Memory Lane With Stephen Hodgson

Club historian Stephen Hodgson takes us on a trip down memory lane every week of the season. Stephen picks out matches the club played on this week from 5, 10 and 15 years ago. It continues to be a popular read with former and current players. Do you feature in this week’s article? 

26 October 2019 – National Two North: Hull 3-3 Luctonians

A hard fought game ended in deadlock as both defences held firm. Hull found the visitors a tough nut to crack as the Midlanders were able to keep the ball for long periods in a scoreless first half. 

The second half followed a similar pattern and defensive hard work by both sides saw just a penalty apiece in the 63^rd and 65^th minute, Simon Humberstone kicking the Hull goal, and resulted in a very low scoring game ending with honours even.

Team: S McColl, M Adlard, A Heard, S Johnson, K Naylor, S Humberstone, H Harding, T Kivalu, A Thomson, M Jobling, C Bell, L Regardsoe, C Curry, T O’Donnell, W Hall. Subs: T Tanumi, M Dias, P Hamber, L Cowen.

Pen: S Humberstone

25 October 2014 – National Two North: Hull 44-15 Caldy

Hull finally got their first home win of the season with a 44-15 victory over Caldy. An early penalty for the visitors was soon cancelled out by a try from debutant Aiden Holland after five minutes. Greg Lound converted well from wide out and made no mistake with a well taken penalty three minutes later. Quick hands then resulted in Holland drawing the cover before releasing Jamie Kirk who dived in at the corner for a try converted by Lound. 

Caldy responded with a converted try before Lound slotted over a penalty to give Hull a 20-10 half time lead. The restart saw Hull rampant as Sullivan raced 40 yards before putting hooker Matthews in for his first of three second half tries, Lound adding the conversion. Caldyendeavoured to get back into the game with an unconverted try but from a powerful catch and drive Matthews drove over the line for his second try, converted by Jamie Kirk. With five minutes remaining the same two recorded another seven points before Kirk kicked a late penalty to finish the scoring.

Team: J Clark, A Piercy, A Heard, A Holland, J Kirk, G Lound, R Holmes, A Tamanis, J Matthews, M Jobling, M Alderson, L Brown, R Devonshire, B Sullivan, O Cook. Subs: A Knight, A Gale, W Haddow, O Hardisty.

Tries: A Holland, J Kirk, J Matthews 3
Con: G Lound 3, J Kirk 2
Pen: G Lound 2, J Kirk

24 October 2009 – National Division Two North : Preston Grasshoppers 24-0 Hull

An injury hit Hull side failed to score in a 24-0 loss in Lancashire as we registered our sixth defeat in a row. In the first half Preston scored three unanswered tries with one converted as Hull struggled to get a foothold in the game.

A much better second half performance saw Hull go close on several occasions but with ten minutes remaining Preston scored another converted try to close out the match.

Team: C Harding, G Martinson, S Leaf, O Norman, A Piercy, N Gandy, M White, B Davis-Rice, S Plevey, A Gravil, S Edwards, D Cook, B Wade, M Davies, R Devonshire.
Subs: K Renwick, M David, L Pearce, A Lockton, A Campbell.