Hiya lads, good luck to you with your efforts. It’s great to see a bit of colour & passion on the terraces. We are going down a similar road at Wigan. Next year will be year 2 for us men. Last year I started an Ultras thread on the Wigan board which drew a lot on interest and a mate of mine started a thread about flags. On the back of these we decided to meet in a local boozer and sent out on open invite. About 15 Wigan fans turned up who all share the same ideas and one year on we’ve filled the South Stand gantry with about 25 flags (cost us approx £3500) and next season I reckon we’ll have 35 to 40 flags.
To give you some ideas, we meet about once a month to discuss ideas & fund raising initiatives. We are having a ‘1st anniversary do’ at a local cricket club next month and have sold out the 130 tickets at £3 a pop. All proceeds to new flags. We’ll have the Super League trophy down there and fans have their photos taken with it at £3 a go, proceeds to flags. There’ll be raffles with proceeds to the cause. Hopefully we’ll raise several hundred quid.
We’ve made pin badges (my avatar) and are selling these to raise funds. We’ll also be selling Ultras scarves soon. We’ve bought 5 massive wavers to fly at the front of the South Stand before games. We’ve shopped around and found an Ultras factory in Romania who made these for us.
You need a handful of people with the passion & drive to keep driving it onwards. Don’t give up, keep plugging away and keep things ticking over by trying to make or buy flags every so often to keep it in people’s minds. Before you know everyone will know what you are all about and your support network will grow & grow. I can see that a couple of you have that passion and that might be all it needs to get things off the ground for you.
Good luck with it. Here's a shot of a few of our flags at Hull last season
