Wakefield away was a bigger game than this, if we'd lost that game we were more or less out of the play off picture. Lose this one and its a bit painful on a workplace point of view but has no massive bearing on our season. FC probably need it more.

Win on thursady will secure play offs and put us in the frame even more for a top 4 finish that was morgans aims at the begining of the season

This game will decide who finishes above the other IMO. Rovers have a far easier run in and will easily overtake Hull if we get within a point here. But if we go 5 behind them that will be too much.

Also this game may well decide who has home advantage against each other in the play offs. (There must be a reasonable chance that Rovers & Hull finish 6th & 7th and meet in the play offs.)

It is a derby and even if nothing else were at stake it would still matter.

This game is MASSIVE and for a number of reasons.

We wont get top 4, not sure if I'm overly bothered TBH, would like to get 5th. 4th just means you get a pasting from the league champs away and have to pick yourself up for a home game against a team who's coming off the back of a play off win. 4th is a poison chalice.

I agree its a massive game but its not the biggest game of our season. IF we got them in the play offs that would be (well until the next round of the play offs after we'd beaten them.

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I agree with you there. The team that finishes 4th gets a very poor reward as we saw last season.

Hull maybe should hope they don't finish 4th. As things stand they would have to go away to Wigan, probably get steamrollered and then the week after probably have to beat a confident Leeds team who would be coming off the back of a play off win.

Luckily for Hull that is a problem they are most unlikely to face because I just don't see them being any higher than 6th at best.

Don't want to go majorly off topic, but what happens if this 'pasting' off the leaders doesn't occur, and somehow the 4th placed team wins.

Who do the leaders then play? Who does the 4th team play?

If the first place team loses they will play at home to the lowest ranked team through from 5vs8 and 6vs7

It starts to get seriously confusing then as we saw last year, we thought we'd play Wakey, but they lost to cats, so I (and others) thought we'd play cats, but it ended up being Wigan and we know what happened then..

I think its something like this.

1-4 (winner progresses to round 3)
2-3 (winner progresses to round 3)

lowest placed loser from above plays highest placed winner from below

5-8 (loser goes out)
6-7 (loser goes out)

so if it went to form 4 plays 5th, 3 plays 6th

I think that's it anyway.

Hull FC v Hull Kingston Rovers 7.45pm (SKY)
Ref P Bentham TJ P Brooke TJ R Hicks RR W Turley VR R Silverwood TK L Fairbank MC S Cross

are the officials for thursday

Cheers for that, like any of these things I guess it'll come to the fore when the time is right.



Any weather reports for Thursday? Hopefully the rain staves off, as that could well be a leveller.

C'mon Rovers.

I`ve just put the hex on you!

.................................

The what now?

C`mon now

.......witches curse...heebie jeebies..............mockers....

....indian sign........bad juju....

Ah right, sorry.

Hey not had a rugby bet for a while actually, reckon a visit to bookies on Thursday is required.

Charlie first try, Kings win 6-10 points.

Unfortunately its heavy showers for thursday night.... I keep checking but its not changing


C'mon =#FF0000Rovers!!!!!

rovers by 20 I hope but you never know it might be more

i think this could be a close one, taking our recent form into account against the fact its been played at fortress KC tells me its gonna be tight. still an away win though for me, JUST.....

Just a quick question from someone over the other side of the big hill (Wigan). Why is the game being played on a Thursday

3D game on the friday, clipper race on the saturday, televised game already organised for the sunday.

any one heard if clinton and vella out as it states on the fc site.... or is it just cr@p

dunno about the score, have to wait and see on that one...who's going in 3 john scotts beforehand?!

It gives Phil Clarke the chance to go through the whole programme,without mentioning Wigan.