Weaker Warrington? Hull FC have players missing too
PETER Gentle says those suggesting Hull FC have an ideal chance to beat a weakened Warrington are dismissing his own side's absentees.
The Hull coach was quick to shoot down suggestions the Black and Whites will find their task easier tomorrow as four high-profile players will be missing for the Wolves.
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Absentees: Hull coach Peter Gentle is without a number of key players.
Without the vastly experienced Adrian Morley (bicep), Ben Harrison (hernia) and Lee Briers (neck) because of injury, and with Ben Westwood serving a one-match suspension, Tony Smith's side are without some of their star players.
Hull, however, are themselves without England internationals Gareth Ellis and Danny Tickle, as well as Liam Watts and Jason Crookes.
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"They are missing some players, but we are also missing Danny, Gareth, Liam and Jason, while Joe Arundel is finding his feet at York," explained Gentle.
"I'd like to think they'd be looking at us and who we have out and are targeting us because we are under strength.
"You only have to look at the fact they haven't recruited anyone in the off-season to see they are happy with the depth of their squad, and when you can bring in Stefan Ratchford for Lee Briers it shows that.
"We won't worry too much about who is playing and who isn't for them, we have to worry about ourselves and how we perform."
Despite missing four of their senior players, Warrington will arrive in Hull as favourites to win at the KC Stadium.
The Wolves are one of only two unbeaten teams left in Super League and pose arguably the toughest test so far for Hull.
Gentle says the focus for his side remains on progression of performances, but he admits it would be good to get a major scalp under their belt early in the campaign having come close to victory at St Helens last week.
"Last week we bombed half a dozen genuine chances against St Helens, but the up side is we are creating those opportunities. We need to tidy a few things up and make the most of those opportunities," added Gentle.
"As long as we continue to progress as we have the last three weeks, I'll be happy. It would be nice to get a scalp like Warrington, they are a very good team, but we have a good chance."
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by PrioryRed
Saturday, February 23 2013, 9:51PM
“11 points below, unlike your mongrel club, we did come back and gain SL status by merit.
BEL13VE
lol”
by 11pointsbelow
Saturday, February 23 2013, 12:43PM
“memories forest, hows about this one?? Wednesday, 8 January 1997
The red, red Robin will be sob, sob, sobbin' today at the news that the club that was rugby league's high-flyer has come tumbling to earth with a sickening thump.
The directors of Hull Kingston Rovers yesterday revealed that they will apply in the High Court in Leeds next Monday for the club to be put into the hands of the administrators.
If that application is successful, the financial consultants Coopers and Lybrand will take over the running of the club in an effort to reduce a debt nearing the pounds 1m mark. The Robins have been bobbin' deeper into the red for years.
Humberside was the centre of the rugby league universe and if Hull KR, lacking some of the glamour of their neighbours, Hull, were less admired.
Hull KR's decline since those heady days has been along all fronts, with relegation in 1989 coinciding with the supposedly life-saving wrench of leaving their Craven Park ground.
Like several other clubs, Rovers have discovered that selling up the hereditary acres, for housing or supermarkets, rarely solves any underlying malaise, and their move to a new Craven Park has been a particular failure.
Hull KR have always been the club of the eastern half of the city, but those seeking out their current home have remarked that if it was any further east they would have a better chance of attracting support from the Netherlands.
The inaccessible and uninviting nature of their windswept new stadium has been a factor in Rovers' declining crowds. Even last season's promotion campaign from the depths of the Second Division saw average attendances still lagging below 1,700.
That upturn in their playing fortunes - spearheaded by an imported player recalling their old, adventurous policy, the Papua New Guinean Stanley Gene - has not restored them to any of their old prosperity or stability. The gap between expenditure and income has left them losing more than pounds 3,000 a week and has forced this week's course of action upon the board of directors.
While Rovers are merely the latest in a long list of clubs to admit to crippling financial problems, few have gone from a position of such strength to one of such weakness so quickly.
The writing on the wall has led some, like the club's former chairman and, along with Millward, its most distinguished ex-player, Phil Lowe, to propose a merger with bitter rivals Hull as the only way out.
please note fc refused to merge with you clowns thus saving your club from extinction!!!”
by PrioryRed
Saturday, February 23 2013, 10:54AM
“11points below, with regard to your post at 5.33pm on Friday. You are a bit slow with this one. Over a week ago, I posted the fact that Gateshead (not est.1998) were to play their first home game at MS3 Craven Park on 10th March.
At the time, I urged all Gateshull (est.1998) fans to come along to this match and be at one with their spiritual roots.
Try and keep up.
BEL13VE
lol”
by Forest_1913
Saturday, February 23 2013, 6:32AM
“2biscuits
Are you standing by your statement that there will be 15,000 at todays game between Gateshead and Warrington?”
by big_redrobin
Saturday, February 23 2013, 6:13AM
“he needs to get a bus from harrogate to leeds,then a train to hull,from there he can catch the number 2 boothferry bus (stagecoach)..this goes down anlaby road so he can get off at the walliker street stop and walk across the road and into the kc”
by 2biscuits
Friday, February 22 2013, 11:20PM
“Hull FC thread 26 comments and 11 from the usual HKR Dim Wits”
by big_redrobin
Friday, February 22 2013, 9:23PM
“oh dear forest...lets hope mr pearson gets his 14,000 break even gate tomorrow night....it might help off-set the pain!
wonder how he's getting to the game?”
by Forest_1913
Friday, February 22 2013, 7:46PM
“big_redrobin
I think you will find it's closer to £7,500 per game across 26 games.
You do the math
DEC31VE
lol”
by big_redrobin
Friday, February 22 2013, 7:35PM
“will the home teams memorabilia be on display tomorrow night or has mr pearson used the money to pay his drink driving fine?
mr ellis will be looking forward to the game..£2500 to watch the game from the stands...ker-ching...the 1st of 12 payments for your marquee signing”
by allwaysred1
Friday, February 22 2013, 6:49PM
“by ilovelarvin.....thanks”