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It seems the worse the team plays the more the fans turn out. Bloody marvellous and the team really need to repay that.
Only been to Derby once, in our Championship winning season, when we scored twice (Agyemang & Mackie) in injury time to draw the game 2-2 after we were 2-0 down. There have been quite a few last minute goals in recent years that we've scored to win games (Wembley, Pride Park, Loftus Road) and they must really hate us for that lol!
I know it's kids football, I know it's 'for fun & development', I know the refs at U10 and younger level are volunteers but...... No, I wouldn't want to do it but if you do take hold of the whistle at least do it properly. The ref we had on Sunday disallowed a perfectly good goal that was clearly over the line (the goalie was in the actual netting scooping the ball out) and the ref standing about 20ft away said '"I could't see it so I can't give it".
Then while the opposition were substituting goalies one of their boys elbowed my son in the stomach. Now, my son can take it, he doesn't show pain in pretence so if he's hurting it will be genuine. The ref said "I didn't think it was intentional". How can it not be intentional, the game wasn't in play as everyone was waiting for the sub to be done.
So, yes, I became 'that' parent and called him out over it. Their job is to protect the kids and he never even had a word with the other lad even if it was, which it wasn't, unintentional. I wasn't rude, I wasn't aggressive, I just called out that it was a clear deliberate elbow to which point he gave it all the "you want to ref? you want the whistle?", "I don't get paid for this".
I didn't want it to escalate and spoil it for the kids or have the ref potentially starting making decisions against us so I just put my hands up and said "look, all I'm saying was that it was clearly deliberate" and left it at that. He did apologise later and we talked it over and I mentioned the disallowed goal was actually over the line. He said that he knew some of kids on both sides and didn't want to appear favouring one side but that's the point of reffing, if someone does a deliberate elbow you pull them up on it whether you know any of the kids or not.
It'll probably render transfer fee's obsolete but if a player is under contract then they can't just leave because they want to as they will have to compensate the club for the remainder of the contract so that protects the club. I'd imagine any existing contracts wouldn't be affected by any new ruling and would only apply to new contracts thereafter.
Of course, no transfer fee's means players and agents can just hoover up even more money than before. £250k a week for your bog-standard average squad type player?? The world has gone mad. Meanwhile, there's no money going around between the clubs so they are ever more reliant on TV money and just become Sky's bitches more so than already.
It could mean the end of those long contracts and players will just sign one year deals if they have the confidence they can move elsewhere the following season. That's a risk though as if they get a long term injury and their contract only has a couple of months left then they'll be without a club until they are healed but then if you're being paid stupid amounts of money per week, I doubt they'll go hungry if that happens.
It'll also play havoc in trying to build a stable squad if you have players coming in and out more often than at Cynthia Payne's home.
I know we have people here at work, top executives etc. who are on a fixed term contract rather than just a 'normal' contract like me so I'd be interested in how it would work in football?
Whoops, I forgot to add in the actual home wins when calculating! I thought 40% looked high.
28%... ye gods that just emphasises the point more. My kids love the day out we have but boy is the journey home tough.
As with paddyhdog, my son loves playing football. Trains and plays every Saturday & Sunday mornings (U10 level) respectively for out local youth club and is a very integral part of the team (last weejend had a great lobbed goal from the outside of the box not given because the ref didn't see it cross the line. Everyone saw it, even Frank Lampard saw it) but he's getting less inclined to go to QPR. My daughter loves the day out and hasn't quite got to the the "naaaaah...." stage yet but if home form carries on it will only be a matter of time.
I know nothing is guaranteed nor should be expected in football but home form really does need addressing.
Last two seasons we have W13 D11 L22 or.... W13, not won 33. 40% home win rate, is that acceptable? I think not.
I want to bring my kids more often but at around £100+ per visit I ain't going to do that if we just keep losing or drawing all the time. This is not about having kids not being able to handle not winning but we would actually like to enjoy the day out. My 6 1/2 year old daughter has been to 4 games (home to Sheff Weds & PNE end of last season, Spurs & Reading in pre-season) and seen 1 win and just 1 goal scored (PNE for both) and she missed that 'cos she was in the toilet!
Wasn't expecting much from the Spurs game and I did warn them of that but Reading away was awful.
There is so much to distract kids these days away from the likes of QPR to being a Man City, Man Utd, Arsenal, Spurs, Liverpool, Chelsey etc fan and even the likes of Barca, Real Madrid, PSG (though probably not any more), clubs really need to get their home form in shape otherwise it makes it so much harder to have them want to go again.
Met a Brazilian family (they were asking for directions) in Westfield prior to the Sheff Weds home game end of last season. They were on holiday and wanted to take in a game at a 'proper' club/ground, they weren't interested in all that Tourist FC shite. I think they supported Botafogo back home.
really thought this would be a good opportunity to gain some international ground but after that awful display and results I doubt they'll be back. Who knows, maybe the charm of the ground/club made a mark but my god it was an awful game.
edit: and, again..... going down is never an option. Why always the immediate assumption we'd just simply come straight back up? Brum seem to be making a good fist of it so far (but they should do having broken the divisional transfer record by a massive amount) but many clubs have taken quite a few seasons to get back up again, took us 3 seasons last time. Many don't.
I was never a big drinker but once my son was born (almost 10 years ago now, gulp!) I pretty much stopped. One or two bottles (330ml, not 5L!) a week, usually a low-ish %abv too. Sometimes none.
Don't smoke either and I know people same age as me who do both regularly and look 10-20 years older. They really do cause a lot of damage.
We all knew Briatore and Ecclestone were unpleasant people but happy to take the filthy lucre too.
Unpleasantness comes in many forms. The above two could just be utter cnts which itself isn't a crime.
Everyone knew Fayed was unpleasant but to what extent? There were no allegations/suggestions that I'm aware of at the time that he was doing what has now come out. It seems it was very well kept under wraps and those that contributed, such as Dr Coxon, should be charged as and when (and hopefully there will be) enough evidence to throw the book at all of them.
If you take the stadium as it is and rotate it 90o it will already protrude well into the White City estate. The site is currently wider than it is taller so a non starter.
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