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?
7 November 2015 – National Three North : Rossendale 20-19 Hull
Hull went down to defeat when they were punished for not clearing their lines in the second minute of added time which allowed Rossendale to kick a match winning penalty. Hull went ahead in the 24th minute with a Josh Bragman penalty but the hosts levelled six minutes later with a penalty of their own. Early in the second half Hull edged ahead from another Bragman penalty followed by Rossendale regaining the lead with a converted try. On 65 minutes winger Jamie Kirk went over for a try converted by Bragman and Hull stretched their lead with another Bragman penalty on 73 minutes before a yellow card for Hull’s Rich Brown resulted in a converted Rossendale try to put the hosts into a 17-16 lead. Hull regained the lead on 80 minutes when Bragman kicked his 4th penalty only to lose the lead and the game at the death following the restart.
Team: L Birch, T Tanumi, A Heard, J Martin, J Kirk, J Bragman, H Harding, T Price, T Rice, A O’Donnell, L Brown, R Brown, A Torkington, B Sullivan, J Stafford.
Subs: J Uriburu-Gray, D Hague, C Ozanne.
Try: J Kirk
Con: J Bragman
Pen: J Bragman 4
6 November 2010 – National Division Two North : Loughborough Students 48-14 Hull
A poor first half performance resulted in a heavy defeat for Hull away at the league leaders Loughborough Students. Hull went behind in the second minute to an unconverted try and by half time the home side had run in five unanswered tries as they dominated the opening half. Hull brought on Tevita Vaikona at the break and made a much improved start to the second half. James Greene scored in the corner ten minutes into the half with Greg Lound adding the conversion and although Loughborough responded with an unconverted try five minutes later it was Hull who scored again with 20 minutes remaining when Adie Longbone scored from a close range catch and drive which Lound also converted. Loughborough ended the match with two quick fire tries with one converted to give the hosts the deserved win.
Team : J Kirk, A Piercy, J Greene, O Cook, W Robinson, G Lound, O Hardisty, A Longbone, J Lamping, K Fullman, C Murphy, D Cook, S Onesi, B Dorrington, M Lewis.
Subs: T Vaikona, P Murphy, T Bagnall, T Sanders, M David.
Try : J Greene, A Longbone
Con: G Lound 2
5 November 2005 – Powergen Cup 3rd round : Hull 42-10 Middlesbrough
Hull saw off Middlesbrough for the second time in three weeks to progress into the next round of the Powergen Cup thanks to a hat-trick of tries from Waylon Tangohau and two tries apiece for Adam Atkinson and Danny Smith. The visitors opened the scoring in the first minute with a penalty as Hull were penalised for offside but two minutes later Guy Martinson landed a penalty for the hosts to draw level. Two push over tries in the 12th and 15th minutes from hooker Adam Atkinson demonstrated the strength of the Hull pack with Martinson converting the second try to put Hull 15-3 ahead. Middlesbrough closed the gap in the sixth minute of first half stoppage time with a converted try for 15-10 at the break. On the restart Hull’s expansive game brought three tries in 26 minutes for Tangohau before winger Danny Smith raced in for a brace of tries in the final eight minutes to seal an excellent win for the hosts.
Team : G Martinson, D Smith, D Martinson, J Barkworth, L McKenzie, W Tangohau, C Kendra, J Ward, A Atkinson, F Biddlecombe, J Salmon, S Bates, K Bates, S Higginson, W du Plooy.
Subs: M White, P Mulumba, N Lyon, C de Meyer
Try: W Tangohau 3, A Atkinson 2, D Smith 2
Con: G Martinson 2
Pen: G Martinson
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