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?
9 November 2019 – National Two North : Otley 27-23 Hull
A determined performance from Hull wasn’t quite enough to prevent Otley winning their third game in a row. Otley started well and scored a converted try in the opening minutes before Hull responded with a Keane Naylor try after eight minutes, converted by Simon Humberstone. Hull continued to press and following a yellow card for Otley we took the lead with a Simon Humberstone penalty. The lead was short lived as Hull were penalised from the kick off and Otley levelled with the resultant penalty to end the scoring in the first half.
An early second half Otley penalty was followed by the hosts second converted try of the afternoon but Hull got back into the game with two Humberstone penalties to make the score 20-16. The next score was pivotal and it went to Otley following a rolling maul but Hull secured a losing bonus point when Mike Adlard went over with Simon Humberstone adding the conversion to finish the scoring.
Team : R Dean, T Tanumi, A Heard, S Johnson, K Naylor, S Humberstone, R Watts, M Dias, A Thomson, M Jobling, C Curry, L Regardsoe, W Hall, T O’Donnell, L Makaafi.
Subs: T Kivalu, C Bell, P Hamber, C Beech, M Adlard.
Try : K Naylor, M Adlard.
Con: S Humberstone 2
Pen : S Humberstone 3
8 November 2014 – National Two North : Otley 30- 0 Hull
Hull endured a difficult afternoon at Otley ten years ago this weekend and apart from a good opening ten minutes found themselves on the back foot for much of the remainder of the game. The first half saw Hull put up stout resistance and Otley were restricted to a couple of penalties before finally scoring an unconverted try as half time approached for an 11-0 lead at the break.
Otley extended their lead six minutes into the second half with a converted try and eight minutes later put the game to bed with an unconverted catch and drive try from a lineout. Despite a huge amount of courageous tackling Hull were unable to prevent Otley’s pressure telling and scored their final converted try with 12 minutes remaining.
Team : J Clark, J Broadley, A Heard, A Holland, J Bright, T Tanumi, W Haddow, T Price, J Matthews, M Jobling, L Brown, M Alderson, R Devonshire, B Sullivan, O Cook.
Subs: W Kay, B Thoy, R Holland, A Tamanis, J Gray.
7 November 2009 – National Division Two North : Hull 8-28 Kendal
A good first half performance unfortunately was not matched in the second half against Kendal and allowed the visitors to gain a deserved away win and inflict Hull’s eighth consecutive league defeat which at the time was a new club record. James Cameron scored a penalty after five minutes as Hull enjoyed plenty of possession but failed to break down a rugged Kendal defence. A second penalty was narrowly missed before Kendal equalised with five minutes of the half remaining.
Barely a minute into the second half the Kendal captain intercepted a pass and ran in the first try from the half way line. Kendal scored two further penalties before adding asecond try in the 68th minute. Guy Martinson scored a consolation try at the start of stoppage time for Hull however Kendal had the final word with the final score of the afternoon.
Team : G Martinson, R Kitching, T Stimpson, O Norman, A Piercy, J Cameron, O Hardisty, A Gravil, S Plevey, K Fullman, C Murphy, D Cook, M Davies, R Devonshire, L Pearce.
Subs: M David, D Wigg
Try: G Martinson
Pen: J Cameron
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