same as for me with Larne replacing Mace - why change a winning team for the sake of it ?

For tactical reasons to nullify your opponents strength.

Grix was ok but did a lot of running at the Bulls forwards with little success.
Aspy is as strong as an OX and a good tackler. Would tighten things up in midfield and with his speed off the mark and strength would be a good interchange hooker. that would help nullify Berrigan and give the Hull forwards something to think about.

I suspect this was due to the loss of Mason so Grix was told to just hit up and share the load with our 3 props.

With 4 props then Grix can slot into a range of ball playing roles:

Into the halves with Robbo going to 9
Into 13 with Fooey going to 9
Directly into 9 himself

These additional positional rotations give us many more options and share the workoad with Lunt, enabling him to do longer minutes.

With the size of Hull's pack I think picking 4 props is essential.

B Hodgson
L Cudjoe
Jammer
Bruno
D Hodgson
K Brown
Robbo
Griffin
Lunt
Raleigh
Faalogo
Gilmour
Horne

Bench
Grix
Patrick
Crabtree
Faiumu

I'm hpoing we finally get our own back on your lot and our forwards knock 10 bells out of yours for a change instead of it being the other way around

I also blame you for ruining our season last year when your lot injured 1/2 our squad in a pre season friendly

And you sacked jon sharp and didn't renew thorman's contract

We did warn you...

Here's a point I find interesting:

Bookies make Hull favourites tonight because they beat Saints yet when you look at the result Saints lost Gardner and Soliola during the game so had 15 fit players. We beat Bradford with losing Mason after 5 minutes and with Ganson playing to the camera.

I hope the confidence in their pack coming from Hull is not unfounded.

Bradford are rubbish though

They played well ATEOTD.

We played okay against Bradford and Bradford didn't play as well. Saints played gash. Ultimately though we're one game into the season and you can't tell much at this stage. Hull won their first five last season and ended up not having a great season by any stretch. We lost our first seven a couple of seasons ago and ended up 5th. Better really to wait until 10 games in or so before you can make any real judgements about how things could go.