Well considering it is a story that was 150 years in the making it has to be said that last nights "celebration" was a complete let down.
1. Showing the full highlights of 2005 final with the exception of the last 2 minutes as they cut it short.
2. 25 minutes talking about Sundays test match....this was a celebration of Hull Fc, not a test match preview.
3. Raffles prizes....tickets to watch Hull City x 2....WTF
4. Auction prize ....2003 signed Rugby Union Replica ball
5. 9 years old doing the Haka? Why?
6. No audience participation or choruses of Old Faithful at all during the night.
7. Poor choice of venue. Dark and dingy sums it up.
8. No comedian. It felt like a wake rather than a celebration.
9. Very few highlights....Floodlit? 1982 Aussies? Winning the league against Barrow? 1991 Prem? Topliss runaround? Last game at the Boulevard! Etc etc. All these games have easily accessible footage.
10. Poorly compered with reluctant speakers throughout the night.

One plus note was the pie and peas.
Sorry Hull and Mr Clark, the lack of forethought, effort and not really delving into the history of this great club was clear for us all to see.

Very poor

Apart from shirt launch I feel the 150 anniversary has been a bit amateur to be fair I don't know what it is about our club we have some good ideas but then seem to do them half ar@#£d if you know what I mean ?

To be honest the entire 150 celebration year was a washout, nothing about it inspired me to join in anything. It was not very well organised and lacked punch, we may as well not have bothered.

I ask the question on the choice of ball carriers pre match, no one asked Sammy Lloyd, Knocker or Sullys wife most where ok but there where one or two glaring foul ups.

Maybe me but I still remember the centenary year, just..................

I doubt anyone will remember the events of 2015 in fifty years time and a few of you lot will be about then ....................lol

Video link from ex players?

James Clark and that McCallister woman are clearly out of their depths.

Things like this have shown that even more.

Pay peanuts and all that

Does not seem to be exclusive to Hull FC either given Rovers choice of Bobby Bubbles or whatever his name was for their parade!!

I reckon both clubs take one look at the amount of empty shops, pubs and eateries around the Town and think 'these lot will be grateful for any sort of night out and entertainment'!!

The entire 150th celebrations have been a joke.

Not only on the pitch were we let down but the entire thing was trerrible

I thought some of our pass money for the season went into a pot to fund the celebrations. What happened to that money?

Maybe you should've joined the organising committee?

Maybe you should think about your posts before you respond with a completely irrelevant point.

How is it irrelevant? IIRC the group asked for volunteers for ideas and support at the outset. It's reasonable to question whether those dissatisfied with the output responded.

Are you James Clark's mum? The whole night was a complete non event. A story 150 years in the making and 30 minutes talking about a test match that has no relevance to Hull Fc as a club. Raffle prizes to attend Hull City matches....do you seriously believe that the fans input would have made a difference?

That's why it is irrelevant.

It was completely relevant.

He branded the entire anniversary programme "a joke". He (or you for that matter) could've asked to be involved in planning events, but I guess it's far easier to just moan about it anonymously on a message board.

It's not irrelevant. There was an opportunity to have a say and offer to participate. Seeing that it was fans who organised/facilitated the event then obviously fans' input was important. On the Hull City tickets, I have no idea what your point is. Are you saying the raffle would have been better with fewer prizes? Perhaps it was a signal of improving relations with the SMC, who knows?

Does anyone know anyone who was on the committee and what input they had into things? Must admit the whole 150th anniversary passed me by completely, due mainly to the poor product on the pitch probably but also a lack of inspiring events. And no, I didn't volunteer for the committee as I don't have time

There's a sticky thread on it started by BEN_THE_BLACK&WHITE who was a volunteer. Not much interest in it though judging by lack of posts.

I don't know anyone on the committee. From what I know the Vice Presidents had a big role in the City Hall event, and I think there was a Legends dinner earlier in the year. FC Voices arranged the Boulevard Memorial event and the Streetlife Museum exhibition had a big contribution from fans in terms of memorabilia, photos etc. The other stuff like FC Mastermind, Challenge Cup cinema screening, Poet Laureate event, Celebration evening, charity single etc - not sure.

I just remembered I went to the street life museum exhibition which was OK

Sounds like the City Hall dinner was weighted in favour of the NZ links. Far cheaper to do that and invite their touring squad than to bring lots of fomer players over from the other side of the world. The Vice Presidents paid for James Leuluai to come over but finding sponsors to pay for Kemble, O'Hara, Sterling, Muggleton, Ah Koui, Swain, Fitzgibbon, O'Meley et all would've been nigh on impossible.

Seen as you were on it. You will be able to tell all why the chair resigned and the money was "used elsewhere"

She's the current clubs mouthpiece, on the payroll. She wont have owt bad said about the club. Unlike pre season with her threats of violence and constant slagging of the club

Make your mind up. "Constant slagging" vs "payroll mouthpiece" You're like an early hours drunken Greek tragedy - incoherent and monumentally contradictory.

I find it really sad having to read this kind of thing.
With over a years notice to organise an event and it sounds like a real damp squib & lack of structure for the evening & more importantly relevance to the clubs history.
steak and apple pie must cost a bomb these days to knock up, jeez and for a marquee event!
Is there really no-one at the club capable what with all the contacts/resources to actually make evenings like this spot on rather than leaving people feeling peed off, it smacks of the amateurism that haunts the club from top to bottom

"Seen as you were on it" doesn't make any sense but if you are suggesting that I was on the organising committee then sorry to disappoint you but I wasn't.

I agree that the 150th anniversary was an opportunity missed but we're not alone in staging half-baked events.

The fan fest at the Olympic Stadium yesterday was typical RFL fare. A winswept car park with a few inflatable games and a bus selling overpriced crap beer.