Former Hull FC centre and prolific try-scorer Kirk Yeaman was born in the city in September 1983 and is respected for his honesty and loyalty as well as for being a staunch family man. He played professional, first-team rugby league from 2001 to 2016 becoming the club's 13th-highest appearance maker - a fact more remarkable given that it happened in the Super League era when fewer games are played. Kirk is essentially a one-club man, but he was loaned out to Doncaster, for whom he scored one try in two appearances, early in the 2016 season when he was struggling to regain his place at Hull. But he bounced back to again become a regular in the team, helping them to finish at the top of the table going in to the Super 8s and to win the Rugby League Challenge Cup at Wembley for the first time in seven attempts - dramatically beating Warrington Wolves 12-10 in the process.
Kirk, who also represented Great Britain, England and the Northern Union at international level, announced his retirement as a player soon afterwards, but was immediately offered a backroom post with Hull to prolong his stay after he had become the last-surviving player to turn out for the club at both of their Boulevard and KC Stadium bases.
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978-1-908847-06-5 (9781908847065)
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In August 2016 international centre Kirk Yeaman became the first player in Hull FC's history since the split from the Northern Union in 1895 to earn two Rugby League Challenge Cup winners' medals with the club. A local lad, he had first won the trophy at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff in 2005, but his second triumph, 11 years later, helped Hull to exorcise their club ghost of never having won it at Wembley in six previous attempts. It capped Kirk's astonishing career, fought against a background of dealing with epilepsy, in which he played more than 370 times for Hull FC, reached the 700-point mark in tries, became their third-highest try-scorer ever and the highest-scoring centre in their history. Alongside these feats he became one of only six players to appear in four Rugby League Challenge Cup Finals for the club, played in a Super League Grand Final and made 12 international appearances.
