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The Dentist Wilf: Here we go!!!!!
I couldn’t sleep at all I was still living it!! I couldn’t stop marvelling at it in the journey of coming down after the match. I just couldn’t believe it. A stack of Buds afterwards in fact never touched it!!!
Having come down a bit this morning from a truly amazing experience which after 64 years of season tickets was still a privilege to experience, I marvelled at how I had witnessed a second half that was one of those rare occasions when after thousands of hours of live rugby watching YOUR club, you still can’t believe what’s happening before your eyes. Over egging it??? Well why not, for when you take your partisan views out of it for the average RL follower it was in the overall picture of rugby pretty earth shattering.
For me it was the last five minutes at Wembley in 2016, it was Rover at Caravan Park in 2016 and it was Porky Pearce’s break, Dicks backing up and the subsequent try by McCaffrey against Wigan after the hooter had gone that famous time at the Boulevard on 20th March 1988. To the dedicated obsessive it was one of those moments you never forget the ones that as true fans we milestone our lives with. OK we won’t win the cup but what an unexpected and even unimaginable victory that was.
I expected to get up and find it was in fact Saturday morning and it had all been a dream that was in essence so far-fetched it was rubbish. This was Wigan at their fortress defending their record of winning everything and blowing everyone away last season. Wigan who started this season like a house on fire and who put over 40 on us just 4 weeks ago at home. Wigan about whom a Thesaurus of compliments had been exausted. No one, including me, gave us a hope and after 15 minutes with us 16 points down, the only consolation as I watched through my fingers was that I got that bit right!!! No one gave us a hope and anyone who said they still did at half time is a liar!! I don’t care how wise you are after the event!!
Yet somehow just like us constantly defying the odds and keeping Leigh out last week some magical manifestation came to pass and we fought and fought sometimes against the officials and our lack of any luck and often against a really class outfit desperate to continue their domination of the British game (but who, in fairness I admit, perhaps believed their own publicity once they were well in front). But, in the end somehow we came through. Old men did it all again and rolled back the years and young heroes became legends in a very special game and we all simply couldn’t believe it. How often has such a scenario seen the side we had fought to get back close to just got the final heartbreaker, how often have we just failed to get that final score and how often have we thrown it away in the last seconds. Many times, I hear you say, but not this time guys… we did em!!!!
So, enjoy the afterglow of the next four or so days and the Rovers fans trying to explain it away, then with two days to go to the next hit up we’ll all start panicking again!!! But make no mistake about it, this was a very, very special moment in out supporting lives and one we should never forget. I don’t know about it being the hope that kills you but at times like this, I think it’s the obsession and love that does that!! At least I still know the old tickers OK!! What a Brilliant win!!!
P.S. Good piece by Dan https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/hull-fc-rise-new-found-10027775
Fantastic post mate, rising to the occasion as always. Perfectly expressing the thoughts of every black & white faithful this morning. I'm still stunned watching those last twenty minutes unfold once more (get the impression we all still are!). Almost 37 years to the day since little Paul McCaffrey forever wrote his name into the faithful's hearts. Yesterday didn't quite match the sheer jaw-dropping drama of Pearce's gallop through the Boulevard mud all those years ago but, my god, it came pretty damn close to it!!!! They say that people find their true colours when faced with adversity. If that is indeed the case then this group of players and coaches are currently wearing colours of the boldest brightest spectrum, all in glorious black and white of course! A little over six months ago we were a pathetic second best at Elland road to a part-time London side. The transformation in one close season is nothing short of miraculous!! There will most probably still be bumps in the road for us to negotiate over the coming the months, but if there is one thing we have learned so far about this team it is that when knocked down they will pick themselves up, dust themselves down and go again. One thing's for sure they will not be found for lack of effort and commitment. I'm trying not to get too carried away on the back of one, admittedly stunning, unbelievable victory, but it really is difficult this morning not to feel that Hull Fc are back as a credible RL force once more. Think virtually all of us on here were in the very depths of despair last year as to where the club was heading (oblivion it felt) but Spring 2025 really does feel like the rebirth of our great club. I'm sure we will get kicked in the face at some point but at least the belief is back amongst the (long-suffering) faithful, especially the old-timers who think we've seen everything possible then a game like yesterday comes along and once more blows us all out of the water!!! The power of sport, and a indefinable unfathomable club, to move us all on a Saturday night. Keep up the good work mate, remember we disciples are always hanging on to your every word (all 6000 per week of them!!!  icon_wink.gif. |
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The Dentist Wilf: Here we go!!!!!
I couldn’t sleep at all I was still living it!! I couldn’t stop marvelling at it in the journey of coming down after the match. I just couldn’t believe it. A stack of Buds afterwards in fact never touched it!!!
Having come down a bit this morning from a truly amazing experience which after 64 years of season tickets was still a privilege to experience, I marvelled at how I had witnessed a second half that was one of those rare occasions when after thousands of hours of live rugby watching YOUR club, you still can’t believe what’s happening before your eyes. Over egging it??? Well why not, for when you take your partisan views out of it for the average RL follower it was in the overall picture of rugby pretty earth shattering.
For me it was the last five minutes at Wembley in 2016, it was Rover at Caravan Park in 2016 and it was Porky Pearce’s break, Dicks backing up and the subsequent try by McCaffrey against Wigan after the hooter had gone that famous time at the Boulevard on 20th March 1988. To the dedicated obsessive it was one of those moments you never forget the ones that as true fans we milestone our lives with. OK we won’t win the cup but what an unexpected and even unimaginable victory that was.
I expected to get up and find it was in fact Saturday morning and it had all been a dream that was in essence so far-fetched it was rubbish. This was Wigan at their fortress defending their record of winning everything and blowing everyone away last season. Wigan who started this season like a house on fire and who put over 40 on us just 4 weeks ago at home. Wigan about whom a Thesaurus of compliments had been exausted. No one, including me, gave us a hope and after 15 minutes with us 16 points down, the only consolation as I watched through my fingers was that I got that bit right!!! No one gave us a hope and anyone who said they still did at half time is a liar!! I don’t care how wise you are after the event!!
Yet somehow just like us constantly defying the odds and keeping Leigh out last week some magical manifestation came to pass and we fought and fought sometimes against the officials and our lack of any luck and often against a really class outfit desperate to continue their domination of the British game (but who, in fairness I admit, perhaps believed their own publicity once they were well in front). But, in the end somehow we came through. Old men did it all again and rolled back the years and young heroes became legends in a very special game and we all simply couldn’t believe it. How often has such a scenario seen the side we had fought to get back close to just got the final heartbreaker, how often have we just failed to get that final score and how often have we thrown it away in the last seconds. Many times, I hear you say, but not this time guys… we did em!!!!
So, enjoy the afterglow of the next four or so days and the Rovers fans trying to explain it away, then with two days to go to the next hit up we’ll all start panicking again!!! But make no mistake about it, this was a very, very special moment in out supporting lives and one we should never forget. I don’t know about it being the hope that kills you but at times like this, I think it’s the obsession and love that does that!! At least I still know the old tickers OK!! What a Brilliant win!!!
P.S. Good piece by Dan https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/hull-fc-rise-new-found-10027775
Fantastic post mate, rising to the occasion as always. Perfectly expressing the thoughts of every black & white faithful this morning. I'm still stunned watching those last twenty minutes unfold once more (get the impression we all still are!). Almost 37 years to the day since little Paul McCaffrey forever wrote his name into the faithful's hearts. Yesterday didn't quite match the sheer jaw-dropping drama of Pearce's gallop through the Boulevard mud all those years ago but, my god, it came pretty damn close to it!!!! They say that people find their true colours when faced with adversity. If that is indeed the case then this group of players and coaches are currently wearing colours of the boldest brightest spectrum, all in glorious black and white of course! A little over six months ago we were a pathetic second best at Elland road to a part-time London side. The transformation in one close season is nothing short of miraculous!! There will most probably still be bumps in the road for us to negotiate over the coming the months, but if there is one thing we have learned so far about this team it is that when knocked down they will pick themselves up, dust themselves down and go again. One thing's for sure they will not be found for lack of effort and commitment. I'm trying not to get too carried away on the back of one, admittedly stunning, unbelievable victory, but it really is difficult this morning not to feel that Hull Fc are back as a credible RL force once more. Think virtually all of us on here were in the very depths of despair last year as to where the club was heading (oblivion it felt) but Spring 2025 really does feel like the rebirth of our great club. I'm sure we will get kicked in the face at some point but at least the belief is back amongst the (long-suffering) faithful, especially the old-timers who think we've seen everything possible then a game like yesterday comes along and once more blows us all out of the water!!! The power of sport, and a indefinable unfathomable club, to move us all on a Saturday night. Keep up the good work mate, remember we disciples are always hanging on to your every word (all 6000 per week of them!!! icon_wink.gif. | |
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Just watched the match again on iPlayer and with a more relaxed assessment. Kendall really doesn't like us, does he? All the little 50/50 decisions seem to go against us when he is reffing, so for example, what might be a loose carry when we're defending is always a ball steal, whereas when we lose the ball it's a knock-on. Opposition players shouting at the ref seem to get a jokey response from him, but when we do it, it's a penalty for dissent (and then sin-bin). There are many other examples too.
Call me a conspiracy theorist, but his beef with us seems to have started with the infamous Griffin send-off at halftime when we played Saints in the cup in 2023. Before then he appeared to me to be a lot more even-handed with us.
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| Homenaway: Just watched the match again on iPlayer and with a more relaxed assessment. Kendall really doesn't like us, does he? All the little 50/50 decisions seem to go against us when he is reffing, so for example, what might be a loose carry when we're defending is always a ball steal, whereas when we lose the ball it's a knock-on. Opposition players shouting at the ref seem to get a jokey response from him, but when we do it, it's a penalty for dissent (and then sin-bin). There are many other examples too.
Call me a conspiracy theorist, but his beef with us seems to have started with the infamous Griffin send-off at halftime when we played Saints in the cup in 2023. Before then he appeared to me to be a lot more even-handed with us.
Would have liked to of seen a replay of the tackle that preceded the Asiata sin bin. On first glance seemed to loose it in the initial contact. If he just told him he thought it was a knock on then that's a weak reason from Kendall to card him. If this was happening with other refs then we would have to say its our own fault but it was the same in the Catalans game with Kendall, just not wanting us talking to him but ok with the opposition. | | |
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I said last week was the proudest I've felt as an FC fan in a while, and this week has topped it. What an amazing effort - especially backing up after last week's golden point match.
Last year's team would have lost that 50-0, there'd have been talk midweek in the HDM about how the players were going to right their wrongs, they'd learnt lessons etc...then they'd go out and get tonked again the following week...and repeat. Zero accountability from a lot of the players.
Cartwrights post match interview shows one of the biggest differences to last year - player accountability. He said the half time team talk was player led - there's a lot of players in that team who have a lot of personal pride and desire to win - you could see it in their second half performances, they wanted to make up for the first half. It's got a feeling of the 2016 team, the players have a togetherness, don't want to let each other down and we have that desire to win every game, no matter the circumstances.
Finally - how was Borouh not a starting player at Salford, one of the most underrated signings in SL this season for me, turning in to a brilliant player.
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Finally - how was Borouh not a starting player at Salford, one of the most underrated signings in SL this season for me, turning in to a brilliant player.
Yes and he was written off by some on here before he pulled a shirt on because he wasn't being selected by Salford. Same with Hardaker at Leigh. Maybe Myler knows more than they do after all. | | | |
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After watching the game again today a few things really stood out. The first being the carries and metres that both Barron & Martin made coming out of our 20 was fantastic. The performance of Sezer especially in the 2nd directing the play & his running. Hardaker & Bourouh who have really stood up since joining the club. I know Big Herman often and rightly gets spoken about, but thought Knight & Ashworth really drove us forward.
Every player from 1-17 put in one hell of a shift and that’s all we ever ask.
Great to see the togetherness not just of the players, but also the Coach and the owner too.
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