Re: Hull FC.... : Wed Mar 20, 2013 2:44 pm  

London FC Fan wrote:

Every time I've been to see you play Hull in London, you've won !! (Mind you, I'm thinking more of Brentford, but I'm sure I've never seen us win at The Stoop either).

You won last year at Gillingham

Re: Hull FC.... : Wed Mar 20, 2013 3:03 pm  

Fair do's. I always think of you as (one of) our bogey team(s).

You spoiled the party when we christened our new stadium a few years back, and I've never seen us win at London (apart from when you were Fulham, and we drew you in the CC many years ago when I was a young lad).

Re: Hull FC.... : Wed Mar 20, 2013 7:16 pm  

London FC Fan wrote:

Fair do's. I always think of you as (one of) our bogey team(s).

You spoiled the party when we christened our new stadium a few years back, and I've never seen us win at London (apart from when you were Fulham, and we drew you in the CC many years ago when I was a young lad).

Would that have been the game at Crystal Palace where you had Sterlo, Topliss et al?

Re: Hull FC.... : Wed Mar 20, 2013 8:13 pm  

I was only a lad (so we're talking 30 odd years ago, give or take). If I remember rightly, it was a Challenge Cup tie and Hull played Fulham. I'd imagined that it was at Fulham.

It would have possibly been before the Sterlo era, but Topliss might have been playing for us then. Knocker Norton era, iirc (but I'm happy to be corrected. All I really remember was that we were in a higher division than you at the time, and I was really excited to have a trip to London. I *think* we first started to follow FC as a family in 77-78 or 78-79, so it would have been later than that, but not by too much).

My memory isn't my strongest point, as you can see.

Re: Hull FC.... : Thu Mar 21, 2013 7:03 am  

We lost 17-12 at Fulham in April 1982 - a few weeks before we won the Challenge Cup in the Elland Road replay.

Re: Hull FC.... : Thu Mar 21, 2013 9:59 am  

April 1982 at Craven cottage, with nearly 10,000 there. This loss cost us the title and therefore the double, in fact the treble as we beat HKR in the John Player too.

How times have changed on so many levels!

Re: Hull FC.... : Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:25 am  

lummy wrote:

April 1982 at Craven cottage, with nearly 10,000 there. This loss cost us the title and therefore the double, in fact the treble as we beat HKR in the John Player too.

How times have changed on so many levels!

The CC tie was the big gate (9481), in '82 it was 4227. You in fact lost both league games at the Cottage, going down 29-24 in October '83 - always remember that game as you had us on the rack after we went into a big lead when Ronnie Wileman got himself sent off and Charlie Stone then conceded a penalty right in front of the posts (just as he did at Wembley a few months earlier) letting us make the game safe.

Re: Hull FC.... : Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:45 am  

I think I'm safe in saying that you won't stop us doing the double this season. We've already managed that on our own!!

Re: Hull FC.... : Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:32 am  

ComeOnYouUll wrote:

We lost 17-12 at Fulham in April 1982 - a few weeks before we won the Challenge Cup in the Elland Road replay.

Ah, thanks for that. I did say my memory was rubbish

Re: Hull FC.... : Thu Mar 21, 2013 1:53 pm  

We need a morale boosting victory heading into the Good Friday derby so I think we will win purely because we have too really after a poor start to the season.
We are too heavily reliant on Holdsworth and we are in dire need of a scrum half so until that's rectified I can't see us breaking that top 4 just yet.

Really looking forward to this as I'm an FC fan who has moved to London recently and it's my first time seeing us play down here. Will be trying to get to some Broncos games besides this with a pal who is also moving down and he's a Leeds fan so we will hopefully be adding to the attendances!!