Re: Memorable Games : Mon Nov 11, 2024 7:59 pm  

UllFC wrote:

Speaking of old games Cartwright said in an interview he played for Australia against Hull at the Boulevard in 1990. Nice that he has a link to our past.

Also in the Aussie team that night were Greg Alexander, Brad Fittler, Anrew Ettingshausen, Des Hasler, Allan Langer, Martin Bella and Kevin and Kerrod Walters.

A 34-4 defeat not too bad really. Nine Hull born lads in our team plus the classic Mackey/Entat combo.

Re: Memorable Games : Mon Nov 11, 2024 9:04 pm  

Was that the game andy dannatt had a scrap with someone?

Re: Memorable Games : Mon Nov 11, 2024 9:17 pm  

There's an hour long video of the 1990 Hull v Australia game on YouTube.

Re: Memorable Games : Tue Nov 12, 2024 6:04 pm  

Jake the Peg wrote:

Was that the game andy dannatt had a scrap with someone?

I’ve got a rare video of a game where Andy DIDN’T have a scrap with someone.

Re: Memorable Games : Tue Nov 12, 2024 6:59 pm  

Quirkyusername wrote:

I’ve got a rare video of a game where Andy DIDN’T have a scrap with someone.

Got in his taxi a few times back in the day

Re: Memorable Games : Tue Nov 12, 2024 7:16 pm  

One that always sticks in my memory is the Regal Trophy game against Widnes at The Boulevard in December 93. The infamous match in which Des Hasler and Mike Dixon got hypothermia. Remember reading somewhere that it was close to getting abandoned at half time because of the weather conditions.

Re: Memorable Games : Tue Nov 12, 2024 8:01 pm  

I was going to nominate the Wigan March '88 game until I saw Wilf's epic post from a couple of days back.
I was in my usual spot (Airlie Street end) and can only remember everyone going utterly mental at the sheer drama of it all. Thing was, nobody knew it was the last play because we didn't have stadium clocks in those days so you were never quite sure when the final hooter was going to sound.

A couple of mentions for arguably the two finest performances I have seen in my time supporting the club;

Australia, Nov '82. Going toe to toe with the side (and it was the full test side to boot) who altered the game of RL for ever. When Topliss scored right on half-time, the Aussies were rattled for possibly the only time on tour.

St Helens, July 2005. Magnificent team performance to send us on the way to a first Cup final in twenty years.

Also, one other, slightly oddball one. Craven Park derby, Good Friday '88. We'd played Halifax in a drawn CC semi-final (0-0 no less!) and had lost the replay (4-3!) on the Wednesday night at Elland Rd. The Good Friday derby went ahead at 3pm as scheduled with everyone expecting a rovers walkover, and we strolled to an easy win after scoring two quick tries early on and coasting home after that. It's always been one of my favourite derby wins, along with 2016 of course, just for the unexpectedness of the outcome. I only went because I'd already bought the ticket. Hindsight was to show that rovers were well on the downward turn by that point, being ultimately relegated the following Good Friday at the Boulevard.

Re: Memorable Games : Tue Nov 12, 2024 8:10 pm  

BP1 wrote:

I was going to nominate the Wigan March '88 game until I saw Wilf's epic post from a couple of days back.
I was in my usual spot (Airlie Street end) and can only remember everyone going utterly mental at the sheer drama of it all. Thing was, nobody knew it was the last play because we didn't have stadium clocks in those days so you were never quite sure when the final hooter was going to sound.

A couple of mentions for arguably the two finest performances I have seen in my time supporting the club;

Australia, Nov '82. Going toe to toe with the side (and it was the full test side to boot) who altered the game of RL for ever. When Topliss scored right on half-time, the Aussies were rattled for possibly the only time on tour.

St Helens, July 2005. Magnificent team performance to send us on the way to a first Cup final in twenty years.

Also, one other, slightly oddball one. Craven Park derby, Good Friday '88. We'd played Halifax in a drawn CC semi-final (0-0 no less!) and had lost the replay (4-3!) on the Wednesday night at Elland Rd. The Good Friday derby went ahead at 3pm as scheduled with everyone expecting a rovers walkover, and we strolled to an easy win after scoring two quick tries early on and coasting home after that. It's always been one of my favourite derby wins, along with 2016 of course, just for the unexpectedness of the outcome. I only went because I'd already bought the ticket. Hindsight was to show that rovers were well on the downward turn by that point, being ultimately relegated the following Good Friday at the Boulevard.

Great post as always and I remember running onto Craven Park and carrying coach Tony Dean shoulder high off the pitch and then walking all the way back to town with hundreds of others singing Old Faithful! What a way to avoid relegation. great memories!!

Re: Memorable Games : Tue Nov 12, 2024 8:45 pm  

The Dentist Wilf wrote:

Great post as always and I remember running onto Craven Park and carrying coach Tony Dean shoulder high off the pitch and then walking all the way back to town with hundreds of others singing Old Faithful! What a way to avoid relegation. great memories!!

Cheers Wilf, always pleasing to receive compliments from the master .

Agree with you totally about Wigan '88. Only the two Wembley victories stand above it for sheer pleasure of memory (with the Aussie tour game '82 just behind). If I close my eyes I can still picture a mud-stained Gary Pearce running towards me at Airlie Street, it was only when he reached the 25 that I realised the players frantically chasing him down were Kevin Dick and Paul McCaffrey and not the encroaching Wigan defenders!
Nevermind that there was just over 6000 of us in there that afternoon (and that's including a reasonable Wigan contingent), by the noise and sheer pandemonium that erupted around the old ground, you would have thought there was 50000 in there celebrating!! I have never, in all my days, seen a crowd go so utterly berserk as we all did at that moment Can recall being in Town centre later that evening still in a stunned daze at the drama we had witnessed. Almost 37 years after it happening, it still brings a smile to my face every single time the memory resurfaces in my mind. The kind of moment that goes a long way to compensating some of the heart-breaking and/or depressing moments we have to endure as black & whites from time to time.

Also, if we are talking about derby games (as this thread started with another memorable derby victory), I think it would be remiss if one of us old-timers didn't mention Craven Park, Good Friday 1984, and Len Casey . Completely outdone by Fred Ah Khoi and a moment to savour for all black & whites stood underneath the old greyhound scoreboard at Holderness road end (as everyone went nuts again!!). It still makes me laugh even today, forty years after the event, in fact I'm laughing right now picturing that linesman somersaulting backwards onto the Craven park turf .

Re: Memorable Games : Wed Dec 18, 2024 11:06 am  

Today is another anniversary of one our cup successes.

Tuesday 18th December 1979 saw us beat our neighbours 13-3 in the BBC2 Floodlit Trophy Final. This was the first of a series of 6 All-Hull Finals we would contest over 5 seasons.

The Boulevard was packed an hour before kick off on a crisp December evening. The then 18,000 capacity had been extended by a further 500 seats on the speedway track.

After a tense start, young Steve Dennison hacked a loose ball down the wing to gather and score in the corner to send the majority of the crowd wild.

My greatest memory of the game was in the second half when our Full Back Paul ‘Psycho’ Woods skittled two Rovers players to the ground and off-loaded to Graham Evans who ran in under the posts. Although Steve Hubbard had scored Rovers solitary try, Charlie Birdsall dived over late on to secure our first cup final success for 10 years, (wow - imagine going 10 seasons without winning a cup final!??)

Sadly this was the last final as this popular mid-week competition was shelved due to BBC spending cuts, meaning Hull FC are still the holders of the trophy.

The trophy did re-surface many years later for the temporary RL 9’s competition, but for those of us who were there, we remember what it really meant when our captain Vince Farrar lifted the trophy.

A great night for all Hull FC fans.

P.S I know DW has previously covered all these games more thoroughly in his Diary. Re-living them through the forum lets those of us old enough to share our own memories of the event.