My God its December!!

Apologies for not keeping up to date with this. I'm sure I'll get better as the rugby season kicks off again. The thing is there are so many things to do online nowadays. Facebook is one. You read what other people are doing, you can keep in touch so easily, and the games.....
I have a farm, a fishtank, and a little pet to take care of. It all keeps me immensely busy lol. You see I'm at the twitchy stage of the close season, when I miss going to see the FC VERY MUCH, so busy is the only way! Thankfully the Mighty Whites are going great guns! Surely we can't muck this season up? Automatic promotion has to be the only way. I couldn't cope with another Wembley trip!
What has been happening with me? Well, I really need to get my eyes tested, my youngest daughter has moved back home, and the cats are still keeping me up till all hours as I don't like to leave them out all night if the weather is bad!
It's been really cold the last couple of days, where's this global warming then?? I have to admit to being a sceptic. Of course I have no evidence, it's just a gut instinct, and looking at some of the stuff I've read lately the other side haven't as well!
Back to the FC. Our 2 main overseas signings are actually have visas and are in the country! Amazing isn't it?? The way our pack is shaping up, we definitely will NOT win the Fair Play league this season lol. (Yippee!)
Signing off for now, be lucky :)

New Kit New Start!

I know I haven't posted on here for ages, but our new kit has been unveiled. I like em, lets hope its the start of a good season next year!!

Thoughts on the FC after another defeat.

On Saturday we lost our 16th game out of the last 20. This season has been a nightmare, and it has broken my heart seeing the absolute drivel my beloved team have served up to us fans. Anyone who has read my blog regularly (if anyone has!) will know that I try not to be reactionary and have always tried to back the coach. I cannot stand some of the fans that call for the coaches head at every opportunity. I found myself reasoning in a similar way to when our last coach Peter Sharp was under pressure, that he should have a chance with his chosen team in place, with players he had brought in himself.
This, I have argued, should be the case with Richard Agar, but some of his actions are beginning to worry me.
For instance his interchanges (substitutions) are a bit lacking in common sense. The interchanges are there to give players a rest, especially forwards, who have to get through a hell of a lot of physical work. the modern game is in reality a 17 man game. Who you name on the subs bench is as important as the 1st 13.
Anyway, I digress. Mr Agar has this strange habit of leaving forwards on until they are absolutely shattered. If fans from the stand can spot a player who is struggling and is becoming a weak link because of it, why cant the head coach?
OK, it has to be said Richard has admitted he gets this wrong. He is a new head coach with not a lot of experience. But Saturdays team selections where just unfathomable.
Let me explain. The team has injuries, our stand off is injured. Now who would you choose to replace him? The man who came to the club as a stand off, and happens to have the best footballing brain in the club, or do you move the Full back (who has been playing very well there, and prefers that position, and very little experience at stand off) to SO and put the aforementioned player at Full back?
What sounds like sense to you?
Well to our coach the latter scenario made more sense.
He also dropped who to many is the player of the season, and one of the few players that shows he gives a shit, Mark Calderwood, for a player coming in after a long term injury.
Mr Agar, you are going to have to start making sense, and fast. Because if you don't you wont get the chance of your 'own' team next season.

A lovely moment

I haven't posted much lately as I haven't really had too much to say, but today I have. It's only a little thing but it made me smile.
This morning I went into the kitchen, and a butterfly had got caught between the blinds and the window. I managed to get hold of it and gently carried it outside to let it go. When I opened my hand it didn't fly straight away, but stayed on my fingertips for a couple of seconds so I could look at how beautiful it was. It then swooped high up and away.
I'm not ashamed to say that it got me all weepy for a while. I don't really know why. Maybe its because some of the smallest things in life, that you can take for granted, are the most beautiful. It's always good to stop and smell the roses.

Good news At Last!

This season for the FC has been a disaster, rubbish on the pitch and bad luck off it. Well at least I have a bit of good news to report.

You may remember me posting in February (yes February!) that we had signed Hame Lauaki from the New Zealand Warriors. Well, he has eventually got his visa! So its taken about 5 months! Apparently his living and working in NZ for 20 years, wasn't good enough proof for the British authorities that he could speak English. So he had to take a test to prove it and re-submit his application.

Now I'm all for immigration control, our country is small and can only support so many people, but the bloody messing about Hull FC have had first with Michael Crocker's visa rejection, and now with Hame's application, just shows what chaos there is at the Border Agency. I'm still waiting with baited breath to see a foreign footballer held up like this! (cynic that I am!)

Just a word about Michael Jackson. I was never a big fan of his music as I went down a more rocky route taste wise, but I could see how good he was. I was though a big fan of the Jackson 5. Michael was a couple of months older than I am, and when I was a kid it was either The Osmond's or the Jackson 5. I was a big fan of The Osmond's, but loved the Jackson's because they made such fantastic records. In fact this song I'm embedding here, 'I Want You Back' Is one of my all time favourite ever tracks.

There's been some horrid things said about Michael in his life and after his death. I for one have never believed he harmed children. I think he was a sad man that desperately wanted to grasp a little of the childhood he undoubtedly lost.

If there is one story that shows that fame and fortune isn't everything, then his story is it.

May he rest in peace, and may God bless his children.

MP's expenses

Just a quick post.

Apparently some info has been released about what Mp's have claimed in expenses. My MP the Home Secretary himself, Alan Johnson claimed £131,711 in the last calendar year.

Now that seems a bloody lot to me, but I haven't got anything to compare it to. So, if anyone comes across this post and youre from the UK, please pop here: http://tinyurl.com/nycdn2

Put in your postcode and let me know what your MP has claimed.

Thanks :)

Odds and sods

Hello, I thought it was about time I updated this. What with Facebook and Twitter and everything else since I stopped work I haven't had the time lol.

I started this clog primarily for updates on my beloved Hull FC, so here goes:

Hame Lauaki is still in bloody New Zealand, no visa has appeared yet! For next season we have signed St Helens scrum half Sean Long, Forward Craig Fitzgibbon and full back Jason Tandy, both from the Sydney Roosters (although Jason is English so not on the quota) All this is very encouraging and a sign the board is starting to spend some of the money they make off us so well. But, it does seem to telegraph to the fans, that this season can go whistle Dixie when we are only half way through! We have had to sit through some utter dross after the first 5 winning games, culminating at Leeds just over a week ago, when our scrum half, Chris Thorman, buggered up the whole game himself. I have never seen such a incompetent performance from a Hull FC player in the way he sabotaged the whole performance. Of course that is because of his pivotal role in the team. It will be interesting to see if he plays tonight against St Helens. Craig Hall has not been near the team since his awful run at Full Back, a position he was not used too, but put there because there was no one else. He was terrible there, but the coach decided to put him in the position. He was dropped, will Mr Thorman be dropped tonight? He may get a roasting from the fans if he does play. We are very fair, but when we think someone is taking the mick, we can be vicious.

Now I called this post Odds and Sods, so lets go onto the Sods.

Can you believe the shenanigans that is going on in Parliament at the mo?. The MP expenses revelations have been jaw dropping at times and just goes to show how things REALLY need to change. But what I fear is that we'll just have a General Election, the Tories will get in, and everything will go on as it always has. We will, also I believe, see Mr David (cuddly) Cameron's real suit of clothes. I would be very surprised indeed if he turned out to be anything new when in government.

The Labour Party are reaping what they have sown in my opinion. As I write Gordon Brown is in a lot of bother with Ministers resigning one after the other. There is talk the leader may change, but I think Mr Brown will hang on as long as he can. He seems the type to tough it out.

What is interesting is that the Conservatives are calling for a General Election, which they would most probably win, but would they comfortably? The way the public are so angry about all the expenses palaver I would hope they would turn from both of them and go independent. For once we have a real bit of power in our hands, if there is a General Election!

As I write this I'm listening to Sky News and it has been announced that my MP Alan Johnson, who's constituency contains the KC stadium has been given the post of Home Office minister. Bloody typical! Too late to help us with the Crocker visa!

BLAH!