Super League V - Round 23 Team News
A tough encounter and one that is set to start the battle for sixth place over the next few rounds sees former Gateshead stars line up under the Hull FC banner. The squad is: Lee Penny Rob Smyth Will Cowell Alan Hunte Toa Kohe-Love Lee Briers Allan Langer Andrew Gee Danny Farrar Mark Hilton Steve McCurrie Paul Noone Tawera Nikau Jerome Guisset Mike Peters Ian Knott Dean Busby After a 32-16 defeat at the start of the season, the week after both teams were in Challenge Cup semi-finals, the Hull side are knocking on the door of the top five and with only five more games to play after this one pride and places are up for grabs. Darryl said, "This game it is a four point and in that we can close the gap on Hull in 6th place if we win. We want to win as many again as possible from here on in and to finish as high as possible and therefore get a bigger slice of the available prize-money." Hull have loose forward David Maiden, winger Deon Bird and prop Wayne McDonald all out for the rest of the season. Although influential winger Matt Daylight is fit to return, Daylight was the scorer of a stunning hat trick of tries in this years Challenge Cup semi-final.
10, Aug, 2000
