When they actually hand over the final cheque after the years worth of fundraising I am sure they will mention the fans etc. They have also had the shirts produced for the leeds match and organised that with the sponsor and I assume there will be many more likewise activities.If the club didn't do these things the charity would not of got that money IMO.
But its all about opinions I suppose.

I would have liked to have seen the extra £1 on ticket prices mentioned in the article in order to make it clear that the money is over and above normal takings for the match. Otherwise I don't have a real problem, and the fans ARE explicitly mentioned in the body of the text, albeit by the CIN rep and not a club spokesman.

As for cash being donated from pass holders for this particular game, I again don't have a problem with that provided FC make a contribution from their general cash reserves during the course of the year. Whether this is an explicit cash donation or money spent on organising fund raising activities is immaterial IMO.

ATEOTD a charity will be significantly better off for the club's involvement. That's what counts IMO rather than the wording of press releases.

Do it on Family Fortunes all the time

Isn't it Children in Need?

At the end of the day a charity is better off to the tune of £15k+ because the club decided to do something.

Public relations have never been the clubs strong point

We all know that.

When it comes to charity they much prefer basking in reflected glory!

They don't on "celebrity come dine with me" though

TBF they are doing other things as well and plan to have other fund raising events. If the club choose to release a press release with a positive spin on how the money was raised I dont really have a problem with it especially as we as fans bask in the reflected glory of the club.

But are they doing other things, I see no evidence?

Unbelievable over reactions on here as usual.

I think this has been handled badly and rather than complain on here I have told the club so too! The fact is though that any donation will be etched as from the fans of Hull FC and not from the club alone, and there will be other events during the year for season ticket holders to make their donations. Should have been a bucket collection at the Local Derby IMHO but its for a good cause and not worth over reacting about!!

Thought this thread was from a Dobbins fan ( Well its from Hutchie

) about how few kids concessionary tickets Rovers were getting for the game, Oh but we'll save that for next week!!!

They have announced them as Charity of the year and worn specific charity shirts and announced they will be doing other events. Does none of that count as evidence?

[iHull FC Rugby League Club announced BBC Children In Need as their official charity for 2009 earlier this year. The new partnership was launched at their pre-season match when the club wore their Pudsey endorsed kit and tackled the Leeds Rhinos.[/i
[iJames Rule, CEO of Hull FC said: “Hull FC are proud to be working with such a well respected charity as BBC Children in Need. We look forward to supporting its good work in the forthcoming year with the exciting initiatives planned.”[/i

As we are only 4 games into the new season I would expect further events as the season goes on.

Indeed, the fans havent donated either. (donation means choice)

They've chosen to go.

Not really, just stated my viewpoint and Robbo04 stated his.

It's no real problem to me and I have still bought a ticket, seems sometimes opposing something the club say and do counts as slagging the club or overreacting, which I was clearly doing neither.

ATEOTD I am glad the money is being raised, I just wish it had been done a little differently.

Dont want to get into this again, theyve chosen to go not to donate to charity. Its seperate pricing for a seperate outcome.

likewise, I've paid for 5 people to go, didn't have an option to donate or otherwise.

Do you really have that low an opinion of our club officials that you think they'd conciously think "Oh, we can take all the credit for giving some money to CIN by not specifically mentioning how it was raised!"?

Talk about mountains out of molehills.

I dont think it was concious, no.

I dont agree with the way Hull have gone about it but at the end of the day who cares who gets the credit so long as the money is used to help local children? Im happy to pay the quid extra.

Thats my big issue with it, we have the foundation etc., would much rather the club concentrated it's efforts on fundraising for direct expenditure in the local community (like the Jack Harrison foundation etc.)

Well the teams doing good so we can't moan about that.



I know we'll all have a good moan about the charity donation.
It's about time some people on here stood back and took a long hard look at themselves. I'm pretty sure they wouldn't like what they saw.

Another for the list of blunders