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

I'm still really failing to see this so-called blunder. Some people really look for things that aren't there. IMO of course.

Has anyone actually refused to pay the extra £1 when purchasing their ticket?

That isn't an option.

Nobody is actually saying they would, simply pointing out that an involuntary levy on the ticket is not really a donation.

I suppose you could if you kicked up a big enough fuss though?

But who would be that pathetic?

I suppose some would. Makes no odds to me, I've got a pass.

There's been allsorts on at my work today but I'll bet my pound to a penny it won't say the staff raised it, the cheque to Comic Relief will come from the company.

Can you imagine if EVERY donation and method of raising was announced



"This pound was from little Timothy who cleaned his grandads car and then paid to enter the KC"........

Time to move on surely???

A fuss shouldn't be kicked up about the fact we are forced to donate (it is only £1 at the end of the day) but I definitely think Hull FC need to look at the press they are doing regarding the donation. There's not one mention of fans paying an extra £1 that's going to be donated in that article and it's wrong that they're claiming the donation as their own.

A simple statement like "Hull FC and Hull KR fans show their support for Children In Need by paying an extra £1 for the derby game" would suffice, but I must say I am dissapointed that any company (it being Hull FC in this case) would consider this a charitable gesture on their part.

agree 100%

It seems a lot of people on here

Why dont we get behind the team instead of harping on about something no mater how much you go on about will not change anything

There hasn't been a single person who has said they didn't want to make the donation, just that they would have preferred the club not to dress itup as some huge jesture on their behalf.

Will they be saying "Hull FC raise £200k for Richard Horn'es testemonial"??? (and yes, I hope and think he will get somewhere near that)

No but it will possibly stated that his testimonial committee helped richerd raise £200k where as all they will of done is the organising.
For this to carry on shows one thing and that is we are doing well on the field as this is all people have to moan about.I think the dressing up argument is silly the details are only on the club website and everyone who goes on there know exactly where the money is being raised from. Now when the clubs on the children in need programme as I beleave there are due to be then I expect them to let people know the ways in which all the monies where made.

Not one person has said that.

Careful you'll be accused of allsorts with that sort of opinion

Isn't that the correct wording though. it says Hull FC 'raise' rather than 'donate'. To me if I raise an amount of money for charity through an event, that says that I have collected the money, it doesn't imply that i have personally donated it.
I think however the club could have raised more in an alternative way (collection out/inside the ground) that gave the non season ticket fans a choice rather than been obliged to make a donation & season ticket holders would obiously give something as well.

A collection would not have got anywhere near £15k+ IMO.

Great point about the club "raising the money" though which they clearly have.