Jake the Peg wrote:I remember it well. Kemble try was like so many he seemed to score. Sterling got the plaudits but I seem to think knocker was brilliant on the day.
One of my all time favourite games was the one where we beat rovers in what was effectively a play off for league winners in 83. The boulevard was rocking that night. I can't remember the score but we won at a canter. Threepenny's was fun that night. I was still at school, will have only been 14. 2 buses each way with my mates to get there. Great times
To think we once had Kemble, Sterling and Knocker at 1,7 and 13, compared with all the various combinations we had in those positions last season.
That title decider was on 8th April 1983. I remember it well. My sister got married that day. The game should have been played on Good Friday, but Hull played Cas in a CC SF on the previous Easter Saturday, so the game got re-scheduled for the following Friday. Me and my Dad had to give our tickets away. Over 20,000 at The Boulevard that night for what was the Title decider. Think Hull won 20-3 (?). I had to make do with listening to the game on a car radio outside the Evening Reception.
We clinched the title a couple of weeks later v Barrow (followed by our Kiwis leading the team to the Haka in front of the Threepenny Stand.