Schofield was just leaving Hull when I first started going to games, so I understand it wrangles with you older fans but it doesn't mean that much to me. Schofield was probably my first greatest rugby league player. He was the best player in those 1990 and 1992 Ashes against the Aussies. You don't see players like him today.

I know we lost but that's one of the best Hull games I've seen. The atmosphere was brilliant. The Aussies had swept away all opposition and we expected a hammering not least because we had a stack of injuries. We gave them their toughest game of the tour. It was difficult to follow the ball because of the continual fighting in back play. It was kicking off everywhere! Crooks was fearless. He was only 19 at the time. Him and Les Boyd were at it all game.. Anyone who hasn't watched it on youtube I'd recommend it. Poor quality picture but worth it for all the scrapping!

Was anyone there at the brick throwing game? "81 I think it was. It was front page on the nationals. "Rugby Leagues day of shame" the headline was. I had it in my FC scrap book. Younger posters won't know what one is!

I was at the Airlie Street end and it all kicked off behind the goal at the other end. I well remember the ambulances and fans pouring with blood.

The good old days!

Was in Threepenny for that one and the Aussie tour match.
Great times.
Crooksie going between the posts under the nigjt sky at Elland Road below a rammed Spion Kop full of Hull fans was also class, then us beating Rovers in the John Player at Headingley are other standouts early 80's memories.

I usually stood at the Airlie Street end as I had a bad experience in Threepenny. Or to be more exact the back of it. I think it was the first game I went to as well. It was a night game and had been dry all day but strangely the rain began to fall on me and I got soaked

Mental day that one. I think there was some building work going on at the time and someone decided to leave all the rubble nearby.
I remember Moira Stewart on BBC news reporting on the violence on TV.
At least we got a song out of it

Yeah, Good Friday '81. I too was stood at Airlie Street end (my usual spot, which is why I sit in South Stand today I guess, same viewpoint!). I seem to recall Paul Woods kicking a penalty around half-way through the first-half, and as the ball went through the posts I saw a brick flying through the air! About two minutes later it was utter mayhem, something resembling a riot in Belfast or Derry that we used to see on the news in those days.

I remember an old-feller being taken down the tunnel with blood pouring down his face. Think the game was halted for around twenty minutes, but not wholly sure on that. Think the game finally ended with a one-point win for rovers courtesy of a late Phil Lowe try, but again my memory is a touch sketchy on this. The rumour doing the rounds afterwards was that it was City fans who had started it!! Seeing as City had barely enough fans at that time to start a fight in a phone box, I think that might be one rumour well wide of the mark.

Fun days!!!!

Those bleedin' city psychos, they spoil everything.

Nah.
It was them pesky Rovers fans who deffo started lobbing first.

Didn't end there either , Fighting continued down boulevard and on to Anlaby road . Proper royal ruck

I remember it well. Crooks scored right in front of me. As you say it was absolutely rammed. We were packed in pens like cattle. Scary when you think about it now.

The John Player Final was the Ronnie Wileman blind side try.

I remember a big Rovers fan who live down Camden street having a beer keg from Supporters club thrown through his window in 1980 .