Joined: Jan 15 2007 Posts: 11924 Location: Secret Hill Top Lair. V.2
Stolen from Easty, who posted this on the VT, well worth a watch this. I had the pleasure of bumping into Mr. Colin Hutton in Perpignan, in 2007, just because I had a Rovers shirt on and he took the the trouble to approach me (I would never have bothered him, although I obviously recognised him) to say hello and shake my hand. A wonderful gentleman and complete ambassador for Rugby League.
Stolen from Easty, who posted this on the VT, well worth a watch this. I had the pleasure of bumping into Mr. Colin Hutton in Perpignan, in 2007, just because I had a Rovers shirt on and he took the the trouble to approach me (I would never have bothered him, although I obviously recognised him) to say hello and shake my hand. A wonderful gentleman and complete ambassador for Rugby League.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.
Sorry , but although Colin has been around the game for years and done many a thing and is a great chap and all that , he took over an already successful club , given honours on a plate as it were and then over saw our virtual destruction and moved us to the hole we are having to spend millions putting right now...that is the fact of the matter and cannot be changed...if he had had an ounce of foresight in 1989 we would never have had the dismal 17 years we had to endure after and would be playing in a decent location in a decent ground , we could even have remained at Holderness Road if he had not been in a rush to take the Co-ops money and get into bed with Wrights...buts that another story...might be harsh but very true....
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pmh wrote:Stolen from Easty, who posted this on the VT, well worth a watch this. I had the pleasure of bumping into Mr. Colin Hutton in Perpignan, in 2007, just because I had a Rovers shirt on and he took the the trouble to approach me (I would never have bothered him, although I obviously recognised him) to say hello and shake my hand. A wonderful gentleman and complete ambassador for Rugby League.
Aye, good video that. Looking forward to the legends video. Do they have any of the early 20th century legends on those pillars? I love all that sepia stuff.
danrobin wrote:The guy's a legend, he oversaw probably the most successful period of our existance
You are Jarrod Sammut's tatooist and I claim a delicately-inked rose for Mrs MR's right buttock.
Larry Billey wrote:Sorry , but although Colin has been around the game for years and done many a thing and is a great chap and all that , he took over an already successful club , given honours on a plate as it were and then over saw our virtual destruction and moved us to the hole we are having to spend millions putting right now...that is the fact of the matter and cannot be changed...if he had had an ounce of foresight in 1989 we would never have had the dismal 17 years we had to endure after and would be playing in a decent location in a decent ground , we could even have remained at Holderness Road if he had not been in a rush to take the Co-ops money and get into bed with Wrights...buts that another story...might be harsh but very true....
In a desperate effort to pass myself off as a real fan, I have read up on Rovers' history. Also, I love all that sepia stuff. When CH arrived at Rovers they had been struggling for a generation. When they reached the dizzy heights of 13th of 30 in 1960, that was the first time they had finished in the top half of the table since 1931. Over the course of his 54-year association with the club, I'd say he has a lot more in the credit column than the debit. And his stories are a joy to hear, IMO. One story I heard about him, was told by Phil Clarke... Hutton spending the whole of half-time looking at the scoreboard that read Wigan 0 Hull KR 26 in 2007. Wonderful.
pmh wrote:Stolen from Easty, who posted this on the VT, well worth a watch this. I had the pleasure of bumping into Mr. Colin Hutton in Perpignan, in 2007, just because I had a Rovers shirt on and he took the the trouble to approach me (I would never have bothered him, although I obviously recognised him) to say hello and shake my hand. A wonderful gentleman and complete ambassador for Rugby League.
Aye, good video that. Looking forward to the legends video. Do they have any of the early 20th century legends on those pillars? I love all that sepia stuff.
danrobin wrote:The guy's a legend, he oversaw probably the most successful period of our existance
You are Jarrod Sammut's tatooist and I claim a delicately-inked rose for Mrs MR's right buttock.
Larry Billey wrote:Sorry , but although Colin has been around the game for years and done many a thing and is a great chap and all that , he took over an already successful club , given honours on a plate as it were and then over saw our virtual destruction and moved us to the hole we are having to spend millions putting right now...that is the fact of the matter and cannot be changed...if he had had an ounce of foresight in 1989 we would never have had the dismal 17 years we had to endure after and would be playing in a decent location in a decent ground , we could even have remained at Holderness Road if he had not been in a rush to take the Co-ops money and get into bed with Wrights...buts that another story...might be harsh but very true....
In a desperate effort to pass myself off as a real fan, I have read up on Rovers' history. Also, I love all that sepia stuff. When CH arrived at Rovers they had been struggling for a generation. When they reached the dizzy heights of 13th of 30 in 1960, that was the first time they had finished in the top half of the table since 1931. Over the course of his 54-year association with the club, I'd say he has a lot more in the credit column than the debit. And his stories are a joy to hear, IMO. One story I heard about him, was told by Phil Clarke... Hutton spending the whole of half-time looking at the scoreboard that read Wigan 0 Hull KR 26 in 2007. Wonderful.
'Thus I am tormented by my curiosity and humbled by my ignorance.' from History of an Old Bramin, The New York Mirror (A Weekly Journal Devoted to Literature and the Fine Arts), February 16th 1833.
Joined: Jan 15 2007 Posts: 11924 Location: Secret Hill Top Lair. V.2
Mild Rover wrote:Do they have any of the early 20th century legends on those pillars? I love all that sepia stuff.
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No idea, I've never been in, GML will know.
Mild Rover wrote:
danrobin wrote:The guy's a legend, he oversaw probably the most successful period of our existance
You are Jarrod Sammut's tatooist and I claim a delicately-inked rose for Mrs MR's right buttock.
Snigger.
Mild Rover wrote: One story I heard about him, was told by Phil Clarke... Hutton spending the whole of half-time looking at the scoreboard that read Wigan 0 Hull KR 26 in 2007. Wonderful.
I was taking photographs of the score board at six nil!
Larry Billey wrote:Sorry , but although Colin has been around the game for years and done many a thing and is a great chap and all that , he took over an already successful club , given honours on a plate as it were and then over saw our virtual destruction and moved us to the hole we are having to spend millions putting right now...that is the fact of the matter and cannot be changed...if he had had an ounce of foresight in 1989 we would never have had the dismal 17 years we had to endure after and would be playing in a decent location in a decent ground , we could even have remained at Holderness Road if he had not been in a rush to take the Co-ops money and get into bed with Wrights...buts that another story...might be harsh but very true....
Listen Bazza, I know you like to deride all things Rovers and generally have a good moan, (you are apparently a Hull Kingston Rovers fan, so at some point must have actually enjoyed rugby league, fook knows what you must be like about things you dislike, do you find everyone sidling away from you in the pub? You do, don't you, thought so) but I deliberately did not post anything about Mr. Hutton's tenure as chair person (I merely stated what a gentleman he is which is an undeniable fact) so as to not attract such piteous criticism as you posted.
You managed anyway, well done.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.
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Mild Rover wrote:And his stories are a joy to hear, IMO.
Ask him to tell you the one about returning to Craven Park after managing the GB tourists in Oz and wondering why the groundsman had sprinkled salt on the turf - yes he did taste it to make sure
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Colin Hutton yes great bloke yes good coach good player.
Probably a good publican too.
Back then if you used to play for Rovers and also ran a pub then OK you can be chairman.
Unfortunately Colin Hutton was in no way qualified or suitable to be chairman of a rugby league club.
Probably I am not qualified or suitable either, so no offence Colin.
But in my defence I did not sell Craven Park (Holderness Rd) and then build an inferior version on Greatfield Estate and make such a mess of it the club ended up in administration. Colin Hutton pretty well nearly killed Hull Kingston Rovers not because he wanted to but because he didn't know how not to.
Classic case of a man promoted beyond his ability.
Hull Kr legend? Yes certainly before & after his time as chairman. But his time as chairman was the darkest period in the history of Hull Kingston Rovers.
His Bobness wrote:Colin Hutton yes great bloke yes good coach good player.
Probably a good publican too.
Back then if you used to play for Rovers and also ran a pub then OK you can be chairman.
Unfortunately Colin Hutton was in no way qualified or suitable to be chairman of a rugby league club.
Probably I am not qualified or suitable either, so no offence Colin.
But in my defence I did not sell Craven Park (Holderness Rd) and then build an inferior version on Greatfield Estate and make such a mess of it the club ended up in administration. Colin Hutton pretty well nearly killed Hull Kingston Rovers not because he wanted to but because he didn't know how not to.
Classic case of a man promoted beyond his ability.
Hull Kr legend? Yes certainly before & after his time as chairman. But his time as chairman was the darkest period in the history of Hull Kingston Rovers.
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