Last night I watched the entire match of the 1980 all Hull cup final.

This Era was a time I was alive but before my time as knowing anything.

Sammy Lloyd had a mare, not only his missed kicks, but he cost us an almost certain try for Graham Bray, when he needlesly obstructed a player off the ball. We should have won that game. We didn't start well, but I thought we looked the more likely for the rest of the game. We just blew our chances.


I'd like to hear some stories from the older posters about those Golden days. Memorable games, players and anything else?

I went to the game on a school trip on the British railways school special. First trip to London let aline Wembley. 1000's of kids on the train.

My memory of the matches that e were by far the best team, Sammy Lloyd missed about 15 shots at goal he'd normally have backheeled over, Fred lindop disallowed about 7 tries we scored and rovers were their usual dirty cheating barstewards. I've never watched the game back so my memory may be slightly off but won't be by much.

Loads of great memories from the 80s. I feel sorry for those who never experienced the boulevard in its pomp or got to stand in threepenny. Great times.

Special mention to watching len casey get sent off at the old caravan park and us hammering them and sering us dismantle rovers in 83 to pretty much secure the league title

They where great days. Loved the 70s. Yes sometimes FC where poor but towards the end when Bunting arrived it certainly was exiting times. Boulevard even though a dark dismal place was a great ground for atmosphere especially the night matches. Loved the place.

The Len Casey sending off is probably my earliest memory of rugby league, so that must have been a tv game that I watched as a young kid.

I remember around that time seeing James Leuluai in town working on some scaffolding near or on Bob Carvers in market place and asking for his autograph.

I do vaguely remember Clive Sullivan working in the building society at the top of my street and us kids would go in all the time to see him.

Remember coming out of Wembley roaring. The prospect of getting home seeing my big brother who is a Rovers fan didn't help.

I also remember getting to school on the following Monday and rumours were flying around that Lindop admitted that he cheated us and the game would be replayed

I was at that game it was at the old Craven Park. It's on youtube I think. Casey got sent off and he had a bit of an altercation with the linesman as he was walking. It cost him the GB captaincy for the Oz tour. I think that was also the game he had a fight with Fred Ah Kuoi. To Fred's credit he got stuck in and landed more blows!

I have a memory of Fred Ah Kuoi breaking his jaw. Was that from that incident or was it something else?

Those Kiwis we had in those days were top international players and we had a few Great Britain internationals in there. It must have been a great team to watch?

Don't think it was that one mate. We never saw the best of Ah Kuoi which was a shame. He was the star of the '80 Kiwi tour. He was linked with us when we signed the other 3 kiwis but went to play for Norths in the old Winfield Cup. When he eventually did sign for us in '83 he wasn't the same player. Schofield mentioned it. While in Oz Ah Kuoi bulked up and lost some of his elusiveness. Still a good player though.

Do you think Schofield should have started in the 85 final?

And if so, would he have been in at centre instead of Evans or stand off instead of Fred? I know at that time Schofield was already the best British centre.

I remember the excitement when we signed them. For me Kemble was the best. Leuluai was an excitement machine and O'Hara was a great finisher. O'Hara got off to a bad start. He punctured his lung in his debut at home against Cas. Rovers fans said he had a breathtaking game which I didn't find funny at the time!

Kemble was a rolls Royce of a player. Probably had his worst game for us in the 85 final following a long injury play off. Schofield was brilliant although obviously a judas

I always thought the Schofield thing was a strange one but Arthur didn't get many things wrong. Schofield will probably tell you if he started we would have won.

I've watched the game on YouTube against the 1982 Aussie invincibles at The Boulevard. We give them a good game. They get us in the end but we give them a contest.

Yep. I was shocked when Kenny skinned him but as you say he wasn't fit. Think Gill did him as well.

Leuluai scored one of the greatest Wembley tries which is almost forgotten because we lost.

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.

Well it definitely started at Gordon Street End, and that's where they were stood, so as guilty as a three week old puppy sat next to a pile of poop!!!