Very Disappointed!

After starting the game like a bat out of hell and going 2-16 up, we looked to be flying to a win. But no! Things aren't predictable with Hull FC! We never scored another damn point and ended up loosing 47-16. That's 45 unanswered points. That is not good enough.
I saw a game similar to that last season away at Warrington, playing like world beaters in the 1st half then quite spectacularly loose the game in the 2nd. It cost then coach John Kear his job. There were similarities tonight, I have to say.
I know they had a very hard game against Leeds last week, but there was no fight tonight, when things started to go against us, and that's not what I expect from a Hull FC team.
I'm very disappointed.

Back it up!

Tonight the lads are away at Wigan. I wont be going unfortunately as finances wont allow, but we are on TV tonight so that will make up for it.
We of course had a great win last Sunday against Leeds, but what we haven't done this season is back up a good win with another. It will be a hard game, Wigan beat us at home earlier in the season, and they had a loss last week at home to the Sith. So they wont want to give their fans 2 home defeats on the trot.
I though, hope they do!! (sorry you Wigan fans!)
So come on lads, lets go get em!
Come on you Hulllaaaaaaaaaaa!!!

Daft about cats.

Now I have 3 cats, and I am daft with them. For instance it is now about 1am and I'm still up as all the little darlings are outside and they don't normally stay out all night. So I'm waiting for them to come in!
That's daft, but the pic above proves there are people dafter. It is a cat stroller. Yes that's right, a buggy for cats! Actually the cat inside the buggy in the picture looks like my cat Jess. I don't think Jess would be as well behaved inside one of those though.
Apparently this little beauty costs $139.99 which is over £70 in real money! :)
Just in case you think I'm making this up you can have a look at the web site here

Woo hoo!

Well the lads did it. A great, if narrow win against the Leeds Rhinos 16-12.
Hopefully this will be the kickstart to our season, and not a false dawn like the earlier win against Saints was.
I'm optimistic it will be, things are at last settling down off the park, and on it!
Thanks lads,
'Come on you Hullaaaaaaa!' :)

Old Faithful.

OK, our season so far hasn't been the best, but you could argue that a lot has happened to unsettle the team etc. But, we have a damn good team on paper, and we should start performing, hopefully with a win at home against the Leeds Rhinos tomorrow.
Remember 'Old Faithful' fellow FC fans, and get behind the lads!

Old Faithful, we roam the range together,
Old Faithful, in any kind of weather,
When the round up days are over,
And the Boulevard's white with clover,
for you Old Faithful, pal of mine.

Giddy up old fella as the moon is yellow tonight,
Giddy up old fella as the moon is mellow and bright,
There's a cayote howling to the moon above,
Carry me back to the one I love,
And you Old Faithful pal of mine.

COME ON YOU HULLLLAAAAA!!!!!!

Too much peace and quiet.

Actually, I like peace and quiet, and don't mind my own company. I'm getting a lot of it lately though. The Hubby has been working away in France the last couple of weeks. My eldest daughter lives in Leeds, and my youngest hasn't been over for the last week or so as she is in the midst of exams at University.
I've always been used to the hubby working away, when the girls where little I was on my own a lot, but they kept me busy, and there's the nub of the matter. Now there is just me and the cats!
One thing that really comes into its own at times like this is the net, and text messages etc. I can keep in touch with everyone in a way I couldn't have as little as 5 years ago.
What a great thing technology is!
Right, I'm off to watch the rugby on TV! :)

Kindly disregard....

...... my last post. He's going to Warrington for quite a wad of cash.
Cant blame him really, but he would have enjoyed it at Hull FC. Better class of fan you see.
And he'll look a lot less dashing in navy blue with a bit of yellow, let me tell you!!
;o)

Oooo more rumours!

There are lot of rumours floating around about a certain Aussie half back (one Michael Monaghan) coming to the Black and Whites.

I couldn't possibly comment. :) But I can see him in a black n white shirt!
Of course, If I had a pound note for every rumour I had heard that didn't come off, well, I wouldn't starve and that's a fact!
I have to say though, he is rather dashing! :oD

Ok, I'm tagged.

Apparently, I've been tagged by Whiteroseboy to name my favourate 7 albums and 6 singles. I cant carry on the tag I'm afraid as I haven't got that many blog friends (well the ones that haven't been tagged already lol)
The main reason I pick a fave album is that I love every track. It's quite normal to like most of an album, or 3 or 4 tracks. But it's pretty rare to find albums where every track is fantastic.
Here they are in no particular order:
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - David Bowie
Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy - Elton John
Jollification - The Lightening Seeds
Songs for Swinging Lovers - Frank Sinatra
Twelve Stops and Home - The Feeling
Sheer Heart Attack - Queen
The Color and the Shape - Foo Fighters

My top 6 singles where a lot harder to choose, so I'm just going to put down the first six that came into my head:

Come Back Around - Feeder


Queen Bitch - David Bowie


Don't Stop Me Now - Queen


Someone Saved My Life Tonight - Elton John


God Only Knows - The Beach Boys


Golden Days - Mario Lanza (I'm not sure if it was released as a single, but it always reminds me of my Dad, who is a great Lanza fan)

Revenge of the Sith

The Sith won yesterday at Cardiff 10-14. They deserved the win on the day I will admit. We on the other hand are just not getting it together. We have no direction in attack. I would have put young Thackray in at scrum half with Richard Horne at stand off, but then what do I know. I'm just a 48 yr old housewife/barmaid who has only been watching RL for 28 years.
We have a bloody good side, a great back division, and good forwards. The one glaring omission is a organising half back. I understand it will be hard to get one in mid-season (the most galling thing about Cooke's defection I think) so I would give the young lads a chance, Thackray and Tommy Lee, (when he is fit) We have enough experience in the team to look after them both.
Then we can maybe have 'The Return of the Jedi!' :)

Has Batesy played a blinder?

As regular readers will know, I support 2 teams, one rugby and one football. One thing that both Hull FC and Leeds Utd have in common (apart from being supported by my good self) is that things are never quiet or plain sailing for long.
The last week or so I've wrote about Paul Cooke doing a runner to Rovers, that has quietened down a tad, but it'll kick up a notch tomorrow when we play the Sith (avec le Cooke) at Cardiff.
Today Leeds Utd caught up. We went into administration, then Chairman Ken Bates set up a new company and bought the club back off the administrators. Now I have the feeling he has played a blinder. We get our 10 point penalty this season, (which doesn't really matter as were going down anyway) Clear our debts, and have a fresh start next season.
Of course folk are up in arms, 'It shouldn't be allowed!!' they cry. But this goes on in business circles all the time, OK morally you could make a argument against it. But if you want my opinion, the dire straights we found ourselves in needed these sort of measures. As long as jobs are protected I have to say its all seems a bit of a master stroke.
Time will tell.

And on to tomorrow's Millenium Magic. All Super League clubs are playing over the weekend, at Cardiff's Millenium Stadium. All games are 'derby' games, well nearly, Le Catalan and Harlequins can hardly be called a derby, but all the other teams where paired off!
So we play the Sith tomorrow like I mentioned earlier. The Hubby and I are off to the pub to watch the game.
May the best team win.....
which of course will be the Mighty Hull FC!!!! Come on you Hullaaaaaaaaahhh!

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!!!!!!!!!!!