On thursday at 10am I will be moving Colin for the Freedom of the City,

So anyone that knows him or have any anecdotes, if you could let me know and I will try to fit some in, Johnny Whiteley has given me some, so should be a great day for him.



It will have a mention on boots'n'all on Wednesday and then a more indepth profile at the weekend before the Hull and Widnes game (being the only two clubs he played for).



He joins a select band Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Douglas Haig, Johnny Whiteley and not forgeting JP

One of FC's finest was Colin. Hope you succeed on Thursday. I really was trying to forget JP and now you've spoiled it.

Job's a gud'n, we voted on it two months ago, it's just taken so long to organise (Colin's guests and the hand painted scroll) it's just the ceremonial bit now.

Wasnt it Colin Hutton who locked Flash Flannagan in the changing rooms until he signed?



Anyways good to see him being honoured, right up there with Sir Johnny on what hes done for RL in this city



Will have to have a word with Dr Allam, see if we can get his pic up at KC too

absolutely no way ! any FC fan would say no



=#FF0000Clearly it isn't that famous. So edit, MR. The rest of the thread won't make much sense now, I know.



NO NO NO and NO

Did he?



I'm not saying he didn't, I just don't recall, I thought that was more Barry Lilley.



Anyway, lovely bloke, a true gentleman on the couple of occasions I've met him and well deserved in my view.

I thought that it was Barry Lilly who campaigned .

Anyone who does so much good for RL is okay in my books, whatever side he is from.

Yes it was barry lilly why would colin hutton do so you are

why am i crazy you plonker,? do you bother to read properly or just look at the pretty pictures when opening a book?.



I was merely responding to the Fc fan who suggested that it may have been Colin Hutton who campaigned for Hull to be closed down during the Gateshead fiasco, i replied by saying i thought it was Barry Lilly who undertook that campaign, i did'nt even mention or slightly refer to Colin Hutton, Capiche.

Just for the record, i've known Colin for many years, i would regularly chat to him in his pub during the early Eighties, especialy on match days when a few of us would go in at opening time, watch Aussie RL videos and eat the hot toasties which he served up with his pints.

I still have a chat to him now and again if i see him on match days, he is a true gent and certainly deserves the honour bestowed upon him.

I think CP1 just quoted the wrong post. I'm pretty sure he was agreeing with you.

I think it's ironic that there's a thread started about Colin Hutton's forthcoming freedom of the city the same day there we hear about how the club still fighting and struggling to improve the catastrophic "legacy" Colin Hutton has left even though we're over 20 years on.



People rightly credit Neil Hudgell with the resurgence of Hull KR because all though there have been many others who have also contributed, leadership comes from the top, so he rightly receives the credit.



Using the same principle, the man who was at the top during the catastrophic move from Holderness Road to Greatfield, deserves the criticism. It's like everyone connected with the club acts like it never happened and it seems phoney to me.



At very best it was the most stupid, pathetic and incompetent piece of business imaginable.



At worst it was something more sinister and highly suspicious. I have been told of some very unsavoury revelations about that time which I can't substantiate.



Of course, there's always two sides to every story, but we've never heard Colin Hutton's for some reason...