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No ball boys?

Siv_in_NorfolkSiv_in_Norfolk
in General Charlton
Ummmmm.... No ball boys tonight

Is that normal for a night game? Or cost-cutting from Roland and Nightmeire?

Comments

  • cafcsingercafcsinger
    Which Valley were you at mate?
  • i_b_b_o_r_gi_b_b_o_r_g
    They resigned, ill health
  • CallumcafcCallumcafc
    Undisclosed.
  • daveydangerdaveydanger
    Was only one in the East.
  • daveydangerdaveydanger
    CafcTeckers said:

    they all refused to sign their ABC's

    Always Ball Collecting
  • C4FC4L1f3C4FC4L1f3
    Katrien said she would come in early and do it before the match
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  • HexHex
    Not many pitch-side gate stewards either.
  • throughthickandthinthroughthickandthin
    Hex said:

    Not many pitch-side gate stewards either.

    Not many fans to control.

    However seriously if attendances like this continue we will need more ball boys not less. I too noticed how slow the ball was returned from certain remote areas of the ground. Yes some areas are looking remote
  • DOC64DOC64
    Ball boy's sourced from the Academy.

    May have been a shortage of volunteers for Shrewsbury on a Tuesday night....
  • addick05addick05
    Many years' ago I -as a match-day Junior Reds volunteer - used to organise the ball boys. Only proviso was the boys (or girls) had to be Junior Reds. Believe me there were no shortages of willing youngsters. Also it didn't cost the club a penny and there were at least 10 for every game. No idea why there are so few now.
  • Terry NaylorTerry Naylor
    Normal ball boys were training but you will find they are made too as most nearly all couldn't give a fig about the first team especially in this league!! They had to ask my son (Ex academy and 100%CAFC) who was watching from the stand to ball boy the covered end!!!
  • Covered EndCovered End
    Terry Naylor said:

    They had to ask my son (Ex academy and 100%CAFC) who was watching from the stand to ball boy the covered end!!!

    So Alfie has left the Academy ?
  • mogodonmogodon
    throughthickandthin said:

    Hex said:

    Not many pitch-side gate stewards either.

    Not many fans to control.

    However seriously if attendances like this continue we will need more ball boys not less. I too noticed how slow the ball was returned from certain remote areas of the ground. Yes some areas are looking remote
    Perhaps the netting for the Burnley game in May wasn't to stop missiles but a practice to stop time wasting this season when the ball is kicked into one of the many unoccupied areas at the Valley.
  • willieduffwillieduff
    Another great example of how to run a professional football club.
  • lolwraylolwray
    probably needed for rolands chimney sweep network
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