Hull KR v Huddersfield (Sat)

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    ENGAGE SUPER LEAGUE
    Venue: Craven Park Date: Saturday, 26 March Kick-off: 1745 GMT
    Coverage: Updates on BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC local radio & the BBC Sport website, highlights on the Super League Show

    Hull KR recall England winger Peter Fox after he was dropped for last weekend’s 34-18 defeat at Salford.

    He replaces Liam Colbon (rib injury), while forward Scott Taylor comes in and another winger, Sam Latus, is poised for a first appearance of the season.

    Huddersfield Giants recall their England Knights quartet of Michael Lawrence, Jermaine McGillvary, Dale Ferguson and Larne Patrick.

    Giants also bring in Danny Kirmond and ex-Hull KR forward Andy Raleigh.

    They come in at the expense of second row pair David Fa’alogo and Graeme Horne as coach Nathan Brown, who has already used 26 players in six games so far this season, continues to rotate the biggest squad in Super League.

    Rovers have not beaten the Giants in six attempts since September 2007.

    And history is against them as they bid to stop the rot, having won just one of their eight Super League meetings with the Giants, who have scored 30 points on each of their last two visits to Craven Park.

    Rovers’ last league win against the Giants came in a 25-24 victory at Craven Park in September 2007.

    But they came close in a 16-16 draw at the Galpharm last season, denied victory only by a last-gasp Brett Hodgson penalty.

    Rovers have lost four out of their last five matches since opening the season with a Magic Weekend derby victory over Hull FC at the Millennium Stadium.

    But Morgan largely keeps faith with the side that lost at Salford as they bid to end their poor record against Huddersfield.

    In what could prove the most intriguing individual battle, Rovers hard man Willie Mason makes his second home appearance up against his former North Queensland team-mate Luke O’Donnell, who holds the record for being the most suspended player in NRL history.


    Huddersfield Giants captain Kevin Brown:

    “All the talk in training this week has been about being positive and finishing off the chances that we create for ourselves.

    “That’s what the game is all about and, if we can do that, then we won’t be far off in any game.

    “The main area where we fell down against Wigan was that we didn’t take our chances. When we looked at the video earlier this week we felt like we had played reasonably well.”


    Hull KR (from): Cockayne, Galea, Green, Fisher, Clinton, Hall, Hodgson, Netherton, Webster, Welham, Taylor, Watts, Fox, Lovegrove, Latus, Murrell, Wheeldon, Briscoe, Mason.

    Huddersfield (from): Grix, Lawrence, Cudjoe, Gilmour, Hodgson, Brown, Brough, Crabtree, Robinson, Griffin, O’Donnell, Faiumu, Lunt, Mason, Raleigh, Kirmond, Patrick, McGillvary, Ferguson.

    Referee: Steve Ganson (St Helens).

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