At the end of the 2022/23 season, our club historian Norman Angell stood down from his role. Before he did, he handed the reigns over to our new club historian Stephen Hodgson. Each week, Stephen will delve into the club’s history books to provide a trip down memory lane from 5, 10 and 15 years ago. Do you feature this week?
15 September 2018 – Northern Premier Division : Blaydon 24-26 Hull
Hull edged a thrilling encounter away at Blaydon scoring four tries to earn a bonus point as well as the points in a 26-24 win. A solid start saw Hull score two tries through Joe Stafford and Mike Jobling the latter converted by Simon Humberstone. Blaydon stormed back to lead by 2 points at the break but early in the second half an astute kick from Joe Martin saw Mike Adlard outpace everyone in an 80 yard chase to score. Simon Humberstone converted. Moments later Ali Heard scored a further try, again converted by Humberstone and despite two unconverted tries from Blaydon a tense last 20 minutes saw neither side score and Hull held on for an excellent away victory.
Team: L Birch, M Adlard, A Heard, J Martin, S Hihetah, S Humberstone, H Harding, M Dias, M Jobling, B Boothman, P Hamber, C Curry, T O’Donnell, R Kay, J Stafford. Subs: T Rice, D Hardman, S Johnson
Tries: M Adlard, A Heard, J Stafford, M Jobling.
Con: S Humberstone 3
14 September 2013 – National Two North : Hull 12-36 Darlington Mowden Park
The first home league game of the season saw Hull well beaten by a strong Darlington Mowden Park side. Despite tries from Ollie Cook and Ben Dorrington the visitors held the lead throughout the match and left Hull with plenty to ponder after two defeats to the season.
Team: J Barnard, J Clarke, S Johnson, C Lound, J Kirk, J Cameron, S Hay, M Turner, A Johnson, R Stout, C Murphy, P Murphy, S Socino, B Dorrington, O Cook. Subs: B Thoy, M Webdale, R Devonshire, F Iraizoz, A Piercy.
Tries: B Dorrington, O Cook.
Con: J Cameron
20 September 2008 – North One : Hull 63-8 Westoe
The first ever game at our new Ferens Ground saw the visit of old rivals Westoe who strangely enough had been our visitors for our final game at Haworth Park. A very close first half ended with ourselves leading 14-8 at the break but in the second half the floodgates opened as we ran in 49 unanswered points for a 63-8 victory. Maea David scored the very first try at our new ground and Mateo Malupo created a then new club record with 5 tries in the match.
Team: G Martinson, T Vaikona, A Piercy, M David, M Malupo, J Cameron, M White, T Molitera, S Plevey, C May, C Murphy, D Cook, D Wigg, S Onesi, R Devonshire. Subs: M Wood, M Kirkwood, L Makaafi
Tries: M Malupo 5, A Piercy 2, M David, C Murphy, R Devonshire
Con: J Cameron 5
Pen: J Cameron
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