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...

It's a good point and one I must admit I sort of gloss over because he's a nice old man with a friendly smile.



I've heard one or two dodgy rumours over the years about dubious transactions around that time so it would (never going to happen) be very interesting to hear a definitive account.

Sorry I did not mean you was

I meant the idiot who said it not you

Thanks MR i was

Thats ok mate we all make mistakes including me, just ask the wife .

Doubt it was just Colin. Just after the stadium opened I was working with a local councillor (who was on the committee who dealt with the lease of the land) and he was a keen Rovers fan. He said at the time he was suspicious of the 'values' put on the deal and asked a friend who was a commercial land surveyor for his opinion and was told that for where the old CP was and what was built on it, the value used was about 70% of what it should have been for such a commercial venture. He reckoned at the time that if the club had received a true market value, they could have paid off all the debts and built a decent stadium with cash left over (which was the original plan as talked about by the board of the day).



We will never get to the whole truth, but at least we now have the makings of a decent ground and a team back in the top flight, something I thought I might never see again at one point.