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Post by swb on Jan 23, 2018 14:41:56 GMT
Is there plans for a minutes silence? two minutes Applause
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Post by steve on Jan 23, 2018 14:53:14 GMT
If that BBC interview with Derik could be played just before the match that would be amazing...
Whatever the club decide to do it will be a great opportunity to reflect on the incredible efforts of Derik.
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Post by nobadspitfire on Jan 23, 2018 16:16:39 GMT
Very sad to learn this news today. Safe to say that without Derik Brooks it's unlikely there would be an Eastleigh FC in the way it is today. I'm sure we'll be sharing anecdotes & thoughts about him on Saturday & that the club will organise a fitting tribute to him on the day and for the future.
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Post by thelake on Jan 23, 2018 17:19:29 GMT
wow, what an amazing achievement. i don't think i ever had the pleasure of meeting this gentleman, but to start a football club from scratch and see them rise up over 72 years to where we are today, that is truly incredible
really can't wait for the game on Saturday now. Sure it will be an emotional day
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Post by blueandwhite on Jan 23, 2018 22:55:58 GMT
RIP Derik.
Am sure the tributes will continue flow in over the next few days. All richly deserved - a simply incredible gentleman.
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Post by taylov on Jan 24, 2018 11:13:00 GMT
Good pieces in the Echo on line.
The obits already published just bring into focus how far Derik and those after him have taken our club. On the day that Swaythling played its first ever match on the Common, Grimsby Town were kicking off in the old First Division (=Premier League). In 2014/15 our clubs were playing each other in the National League playoffs. None of this could have happened without Derik who was the catalyst for everything that has followed since 1946.
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Post by tenacres on Jan 25, 2018 20:50:41 GMT
From Malcolm Clarke:
Derik Brooks was born on 2nd December 1923 and lived a lot of his early life in Dulwich. He in fact was born one day before a prominent sportsman with Dulwich connections in Trevor Bailey who went to Dulwich College, played cricket for England and was also a keen amateur footballer.
He started off as a player, but his career as a promising winger was virtually ended when an opposing goalkeeper accidentally kicked his knee instead of the ball.
He then turned his hand to soccer administration forming Eastleigh (then known as Swaythling Athletic) on 22nd May 1946, the same day as George Best was born.
I first came across him in August 1988 having just returned to the area from London. The club were playing away to Hungerford in the F A Cup and the newspaper gave his telephone number as the contact point for fans wishing to travel on the coach to the game. I rang the number and ended up speaking to his wife, but Derik rung me back and at the ground on the day of the game we introduced ourselves to each other.
The means of communication was very different in those days, but there was absolutely no question whatsoever that Derik's love of Eastleigh football club was very much in his blood and he performed his duties at the club totally selflessly. Whenever a match was called off for any reason he would ring those who regularly attended games and was a focal point for so many people at the club.
He also had some very commendable principles and values and was a man of considerable integrity who was well respected not only at Eastleigh football club, but by other clubs and people within football. Dawn Page and the late Dennis James of Christchurch, Former Wessex League chairman Alf Peckham and the Thatcham Town committee of the 1990's were amongst those whom he established an excellent relationship with over the years.
Even in our mid-table Wessex League days he played a major part in ensuring that the club's income matched its' expenditure and the relationships he formed within the footballing community helped ensure that the club was a popular neutral venues for cup finals.
Derik was Eastleigh football club's General Secretary for the majority of the time I knew him, but although the likes of Paul Doswell and Stewart Domald have ensured that the club is now a well established member of the Conference, Derik's views on the club have always been well respected and he played an important part in some key decisions in the early part of our early days in the Conference South.
When I first joined the club Alec Poore was chairman and John Samson who also died recently had just vacated the chairman's position.
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Post by hey55 on Jan 27, 2018 10:19:00 GMT
I think next season we should play in a Swaythling Athletic kit to commemorate Deriks life and efforts for Eastleigh F C
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Post by michaelefc on Jan 27, 2018 10:44:24 GMT
Great idea. Fully back this.
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Post by tenacres on Jan 27, 2018 11:08:23 GMT
Blue and white strips was it? Or even quarters?
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Post by unknownquantity on Jan 27, 2018 12:16:53 GMT
I expect that Derik Brooks would have been instrumental in the name change to Eastleigh and I expect it may have been something to do with making it easier to negotiate planning issues when the club moved from outside the Eastleigh Borough to just inside it.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2018 15:53:25 GMT
Blue and white strips was it? Or even quarters? Blue & White Quarters.
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Post by nobadspitfire on Jan 27, 2018 17:53:37 GMT
As a Bristol City fan/follower for over 50 years, even I would support a change to blue & white quarters. I do think, though, that the price of replicas would go up, as one would assume there was more work involved in the making of the shirts. However, Macron make shirts for the Gas as well as us, so they might have a few spare.
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Post by tenacres on Jan 27, 2018 19:42:13 GMT
Sounds like a idea certainly worthy of further consideration.
Just an addendum: I note that when we won the league in 2014 at that time we had been Swaythling Athletic and Eastleigh FC for exactly half our existence each (34 years)
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Post by tenacres on Jan 29, 2018 20:23:10 GMT
One of Deriks grandaughters (Louise) has posted the following on TSSC Facebook page:
Hi all, just to confirm the details for Derik Brooks funeral for those who wish to attend: Monday 12th February at 11.45am, East Chapel, Southampton Crematorium, Bassett. Family flowers only. There will be a donation box for Cancer Research UK & the British Heart Foundation for anyone who wishes to donate or you can send donations directly to J.Beavis & Sons, Vincent Street, Shirley SO15 5PB.
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