you're right there and I hope coxy carries on where he left off last week as well really running his weight (ignoring the 1 knock on!)

Absolutely agree with previous poster, Walker proved what he could do last season and will only get better. James Green and Jordan Cox are two outstanding home grown prospects imo and i expect big things from them in future, if they keep on progressing as they have done.
Previously, I would have been a little concerned at losing players like Weyman and Poor, but with the strength in depth such as the aforementioned players, I'm much more positive about the outcome on Friday, should be a good game and I'm very much looking forward to it.

it wouldn't surprise me if Cox was dropped for Horne, for some reason CS seems to see something in him that I sure dont.

should be a good game I think hull kr will need to be there best because on Sunday I witnessed the best Cas performance in 10 years completely out played Catalan and first time in years our pack bullied the Catalan pack which is very unusual. We look super fit and this promises to be a cracker of game could go either way.

ultimately, let's sum this up... We both have reasons to be confident



And finally, I reiterrate the topic of this thread!

Not confident at all.

Ditto

you should be! by the final whistle of our last games we were both playing some great rugby - if we pick up where we left off it'll be a belter!

I still say we ought to be slight favourites just cause of your injuries/suspensions.... But I wouldn't be shocked by any result either way tomorrow

Yeah I've just seen we have a start - i was expecting scratch or HKR+2 cause of the "unavailable's".

To nil Hudd's for 40 minutes is a good effort mate

Come on the home side in a game like this are never going to get a start on the coupon even with a couple of players missing I think we will win by 30 which means we will probably have to score 60 this is the game were everything clicks

With Weyman and Poore missing we will have a fairly young pack with the exception of Langley and Costigan and my main worry for this game is that our young forwards give away too many penalties and Cas have shown that they can score points.

If the team can keep the penalty count down to 6-8 for the whole game then I fancy us to overpower them otherwise I can see Cas having a few purple patches which will result in tries.

A well poised game I think - could go either way.

Looking forward to this one. I think you'll have too much for cas and probably win by a couple of scores. They've done OK so far but haven't really played anyone. bradford are gash and we'd have stuck 60 points on les cats if we hadn't switched off

Are you on drugs Hull was crap as Catalan and lucky to get owt out of the game you also got beat with a full team by Bradford pre season.

Yeah, OK then

Hull were in control against cats and should have won by at least 20 but ended up nearly blowing it and pre season means nothing as cas beat Bradford by 60 and a week later it was a pretty close game for 70 mins

I think to say you'll win by 30 is a bit outrageous - though there's nothing like backing your team



I won't be surprised who wins, but I'd be absolutely flabbergasted if you won by 30

I certainly don't anticipate a one-sided encounter, but it only takes a little bit of bad-luck, a sprinkling of ill-discipline and a handful of errors for a game to start spiralling away. And then a team chasing it has to then take risks. Of course that cuts two ways and you might, by the same logic, stuff us.

I honestly don't think fans should be too concerned about [ithe odd[/i blow-out scoreline. They happen to most teams - it's when they become routine that it indicates a more deep-seated problem. We probably shouldn't get too carried away with one big win, by the same token. But we always do!

I see what you mean completely, although I think the days of either our teams not showing up are behind us - we both seem a lot tougher and are aiming a lot higher.

Likewise, we absolutely mullered Catalans last week - we missed 4 kicks and had 2 tries chalked off, as well as bombing a couple more yet still scored 32. The mood is high but if we play averagely this evening then HKR will be the proud owners of 2 points.

It'll come don to little mistakes I think which we can't possibly predict. Your weakness this evening is your experience in the pack. No doubt they're good lads but pressure may well pay (speaking as a cas fan

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It was a bit tongue in cheek to say we will win by 30 it's just you can never predict what's going to happen with us these days last week at half time I was hoping we could keep it below 50 and look what happened so I wouldn't be surprised if we or you won by 30

At this point in the season, I will be very happy with a win. It doesn't need to be pretty or by 30 points, I will take 12-10.

apologies, I missed the tonuge in cheek context - in actuallity we are in agreement then



I'd wish you best of luck, but I'll do that next week

our weakness is our inability to tackle. 81 missed in 2 games is shocking and the reason why well never challenge the top sides consistently. This season we were meant to be a new look team with better defensive players but nothings changed, well continue to leak tries left right and centre

81 tackles!? you're kidding....

In which case good luck out wide with Mr Carney, he's been absolutely ferocious so far this season.

Surely you must be working on bettering 40 a game

He's not come up against the Hammersmith express yet though