Back on Track.

Kirk Yeaman shows which team he plays for after scoring a try today......just in case certain folk (and rumormongers) had other ideas!


Well it was a close thing but it was a win! 18-20 away at Wakefield. it was hard work and at times we looked very disorganised, which is understandable considering we had 2 young half backs, one making his superleague debut. (Great work Anthony Thackray!) But the team pulled together and got the result. Now we will kick on from this, and put last week shenanigans behind us.
(Incidentally Hull KR lost to Huddersfield last night 16-28, even 'avec le Cooke')


The decline goes on and on.........
Leeds Utd drew 1-1 today, and barring an absolute miracle will go down to Division 1. There was a pitch invasion at Elland Road, and according to my daughter, who was in the Leeds city centre earlier this evening, trouble had spilled onto the streets.
I'm not bothered about those idiots. What I am bothered about is Leeds Utd FC and if the club will survive this.
All this, when all is said and done, boiled down to folk spending money they didn't have.

Mr. Micawber, in Charles Dickens' David Copperfield, summed it up by saying:

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery."

Its a shame certain ex-chairmen and directors didn't read Dickens!

Right thats the end of that then!

Well it's official, Cooke has signed for Rovers.
I think we have been fleeced, at least Dick Turpin wore a mask! That cheeky git of a HKR Chairmen, twittered on about bringing 'East Hull' lads back to Rovers. OK then, we sign em on at 16, teach em the game, nurture em, give them a chance, then we let em bugger off to Rovers!
I was pleased to see Rovers get into Superleague, it was good for the City, I'm married to a Rovers Fan, and I was glad to see him happy. But the weeks events has just shown me what they are, the enemy, the Dark Side, the Sith!
They'll get no support from me from now on, you can call me petty, but it's how I feel after all this!
One thing I will say is I hope our 'professional' board of directors have learned a few tricks after this.
That's it now, on to tomorrow and a win at Wakey!!!
Come on you Hullaaaaaaaaaaa!

Marching on Together:
I really big day for Leeds Utd tomorrow, we need to win at home to Ipswich.
I hope the Gods smile on us tomorrow, the club has taken a hell of a kicking the last few years, hopefully things will change from 3pm Saturday!

Cookie clears off!

Things came to a head today when Paul Cooke handed in his resignation to Hull FC. With amazing speed it was announced a couple of hours later that he had signed for Rovers.
Now the nub of all this is Cookies contract with Hull FC. By all accounts he signed an extension to finish in 2008. Now certain parts of the media say this contract went unsigned. (amazing I know) But really that's a smokescreen. As I understand it, even if you haven't signed a contract if you continue in your employment under the terms of the contract, and of course continue getting payments, the contract stands.
That is Hull FC's position that the contract is legally binding. (they haven't said whether is was signed or not of course, (which is amazing in itself!) but if balls-ups where an Olympic sport, guess who'd win the Gold??
Hull KR say they offered Cookie a contract on the understanding he was a free agent, the Rugby Football League say he isn't so the move has been blocked.
Hopefully this will be sorted out around a table and not the courts.
If it wasn't for the fact that the miserable sod would have to be paid, I'd send him to the back of beyond on loan for the rest of his contract. We all know he wanted to play for Rovers, the team he supports, in the future, but to clear off like this in the middle of the season, letting down the fans and the club who stood by him when he had some court appearances (incidentally sorting a loan for his legal fees) is a downright disgrace.
I know he went over for the winning try in the 2005 cup final and has served us well, but this was too much.
He can sod off as far as I'm concerned, but Rovers should stump up a fee!
No player is bigger than the club, but players turn up from time to time that think they are.
WRONG!
Keeping the Faith even if some want to kick us in the teeth!

P.S. Get on that bloody plane Shifty!

Rumour mill gains speed.

Things never run smoothly at Hull FC for very long, they never have done in all the 28 years + I have supported them.
We lost last night at home to the Bradford Bulls 22-32. The Bulls are looking good I have to admit, we had chances to win the game going up 10-0 early doors, but just didn't have enough in the end.
But the result didn't really seem to matter, stuff off the park though did.
I explained in yesterday's post about how our local radio station broke some news about a certain Hull FC player. Now it is their business to report stories, and even speculate about rumours, but one usually isn't presented as the other. Whether the story is true or not, if proof isn't forthcoming it can only be looked on as 'hearsay' or in other words a rumour, no matter what protestations to the contrary are made. FC fans are incensed, one even quoting BBC rules on reporting to the rugby presenters last night.
Now folk could argue some are going over the top, not least the Hull FC club, who banned Radio Humberside from any one to one after match interviews. What they don't understand, especially some of the Sith (KR fans), is that there is a very special passion for the club that is hard to explain, and when the fans feel the team are being disrupted in anyway, the gloves come off.
So in the phone ins, because the station is getting such stick, the Sith are being fed through and every phone-in is becoming a 'bash' the FC fest, just making things worse in my opinion.
But I say let em get on with it, and if Mr Cooke wants to go to Rovers then let him. We gave him his chance as a young lad, and he's given us some great service. But NO player is bigger than the club, so off you trot me laddio!
I hope the Sith are good at baggage handling, cause a lot is coming their way! (allegedly!)


And come on Leeds United a win at Southampton please!!! (pretty please??)

The rumour mill turns.

The rumour mill was in full swing last night as that bastion of sports reporting Radio Humberside revealed that Hull FC's Paul Cooke had embraced the dark side and was about to join the Sith (Hull KR). This story headlined the sports bulletins and even made 'Look North' on the TV. The nightly sports phone-in on the aforementioned radio station spent the whole hour on the subject.
All well and good you may say, but all this took place with nothing but an unsubstantiated rumour!
When asked to back up the story it was only said it was a 'possibility' Now in the rugby league world, if true, this story would be akin to say Christiano Ronaldo moving from Man Utd to Man City.
A 'possibility' with a nod and a wink, isn't good enough as far as I'm concerned, especially as we have a very important game tonight against the Bradford Bulls.

Another rumour doing the rounds is about a certain Aussie Scrum Half (one Brent Sherwin) coming over to Hull FC. If rumours are fare game, why hasn't this potential 'good' news story being reported?
Of course it couldn't be because a certain sports reporter (and rumoured Hull KR fan) wanted to stick an oar in because his radio station are rumoured to have a chilly relationship with Hull FC?
Could it?
Of course not, its just a rumour!

I was having a conversation.....

...with my younger daughter, Kirsty yesterday. We always talk about current events, so of course the subject went on to the awful shootings at the Virginia Tech University.
We talked about the lack of gun control in the U.S. Apparently, one control they have in Virginia is that you are limited to buy only one gun per month! ('Drat, that's only 12 guns a year!' she said sarcastically.)
Kirsty also made the observation that you should only be allowed to carry a gun if you had been shot yourself first.
Although this seemed a tad outrageous, I couldn't really argue with it!

On a more serious note, as I've mentioned before, both my daughters are at University. Just like those poor kids that where gunned down on Monday. My thoughts go out to the parents and families of those students, it doesn't bear thinking about what they must be going through.

I love this time of year........

.......when its lovely weather like it has been this weekend. It's not too hot, and not too cold, daffodils (my fave flower BTW, hence the picture) are sprouting all over the place, and well, everything seems brighter.
It has been a good weekend all around really, both my teams won, and I'm just starting a weeks holiday.
Its lovely and quiet here today, the Hubby has gone to Bradford to watch the 'Dark Side' (Hull KR) I keep hoping he'll grow out of it, but there's no sign so far!
The poor dear!
:o)

A Great Day For The City.

I was pleased of course with our 22-14 win against Hull KR. Neither team played really well, but that usually happens with derby matches. The tension plays a factor I think. I know it was too much for me, it's tired me out, so gawd knows how the players felt!
Here's a few photo's I took of the K.C. Stadium today:

Derby Day.

Well, it's nearly here, the Hull Derby.
This will be a short post as I really don't know what to say, only I hope to God we win, as there is no hiding place being married to one of the 'enemy'!
So......
COME ON YOU HULLAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!

Derby on their mind?

Both Hull clubs went down to defeats in the first games of the Easter period. Whether it is because of the derby match on Monday who can say. But both teams will have had a timely kick up the pants before hand.
Hull FC went down 30-28 away to the Harlequins, at one point being 30-12 down we decided to start playing in the 4th quarter, and nearly won the game. We scored 6 tries to their 5, but 4 conversions where missed, and so we lost the game.
It was hard on Super League débutante Craig Hall. Only 19, he was mainly brought into the side for conversions (all our first team kickers are injured). In a short period of time, the lad has tasted both the sweet and the sour of top class Rugby League, doing really well in his 1st game in the Cup last week, then yesterday, although scoring a try, having a really bad day with the boot. Hull coach Peter Sharp could have chosen his words a little better in after match comments, all but saying it was Hall's misses that lost the game, although tempering the comments with saying he was very young and would learn from it.
Even if the comments where true, maybe they could have been said privately, and hopefully Sharpy will learn from that as well.
I have to admit to being a little unsettled at our form so far this season. Consistency hasn't played a part at all. One thing in our favour is that most teams in Super League haven't really settled into a run of form yet, teams are loosing after a couple of straight wins.
Anyway, we have the talent at our club, its down to the players and coaching staff to get it right, and I know we will in the end.
Keep the Faith.

AND........
The best of British to the Mighty Whites today at home to Plymouth. A win today will have a major effect on our staying up. Come on lads lets have another performance like last weeks!!!!

A Good sporting Weekend!

On Friday Leeds Utd had a great 2-1 win at home to Preston. I was delighted, so much so that I sat and had a good weep when David Healy scored the 89th minute winner. For the first time in ages I really believe we can stay up instead of being just optimistic. Most of the results around us went very well too. The Easter games will be very important.

Saturday saw the deadly 'Sith' Hull Kingston Rovers, knocked out of the Challenge Cup by Warrington. The Dark Side did have some key players out injured, but did we get any sympathy when we went out at the first hurdle last year? No! So they'll get none from me either!

Sunday Saw the side of light, truth, and justice (Hull FC) triumph 78-0 against Hunslet, and so they should. I think any tries scored by the lowly Hunslet would have been greeted by not just hoots of derision, but other Jedi-like retribution too! Seriously though, scoring all those tries right across the park, cant do our confidence any harm at all.
Now those pesky neighbours of ours, keep going back to 1980, when in that famous all Hull Cup final, they managed to beat us by the skin of their teeth. They never let us forget that awful day. We have never won the Cup at Wembley, and they never let us forget that either.
So just think, how sweet it would be to get to the final at the New Wembley, and win the damn thing!
You watch we'll get drawn away at Saints tonight when the draw for the next round is made!