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?
17 November 2018 – Northern Premier Division : Lymm 10-56 Hull
Top of the table Hull handed out a hammering to a patched up Lymm side ravaged by injuries. Scrum half Harvey Harding opened the scoring with a try in the 2nd minute and Hull completely dominated the first half, despite a 22nd minute yellow card to prop Ben Boothman, scoring additional tries from Stephen Hihetah 2, Tom Rice, Tom O’Donnell and Cam Curry, all converted by Simon Humberstone for a 42-3 half time lead.
Two further tries in the second half from Joe Stafford and Mike Adlard were both converted by Simon Humberstone for a 100% kicking display. A loss of discipline late in the game saw Mike Jobling red carded and Liam Regardsoe yellow carded but Hull gained maximum points for their dominant display.
Team: L Birch, M Adlard, A Heard, T Tanumi, S Hihetah, S Humberstone, H Harding, M Dias, T Rice, B Boothman, C Curry, L Regardsoe, T O’Donnell, R Kay, J Stafford. Subs: P Hamber, M Jobling, D Hardman
Tries: S Hihetah 2, M Adlard, H Harding, T Rice, C Curry, T O’Donnell, J Stafford
Cons: S Humberstone 8
16 November 2013 – National Two North : Hull 18-29 Sedgley Tigers
Hull pushed high flying Sedgley Tigers all the way in a tough encounter. A 25th minute try from Ollie Cook followed by a 39th minute try from Ben Thoy kept Hull in the game at the break. In the 49th minute Joe Stafford scored another unconverted try and when James Cameron kicked a penalty in the 69th minute to make it 18-22 the game was in the balance. As the game entered five minutes of added time Sedgley scored a converted try to win a very tight game.
Team: J Barnard, A Piercy, A Heard, B Thoy, D Lespierre, J Cameron, S Hay, R Stout, J Mumford, N McCauley, C Murphy, P Murphy, J Stafford, B Dorrington, O Cook. Subs: G Lound, H Lloyd, B Sullivan
Tries: O Cook, B Thoy, J Stafford
Pens: J Cameron
22 November 2008 – EDF Energy National Trophy :Nuneaton 16-22 Hull
Two tries from centre Tevita Vaikona helped Hull through to the 3rd round against their National Three (North) opponents. Vaikona’s first try came just before the half hour with Cameron’s conversion putting Hull into a 10-8 half time lead. On 57 minutes centre Alex Piercy scored an unconverted try before a late second try for Vaikona converted by Cameron sealed the victory.
Team: G Martinson, M Malupo, A Piercy, T Vaikona, A Wadforth, J Cameron, C Kendra, T Molitera, S Plevey, M Finau, C Murphy, D Cook, S Onesi, L Makaafi, J Peek. Subs: R Jones, C Harding, J Precious
Tries: T Vaikona 2, A Piercy
Cons: J Cameron 2
Pens: J Cameron
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