So did 16 other players that day and fwiw,Swains charge down won it for us.



As for best kicker...Pearce for me.if he was playing now,he would kick 40-20's for fun and its no coincidence that the last time we had a good kicking game was when he was kicking coach.

What about Colin Hutton?

Most natural & laid back goal kicker....Geoff 'Sammy' Lloyd, by an absolute street. I mean none of this fannying around lining it up, golf swing stance or pondering over the ball for half an hour like ticks. It was dig hole int ground, ball down, look at ball & posts then whack. My first home game was him knocking over 14 of the beggars against Oldham in '78.

As mentioned, only let down was the '80 final, still rewind the '82 final and start trying to blow the ball in a bit...lol



Garry Pearce deffo the best out of hand kicker for distance and had a high % success rate and for sure Eastwood was very reliable, Ticks probably the best of all. Eastwood took kicks for GB as well at some point and knocked one over from the touchline against the Australians I seem to recall.

Loking back over the years when I was a kid Bateson (542 in 13icon_cool.gif was really good but we scored a lot of tries in the late 50's, Keegan good too, but for me in the last 50 years John Maloney must have been the most accurate and consistant! 675 goals in 224 appearances and in his day there were alot of low scoring games played on glue pot pitches! Lloyd was a brilliant kicker but many of the games he played in were high scoring affairs with lots of opportunity's. In more recent times Tickle has been superb but its Maloney for me!

He also missed 2 very kickable attempts in the 3rd Test at Old Trafford in 1990 which would have won us the Ashes.



Tickle for me, by some distance

Stevie Hubbard best kicker in Hull !

Was he from Leeds? I seem to remember him, tatty haired? Similar to yours Mick

Yes he was, he has long scruffy hair and kicked 10 goals in 3 first team games in 1976 I think I remember him kicking 9 from 9 in teh A team too

Did'nt Oulton break someones jaw?? might be wrong

Thought Oulton was from Batley or Bramley.

played for Batley, i believe

Johnny Maloney used to turn up for training in a Rolls Royce,don't think the money was "that" good in those days.