1878s Atmosphere Fund - please donate

John BCN · Tuesday at 12:45 PM

Last week the 1878s announced that they were cancelling the planned flag display for the Spurs game due to lack of funds to buy the extra flags needed. I agree that the club's response (giving them a bit of memorabilia to raffle off) is totally inadequate. We all saw in the second half on Sunday how amazing the atmosphere at the new stadium can be.

Anyway, I thought it worth putting up the link to the 1878s donation page (if that's ok @GrandOldTeam?). If you have a couple of quid to spare why not do your bit?

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ArtetaMoney · Tuesday at 12:57 PM

It would be good to know what their target is and where they are with it now, I think that will entice more people to donate.

Groucho · Tuesday at 1:03 PM

John BCN said:
I agree that the club's response (giving them a bit of memorabilia to raffle off) is totally inadequate.

Gotta be honest, I can’t see the negative side of the club giving them free gear to raise money.

GrandOldTeam · Tuesday at 1:05 PM

ArtetaMoney said:
It would be good to know what their target is and where they are with it now, I think that will entice more people to donate.

They're pretty good at transparency

They raised £42,000+ in donations pretty quick last year (might be more, just found a tweet with that figure as an update), and split costs and that like this;

GrandOldTeam · Tuesday at 1:08 PM

This fella does some incredible ones;

https://x.com/GwladysSt1938

The first 4 from his account - maybe they wouldnt mind sharing them;

Eggs · Tuesday at 1:40 PM

…I’ll certainly donate, they’ll need display material fitting for the size of the new stadium.

dublinbluenose · Tuesday at 1:48 PM

John BCN · Tuesday at 1:52 PM

Groucho said:
Gotta be honest, I can’t see the negative side of the club giving them free gear to raise money.

Ok, fair enough. It's a start but it's really frustrating that according to the 1878s it could be months before we get a banner display.

Lanolin · Tuesday at 1:52 PM

Groucho said:
Gotta be honest, I can’t see the negative side of the club giving them free gear to raise money.

Yeah there seems to be some suggestion that the club should just finance the whole thing, which seems a bit daft to me. It's either a fan led initiative or it's not, I don't think we can really have it both ways.

Bedfordblue · Tuesday at 1:55 PM

GrandOldTeam said:
This fella does some incredible ones;

https://x.com/GwladysSt1938

The first 4 from his account - maybe they wouldnt mind sharing them;

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So are these unrelated to the 1878’s then? Said in the other thread they had previously had some much larger Tifos that weren’t shown on the photo at BMD.

Also iirc wasn’t there some posting about how they were going to avoid focusing on the older history and try to do newer stuff or am I imagining that?

Bedfordblue · Tuesday at 1:57 PM

And also:

tommye · Tuesday at 2:00 PM

The 'kin price of flags!!!!

Sweet baby Jesus and the Angels

John BCN · Tuesday at 2:09 PM

Lanolin said:
Yeah there seems to be some suggestion that the club should just finance the whole thing, which seems a bit daft to me. It's either a fan led initiative or it's not, I don't think we can really have it both ways.

I absolutely agree that it should be a fan lead initiative (indeed, I started a thread to encourage fans to contribute). By the way, have you donated yet?

Lanolin · Tuesday at 2:28 PM

John BCN said:
I absolutely agree that it should be a fan lead initiative (indeed, I started a thread to encourage fans to contribute). By the way, have you donated yet?

I'm not sure of your point? This isn't the first time i've seen this mentioned, there has been a recurring suggestion from people when it has come up that the club should just pay for it. My point is that I don't agree, as then it won't be a fan led initiative. The club might as well just put their own flags or whatever out if they're paying for it, the idea of having stuff done independently is that it's more authentic and has more 'soul' than if the club themselves just give us all a flag to wave.