With Cas playing Wakey as well, it is a big couple of points on offer for Hull. Win and it’s unlikely they’d be dragged into a relegation battle. Lose though, and it’ll extend their streak to 6 and they’d have to be looking over shoulders with some tricky fixtures coming up. It just depends when they bottom out… they shouldn’t be as bad as they were last weekend, for all that Warrington were very good for 40 minutes. I’m not sure what ails them, but we’re still at the stage where it is most likely something they snap out of this week or the next or the one after that. If it goes much longer than that then you really start to wonder where it’ll end, mind you.
I’m not sure the underdog does win the derby all that often - I think that is perceived to be the case because of recall bias. And/or confirmation bias. They won a lot in a row when they were at their best under Radford and we were having our mid-decade crisis. We had the better of it when we were half decent under Morgan. So, I’m more optimistic than normal. On current form we should be favourites (although I believe we’re not) even away from home. But you do get the occasional surprise result and if the Hull players find a bit of enthusiasm, it wouldn’t be that big a surprise. Bit of a test of our team’s ruthlessness, as there’s not huge pressure on them. Lose and it’s still been an okay start… win and we’re into appreciative murmur territory.
Statistics: Posted by Mild Rover — Tue Apr 04, 2023 7:44 pm
