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?
9 January 2016 – National Three North : Hull 12-6 Billingham
Hull got off to a winning start in their opening game of 2016 with a 12-6 victory over Billingham at the Ferens Ground. Hull started well and after just two minutes Harvey Harding side-stepped his way under the posts only for the referee to award the visitors a penalty for crossing. Five minutes later Billingham opened the scoring with a penalty but Hull hit back when Lee Brown and Dario Jurcevic set up Lee Birch to score wide out to give the home side a 5-3 lead after 16 minutes. The second half saw Hull dominate possession and after a succession of penalties awarded against Billingham the referee awarded Hull a penalty try in the 60th minute. Birch’s conversion put Hull 12-3 ahead and their defence stood firm to restrict the visitors to a sole penalty as the home side secured the win.
Team : L Birch, J Kirk, A Heard, J Martin, N Karim, T Tanumi, H Harding, M Jobling, T Rice, A O’Donnell, L Brown, D Jurcevic, J Stafford, B Sullivan, D Hague.
Subs: J E Uriburu-Gray, B Thoy.
Try : L Birch, Penalty try
Con: L Birch
8 January 2011 – National Division Two North : Hull 9-17 Leicester Lions
The second half of the season saw Hull lose their opening game of 2011 at the Ferens Ground following a strong second half performance from the visitors third placed Leicester Lions. After a cagey first 20 minutes James Cameron scored a long range penalty to put Hull ahead but five minutes later the Lions equalled the score. On the half hour Hull re-took the lead with another Cameron penalty for a 6-3 half time score. Early in the second half Leicester took the lead with a converted try and when an illegal challenge on Tevita Vaikona resulted in a Hull penalty James Cameron kicked the goal to close the gap to a single point. Cameron was replaced soon after due to injury and in the final ten minutes the visitors scored a converted try to seal the win.
Team : J Kirk, A Piercy, J Greene, J Cameron, W Robinson, G Martinson, O Hardisty, A Longbone, J Lamping, K Fullman, P Murphy, M Lewis, S Onesi, B Dorrington, O Cook.
Subs: A Gravil, S Plevey, R Devonshire, M David.
Pen : J Cameron 3
7 January 2006 – North One : Hull 27-5 Whitchurch
Hull welcomed the return of Shaun Higginson from a holiday break in New Zealand and gave a debut to hooker Kris Renwick to overcame Whitchurch at a cold and wet Haworth Park in a match that saw New Zealand fly half Waylon Tangohau chase a new scoring record for the club for the fastest 100 points for the club, starting the day on 94 points. His 22nd minute try took him one point short of the target and four minutes later winger Leroy McKenzie ran in for another unconverted try to make it 10-0. The record was achieved by Tangohau in first half stoppage time when Warren du Plooy touched down and Tangohau landed the conversion to take him to 101 points in nine matches. After the restart it took winger Danny Smith three minutes to stretch Hull’s lead with an unconverted try for a 22-0 lead. Whitchurch got some reward after 65 minutes with an unconverted push over try but Hull saved the best till last in the 77th minute when Tangohau received the ball behind his own line and went on a mazy run beating several opposition players before finding captain Julian Barkworth in support who in turn found Danny Smith who went in for his second try to finish the scoring.
Team : G Martinson, D Smith, J Barkworth, M Donkin, L McKenzie, W Tangohau, C Kendra, J Ward, K Renwick, F Biddlecombe, S Bates, G Jackson, K Bates, S Higginson, W du Plooy.
Subs: B Hepi, P Mulumba, N Tonga,
Try : D Smith 2, W Tangohau, L McKenzie, W du Plooy.
Con : W Tangohau
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