Before we were Cherry & White.
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Fugazi wrote:Brilliant! Very interesting. Is the first ‘Cherry and White’ shirt the one ‘borrowed’ from Painswick and never returned?
See
https://www.gloucesterrugbyheritage.org ... -and-myths
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Fugazi wrote:Brilliant! Very interesting. Is the first ‘Cherry and White’ shirt the one ‘borrowed’ from Painswick and never returned?
The Painswick "saga" was interesting and debunked a long-running and oft-repeated/believed myth - one that PRFC perpetuate by having on their web-site. That said in these parts Painswick were/are The Original Cherry & Whites - and on the basis that GRFC are now Cherry & Red good luck to them. Harry Dyke and The Heritage team cleared that one up good and proper.
A pity as I rather preferred the myth to the truth !!

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Gloucester Mute wrote:Fugazi wrote:Brilliant! Very interesting. Is the first ‘Cherry and White’ shirt the one ‘borrowed’ from Painswick and never returned?
The Painswick "saga" was interesting and debunked a long-running and oft-repeated/believed myth - one that PRFC perpetuate by having on their web-site. That said in these parts Painswick were/are The Original Cherry & Whites - and on the basis that GRFC are now Cherry & Red good luck to them. Harry Dyke and The Heritage team cleared that one up good and proper.
A pity as I rather preferred the myth to the truth !!
And their excellent detective work debunked someone's assertion that there was an annual letter from Gloucester to Painswick regarding shirts!

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Clever clogs post-event LoA !!

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Gloucester Mute wrote:Absolutely. One that many others also believed happened.
Clever clogs post-event LoA !!
Not clever clogs at all. I told you when you raised it that I'd never heard of it and none of my Painswick colleagues had either!

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Have you also told them that PRFC never lent GRFC their shirts back in the day BUT it's a myth ?? Please don't because I like the myth more than the truth.............