Hull FC squad: Arundel, Briscoe, Crookes, Crooks, Galea, Green, Heremaia, Holdsworth, Horne, Houghton, Johnson, Lynch, McDonnell, O’Meley, Pitts, Seymour, Westerman, Whiting, Yeaman

[uMemo To Peter Gentle:[/u

Don't pin the team sheet up on any of the walls!

St.Helens bench looks a bit weak.

Hohai and Perry out.

COYH.

Same team as last week for me

Agree...Lets see if we can get a bit of momentum going with a settled side.

I think a fair few Saints fans would argue that that makes them stronger.

Same 17 for me, but I'd maybe start Pitts in the back row instead of Galea. I also really hope that Westerman plays all of his time in the 2nd row this week, too. Looked excellent for the first 20 last week IMO.

Pitts is a prop now, he's put bout a stone on since joining us,and gentle said he sees him as one, don't see him playing back row any more.
Agree about westerman.

I'd be tempted to start Johnston. He's looked good so far and green starting as well gives a little initial impact, as well as laying a platform. Would like to see o Meley and Pitts off the bench, with heremia that's some great impact, when you look at saints squad our bench and interchange use could be an edge

Westerman has always looked better in the second row than at loose forward when playing for Hull imo. Runs good lines and has good hands to get a quick pass/offload to set up a try.


Personally, I'd go with a very similar side to that which played against Bradford. I'd like to see Green start at Loose Forward again, with Lynch and O'Meley at Prop, because that gave us some great size and was wrecking the Bradford defence early on.

The only change that I might make would be to move Galea to the bench - don't think he's looked too great in the past few games - and start Whiting in his place.

I'm still not quite convinced he's big/strong enough to be a frontline prop taking the ball up. I thought he was pushed back for fun by Leeds, with a really slow PTB.

Also, it's like Panda says. I don't think Galea deserves his spot, and Pitts has been better than Whiting so far IMO.

It does. We'll bring in Walmsley for Perry, who's a big unit looking to make an impact. And Roby back for Hohaia, so we're better off!

Exactly the same team I suspect which is fair enough. Galea was solid enough without being in any way spectacular. Pitts is small for a prop but got through the line quite well against Bradford. He's playing a similar role to the one Aspinwall played.