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Gullscorer wrote:Why not tie a long string or chord round the ball, and tie the other end to a small stake in the ground; this will stop the ball going into the crowd..
dave, 
Dave_Pougher wrote:
I do agree there are better things to worry about
However.
given the suggestion above, would that not possibly have the same safety implications but in reverse? In that if the cord was even just slightly elasticated it may hit another young kid in the face, possibly one under contract !!
I think it may be time to ban ball games at Plainmoor.
My uncle always used to relay a story to me that does stretch the bounds of credulity but he insists it is true. Back in the 50s or 60s, when the pre-Mini Stand, Cowshed was still in existence, my uncle said how a wild shot ricocheted off the head of a supporter and then over the stand, outside. What must have been a matter of moments later, someone from outside kicked the ball back into the ground (rather than run off with it, as they might these days) and it landed on the head of the same gentleman it had hit on the way over. Sounds far-fetched but I have heard this story so often that I tend to believe it.wivelgull wrote:I have been attending matches at Plainmoor for over 50 years, yet I have never touched the ball once. (I will celebrate wildly when I do and refuse to return it). This may be compared with my visits to Elmore where not only do I touch the ball twenty or thirty times during a game, I often feel like an unpaid ballboy, running to retrieve the ball for the players.
Mind you, it did strike me (in thought, not physically) that a fair few balls were flying at quite a high rate of knots into the Pop. side stand while this warm-up was going on.
Perhaps the bearded idiot who bent Mr. Candy's bored ear for forty-five minutes (the entire first half) could mention this to him - although I expect Mr. Candy's dearest wish is never to have to come across this bore ever again.
The good old days of common sense has long gone I'm afraid. Most of the negative press 'elf and safety' gets is from our so called compensation culture and is primarily driven by insurance companies, not the HSE or H&S legislation.ROADRUNNER wrote:i just wonder how far this elt & safety nonsense will go, what happened to good old common sense,seems we live in a mad world these days, remember when we played spurs in 1971 and all the kids sat on the touchline because it was so cramped on the popside, 20,000 crammed in like sardines, imagine it now, elf & safety would have kittens. everybody just got on with it.
Indeed, I think that was perhaps the most concerning thing about it...forevertufc wrote:when I got into the ground it was only the subs working with Matt williams over that side. There will be an issue where ever you put the warm up goal, even of you put it the middle.
What would make it safer if those concerned practised shooting, only Hawley was hitting the target, the rest were all over the place..
Better than the new kit which with white shorts looks very anaemic!goodluckgull wrote:I do like our new "warm up" shirts of fluorescent pink with a dark navy sleeve.
you should have stuck your lad in the goal mate - Jarvis would never have hit him!!!!SBP wrote:Stood in the pop side behind the temp goal while the forwards were practicing with my 7 year old son, he ran to get the ball for one of them and Jarvis smacked the ball and hit him in the face. Nose bleed etc. Jarvis came over and was understandably concerned.
Its life, it happens, maybe i shouldn't of stood there. I did nt moan or groan. I did tell my son to head it next time. Its football! It happens.
Still stand in the same place.
