I have made contact with the club regarding setting up a designated area for flags / displays in the stadium.

The club has responded positively, and put me onto the stadium manager.

I've put forward the wing of Britannia, and upper tier of fantastic media as options? I know in previous topic / posts there have been a few of us indicating that they'd be up for bringing their flags in.

Would there be support to get this going for the saints game? If I can add weight of numbers to the stadium manager he may be more inclined to go with a designated part of stadium.

I'd also be up for putting money into a collection to put towards a giant flag (pardon the pun), or other mid sized flags. With our attendances well half of capacity, I really think it could add something visually to match day.

Would there be any others for this? This kind of thing could be organised in conjuction with hgsa, or standalone?

Thoughts?

As the fanzine we are hoping we can have enough money by the end of the year to have a big 'pass over' flag!

Brilliant! Good work.

Would be great if a group of fans could pitch in and 'make John smiths Claret and Gold'

hopefully have some new flags in time or the BBC game with saints

This is something that HGSA is continually championing. We have made a small start with our own flag, and we shall continue with this cause.

i have a big flag which is just plain claret and gold but no wording on it.i will bring it to the saints game if any others are going up?
we have talked before about getting a big flag/banner paying homage to one ken davy, not sure how feasible this would be though.

regarding the saints game, we should try and get as many singers together as we can i reckon, i posted something on the match thread about trying to encourage people to come to the back of the kilner bank and make some noise.
maybe eddie could put something on the fanzines twitter thingy??

I have a large flag, I will be up for bringing it to the games too.

So far we have;

Meast
Eaton
Ivor
And myself. (8x4ft st.george "falling in love"icon_wink.gif

Any others?

How big are flags lads? The hgsa one looked a fair size when I saw it at KR match.

I'm up for meeting up pre match to help put flags up.



Ref the Ken Davy flag / banner idea, I'd be up for putting towards a fund for one. We could set something up on paypal, to collate funds? I'll look into it (either setting up myself or to help someone else set up).

I'll have a look for prices etc and feedback.

Don't forget that all flags entering the stadium need a fire certificate and the stadium management need to see this before the event!

I used to put mine up in the FMU a few seasons back, I think the Britannia Rescue would be a good option.

I think mine is 12ft by 6 ft

Its a claret and gold St Georges Cross with the words
HGRL
ON TOUR

s742.photobucket.com/user/eaton5 ... 9.png.html This is a photo of my flag.

s742.photobucket.com/user/eaton5 ... 9.png.html This is a photo of my flag.

Nice flag pal. Barmy flags?

Still no feedback from stadium manager. I'll try ringing tomorrow. Regards fire certification and dealing with stewards etc, it may make it easier if we offer to meet up with stewards at same time pre match? to make it easier for them. Shows willing on our side, which tends to go some way.

I'll try and upload piccy of my flag, but not too tech savvy.

Yeah Barmy Flags, they supplied me with a fire certificate. The HGSA one is from Barmy Flags too great quality but they come with a cost. The KSDL staff were really helpful a few years back, I can't see why they would not allow us to place our flags in the stadium. I will see if I can put mine up on Sunday.

Yeah, stewards were fine with me before. Seem a good lot. I've met some right bar stewards working grounds when following Wednesday for the footie.

For the fanzine I wanted something for home games to go at the back of the BR stand, to be held all game? More like a tall rectangular one! The fanzine are very happy to push all flags as I will make the GAMEDAY look so much better!

Got a price of £470 for a 24 x 12ft. Gold background, claret text;
LAND OF THE GIANTS
HUDDERSFIELD

From footballsflags.co.uk. Digital print as opposed to embroidery. That kind of thing could look quite smart at the back of a stand.

Flags cannot be seen when they are placed at the back of the stands.

Or up front and personal at front of stand

I'll chip in towards the cost of that if you can get others to follow suit?

Would any others be interested in chipping in to get ourselves some bigger flags?

I'd put £40/£50 in to get the ball rolling. Would be good to get a flag fund going if enough like minded folk were up for it.

Any others interested in pitching in together?

Any one else got any flags for saints match?

I'd be willing to chip in. Spent enough making flags over the years, the big Well Done Wire one included, but none of them have a fire certificate, and with all the fires they've caused over the years I feel it's only right that we purchase one that is safe. If enough cough up, a tenner each might do.

As an aside. Last year's play off game at Wire, loads of people took scarves to hold up for when we sing 'Wise Men'. I thought that looked really good. We should do it each game?

The fanzine are trying to get it going! The scarf thing!

Did you put flag up today mate? If so, where you put it up?

Yeah, looks great when it comes off.

Regarding flag area, what do people think of fantastic media upper? I'm imagining would be less hassle for stewards as they don't have to worry about if anyone wants to sit where flags are. Would be more visible from more parts of ground and on the tele?

Would be easier to build up a larger collection there without worrying about encroaching into allocated seats.....