2025 is a new year for Hull FC, and with a new year comes hope. However, all at the Black and Whites will be cautious not to get too optimistic for the upcoming campaign, which is very much a rebuild after some below-par years. Here, Hull Live looks at three new year resolutions for Hull, with the side centred on hard work and restoring pride once again.

Show grit

It cannot be repeated enough that Hull have to be a more competitive side with more spirit, grit, and determination in their displays this year. They need to show resilience and fight, but be strong under adversity and not roll over, instead competing and staying in every game.

That competitiveness is all fans ask for. They want to see pride and passion in displays. They want to go home knowing that their side has given their all and fought to the end no matter what the result.

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For too many years, that emotion has been anything but, with despair dominating the general consescus from Hull FC games. It’s been about the manner of defeat with too many abject showings and big losses. That can’t be the case in 2025. Hull, who have added experienced players who pride themselves on such fight and on such competitive nature, have to become the team that their supporters can get behind again. That message cannot be hammered home enough. The connection is so powerful, and if this team can get it firing again, then they will go a long way.

Brand of rugby

Professional sport is a results-based business, but it’s also about entertainment. Hull have to entertain with the way they play this year. They have new players, a new head coach, and new staff to help do just that, with John Cartwright set to implement his own ideas and philosophies on the squad.

On that front, he is working with players he has had before, and none more so than Jordan Rapana, Aidan Sezer, and John Asiata. A marquee addition, a lot of responsibility will be placed on Hull’s loose-forward, who has the capability of transforming Hull’s attack from first receiver, creating a link with the halves, and allowing Hull to attack wider. Asiata is proven. He is someone with supreme leadership skills that can hold it all together in the middle of the field. It’s such an exciting signing, and it’ll be interesting to see how Cartwright, who also has the likes of Zak Hardaker and Oliver Holmes to call on, lets Asiata play along with the halves and full-back. The tools are there, and while expectations will be cautious, there’s no harm in expecting a more fired-up, connected, and entertaining Hull side in 2025.

Home form

Hull’s home form just hasn’t been good enough for years now. They won just three games in the entire 2024 season. The year before, they managed just six on home turf. That’s nine from 27 games. That just has to improve this year.

To stand any chance of climbing the Super League table, Hull have to get performing at the MKM Stadium again. They need to make their home ground a place that fans enjoy coming to. That hasn’t been the case in recent times; games in HU3 have felt like a chore, and if Hull are to get anywhere, they need a solid home base to build on.

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