Fleetwood Town "academy". Whats the craic? 

3 hours ago, Big E said:

Glad I’ve not got kids. Grass roots football seems to be just bellends acting the cunt. Fuck that 

Never happened playing 16-a-side on Hilton Estate. It's all too organised & made to feel important now.

If my dad had ever turned up to watch me at school or Bolton schoolboys I'd have been mortified.

Parents always came to our school games.

Part of it.

Always the odd one or two who went over board with their comments, but generally fine.

Sadly footy away from this is increasingly full of idiots on the pitch, and has disrespectful twats vandalising the grounds themselves.

New house farm- my local pitches are very wet much of the time in winter, but no large amounts of cash would be spent on them as they're frequently riden over, have dog turds on them, or burned out wheelie bins melted into them.

 

15 hours ago, Dr Faustus said:

at grassroots level, loads of posts on Faceache recently about knobheads on bikes etc cutting up pitches: North Walkden and Moss Bank in particular being affected.

The pitch on the corner of Deepdale Road which used to be part of Withins school is always falling foul of kids in quad bikes and occasionally adults. 

And regarding New House Farm,  some of the worst damage was caused by folk on horseback who just saw them as open parkland. 

40 minutes ago, MickyD said:

The pitch on the corner of Deepdale Road which used to be part of Withins school is always falling foul of kids in quad bikes and occasionally adults. 

 

tbh, it seems to do ok these days since that kids team took it on?

My grandkids both play for Atherton Town and there is mither almost every week with parents arguing and almost fighting, they both also play rugby at Leigh Miners and there is never a minutes problem, on or off the pitch

Some of the kids are fucking feral and the problem you have is the leagues get young refs in (not like that’s an issue) but they ain’t much older and they get bitched big time absolutely no respect

 

 

 

On 27/02/2024 at 16:33, radcliffe white said:

Some of the kids are fucking feral and the problem you have is the leagues get young refs in (not like that’s an issue) but they ain’t much older and they get bitched big time absolutely no respect

 

 

 

Gob off - get booked. Sorted.

Problem is, the players are so feral they’d hound the young ref off the pitch as well.

On 27/02/2024 at 16:01, athywhite1958 said:

My grandkids both play for Atherton Town and there is mither almost every week with parents arguing and almost fighting, they both also play rugby at Leigh Miners and there is never a minutes problem, on or off the pitch

We played them the other week. No meither from either sets of parents but the u11s lads from both teams are clearly in the 'biggest kids in the school' stage of life so were giving each other loads of shit after challenges and stuff. 

It's hilarious to watch as a parent. 

I ain't getting worked up over it. 

22 minutes ago, stevieb said:

We played them the other week. No meither from either sets of parents but the u11s lads from both teams are clearly in the 'biggest kids in the school' stage of life so were giving each other loads of shit after challenges and stuff. 

It's hilarious to watch as a parent. 

I ain't getting worked up over it. 

Just wait until U16, U17 & into open age. They really are the alpha male teams. I don’t think my lad ever played a game which finished with 22 players on the pitch.

10 minutes ago, MickyD said:

Just wait until U16, U17 & into open age. They really are the alpha male teams. I don’t think my lad ever played a game which finished with 22 players on the pitch.

I can imagine very soon we're going to be getting into hormones playing a massive part of the game. Early developers smashing everyone else out of the park 

For me as a baby faced assassin getting in to the match as a junior for so long I suppose this is my karma! 🤣 

42 minutes ago, stevieb said:

We played them the other week. No meither from either sets of parents but the u11s lads from both teams are clearly in the 'biggest kids in the school' stage of life so were giving each other loads of shit after challenges and stuff. 

It's hilarious to watch as a parent. 

I ain't getting worked up over it. 

My grandkids are U12 and U7, they love it, my daughter gets stressed when folk start arguing,

3 minutes ago, stevieb said:

I can imagine very soon we're going to be getting into hormones playing a massive part of the game. Early developers smashing everyone else out of the park 

For me as a baby faced assassin getting in to the match as a junior for so long I suppose this is my karma! 🤣 

And then their girlfriends come to watch and they forget to play football and instead the game is to impress your girl (and other girls) with your ability to look super-tough. 

1 minute ago, MickyD said:

And then their girlfriends come to watch and they forget to play football and instead the game is to impress your girl (and other girls) with your ability to look super-tough. 

Didn't we do that Micky, back in the day?

2 minutes ago, athywhite1958 said:

Didn't we do that Micky, back in the day?

I don’t know. I didn’t play football for school, I swam and played water polo. Neither were much of spectator sports although water polo was legalised thuggery.

We were playing a team called Whelley Alexandra once , u11 I think , their coach was reffing, little gobby twat on theirs moaning at everything , got a warning about complaining, and that he’d be off if he continued, ref gave a goal kick to us when it should’ve been a corner according to gobby, he shouted “ oh ref that’s a nobheads decision you prick “ ref shouted over to his fellow coach “ Nick can you take Alfie off for a bit, until he’s calmed down, not having him speaking like that “  fair enough I thought , but couldn’t help laughing when young Alfie, on hearing this, responded with “ Aww Dad, don’t !!! 
 

ref was his fucking own Dad he was abusing . 
 

Anyone coaching u10s ? 
Free kick if they head it from next season 🤷

https://www.thefa.com/news/2024/may/17/new-heading-rules-for-grassroots-football-youth-matches

29 minutes ago, fatolive said:

Anyone coaching u10s ? 
Free kick if they head it from next season 🤷

https://www.thefa.com/news/2024/may/17/new-heading-rules-for-grassroots-football-youth-matches

Ogbete likes this.

It’s been coming for a while, cloggers beware

2 hours ago, fatolive said:

Anyone coaching u10s ? 
Free kick if they head it from next season 🤷

https://www.thefa.com/news/2024/may/17/new-heading-rules-for-grassroots-football-youth-matches

Does the threat of dementia dissappear at 10 years and 1 day old?

It’s just the foundation ages; it’s always gonna be part of the game, but no need to have actively doing it.

It’s ridiculous- I’ve seen U9s girls with a long throw expert and the coaches rave. Soon as others catch up, or foul throws come into play she’ll be goosed

1 hour ago, gonzo said:

Does the threat of dementia dissappear at 10 years and 1 day old?

No, but you can clear a corner without the other team getting a kick in 😄

Imagine, as a full grown adult, cheering like fuck when a 9 year old girl misses a penalty! Seen some shite today, and I’m far from proud of football this weekend

I’m a grassroots coach who hates grassroots football… every club/team should act with some decorum. Football is such an emotional game, but if I can be stoic during pens etc surely anybody else can.

Any hoot, as our season is now over, how’s all of our guys and gals getting on? 

Won a cup, medal, academy signings- anything… Give us something to celebrate!!

10 hours ago, Dr Faustus said:

Imagine, as a full grown adult, cheering like fuck when a 9 year old girl misses a penalty! Seen some shite today, and I’m far from proud of football this weekend

I’m a grassroots coach who hates grassroots football… every club/team should act with some decorum. Football is such an emotional game, but if I can be stoic during pens etc surely anybody else can.

Any hoot, as our season is now over, how’s all of our guys and gals getting on? 

Won a cup, medal, academy signings- anything… Give us something to celebrate!!

My mates 10 year old lad, big Bolton fan, lives in Blackrod so ended up playing in Wigan and District league, won the cup final and golden boot with 32 goals 

Have that you cunts 

11 hours ago, Dr Faustus said:

Imagine, as a full grown adult, cheering like fuck when a 9 year old girl misses a penalty! Seen some shite today, and I’m far from proud of football this weekend

I’m a grassroots coach who hates grassroots football… every club/team should act with some decorum. Football is such an emotional game, but if I can be stoic during pens etc surely anybody else can.

Any hoot, as our season is now over, how’s all of our guys and gals getting on? 

Won a cup, medal, academy signings- anything… Give us something to celebrate!!

Here you go. Grandson at Curzon Ashton the other weekend

Both my lads finished top goalscorers for their teams this season.

Youngest in under 9s with 24 goals from midfield. Runs the show for his team, they finished top of their division and move in to the league above.

Eldest in under 14s leading the line as captain with a respectable 22. Had a thankless task all season up front on his own with very little supply. They signed a poacher towards end of season that meant he can play number 10 or come in off the right. Worked a treat despite him panicking he was losing his place. Spent weeks trying to get through to him that he's wasted up top. Bit kids are kids and they want the goals ...he grasped it now though. Mid table finish for them.