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Joe Cawthorn
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Club enquire about Derek Dalton clock
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http://www.rotherhamadvertiser.co.uk/news/103214/club-enquire-about-derek-dalton-clock.aspx



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S8Miller
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Personally, I wouldn't give them the satisfaction.

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smiler
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I'm with you there S8.

If that it what it has come to - that we have to write and ask - then sod them and let's just put something, bigger and better in memory of Derek in place at the NYS. I am sure the club can manage that, and I am just as sure that a quick whip round at the next home game would more than cover the cost of a fitting tribute.

All Millers know what that man represents to the club and what the club meant to him. You don't have to be a football supporter however to see the human side of this story, and if the Booths don't take this opportunity now that they have been given it to do the decent thing and demonstrate that they are decent people, I will be amazed.

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ian
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Awful.

One chance to do the decent thing although they have already shown immense disrespect, and then if anything but helpful comes back let the town know and move on with our own NYS tribute.

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Wouldn't have taken much to take it down and bring it to NYS would it. And in any case if the clock was bought through separate fund raising from wherever, then is should not have been kept as having belonged to the club, perhaps the club should have removed it when we vacated Millmoor, but that dosen't change the moral point of it . The decent thing would be to return it not deface it. Or as Smiler says have a whip round and see if we cant get something that would be fitting for NYS and a new start.

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Nymiller
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Thought they changed it to honnor ken booth

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Nymiller
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Its not Derek Dalton clock anymore http://www.rotherhamadvertiser.co.uk/news/102699/millers-fans-fury-over-clock-name-change.aspx

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S8Miller
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This article from Vital is now EIGHT years old!

"With the busy weeks before the club moved away from Millmoor, officials did not have time to re-claim the clock although Chief Operating Officer, Paul Douglas, told The Advertiser that they had sent someone to try and get the clock down but it needed specialist equipment which they didn't have."


www.rotherham.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp

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S8Miller
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What was the 'specialist equipment'? A spanner, maybe?

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Towdlad
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Imagine if we'd raised funds for a statue of the lad and the 'family' sawed the head off and welded KB's head on it. That wouldn't be acceptable, but it amounts to the same thing.

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