Nat Lofthouse OBE Statue Confirmed

[Wandering Willy]

If I can contribute I will. I'd like to think I paid for a little bit of the statue.

Not the obvious bit.

[thebish]

Hmmm... which begging letter do I respond to..

Statue of Nat..

new Yacht for the Queen...

tricky one....

[Bruce Rioja]

Well, I hope they don't commission whoever it was that did that statue of Fred Scuttle in the town centre, or else visiting supporters will be thinking that Harry H Corbett once lifted the FA Cup for us!

[Andy Waller]

Well, I hope they don't commission whoever it was that did that statue of Fred Scuttle in the town centre, or else visiting supporters will be thinking that Harry H Corbett once lifted the FA Cup for us!

Good God it's awful.

Looks like Anne Widdicombe holding a javelin.

[The Axman]

All the statues of people long dead from the nineteenth century and before (e.g. Nelson, Alfred the Great, Florence Nightingale, Attila the Hun) look splendid. That's because nobody knows what they should look like.
Unfortunately, statues of the more recently deceased and living legends look quite shite, usually because they've been constructed by someone with a GCSE in metalwork and not the modern equivalent of Michelangelo, and because we have a prefixed idea that they should actually resemble the person they're supposed to depict.

Don't get your hopes up.

[thebish]

club selling "iconic" T-shirt...

http://www.bwfc.co.uk/page/General/0,,1 ... 13,00.html

[BWFC_Insane]

If I can contribute I will. I'd like to think I paid for a little bit of the statue.

Yeah same here. I think its a nice idea to collect for it.

If you can't afford it don't contribute!

[Wandering Willy]

For a starter they can have the money I was going to spend on that mythical Bibi t-shirt that never arrived.

[thebish]

For a starter they can have the money I was going to spend on that mythical Bibi t-shirt that never arrived.

it was replaced by the Bobo t-shirt....

[a1]

All the statues of people long dead from the nineteenth century and before (e.g. Nelson, Alfred the Great, Florence Nightingale, Attila the Hun) look splendid. That's because nobody knows what they should look like.
Unfortunately, statues of the more recently deceased and living legends look quite shite, usually because they've been constructed by someone with a GCSE in metalwork and not the modern equivalent of Michelangelo, and because we have a prefixed idea that they should actually resemble the person they're supposed to depict.

Don't get your hopes up.

nowadays though it should/could be a photo, some fancy 3d rendering software, and a fancy machine with lasers.

or if fancy lasers not pemitting / invented yet - one of them water jet cutter deals.

piece of piss

[thebish]

All the statues of people long dead from the nineteenth century and before (e.g. Nelson, Alfred the Great, Florence Nightingale, Attila the Hun) look splendid. That's because nobody knows what they should look like.
Unfortunately, statues of the more recently deceased and living legends look quite shite, usually because they've been constructed by someone with a GCSE in metalwork and not the modern equivalent of Michelangelo, and because we have a prefixed idea that they should actually resemble the person they're supposed to depict.

Don't get your hopes up.

nowadays though it should/could be a photo, some fancy 3d rendering software, and a fancy machine with lasers.

or if fancy lasers not pemitting / invented yet - one of them water jet cutter deals.

piece of piss

hope not!

[a1]

hope not!

O_o

[Riviman]

club selling "iconic" T-shirt...

http://www.bwfc.co.uk/page/General/0,,1 ... 13,00.html

Pity the T shirt won't show the full picture - Nat's got a pint and a fag in his hand !!!

[Gail Platz]

Put my change in the tub on the way into the ground today. Would be nice to know how much we've raised so far.

[boltonboris]

£5000 raised so far. Which is absolutely appalling in my opinion, considering we've had 2 home games since the fund was started.

The players haven't donated yet. No word on wether or not they will.

[Lord Kangana]

Can we have a collection on here for us lot?

I'd be willing to throw a few quid in the virtual bucket.

[boltonboris]

There's a link on the official website I think, in which you can pay into the fund.

[Lord Kangana]

Righto, I'll have a look.

[boltonboris]

http://www.natlofthouse.co.uk/donation/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Prufrock]

It comes across as piss poor. If it is because the club want the fans to feel like they have paid for a people's statue for Bolton's number one son then they should be publicising it everywhere, because at the moment it looks cheap, and shoddy. There was a bloke in a lion costume (I think it was even the shit one, Lofty Jnr, that doesn't even look like a fecking lion) walking round Middlebrook shaking a bucket. So undignified. And if it is a case of the club being cheap, the likes of Davo want to be looking at themselves.