Re: Most pointless derby since 2006? : Thu Jul 26, 2018 5:40 am  

Marcus's Bicycle wrote:

Bragging rights? 8 straight wins.

You mean 8 straight HOME wins. Let’s not forget last weekend too quickly.

Re: Most pointless derby since 2006? : Thu Jul 26, 2018 6:50 am  

Doesn’t he mean 8 straight derby wins

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Re: Most pointless derby since 2006? : Thu Jul 26, 2018 7:41 am  

hull2524 wrote:

give over, both teams will be busting a gut to win, come 7.45 we will all want to win ,

Obviously we all want to win. However, I wouldn’t expect us to under the circumstances. One of those circumstances is that Hull have been the better side over the last few seasons and continue to be so - kudos for that. But on top of that we’re missing a lot of our better players - through injury, suspension and in some cases caution.

Your season is almost over, ours is just about to start. It matters but, for us, much less than what follows.

It’s probably overstating things to suggest that relegation poses an existential threat, but possibly only a bit. Certainly, I imagine it’d precipitate some fairly big changes.

Re: Most pointless derby since 2006? : Thu Jul 26, 2018 8:21 am  

Hull seem to be low on confidence and not playing particularly well and I expect us to go and play with a lot of enthusiasm but the fact is they have a lot more talent on the field than us that should get them through the game without to much trouble

Re: Most pointless derby since 2006? : Thu Jul 26, 2018 8:37 am  

fun time frankie wrote:

Hull seem to be low on confidence and not playing particularly well and I expect us to go and play with a lot of enthusiasm but the fact is they have a lot more talent on the field than us that should get them through the game without to much trouble

That is the truth of the situation.Despite the odd nutter still clinging to Smailes fake news.There is always the Derby factor and the favourite can get turned over but Hull should win at a canter

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Re: Most pointless derby since 2006? : Thu Jul 26, 2018 8:40 am  

fun time frankie wrote:

Hull seem to be low on confidence and not playing particularly well and I expect us to go and play with a lot of enthusiasm but the fact is they have a lot more talent on the field than us that should get them through the game without to much trouble

I expect they'll try to come out of the blocks fast, but if they make errors, we exploit them, the crowd goes quiet and they get nervous...

I struggle to see it, but stranger things have happened.

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Re: Most pointless derby since 2006? : Thu Jul 26, 2018 8:46 am  

On a side note, it is nice to see Joe Wardill back in contention for a place after his injury problems!

Re: Most pointless derby since 2006? : Thu Jul 26, 2018 10:55 am  

firstly we are fav, but like you we have injuries, connor Bowden, Hadley westerman, green, Kelly, thats a good chunk, put in shaul, mini, paea,tuime griffin, who are playing busted,, add in sneyd who imo wont play and we are struggling, playing against a young fit rovers team raring to go and we have a perfect storm brewing,

Re: Most pointless derby since 2006? : Thu Jul 26, 2018 11:05 am  

hull2524 wrote:

firstly we are fav, but like you we have injuries, connor Bowden, Hadley westerman, green, Kelly, thats a good chunk, put in shaul, mini, paea,tuime griffin, who are playing busted,, add in sneyd who imo wont play and we are struggling, playing against a young fit rovers team raring to go and we have a perfect storm brewing,

surely Radford wont play anybody who is busted as you say ,not in this game or any of the remaining 7 afterwards whats the point can only be he dosent want to pull pints just yet

Re: Most pointless derby since 2006? : Thu Jul 26, 2018 11:15 am  

in fairness players from other teams will be playing who are not fully fit, trouble is we have a few, but its a derby and people want to win whatever is said, we still have a squeak and thats all it is and for that we need warrington or cas to fall off the cliff which I don't think will happen, lose fri and we could be 8th which yes radders and hull fc will not want to be in, as for radders well hes won us 2 cc finals 2 top 3 finish and we are 5th after all thats happened this year, think hes doing a grand job,