warped sense of Humour

Referee: R. Hicks
Touchies: M. Craven and P. Marklove.

Hull by 20 this weekend, think we will click again as we did against Castleford.

We also have some players back and we had 6 players who couldnt train all week due to a stomach bug last week and they played against Hudds, so we should be a little better shape.

Saying that we don't normally play well in London.

London dont play well in London - uhm come to think of it London dont play well in most places

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).

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?

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.

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

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.

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!!

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

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!!