Black bank flag

[roversdude]

Come on guys looks like it’s £17 short of the target
https://www.gofundme.com/f/black-bank-official-gfm

[Spilsby Red]

Just put in the last £17.00 needed. I know there are names to be put on it. Can someone arrange for my lads name to be put on it. Joshua Dales. Maybe they can put Spilsby Red on it for me. A lot know I can’t get to matches now. But if it’s one name could it be my lads. If someone knows who are sorting this out

[roversdude]

Nice one Spilsby I messaged the lad who organised it
Hope you’re bearing up pal

[Spilsby Red]

Not to bad thanks. Very tired. 3 more days of radiotherapy left. 4 weeks of then chemo starts. Thanks for messaging for me. I try to do my bit for the club and fans. Can’t make games but my heart is there. Let me know what they say please

[roversdude]

Will do Spilsby

[scawsby steve]

Not to bad thanks. Very tired. 3 more days of radiotherapy left. 4 weeks of then chemo starts. Thanks for messaging for me. I try to do my bit for the club and fans. Can’t make games but my heart is there. Let me know what they say please

Keep fighting, Spilsby. We're all thinking of you, mate.

[Pancho Regan]

This reminds me that I donated £10 towards a flag last April, in response to an appeal on here.
I can’t remember who put out the appeal.
Never heard another thing about it and haven’t seen the flag either.

By the way, I am in no way wishing to undermine or question this new initiative, which is a great idea and is clearly being properly organised.

[idler]

I put £15 in to this latest one but not been asked for any names yet.

[andy didcott]

I’m sure I read that the last flag was stolen, hope this one is stored in a secure location and well looked after.

[graingrover]

Having contributed again could I request that the organisers explain how the flag will be managed on match days and how will it be stored between  matches and by whom .I assume and hope the club will take joint care of this £ 3000 piece of fans’ money .The last one ended up in the boot of a well meaning fan’s car and was stolen !

[Pancho Regan]

I've found the thread I was thinking of now:

https://www.drfc-vsc.co.uk/index.php?topic=290916.0

This was to be a new surfer flag to use in last season's play-offs. The fundraising was organised by RoverBB (Matty Davies?).
As far as I know, over £1,000 was donated and I could be wrong but I don't remember ever seeing the flag?

[graingrover]

Pancho ..I hope you get an answer from Matty but if not Please let me know .I have forwarded a message to Shaun at the club because this new £ 3000 flag needs to be taken into proper supervision and safe keeping by the club .If not, fans ( like us ) will never participate again.

[Chris Black come back]

The best one was the John Ryan Revolution flag that used to come out all the time and I think was stored behind the south stand. Mysteriously disappeared just about the time JR became persona non grata at the Keepmoat. Mystery.

[drfchound]

Having contributed again could I request that the organisers explain how the flag will be managed on match days and how will it be stored between  matches and by whom .I assume and hope the club will take joint care of this £ 3000 piece of fans’ money .The last one ended up in the boot of a well meaning fan’s car and was stolen !

I’m struggling to think of what anyone who stole that flag would do with it.
Unless of course it was a Rotherham fan who used it to start a bonfire on 5th November.

[TonySoprano]

The best one was the John Ryan Revolution flag that used to come out all the time and I think was stored behind the south stand. Mysteriously disappeared just about the time JR became persona non grata at the Keepmoat. Mystery.

Hopefully got thrown in the skip where it belonged.

[graingrover]

I understand the car was stolen with the flag in the boot .

[Usher wide.]

Sorry, was it the big shirt flag that was stolen (so in effect we have no big flags/banners) which I donated to as indeed I did for the flag Pancho Regan enquires about, what happened to the monies collected for that flag that to my knowledge never saw the light of day?

Not accusing anyone of being ‘underhand’ here, just genuinely curious.

[idler]

I put a tenner in for that one as well.

[silent majority]

I don't understand the fascination of buying new big flags all the time, especially when big flgas already exist and don't get used. This one is still in the club, and was last used during covid as a cover for all the empty seats;

[GazLaz]

I don't understand the fascination of buying new big flags all the time, especially when big flgas already exist and don't get used. This one is still in the club, and was last used during covid as a cover for all the empty seats;

Why don’t they use it to cover the empty seats in the North Stand?

[Pancho Regan]

So it seems a genuine question is arising here:

What happened to the previous fund-raising initiative by RoverBB to buy a big flag one year ago (April 2024) to which I and several posters on this thread donated?
The thread in question, the link to which I posted above, includes a link to the fundraising page. This shows a total of £1040 raised.
Was a flag purchased? I don't recall hearing that the flag came to fruition, and I don't recall ever seeing it.
Matty Davies was the fundraiser and he is also part of this new initiative.

[TonySoprano]

I don't understand the fascination of buying new big flags all the time, especially when big flgas already exist and don't get used. This one is still in the club, and was last used during covid as a cover for all the empty seats;

Get it out then !!!! It's alright saying we've got one, but then keep it in a cupboard somewhere!

[graingrover]

Silent M …unbelievable switch off on your part to the genuine concern being expressed on here by people who donate money and are asking where it went.You do a lot for football Martin but your arrogance is sometimes un bloody bearable.

[silent majority]

Silent M …unbelievable switch off on your part to the genuine concern being expressed on here by people who donate money and are asking where it went.You do a lot for football Martin but your arrogance is sometimes un bloody bearable.

I have no idea what you're talking about.

[silent majority]

I don't understand the fascination of buying new big flags all the time, especially when big flgas already exist and don't get used. This one is still in the club, and was last used during covid as a cover for all the empty seats;

Why don’t they use it to cover the empty seats in the North Stand?

There'll be numerous reasons for that especially when you have away fans in the stadium. I would suggest that doing that would contravene numerous Safety regulations, or at least be interpreted so.

[Pancho Regan]

I think SM's post is a valid contribution to be honest.

And the question remains that there seems to have been at least one flag appeal which didn't end up with a flag, despite a substantial sum of money being raised, unless of course I'm mistaken.

I can't see any posts by DonnyBB on the forum since his flag appeal last April 2024.
Can anyone shed any light on this?
 

[graingrover]

No of course you don’t Martin! Allow me to speak plainer English then . This forum is representative of the club and collects subscriptions from us to help it do so. It has you and other people who represent the club either as Supporters club reps, Shadow Board reps, or Lady Supporters club reps. Then you have others, like myself who subscribe to every one of your representative entities.
Don’t treat us like also-rans! The fact that I put £150 quid into two surfer flags deserves a better response than the one you offered which was to intimate you did not understand what the problem is since one of the flags is where you know it to be!

[silent majority]

No of course you don’t Martin! Allow me to speak plainer English then . This forum is representative of the club and collects subscriptions from us to help it do so. It has you and other people who represent the club either as Supporters club reps, Shadow Board reps, or Lady Supporters club reps. Then you have others, like myself who subscribe to every one of your representative entities.
Don’t treat us like also-rans! The fact that I put £150 quid into two surfer flags deserves a better response than the one you offered which was to intimate you did not understand what the problem is since one of the flags is where you know it to be!

Brian, I'm still struggling to understand what point you're making. Nowhere in your previous posts have you asked me to do anything, nor have you explained that you've put money into a couple of flag crowdfunders and that you want answers from a VSC rep. You want a better response from me? In what regard? I haven’t asked you to contribute to anything, and I'm not responsible for what the BB get up to.

All I've done is point out that there is a large flag already in the stadium. 

[silent majority]

I don't understand the fascination of buying new big flags all the time, especially when big flgas already exist and don't get used. This one is still in the club, and was last used during covid as a cover for all the empty seats;

Get it out then !!!! It's alright saying we've got one, but then keep it in a cupboard somewhere!

Why don't you do it? There's nobody stopping you.

[graingrover]

The appeal was made on the club’s offical website .You or another official representative of the fans could have said ..Hold on guys before you spend another £ 300O , I know where there is a surfer .
Do what Martin ?