Carnegie Challenge Cup

[Drogba's Bitch]

Game is live on BBC today so thought I would have a little flutter. All info off of BBC website Hull's bid to avenge last week's Super League 'nilling' by Leeds has been hit by the loss of Craig Fitzgibbon. The Black and Whites skipper has been ruled out with a calf tear, which is likely to pave the way for a recall for ex-Leeds forward Ewan Dowes. Leeds, who last won the trophy in 1999, have triumphed in both the Super League meetings between the clubs this term. They followed up a 32-18 win at the KC Stadium in February with last Friday night's 20-0 victory at Headingley. And the Rhinos, the 2010 Wembley runners-up, were victorious when the two sides met in last year's fourth round, winning 48-24 at the KC Stadium, again just a week after they had beaten Hull in the league Sunday's BBC-televised game is a repeat of three previous Challenge Cup finals. The first two were won by Leeds either side of the First World War, but the most recent one was the 2005 classic at the Millennium Stadium won by Hull when Danny Brough kept his nerve to convert Paul Cooke's try under the posts. From Sunday's likely Hull line-up, only Dowes, Richard Whiting, Richard Horne and Kirk Yeaman remain from six years ago. But Horne, Yeaman, Lee Radford, Danny Tickle, Willie Manu and Tom Briscoe, who went off with an ankle ligament injury 15 minutes after coming on, were all part of the Hull side who made it to Wembley for the 2008 final - the Black and Whites' 28-16 defeat by St Helens. The only player on the pitch on Sunday with experience of lifting the cup is Leeds skipper Jamie Peacock, who won it twice with Bradford. But Peacock also knows what it is like to lose and was a mere frustrated spectator when Leeds suffered their 30-6 Wembley hammering by Warrington last August, having suffered a serious knee injury two weeks before the final. As said above Leeds done Hull to nill last week, that with the loss of Fitzgibbon points to a win for Leeds for me. Dont think i will be as easy but still expect them to beat the -2 handicap with paddy power.