Memory Lane With Stephen Hodgson

Club Historian Stephen Hodgson takes us on a trip down memory lane every week of the season. With rugby cancelled 5 years ago due to the coronavirus pandemic, Stephen has delved further into the club records to pick out games played on this week 10, 15 and 20 years ago. It continues to be a popular read with former and current players. Do you feature this week?

10 October 2015 – National Three North : Hull 31-16 Cleckheaton

Hull scored five tries to beat Cleckheaton in a game delayed by twenty five minutes in the first half with the game at 0-0 due to a serious injury sustained by Cleckheaton’s Gareth Lamb who was  taken to hospital in an ambulance. After the delay a fracas at a maul resulted in a red card for visiting prop Paul Turner and a yellow card for Hull lock Dario Jurcevic. Despite being a man down Cleckheaton pressed the Hull defence and scored an unconverted try on the half hour mark followed by a penalty on the stroke of half time to lead 8-0 at the break. Three minutes into the second half smart handling from  the Hull backs saw a good move finished off by Lee Birch. As Cleckheaton continued to infringe they lost another player to a yellow card followed by the referee awarding Hull a penalty try which Josh Bragman converted. The visitors responded with a penalty but Hull scored again in the 65^th minute when Tomasi Tanumi provided the final pass for Will Robinson to score in the corner. Cleckheaton replied with a push over try three minutes later but Hull got the bonus point when Will Robinson scored again with ten minutes remaining. Bragman added the extras before Tanumi finished off another Hull move which again Bragman converted.

Team : L Birch, T Tanumi, A Heard, J Martin, W Robinson, J Bragman, H Harding, T Price, T Rice, C Ozanne, D Jurcevic, R Brown, A Torkington, B Sullivan, J Stafford.

Subs: J Uriburu-Gray, P Sewell, M Gricic

Try: W Robinson 2, L Birch, T Tanumi, penalty try.

Con: J Bragman 3

9 October 2010  – National Division Two North : Caldy 26-17 Hull

Hull scored two late tries but left themselves with too much to do as they lost 26-17 away at Caldy. Two converted Caldy tries in the first half hour put the hosts in front before Hull replied with an unconverted try by Will Robinson in first half stoppage time. Caldy scored a converted try soon after the restart and picked up the bonus point with another converted try on the hour mark. Two minutes later Robinson scored the second Hull try, converted by Ben Dorrington and the visitors applied more late pressure to score again in added time through Tevita Vaikona to end the scoring.

Team :  A Piercy, D Smith, J Cameron, J Bradford, T Vaikona, M David, O Hardisty, A Longbone, S Plevey, A Gravil, C Murphy, P Murphy, R Devonshire, S Onesi, O Cook.

Subs: B Dorrington, J Lamping, M Lewis, W Robinson, K Fullman.

Try : W Robinson 2, T Vaikona.

Con: B Dorrington

8 October 2005 – North One : Altrincham Kersal 12-9 Hull

Another narrow defeat left Hull still seeking their first league win of the season as they went down 12-9 away at Altrincham Kersal. Hull’s cause was not helped by losing influential back row forward Shaun Higginson to injury early in the game and conceding an early converted try after just four minutes. Two missed penalties from the home side meant the score remained 7-0 at the break. After the break full back Guy Martinson landed three penalties in the space of nineteen minutes to put Hull 9-7 ahead but with ten minutes remaining the Altrincham scrum half scored a disputed unconverted try to maintain their unbeaten league start to the season and leave Hull still searching for their first league victory.

Team : G Martinson, D Smith, J Barkworth, M Donkin, L McKenzie, C de Meyer, C Kendra, J Ward, T Garnett, N Lyon, N Tonga, S Bates, M Ma’ake, S Higginson, W du Plooy.

Subs: P Mulumba, A Smith, K Bates.

Pen : G Martinson 3