First game in the season I have really looked forward to tbh. Not seen the last 2 games, so are we in with a chance? Who's going?

No. We beat a very poor Dragons side and we still lack in attack.

We got beat by Crusaders so all to play for

Should be a close game, Long is very doubtful and without him we look like we did last year.

I don't think this game will be pretty, unless Hull fire. They will have got a rocket and we may feel the backlash. Ward, Randall and Temata should be fresh and we will have to out enthuse and out kick them as Crusaders did. I expect a lot of effort from our boys and as we are on TV we may pull something out of the hat. I guess the suicide rate went up on humberside last weekend!

Well, thats that then

Kicking is a skill you can learn, compare the Storm kicking to ours on Sunday. Light years ahead and perfect for the conditions. When the pitch is heavy if you kick short it will stop, we over kicked. Also their high kicks had spin on them and were difficult to handle. We should get the union boys in and learn how to kick. We will gain yards and score more tries. How difficult can it be - it just requires application and practice, I remember at Charlton one of their soccer players being amazed that our lot could not kick a rugby ball very far!

Following on from the kicking



What I noticed yesterday was that thier full back kicked the ball differently to what I had seen before - He seemed to angle it right back so it was nearly flat and kicked the far point of the ball creating a back spin(I know players put back spin on the ball). It seemed to work a treat. Im thinking it maybe an Aussie rules skill, as they seem to kick it with back spin when kicking to each other rather than for distance.



On the contrary Melling kicked the ball dead on several occasions due to a lack of control on the ball.

tbh our kicking and enthusiasm weren't the problem, we just looked lost when we got close to their line. If Long is out we might struggle again, but I expect to see a different combination at half back on Friday. Who knows what will happen.

Agreed. You looked great in the second half on Sunday until you got to 5 metres from the Crusaders goal line when all you could think of was one man drives at the line - meat and drink to a Noble coached side.

as we did in 2008 and 2009