Hull City: First Season in the championship review

We wanted to compete in this division and stay clear of relegation. Our attempts to do this were not helped by injuries to our summer signings and some key players, but the bottom three have rarely looked like creeping up on us.

I feel that some fans will always have unrealistic expectations, but Peter Taylor's done a very good job in difficult circumstances. He was tested this season by injuries, but next season could be an even bigger test when he's, hopefully, got a full squad and will be expected to push on.

Goalkeeper Boaz Myhill has been outstanding. Defender Leon Cort has been consistent, and centre forward Jon ‘The Beast' Parkin made an impact. Stuart Elliott has failed to rekindle his form of last season, and his future at the club is under question by some.

Doctor Who: School Reunion

A local high school may not be entirely what it seems. Sarah-Jane Smith is sent to investigate the place, with her trusted robot dog K-9, who made a welcome special appearance in this episode of Doctor Who! But there she unravels a deeper mystery, as she's reunited with a face from her past.

The Doctor, who left her behind many years ago. He has returned, and everything about him is different from the Doctor Sarah remembers…played by Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker leading to much confusion and Rose gets a tad annoyed!

Scouting 2007!

Had a busy day working on the websites, but at present everything seems to be working. A lot of the updates have now being completed and we even got a google earth plugin working on the location page which is a real bonus! I also got my arm out of a sling today which is good as it is certainly faster typing with two hands rather than one!

Scouts!

This evening I am going to help at my local Scout Group which is normally an enjoyable experience! Having helped at Scouts for seven years!

I always find it very interesting to find out what the Scouts I have worked with do in life after they have left Scouts and tonight should be good!

The Aviator

April 26 is the 116th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (117th in leap years). There are 249 days remaining in the year.

Today, I also watched the Aviator on DVD which I personally think is a excellent film. It is a little bit slow at times and won't be liked by all but I thoroughly enjoyed it.

It concentrates on the psychological evolution of Howard Hughes, a stud, a filmaker and ground-breaking Aviator - who is a little obsessed and more than a little strange. It's Scorsese's darkest movie since 'Taxi Driver', with a great cast and DiCaprio is excellent in the lead.

Scouting 2007!

Had a busy day working on the websites, but at present everything seems to be working. A lot of the updates have now being completed and we even got a google earth plugin working on the location page which is a real bonus! I also got my arm out of a sling today which is good as it is certainly faster typing with two hands rather than one!

Schumacher wins once again at San Marino

Michael Schumacher held off Fernando Alonso in a tight duel Sunday to win the San Marino Grand Prix. Schumacher covered 62 laps around the Enzo and Dino Ferrari circuit in 1 hour, 31 minutes, 6.486 seconds, with Alonso 2.0 seconds behind.

It marked the Ferrari driver's record seventh win at Imola and the 85th of his career. Apart from last year's U.S. Grand Prix, when only six cars competed because of a tire dispute, it was Schumacher's only other win since the end of 2004.

Schumacher started from pole position and championship leader Alonso began fifth. By the 35th lap, Alonso was on Schumacher's tail but could not pass the seven-time world champion.

The scene was the opposite of last year's race here, in which Alonso held off a surging Schumacher over the final 12 laps.

This time, Alonso went into the pits on the 40th lap, while Schumacher came in one lap later and managed to come out just in front of the Renault driver. Schumacher's expert blocking skills and Imola's narrow track prevented any serious attacks from Alonso the rest of the way.

McLaren's Juan Pablo Montoya finished third, 15.8 back.

Hull City 1 - Preston North End 1

Hull City's last home game of the season saw the points shared as Preston looked towards the play-offs. Both goals came in the first half with a superb effort from Simon Whaley on 33 minutes putting Preston ahead and an own goal from Youl Mawene 10 minutes later bringing Hull back on level terms.

City's Damien Delaney had a chance midway through the first half but his header from an Alan Rogers corner went wide of Carlo Nash's right hand post from eight yards out.

The Tigers rued that miss just past the half-hour men when Whaley capitalised on Delaney stalling on the edge of the box and smashed in a half-volley to send North End into the lead.

Some smart football from Hull just before the break resulted in a great chance for Jon Parkin but he couldn't convert a cross from Craig Fagan, as he hit the ball into the ground and saw it bounce over the bar.

Hull did level the scores on 43 minutes when a Stuart Green free-kick from the right side of the box was unintentionally bundled into the bottom right corner of the net by Preston skipper Mawene.

Hull started to come into the game midway through the second period and nearly took the lead through Parkin, but he couldn't find enough power on his shot and Nash comfortably saved his right footed effort.

Substitute Darryl Duffy came within inches of putting Hull ahead towards the end of the game but he lashed a right-footed shot just wide of the post.

Whaley then nearly grabbed his second late on as he raced into the box and unleashed a right-footed shot, but Myhill was equal to it and managed to turn the ball around the post. This is looking good for next season, I personally hope!

Floral Hall!

Tonight I am going for a night out once again at Hornsea Floral Hall, which hopefully should be good!

Finished Hornsea Scouts Website!

It took me a few weeks to make on and off, but I think my new Scout Group website is now ready for external testing, it appears to be slightly slow at certain times of the day but what do you expect for a free site. I would just like to take this opportunity to thank all the people on the Escouts team for allowing me to use their systems for the site!

If you would like to take a look at the site I have included a link above, however a great deal is now password protected, but take a look at the public pages via the link above!

Sorry for sporadic posting!

Once again the holiday period has meant sporadic posting on my blog, I hope to keep it up to date more frequently now, but we will just have to wait and see!