Life is a game of inches, so is football. Because in either game - life or football - the margin for error is so small. I mean, one half a step too late or too early and you don't quite make it. One half second too slow, too fast and you don't quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us. On this team we fight for that inch. On this team we tear ourselves and everyone else around us to pieces for that inch. We claw with our fingernails for that inch. Because we know when add up all those inches, that's gonna make the difference between winning and losing! Between living and dying! You've got to look at the guy next to you, look into his eyes. Now I think ya going to see a guy who will go that inch with you. Your gonna see a guy who will sacrifice himself for this team, because he knows when it comes down to it your gonna do the same for him. That's a team, gentlemen. TONY D'AMATO
Joined: Feb 16 2006 Posts: 5588 Location: "Ray T" ex 8 Alexandra Terrace Bean Street Lad Hessle Road Hull
1941 baby in arms mother took me during the war ,Hull only played Yorkshire teams Hull borrowed players from other teams that were not playing during the war times .Rover never had a team during those times.Black and White through and through .Seen the good times and bad
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It's Rough It's Tough It's Rugby League R Whiting Best Thing Since Slice Bread Better make That Second GRANDDAUGHTER IS NUMBER ONE ..1959/65 1Battalion Prince Of Wales Own Regiment Of Yorkshire ..Gibraltar/Libya/Wuppertal/Berlin FROM 1959 TILL 1965 I WAS TAUGHT HOW TO KILL FROM MONDAY TO SATURDAYS BUT ON SUNDAYS THE PARSON TOLD US NOT KILL When I asked Who is right I was told "don't be clever Soldier just do has you are told " "Ich bin ein Berliner I was there when those words where spoken " part of history " "SMILE and make the WORLD a better place "
Joined: Apr 27 2007 Posts: 8157 Location: Back in Hull
39 and not sure when i was hooked as I was taken to nearly all the games from 1973 onwards but I think when we brought over the Kiwis (O'hara/Kemble/James L (never can spell his last name)) I got really excited with all things Hull.
45 and not sure really I was took to Hull & amateur games from a very young age maybe about 8 yrs old and had no choice in the matter, I used to like it as I know my mum would buy me sweets to keep me occupied, think I got hooked around 14.
Had a few gaps with season passes when my children were born due to finances etc
I am 65,used to go to the boulevard at about 9 yrs of age mainly to play around under the scoreboard!! jonny whiteley came to our school,(west dock ave) with 2p tickets for the games, really into it by 10/11yrs still suffering/enjoying to this day!!!
When I was 7, last game of the 78/79 season, we lost to Salford and were relegated. Apart from a few years in the mid 90's when I worked every Sunday I've been a regular.
Joined: Nov 20 2011 Posts: 1183 Location: Australia
My mum was red and white and dad FC and I was taken to my first match at Rovers in 1946 and shortly afterwards to the Boulevard. I lived until I left Hull in 1960 near Marfleet station not too far away from where my mum was brought up in nearby dockland with her 12 siblings. Her eldest sister came to Australia to marry an Aussie in 1919 followed by her next eldest married sister. As a young kid I was sent stuff from Aus and became fascinated with the place and of things Australian. My decision to opt for supporting the Black and Whites came with the arrival of the 3 Australian players Watt, Jackson and Ryan to the Boulevard in 1947. I had a brief go at playing rugby league (for Fenners) in my teens but decided watching Hull was better ( and physically less damaging!!).
Joined: Aug 01 2005 Posts: 5910 Location: Definately not in the Cuddle Crew
Ive just turned 40 and my first game was the final home game before the 1980 CC Final which i also went too though dont remember a thing about it. My dad used to take us home and away season after season and i was at every final except the premiership final when we won but we fell out of love with FC in the Casey years and beyond and then i started going again when we was the Sharks and after a couple of seasons managed to drag my dad back when we used to stand in the well with my two brothers. Then we moved to the KC and my dad got a season ticket in East on the half way line and id be there with my brothers in the south/east corner till the Agar years kicked in and ive sort of fallen out of love with FC again though i still managed to take my kids aged 8, 6 and 4 to their first games last season and a couple this season so the legacy continues
Joined: Mar 28 2005 Posts: 20992 Location: THE HOME CITY OF LUKE CAMPBELL OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST
Im 46 and first went in 1975 with my Nana and think we played Hunslet.After that i went all the time and took my eldest for the 1st time when we played Sts in a play-off match at boulevard and she now is a pass holder as is youngest.
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Thats why you got the Bullet Agar...Adam Pearson wants winners...not useless gits like you.
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