{"id":348834,"date":"2025-08-16T09:45:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T09:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/348834\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T09:45:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T09:45:13","slug":"adrian-lams-hull-fc-respect-comment-as-leigh-leopards-target-dna-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/348834\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Lam\u2019s Hull FC \u2018respect\u2019 comment as Leigh Leopards target \u2018DNA\u2019 display"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hull FC take on Leigh for the third time this season.<\/p>\n

09:30, 16 Aug 2025Updated 09:31, 16 Aug 2025<\/p>\n

\"HullHull FC prop Herman Ese’ese.(Image: SW PIX)<\/p>\n

Adrian Lam has admitted that Leigh Leopards were \u2018embarrassed\u2019 the last time they faced Hull FC<\/a>, with the Leythers boss challenging his side to put in a performance now that is resonant with the \u2018DNA\u2019 of the club.<\/p>\n

The Black and Whites ran out 26-12 winners at Leigh Sports Village back in May, with Lam blasting some early and uncharacteristic errors that helped pave Hull\u2019s way to victory.<\/p>\n

And the Leigh boss, who also saw his side draw 22-22 with Hull back in March, is expecting another difficult game against a club he \u2018respects\u2019 this Saturday evening, with the two sides clashing for the third time this season.<\/p>\n

Speaking ahead of the clash, Lam said. \u201cIt\u2019s a really difficult job to go to Hull and win. We haven\u2019t won against them this season after two games, but we\u2019re prepared for it and there\u2019s going to be a real steel focus on the team and the DNA we want to show as a club.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last one we played here, we were terrible, and we were left embarrassed, really. That\u2019s in the back of our minds, but we\u2019re a different beast from what we were then. With only six games to go, we\u2019ve got to get that consistency in us and be an 80-minute team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leigh are aiming for a top two finish this year, and after Hull KR<\/a>\u2019s win at Wigan on Friday night, they know they\u2019ll be just one point behind should they taste victory. But Hull also have a big incentive, with the side just one point ahead of Wakefield Trinity in the race for the play-offs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got a lot of respect for Hull,\u201d Lam continued. \u201cThey\u2019ve got a lot of our ex-players there and they\u2019re doing a pretty good job for them. They\u2019re desperate to stay in that top six; they\u2019re on the verge of missing out on the top six and their season will be a disappointing one if they do miss out.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019ll be a lot of urgency around their performance, but they had a really big win last week and I think that would have given them a lot of confidence. I think it\u2019ll be a really tough battle for us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hull FC take on Leigh for the third time this season. 09:30, 16 Aug 2025Updated 09:31, 16 Aug…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[115424,4151,6531,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-348834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-hull-fc","9":"tag-rugby","10":"tag-rugby-league","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115037806532017265","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}