Nice touch

At half time yesterday I had been for my usual stretching of the legs behind the west stand & my mate & I were making our way back to our seats when we were approached by a club official who asked us if we were season ticket holders & if we were seniors & then offered us a scarf each , now I know a scarf is not a life changing gift but it was a nice gesture by the club & we both gratefully accepted the gift with the good will the gesture intended, well done to the club, the little things do matter.

It's fusty old stock from the back of the Club Shop Storeroom that they couldn't sell. Been there for years. :P

It's one of Revenue Officer Flatman's gimmicks to soften fans up for the Season Ticket Sales period ahead.

There will be cardboard clappers on every seat, Huddersfield Town style, to generate atmosphere at the next ooam game.

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Originally Posted by SBRed48

It's fusty old stock from the back of the Club Shop Storeroom that they couldn't sell. Been there for years. :P

It's one of Revenue Officer Flatman's gimmicks to soften fans up for the Season Ticket Sales period ahead.

There will be cardboard clappers on every seat, Huddersfield Town style, to generate atmosphere at the next ooam game.

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Wouldn"t mind a cardboard clapper but I wished I had my original wooden rattle I had from when I first started going in & around 1961 , they were used as a warning device I believe but at a football match they used to create a right racket , of course they eventually got banned when trouble crept on to the terraces , used as a weapon you could have probably killed someone with a swift smack to the head !!!

I started in 1959. The good old days of wooden rattles. pipes, woodbines, flat caps or trilby's to throw in the air and the p1ss steam under the Brewery Stand on a cold day. Roma allus used to blame me forriz shoes being wet.

Great posts Shadders and SB.

I also had the famous rattle and best quality knitted items made by my Mother to keep me warm head to toe.

Then a walk to 22 Gawber Road after the game to my Auntie Ethels for a good tea and selection of tinned fruit to chose from darn cellar steps!

Happy Days!

RIP Roma mate.

That is a nice touch Shadrack - they didn't have to offer the scarves.
My rattle was from 1970. I remember that the flapper broke and my dad fitted me a new flapper made from a piece of formica. It did seem that they got band only a few years after but don't quote me on that.

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Originally Posted by Arblasterfromthepast

That is a nice touch Shadrack - they didn't have to offer the scarves.
My rattle was from 1970. I remember that the flapper broke and my dad fitted me a new flapper made from a piece of formica. It did seem that they got band only a few years after but don't quote me on that.

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I am impressed , a formica flapper would be a rolls royce of a job !!! Think you are right about the early seventies when the rattle went off the seen , minds you I would be 20 ish then so I might have looked a bit daft twirling a lump of wood above me head !!!!!

I had one of those heavy brown ones aswell but then went upmarket and bought one from midwoods out of my paper round money
did you have to eat bread and butter/ marge with your tined fruit it was gospel in our house chops

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Originally Posted by GRASS SOD

I had one of those heavy brown ones aswell but then went upmarket and bought one from midwoods out of my paper round money
did you have to eat bread and butter/ marge with your tined fruit it was gospel in our house chops

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Bread and butter with tinned fruit? That's as bad as the Wigan folk who have pies in a breadcake.

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Originally Posted by Shadrack the Red

I am impressed , a formica flapper would be a rolls royce of a job !!! Think you are right about the early seventies when the rattle went off the seen , minds you I would be 20 ish then so I might have looked a bit daft twirling a lump of wood above me head !!!!!

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I was only 7 in 1970 so was a bit miffed when the rattles were banned 😁