Hull KR v Hull: Teams
Prop Liam Watts will return to the Hull KR side as they face rivals Hull in the Easter derby at Craven Park on Good Friday.
Last Updated: 01/04/10 12:47pm
Prop Liam Watts will return to the Hull KR side as they face rivals Hull in the Easter derby at Craven Park on Good Friday.
The first meeting of the season between the two fierce rivals sees them arrive at the game in identical form with three wins and three defeats in their last six games.
Hull sit two points and two places ahead of Rovers in Super League in fifth, but the hosts did do the double over the Airlie Birds last season.
Rovers coach Justin Morgan has brought teenage prop Watts, who missed last week's trip to Catalans Dragons, back into the reckoning in place of Matt Cook.
Top try scorer Liam Colborn misses out with a broken jaw so Michael Ratu will make his second appearance of the season from the bench in his place.
Winger Peter Fox will only play in the derby if he passes a late fitness test on his leg injury.
For the visitors, Hull boss Richard Agar has dropped prop forward Sam Moa and winger Reece Lyne from the side which lost at Salford.
Peter Cusack returns to the pack and stand-off Richard Horne is back after a two-match absence with a rib injury.
Hull KR: Briscoe, Fox, Welham, Webster, Lovegrove, Dobson, Cockayne, I'Anson, Vella, Clinton, Newton, Murrell, Netherton, Galea, Wheeldon, Hodgson, Watts, Ratu, Fisher.
Hull: Berrigan, T. Briscoe, Cusack, Dowes, Fitzgibbon, Hall, Horne, Houghton, Lauaki, Long, Manu, O'Meley, Radford, Tansey, Tickle, Turner, Washbrook, Whiting, Yeaman.