Hull Football Club are a rugby league football team who play at Kingston upon Hull so it's a good job that we are playing Hull City Association Football Club. The city we know as Hull was originallly called, Wyke (on the River Hull), which may come from the Old English word wic meaning "dairy-farm". It later became Kingston upon Hull when it received its royal charter from King Edward I in 1299.
Hull City AFC are nicknamed the Tigers not on account of their fearless and primeval hunting instincts but rather due to their traditional black and amber colors. Hull were established in 1904 and admitted into the league in 1905.
On 1 August 1970, Hull became the first team in the world to be eliminated from a cup competition on penalties, beaten by Manchester United in the semi-final of the Watney Cup (a short-lived English football tournament held in the early 1970s, and before the start of the season).
The Tigers only moment of glory in their history was a brief stint of yoyoing between the premiership and the championship during 2008-16 seasons and an FA Cup final in 2014 when they put up a brave catfight only to lose 3-2 to Boring Boring Arsenal.
In February 1983, City fans Henry Priestman and Mark Herman worked under the pseudonyms 'Harry Amber' and 'Mark Black' (together as 'Amber and Black') to release the song "The Tigers are Back", with backing vocals provided by various members of the City squad. This was done to help raise funds in order to pay the players' wages. "The Tigers are Back" never made it to Top of the Pops but did manage to knock Duran Duran off the number one spot in Sydney Scarboroughs for one week. Well played Amber and Black.
Since December, Hull have been managed by Dr Rubén Sellés Salvador (Saviour in Spanish) who led Southampton to relegation, told the Reading FC Boad to sell up, and oversaw changing room bust-ups when manager of Port Vale. Interestingly, Saviour picked up his UEFA Pro License at the age of 25, studying alongside one Carlos Corberan. Selles has coached in Spain, Russia, Greece, Azerbaijan, Norway, Denmark and England. Selles employed a 4-2-2-2 and high press when in charge of The Saints last season.
Hull play at the MKM Stadium, formally the KC Stadium (named after the communication firm, not those crisps TC likes to eat). Hull's mascots are Roary and Amber. In 1999, Roary went on the pitch during play, creeping up behind the opposition keeper just as he was about to take a goal kick, and gesturing as though he was going to squeeze his bottom. This proved to be the final straw for the ref that day, as Roary was “sent of.
Famous celebrities from Hull include:
Reece Shearsmith
Maureen Lipman
Paul Heaton
Tom Courtenay
William Wilberforce
Tigger
Tony the Tiger from Frosties fame
Various assorted tigers
WWII Flyng Ace, Squadron Leader Caesar Barraud Hull from South Africa
Hull may have home advantage but they are 22nd in the league and their current form is LWLWL wheras we are DWWWD. We are also still top, courtesy of Sunderland beating Sheffield United. Hull are captained by Lewie Coyle - remember him, who has played 153 games for the Tigers. Former Man City starlet, 21 year old CB Charlie Hughes is one to watch. And João Pedro is maybe one to consider buying - a highly experienced attacking Number 10 midfielder. And let's not forget Codey Drameh who has played nearly every game this season. I expect Farke to rotate the team again. Wober will probably start at LB as Byram may be needed at RB if Bogle isn't fit. Ampadu will start in CM but could be alongside Tanake or Rothwell. Presumably Gnonto and Ramazani will take the wing positions and Joseph will play ahead of Piroe. I think we will pick ourselves up after dropping two points at Elland Road. A 3-0 win with goals from Aaronson, Joseph and Gnonto.
Why would Liverpool let Kelleher go when they are going for every trophy possible!?
He's probably on comparatively small wages for the Prem so no need to let him go while he's under contract....
I'd say he'd want to stay anyway with a good chance of being rotated or even playing for winning these trophies and seeing what he should do at the end of the season....
Well we continue to shoot our selves in the foot 3-1 up and boom self destruct
To my mind, Meslier needs competition and neither Darlow or Cairns cut it. Might need a better goalkeeping coach too.
What do others think about a loan for Kelleher?
We need to drop Meslier for the Harrogate game and hope that Darlow cements his place. I've run out of patience with Meslier, I've backed him longer than I should have done, just hoping that he can cut out the stupid errors. This season has proved he can't.
I'm only on the site at 3.45am as I can't sleep and I'm hoping TC10 has written something and it bores me to sleep.
We had the game won, or at least so it seemed. What happened next Is so Leeds.
The first goal they scored is a prime example of a square defence. Wöber wrong side of the opponent, no cover from Ampadu and Rodon covering the right back position. Followed up by Meslier's ill advised trip to "no man's land". Second goal, wtf was that? It started with Meslier moving forward, then backtracking and finally tipping the ball which was going over the bar, back into play.
Third goal, another set-piece well into the six-yard box and again he can't deal with it.
OK, not as clear an error as the first one, but he stands at 6.5 or 6.6 and is hardly a novice in English football. Far too many mistakes that have cost us a lot of vital points.
and at full time we will know more indeed......
if somebody, ANYBODY, wants to argue with me I'll take you on. Meslier is spent, get him out of our club
made a bad call for the first.
Humiliated for the second.
Set piece failure for the third - and after the same thing had happened against Blackburn too.
Words (nearly) fail me.
And there never was a better time for Farke’s warriors to show that they know how to defend a lead! Come on Leeds!!
Dan the Man who Can puts it in the back of the net.
Special mention for Bogle.
Wonderful goal from Tanake. Pure quality. Now to win it.
It's a 5th game in 15 days - we still have 45 mins to sort this out.
At full time we'll have a better picture.
MOT
Plenty of examples of poor defending, at times we were all over the place.
Not pointing the finger at Wöber alone (what was Meslier doing & Ampadu missing?) but his lack of pace was exposed a couple of times & passing/shooting looked rusty.
Piroe having one of those games again.
If only we had someone clinical enough to put away those changes, not when we're already leading but when we truly need them.
We should still win this. Chances are created, but sometimes we need ten for every goal we score. Come on Leeds. MOT
Great start, missing struijk allready
Bamford "hamstring issue" again
Cue the theories.
Disappointing not to have Struijk but Ampadu is a great alternative - no worries with Wober on the left but what has Schmidt done not to get a look in?
Nice one Mr Smurf.
I failed to get a ticket to this, typical as its my nearest away game and a decent kick off time for once. Grrr.
So no WF as I'm not going so don't care.
We should win.
Solomon to outclass them and star in a 4-0 win for us.
Another brilliant MDT
Let’s maul those 🐯 2-0
There's as much bullshiit in there as one of Lord Freezingtits' weather forecasts....quality MDT Smurf and good luck for a prolonged run.
This is yet another tight game as it's a Yorkshire derby of sorts and Dull are fighting for their lives in a relegation battle....
Until we get a no10, EVERY game will be the same and we'll have to break down teams with 24 players behind the ball....if our flying wingers are not performing, then we have no Pablo to be creative.
I'm going for a positive 1-0 victory with James notching in a scrappy game with a couple of sendings off....
Brilliant stuff again Smurf, clearly your spell as the forum's literary master is feeding though to the players who are responding accordingly.
Lately, we have done ok away to Hull and I think Saturday should be ok as well, with the usual sprinkle of nervousness thrown in.
Hull 0 Leeds 2
Once again a fabulous write up Douglas - I believe you get a well deserved break for a week regardless of result as I make a hash of ghost writing the cup run next week 😂
Opposition with relatively new management - bit unpredictable, but we're good enough
Hull 0 - 2 Leeds