After being beaten 60-14 in their last home game, Hull FC showed what they can do against Champions St Helens last week and today they hosted newly promoted Leigh Leopards hoping to win their first game since Round Two.
It was the worst possible start for Tony Smith’s side however as they found themselves 12-0 down after eight minutes.
Five minutes into the game Kai O’Donnell powered over for the opening and after Hull kicked the kick off out on the full lovely work by Lachlan Lam set Josh Charnley up to make it 12-0.
By the 13th minute the Leopards were 16-0 ahead as Josh Charnley crossed for a second.
Hull needed a response and got one from a Brad Dwyer break. After a bit of chaos with both sides battling over a ball that Dwyer had offloaded Davy Litten ended up with the ball to produce a diving finish and make it 16-6 but just before the break Ligi Sao was sent to the sin bin for a head high tackle.
Shortly after the restart a penalty saw Ben Reynolds extend Leigh’s lead to 18-6 and things got worse for Hull as Sao was sin binned for a second time shortly after.
The Black and Whites went further behind as Josh Charnley rapped up his hat-trick in the corner but again Reynolds missed the kick so the Black and Whites only trailed by 16 points and almost instantly hit back as Jake Clifford raced away from a lovely offload to make it 22-12 after he converted his own try.
10 minutes later it was game on as former Leeds Rhinos teammates Brad Dwyer and Liam Sutcliffe combined for Sutcliffe to power over. This time though Clifford couldn’t add the extras: 22-16.
It was game back on until Joe Shorrocks forced Hull into an error which led to a penalty.
Reynolds stepped up to take it and he nailed it making it 24-16 wrapping up a famous win.
