I know its of topic but has anybody else realised, in the article in The Hull Daily Mail about Greg Burke its actually a photo of Michael Mcalorum

going on what london fans have stated, magic weekend he was one of the better london players, even though he was used in the halves at times, no point being in the squad if not going to be used!

Cunningham deserves as much of a chance as any other squad player. If he is training the house down, shining in the 21's and generally doing better than those in the same position, give him a shot.



With all due respect, Dwayne Barker and Hutch Miaiva would have stood out in the. London team of last year.

Not always the case though - average players can sometimes look much better in a good side, and good players can look very ordinary in a poor side.

Hence the difficulty in getting the mixture right.

Now you know Kirk likes the number 4 shirt as it matches the number of passes he makes per season. Superstitious is our Kirk.

Are you sure?

Obviously I do not see as much of Hull as most on here but in my opinion despite a good first seventeen which should improve on last season's 11th place I would be worried if the team suffers injuries. Just my view of course.

They've got the right picture on the website but in the actual paper on Saturday the pictures was definitely McIlorum.

I disagree, I think we have depth in just about all positions. We are relying on youngsters in many cases, but we have some very good youngsters. The one area that concerns me is hooker.

Hooker aside I think we have really good depth and balance within the squad, I can see what other why fans aren't sure about squad as they won't know how good our young players are.



There is a good chance the likes rankin, Yeaman, Bowden, Thompson and Whiting won't get into our 17. That's without the young kids like Naughton, Lancaster, Logan, Abdul and HTW.

If disaster were to strike and Shaul, Lineham, Sa, Pryce, Sneyd, Paea, Green, Houghton, Ellis and Westerman were all unavailable. We would be able to field.



Naughton

Lancaster

Michaels

Yeaman

Talanoa

Abdull

HTW

Bowden

Rankin

Watts

Hadley

Minichiello

Whiting



Feka

Thompson

Cunningham

Turgut



It's still a useful team.

I did post pre season that I thought hull had a decent first seventeen but would struggle when injuries occurred and according to reports today Friday could be a time when some other squad players get a look in. At least Lee Radford isn't downbeat to be fair, in the same article he says hull have only had three bad halves to date and the players have come back happier this week, so all is not lost.

IMO, both teams will be desperate to win after heavy defeats and both have injuries. Depends who want it the most.