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Hull KR vs Hull FC (A) 44 - 18 Lost |
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20/07/08
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K.C.Stadium
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Steve Ganson
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Hull F.C.
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44 - 18
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Hull FC warmed up for their Challenge Cup semi-final in seven days’
time by ending their derby day blues against bitter rivals Hull
Kingston Rovers with a 44-18 win at the KC Stadium.
The Black and Whites had lost the last three meetings between the two
but forgot the form book to produce their best performance of the
season and earn Richard Agar a first derby win of his coaching career.
They will now travel to Doncaster for their semi-final against
Wakefield buoyed by their first success of the season over Justin
Morgan’s men, who remain highly unlikely to reach the play-offs after
their sixth defeat in seven games.
The two sides produced a stunning opening half that saw them share six
tries and end up separated by just a failed Danny Tickle conversion.
Both teams had already gone close as breaks from Danny Houghton and
Kirk Netherton went unfinished, before Ben Galea put the visitors in
front with 11 minutes on the clock.
The stand-off powered over the line after a slick change of hands
between cousins Kirk and Jason Netherton, with Michael Dobson adding
the extras in Cooke’s absence.
A fine tackle from Ben Cockayne then denied Hull and Tickle an
immediate response, although did come on 18 minutes when teenage winger
Tom Briscoe crossed for his third try in as many games when he took in
Kirk Yeaman’s pass.
Rovers bounced back almost straight away when Cockayne bounced over
after taking in Dobson’s pass, only for Hull to also strike for a
second time with a Scott Wheeldon try on the back of a fine break from
Shaun Berrigan.
With both sides seemingly unable to defend a set without conceding,
Rovers duly took the lead again when Cooke’s replacement Chaz I’Anson
touched down after Dobson threaded a deft kick behind the Hull line,
only for Yeaman to snatch his 12th score of the year shortly before the
break.
The scoring sequence was broken five minutes after the interval as Hull
went ahead for the first time, with Jon Steel spilling Danny
Washbrook’s kick straight into the hands of the waiting Graeme Horne.
A tremendous tackle by Peter Cusack on Peter Fox then earnt Hull the
possession just five metres out and with it they produced the try of
the game for winger Matt Sing.
Tommy Lee, returning after a six-game lay-off through injury, sent a
wonderfully weighted flat kick above the visiting defence and Sing
completed the move with a towering jump above Steel to score. Tickle
slotted the goal for a 10-point lead.
Hull were in complete control of the play by now with Lee and Berrigan
outstanding in their dictation of the play, and the latter highlighted
that with a stunning lay-off for Yeaman who grabbed his second try of
the match.
Briscoe then raced the length of the field leaving five Rovers chasers
in his wake for his brace as the floodgates opened, with Craig Hall
completing the rout in the final minute. |
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Cockayne, Fox, Lovegrove, Welham, Steel, Galea, Dobson, Vella, Netherton, Crossman, Gene, Netherton, I'Anson
Replacements: Aizue, Mills, Chester, Fisher
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Sing, Hall, Horne, Yeaman, Briscoe, Washbrook, Berrigan, Dowes, Houghton, Thackray, Manu, Tickle, Radford
Replacements: Lee, Broughton, Wheeldon, Cusack
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