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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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Wasn’t it one depicting Dover rugby club...?
Weird Granny Slater
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Close-up. (Just in case anyone missed it.)
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Jan Higgins
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For me the really sad thing is not that the flag looks so awful, it is that no club player or member has seen fit to lower and remove it. That tatty flag gives the impression they have no sense of pride in their club's image.
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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Keeping up with the times nicely.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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Disgusting
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(Not my real name.)
Keith Sansum1
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Not being a flag flyer
I'm not bothered
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Guest 3925- Registered: 28 Nov 2020
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I don't understand, I have experience of other countries and they respect and look after their flag.
Yes, Great Britain has a varied history and not always Great, but we should still be proud of who we are and a flag is a representation of that. If you've ever been to a citizenship ceremony (I have) many of the attendees are so proud to get their nationality and call themselves British, it makes you ashamed of how some native Brits treat their flag.
Not that you can go very easily at the moment, but for example, if you go to Poland around the start of May, 90% of houses and shops / offices will have their national flag on display to celebrate their independence day.
In fact, in their equivalent of B&Q they have a section where you can buy flags of all sizes and holders to put on you house!
If you don't want to or can't be bothered to look after it, just don't display it, simple.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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Sue Nicholas wrote:Disgusting
I agree Sue, whoever runs the club obviously does not care about the image it gives of the club. Surely it should only take a few minutes to lower and remove or replace that bunch of rags.
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TheThinWhiteDuke- Registered: 7 Jul 2016
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My favourite new phrase is flagshagger. As in over nationalistic types.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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Being in a sticky beak I have just made a comment on the Dover Sharks FB page, at least they can not say they did not know how awful it looked.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Tell Graham Wanstall about it he loves to campaign on flags
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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I had this reply, bit of a weak excuse even though they have serious clubhouse problems.
"Dover Sharks RFC
Hi Jan, thank you for this, it can be looked in to as it have been overlooked since the club have been closed since November. We will take it down when we can. Unfortunately at the moment the club had a disasterous flood when the snow hit, which has completed gutted our entire clubhouse with hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of damage. Dealing with this and saving our club has been our priority, our apologies."
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Jan Higgins wrote:I had this reply, bit of a weak excuse even though they have serious clubhouse problems.
"Dover Sharks RFC
Hi Jan, thank you for this, it can be looked in to as it have been overlooked since the club have been closed since November. We will take it down when we can. Unfortunately at the moment the club had a disasterous flood when the snow hit, which has completed gutted our entire clubhouse with hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of damage. Dealing with this and saving our club has been our priority, our apologies."
Perhaps from Dave Allen? He's a good guy. As weak excuses go, it sound a little on the strong side to me.
The Gov- Registered: 24 May 2020
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I know the club had a very bad flood. The whole of the bottom half of the clubhouse was flooded . New bar area a long which changing rooms etc. totally finished
the people are working very hard to get thing back to normal. Give them a Break
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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I think that's a fair answer
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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That flag was in shreds last October, so must have been heading that way for months, if not years. So, though I'm sympathetic, a recent destructive flood cannot be the reason. That's a fairer answer, don't you think?
To be honest, I've no idea why they should even fly the Union flag: their club colours would be more appropriate.
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Fair one weird
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