursday, so should have some energy.

I know what you mean, but I think I can help.

Huddersfield are a top quality team, with a big powerful pack and real pace out wide. We know it's going to be tough, especially backing up after a derby, but we'll give it a red hot crack.

Take a trip to Hudds board. A lot of them are conceeding defeat 2 days in advance!!!

how did hull manage nil them and score 19 points also

As I recall there are a good few of the "glass is half empty" brigade over there. They're a good team who played poorly in their last game.

I've just been on their forum and they are complaining about a lack of intensity and line speed from their pack v Salford as well as a high error count. As their set completion was below 50%, they had to defend a lot in wet conditions on a heavy pitch and as a team they collectively made over 400 tackles. Brough and others started moaning instead of playing and their game dissolved to rat s**t.
Taking nothing for granted, we might just have better energy levels come Monday. They are a good team, but now is a good time to be playing them.

God knows!

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the rest of us are cautiously optimistic, as we tend to be before every game
i'm looking forward to it, we were pretty poor last night and we need to have a massive improvement or your halves will tear us to pieces.
i hope Lunt thinks he's still playing for us and puts in the kind of performance he had in the last 18 months for us!

I just hope that whichever set of fans end up on the losing side can refrain from whining about the opposition.
It would be so refreshing.

because in all honestly, we were absolutely abysmal, we went into the game with only 1 pre season game against a weak Halifax side and got caught cold.
we've improved a bit since then

44 Tackles and a try against our poor neighbours. Good stats.

change of club is what was needed for Lunty, he'd gone stale with us and had been seeking a move away for 2 years, because he didn't get it, he sulked.
still a fine player, not one of our fans would deny that, but it's no coincidence that we won 4 on the spin after he left.

2 Changes for monday,Welham and McCarthy out injured,Boudebza and James Green replace them.
Allgood
Sio
Salter
Campese
Green
Lunt
Boudebza
Cockayne
Burke
Donaldson
Dixon
Blair
Kelly
Goulding
Horne
Larroyer
Walker
Ollett
Mantellato

Why would Boudebza replace Welham? Surely it would be Salter???

Lunt has not had a lot of rugby this season and we dont want him playing another 80 mins,salter was already in the derby 19.

Oh right, I didn't see the 19 for the derby.

I think Green and Salter will make the matchday 17. Boudebza and Ollett could miss out again, as Charlie will spell Lunt at hooker.

Isn't it great being spoilt for choice

Long may it last mate.

Gutted for Welham, the lad has really done well in the last few games.

I think Boudebza offers far more guile around the ruck than Cockayne, although it's a difficult selection because Cockayne has so much energy, particularly in exit set's which could be vital against such a big pack.

Rovers need to take the Cas game into consideration when selecting Monday's 17. We have to rotate selection and use the squad as much as possible. I'd expect Boudebza, Salter & Ollett all to feature in the next 2 games at some point.