many a day has gone were i thought that fc would NEVER be able to sign players of such quality..............the days of shane endacott,gavin lester and dave moffat are well and truelly over,our last 2 years have gone tits, no doubt about it, but hopefully that was down to bad management, wether on the field or in the boardroom, we will never know...but we seem to have really hit the nail on the head with this years recruitment...a class prop is what we wanted, and did we get it??? oh yes we did....a scrum half?? we got arguably the best english one available...experiance??? wholly sh*tballs, we got that too in fitzgibbon.....no team in our position(3rd bot) cud have picked up such players i am sure.......hell, look at the red and whites... they cant sign one of them never mind all three of them

and they finished fourth....just says to me that whatever has gone on in the last two seasons bad or not, we still are a big draw where players are concerned....we are a big club,a big draw...and we always will be....c'mon u uuuuulllaaaaaa!!!!

It was Gary Lester .....

I agree, going to get my season ticket regardless, however no matter who we have lined up i cant seem to drop that feeling its just going to be more of the same.

but on that note it would take something special to finish lower next year and if we did i dont think a 36yr old with half a name would commit to us in the future never mind the big lads.

Would rather have had him and Peter Wheeler this season then Thorman and Horne!

They were good signings at the time cos we needed a half back pairing and both Wheeler and Lester maintained form in 1997.

Will always remember him scoring under the sticks at Hudds and celebrating by booting an up and under to win us the promotion. Good player at that level.

Didnt Wheeler find himself out of the team mostly, with players like Liddiard operating at 6 and Lester moving to 7?

The same Shane Endacott that went on to be a starting NRL stand off for the next few seasons at the age of 24?

Later in the season Wheeler spent most of his time at hooker. Cant remember which team but he also ended up playing at a lower level in this country.

York

The mighty Mike Dixon was at 9

Not forgetting Jason Donohue....

I remember Wheeler having a good game at hooker in the Craven park derby that year and setting up the winning try for TV near the end.

We had a major turnover of players that year.

indeed

Facking loved that moment. Was in the stands with my Dad, we and everyone around us went mental!

Don't think I've ever gone as mental at a rugby match as I did that day!!

Gary Lester was the worst six we have ever had!!,if you thought Thorman coulodn't tackle,you should of seen this guy,laundry guy loved him,didn't need to clean his shirt.

the same shane endacott that was awful at fc......and disapeared without a trace......as far as i was aware

Absolutely! Endacott was terrible for Hull.

I wish people like you could be sent to an alternative reality where Gary Lester never played for us and you are still watching FC trying to get into superleague.

100%

Lester did his job at the time, a damn site better than many so called "greats". It always amazes me when you mention Rob and Gary Nolan and people pipe up"they were garbage", no, they really wern't, they helped save our club.

Plastic plates wrapped in tin foil.

Happy days.

Worst FC memory was when the whole squad decided to shave their heads for an O/T game, but we did outsing EVERYONE (I think that is when some St Helens players fell in love with the faithful)

Good night out was it?

Put it this way, the O/P had change from £65