ossieram Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 The Ramstrust were involved in raising money for the flag, along with quite a few who had nothing to do with the trust. Originally the flag was stored under the East stand and Big John Richardson looked after it and a few of us would meet before games and take the flag into the West corner of the North stand and then walk, carrying the flags over everybodies heads from there to the South east corner before kick off. Nicks done a great job since taking over and I can't imagine many would be able to match his commitment. My only disapointment was that we did ask for the flag to be present at Big Johns funeral, but for some reason it didn't arrive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boycie Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 @therams69 The derby evening telegraph forum closed, but this forum was running before that one closed. Lots the DET forum refugees clambered on a rubber ring and floated over to here. Well done with the flag Sorry to nit pick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellafella Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 2 hours ago, Boycie said: @therams69 The derby evening telegraph forum closed, but this forum was running before that one closed. Lots the DET forum refugees clambered on a rubber ring and floated over to here. Well done with the flag Sorry to nit pick. Glad you set the record @Boycie...was heading for a sleepless night otherwise ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 12 minutes ago, Ellafella said: Glad you set the record @Boycie...was heading for a sleepless night otherwise ? He pulls him up on that, but let's the mention of dcfcfans.co.uk slide! Any fool knows dcfcfans.uk is the proper address. Half mod! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boycie Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 2 hours ago, reveldevil said: He pulls him up on that, but let's the mention of dcfcfans.co.uk slide! Any fool knows dcfcfans.uk is the proper address. Half mod! Not back in the day Back of the net. x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North East Ram Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 5 minutes ago, Boycie said: Not back in the day Back of the net. x Back of the dot net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bontddu Ram Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 Nick. I had the pleasure of travelling the country with you for a few years following the Rams. I can safely say your dedication to the cause is second to none. I know first hand the time and effort you have put into this club with no more reward than the desire to improve the atmosphere and experience for all Rams fans. The atmosphere is what differentiates football from other sports and their is no greater feeling than being in a stand full of fellow supporters in full voice. Although I can't get to games as often as I would like, my heart is never far from the cause. Myself, Nathan & Bailey will be making the trip from West Wales to Norwich so hopefully we can meet for a catch up there. Keep up the good work my friend, your efforts are greatly appreciated. Mark. UTR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falconram Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 Fantastic work you have done over all 10 years, much appreciated I'm sure by all rams fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B4ev6is Posted December 16, 2018 Share Posted December 16, 2018 Can get both flags surfing around pp on monday night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tombo Posted December 16, 2018 Share Posted December 16, 2018 Great job Nick, respect your commitment. I love the flag, just a little piece of history and it's unique bits like that which define our club. That flag will be around a long time I think. Even if you get sick of lugging it around, it'll end up somewhere in the ground permanently. Or in a DCFC museum with a little paragraph about it's history with your name on it! Just a question though, how is the flag holding up? Any rips/tears you can see? Stains? Fading? Like I say, hopefully 10 years is just the start and the flag stays with us a long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
therams69 Posted December 17, 2018 Author Share Posted December 17, 2018 On 15/12/2018 at 15:36, ossieram said: The Ramstrust were involved in raising money for the flag, along with quite a few who had nothing to do with the trust. Originally the flag was stored under the East stand and Big John Richardson looked after it and a few of us would meet before games and take the flag into the West corner of the North stand and then walk, carrying the flags over everybodies heads from there to the South east corner before kick off. Nicks done a great job since taking over and I can't imagine many would be able to match his commitment. My only disapointment was that we did ask for the flag to be present at Big Johns funeral, but for some reason it didn't arrive. I do remember this Ossie but cant remember what happened and why it never happened. Naturally if it was my error then full apologies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
therams69 Posted December 17, 2018 Author Share Posted December 17, 2018 On 15/12/2018 at 23:05, Bontddu Ram said: Nick. I had the pleasure of travelling the country with you for a few years following the Rams. I can safely say your dedication to the cause is second to none. I know first hand the time and effort you have put into this club with no more reward than the desire to improve the atmosphere and experience for all Rams fans. The atmosphere is what differentiates football from other sports and their is no greater feeling than being in a stand full of fellow supporters in full voice. Although I can't get to games as often as I would like, my heart is never far from the cause. Myself, Nathan & Bailey will be making the trip from West Wales to Norwich so hopefully we can meet for a catch up there. Keep up the good work my friend, your efforts are greatly appreciated. Mark. UTR You know what i think of you mate, TOP top man! Thank you for your kind words but you were also part of the sterling effort all them years ago and very much the mainstream of it. I would go as far as saying that we had better atmospheres back then particularly at away games than we do now. Peterborough away was the one. Amazing!!! Look forward to catching up at Norwich mate where we both know it wont be rocking! :-( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
therams69 Posted December 17, 2018 Author Share Posted December 17, 2018 13 hours ago, Tombo said: Great job Nick, respect your commitment. I love the flag, just a little piece of history and it's unique bits like that which define our club. That flag will be around a long time I think. Even if you get sick of lugging it around, it'll end up somewhere in the ground permanently. Or in a DCFC museum with a little paragraph about it's history with your name on it! Just a question though, how is the flag holding up? Any rips/tears you can see? Stains? Fading? Like I say, hopefully 10 years is just the start and the flag stays with us a long time. Absolutely Tombo. It is history like you say and stuff like that is always good. Did I mention that I have a dcfc flagman tattoo on my leg. Sad maybe I know!! To be fair I have an English rose and the ram on my leg so just added the words on some years later. More so of a cheeky little reminder for when I am older to look back on kinda thing. Museum would be good. I know we have plans to do something along them lines when we eventually go up so would be the perfect place. Its holding up very well. It has been stitched a fair few times for any major cuts which can always happen when setting up over seats. I take it to the place in Westfield now and they are really good at sorting it. Few other little cuts but nothing major. Stain wise also pretty good. If it can survive a Balti pie at Forest Green away it can survive the amount of coke thrown on it at Boro! Thankfully the washing machines at Moor Farm are really good and when it is washed it comes out really good so I would say very good condition for its age. Other issue we have is that should we ever look at replacing it, the costs would be very high. Sure Ossie may be able to correct me if i am wrong but believe it cost £1800 when we bought it. I think a flag of this size would probably be around 3k now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uttoxram75 Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 On 15/12/2018 at 15:36, ossieram said: The Ramstrust were involved in raising money for the flag, along with quite a few who had nothing to do with the trust. Originally the flag was stored under the East stand and Big John Richardson looked after it and a few of us would meet before games and take the flag into the West corner of the North stand and then walk, carrying the flags over everybodies heads from there to the South east corner before kick off. Nicks done a great job since taking over and I can't imagine many would be able to match his commitment. My only disapointment was that we did ask for the flag to be present at Big Johns funeral, but for some reason it didn't arrive. Was that Big John who posted as The Ram Ossie? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinman Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 Think the flag made more noise than the south stand last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inverurie Ram Posted January 7, 2019 Share Posted January 7, 2019 @therams69 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
therams69 Posted January 7, 2019 Author Share Posted January 7, 2019 13 hours ago, Inverurie Ram said: @therams69 LOL! The famous Boxing day game! Still quite don't know what went wrong there in fairness... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inverurie Ram Posted January 7, 2019 Share Posted January 7, 2019 @therams69 can you explain how you went about upgrading the flag by replacing the old yellow Derby County scroll on it with the far better looking Est 1884 on it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
therams69 Posted January 8, 2019 Author Share Posted January 8, 2019 11 hours ago, Inverurie Ram said: @therams69 can you explain how you went about upgrading the flag by replacing the old yellow Derby County scroll on it with the far better looking Est 1884 on it? Yeah sure... Obviously we changed our logo and the club wanted the flag replacing so they sorted it all out. Kinda think it looks better without the yellow when comparing in fairness. They sent it off, had the yellow cut out and sown a new logo in... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boycie Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 So is this 10 year old flag a bit like Triggers brush? ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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