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[pennywise 0]

anyone else in the jarrold today notice lots of young kids who did not have the slightest interest in what was happening on the pitch..their was a couple in front of me who had 3 kids aged between  about 3 and 6 and it was  like a bloody picnic going on throughout the whole game... sandwiches and cakes being passed up and down the line, capri suns,  haribos and easter eggs  the whole works .. they would have been better off going to thrigby hall for the day  [:D]

[SUPER YELLOW CANARY 0]

[quote user="pennywise "]

anyone else in the jarrold today notice lots of young kids who did not have the slightest interest in what was happening on the pitch..their was a couple in front of me who had 3 kids aged between  about 3 and 6 and it was  like a bloody picnic going on throughout the whole game... sandwiches and cakes being passed up and down the line, capri suns,  haribos and easter eggs  the whole works .. they would have been better off going to thrigby hall for the day  [:D]

[/quote]Welcome to my n+p world!!these kids at full time asked who won..when we scored they sat there playing on the mums ipod touch!

[Methane 0]

i say banham, there''s no future in children but there are vultures at the zoo.

[adycanary 0]

had some little kid behind me in Jarrold today, stuffing mini cheddars the whole game and shouting come on Spurs, oh the joys.

[Rudolph Hucker 0]

Perhaps their parents are hoping to make future fans of them. Try the Cathedral Lounge: similar habits at the other end of the scale!

[Queen B 0]

I had some near me too! Never understood why these people bother coming - why pay to get in if you''re going to do everything possible except watch the game?

[Evil Monkey 52]

I''m assuming every one of you complaining don''t have kids?Surely every single one of us would like our children to follow football and support Norwich City? One of the best ways to indoctrinate them into this is to bring them to games.  Kids have short attention spans, though, so have to be distracted by food and drink.  They''ll pick up the rules eventually and learn to cheer when we score.  One day when they''re all growed up you''ll shed a tear when, for the first time, they flick a V at the lineo and shout at Chris Martin for playing a sideways pass...

[Queen B 0]

I don''t think it''s about having problems with kids coming, because I for one certainly don''t! My complaint is more to do with the adults who behave in the same fashion, some of whom don''t even have kids with them :)

[Evil Monkey 52]

[quote user="Queen B"]I don''t think it''s about having problems with kids coming, because I for one certainly don''t! My complaint is more to do with the adults who behave in the same fashion, some of whom don''t even have kids with them :)[/quote]I''ll agree with that, and I''m willing to bet at least 50% of them then come on here... [:)]

[pennywise 0]

i was there with my 12 year old son who`s been coming for 5 years but i never ever layed on a picnic for him,  hotdog and a coke prematch then watch the game son [:D]

[SUPER YELLOW CANARY 0]

[quote user="pennywise "]i was there with my 12 year old son who`s been coming for 5 years but i never ever layed on a picnic for him,  hotdog and a coke prematch then watch the game son [:D][/quote]im fine with that.

[Evil Monkey 52]

[quote user="IbleedYellowGreen"][quote user="pennywise "]i was there with my 12 year old son who`s been coming for 5 years but i never ever layed on a picnic for him,  hotdog and a coke prematch then watch the game son [:D][/quote]im fine with that. [/quote]That''s good.I''ll be sure to check with you next time I take my kids to a game.

[Lambert is King 0]

[quote user="RUDOLPH HUCKER"]Perhaps their parents are hoping to make future fans of them. Try the Cathedral Lounge: similar habits at the other end of the scale![/quote]

My lads five understands everything that goes on sings from when we leave the house until the game ends, until we moved here travelled to every home game from Birmingham. He even cries when we are loseing, he even got into the final cut off of 10 last year before the final cut of six for fan of the season. He has been mascot, but refuses to be mascot for the Ipswich game next year as he in his words says he couldnt possibly shake hands with them, he even refused to sing come on you blues at the Wroxham game. He has one ambition in life at his tender age to play football for NCFC and to this end trains six times a week. When he is not playing or at a Norwich game he watches local games or football on tv.

By all means come and sit next to him one game and we will see who has the most passion.

Without these kids being brought through our club, we would not fill the ground and strangely over the years our clubs support would be on the decline. Most of the teenagers that go now would have started just like these kids.  

[GemmaNorwich 0]

In the Barclay Upper today there was a man with his young son - no older than 1 and he was crying his eyes out on the way in and the man had to keep taking him downstairs every 10 minutes. Final whistle - still crying. Whats the point in taking children that age who just get scared of the noise!!

[SUPER YELLOW CANARY 0]

Evil Monkey.. i dont mean it in that way.. i mean like propa fans u and ur son are fine but i mean these chavs taking there 13 kids to a game "cus its onli a quid" annoys me!

[morty 0]

[quote user="Evil Monkey"]I''m assuming every one of you complaining don''t have kids?Surely every single one of us would like our children to follow football and support Norwich City? One of the best ways to indoctrinate them into this is to bring them to games.  Kids have short attention spans, though, so have to be distracted by food and drink.  They''ll pick up the rules eventually and learn to cheer when we score.  One day when they''re all growed up you''ll shed a tear when, for the first time, they flick a V at the lineo and shout at Chris Martin for playing a sideways pass...[/quote]I agree.I had to break my kids in gently with bribes of sweets etc, they are tomorrows season ticket holders. And I look forward to the day they pay for their own season tickets lol.

[Mello Yello 2,553]

[quote user="Evil Monkey"]I''m assuming every one of you complaining don''t have kids?

Surely every single one of us would like our children to follow football and support Norwich City? One of the best ways to indoctrinate them into this is to bring them to games.  Kids have short attention spans, though, so have to be distracted by food and drink.  They''ll pick up the rules eventually and learn to cheer when we score. 

One day when they''re all growed up you''ll shed a tear when, for the first time, they flick a V at the lineo and shout at Chris Martin for playing a sideways pass...
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I would also be quite aggrieved if they didn''t leave 10-15 minutes before full-time, so that they can get home before Harry Hill comes on the telly........"C''mon, let me out....TV Burp''s on in an hour!"

[Evil Monkey 52]

[quote user="IbleedYellowGreen"]Evil Monkey.. i dont mean it in that way.. i mean like propa fans u and ur son are fine but i mean these chavs taking there 13 kids to a game "cus its onli a quid" annoys me![/quote]I have two girls, actually, and third on the way... but dammit at least one of them is going to become a fully fledged Norwich fan and if that takes bribes of sweets then so be it! [:D]

[Bill 1,788]

"Without these kids being brought through our club, we would not fill the ground and strangely over the years our clubs support would be on the decline"

Wrong I''m afraid.

Firstly the post was not about kids in general but a specific family group and that type of group.

The position the club has got itself into is taht it has lost so many of it''s adult casual support. Lost so many of it''s long term supporters as paying customers. Filling the ground with cheap tickets is a great idea when you have surplus capacity but when it is to the detriment of your core support that is a very dangerous strategy.

So many of the lads I used to knock about with in the Barclay years back have given up. So many who were around in the nineties don''t even bother anymore. "I can''t turn up and watch a game without planning months in advance". They haven''t stopped being City fans but they will now be down their local club.

Compare the kid''s season ticket price of say £60 with six visits from a casual fan. Compare the food/drink sales.

I think some of our supporters who endless go on about our attendances might be a little quieter when they see the income level being achieved compared to years before.

But sadly and this should be borne in mind is the biggest loss of supporters is when teenagers ahve to pay full price. Short, short term policy to market the game as simply as an ''experience''.

[Lambert is King 0]

[quote user="City1st"]"Without these kids being brought through our club, we would not fill the ground and strangely over the years our clubs support would be on the decline" Wrong I''m afraid. Firstly the post was not about kids in general but a specific family group and that type of group. The position the club has got itself into is taht it has lost so many of it''s adult casual support. Lost so many of it''s long term supporters as paying customers. Filling the ground with cheap tickets is a great idea when you have surplus capacity but when it is to the detriment of your core support that is a very dangerous strategy. So many of the lads I used to knock about with in the Barclay years back have given up. So many who were around in the nineties don''t even bother anymore. "I can''t turn up and watch a game without planning months in advance". They haven''t stopped being City fans but they will now be down their local club. Compare the kid''s season ticket price of say £60 with six visits from a casual fan. Compare the food/drink sales. I think some of our supporters who endless go on about our attendances might be a little quieter when they see the income level being achieved compared to years before. But sadly and this should be borne in mind is the biggest loss of supporters is when teenagers ahve to pay full price. Short, short term policy to market the game as simply as an ''experience''.[/quote]

See my previous post on season ticket prices, I have already stated that the tickets were well to cheap and felt they should be increased. You have missed the main part of my post, witch was contesting that not all the kids do as the poster states. Like I said I challenge any of the objectors to sit next to my son, make more noise and be more passionate. These kids that you might not like now will be the same as any other football fan as they grow up. Did these fans who no longer go never go to a game when they were kids I started when I was 3 1/2. I understand about 4000 of our season ticket holders are under 12, add at least another 4000 adults to take them and that would drop the gates by 8000, swelled back up when we are doing well ie about to get promoted.

Surely it is the adults that they are with that dictates how the child behaves not the kids. Personally my lad wouldnt be at the game if he just sat there bored. 

[SUPER YELLOW CANARY 0]

[quote user="Evil Monkey"][quote user="IbleedYellowGreen"]Evil Monkey.. i dont mean it in that way.. i mean like propa fans u and ur son are fine but i mean these chavs taking there 13 kids to a game "cus its onli a quid" annoys me![/quote]I have two girls, actually, and third on the way... but dammit at least one of them is going to become a fully fledged Norwich fan and if that takes bribes of sweets then so be it! [:D][/quote]Congrats on the one on the way - did you know its the male sperm that has the gene for gender [:S] Looks like you gonna have plenty more girls to come!

[Quelchy 0]

Everyone has to start somewhere just relax . And They pay the money so its there choice weather they watch the game or  not it all goes the same place.

[Norwich or die tryin! 0]

[quote user="Canaryette"]Whats the point in taking children that age who just get scared of the noise!![/quote]Noise? Today?

[Nobodys Perfect 0]

I go with my son to all the home matches and several away. No tantrums, no crisps, no drinks, no ipods or gameboys, no " I want a toilet" when he''s bored. If he can sit still and not be annoying, anybody''s offspring should be able to. Mind you, my son is 32.

[AndyCanary 0]

Kids are our fans of the future. It''s clear that the club have looked into it long and hard and have set the pricing structure to suit.I have no problems what so ever with kids being in the ground, I don''t even have a problem if they have a little feast. I am saddened to see parents allow them to bring in game boys, Ipods etc that their parents allow them to play on throughout the match.Remember 105 minutes (at the very least) is a long time for a kid to stay sat in once place doing 1 thing, no matter how exciting it is!

[city4eva 241]

[quote user="pennywise "]i was there with my 12 year old son who`s been coming for 5 years but i never ever layed on a picnic for him,  hotdog and a coke prematch then watch the game son [:D][/quote]

 

Why do you spoil him??

I take my 15 year old and have done since he was 7. He gets to take a bottle of water (out of the tap) with him!!!

 

 

[Lord Horn 0]

Been bringing my daughter since she was 5 - first match I took her to was PNE away and she loved the noise and singing.  Knew she''d come of age when I had to pull her down from standing on her seat yelling "The referee''s a w**ker!" when Hull were going unpunished for some blatant time wasting.  Personally I blame the parents!

[Syteanric 1]

[quote user="pennywise "]

anyone else in the jarrold today notice lots of young kids who did not have the slightest interest in what was happening on the pitch..their was a couple in front of me who had 3 kids aged between  about 3 and 6 and it was  like a bloody picnic going on throughout the whole game... sandwiches and cakes being passed up and down the line, capri suns,  haribos and easter eggs  the whole works .. they would have been better off going to thrigby hall for the day  [:D]

[/quote]

unfortunately thats the "Family club fans" that the board harp on about... Mum dad and the 2 nippers all turning up smiling, clapping and not really caring who wins, they will be back next wee for their "family day out".

 

Whilst its good they spend money at the football what gets my goat is that they probably know nothing about the game and are using it as a day out and denying a proper fan the chance of a seat.

My little girl is 4 in April and is crazing me to take her to a game! she has some interets in football and if i put an old DVD of Norwich on she starts getting escited and shouting at the TV. i''m going to risk taking her to a pre season friendly in the summer as they tend to be cheap and if she doesnt like it i havent lost anything apart from 2 hours.

she wont be one of these kids who need a wee every 5 minutes, want to go home before its kicked off or sit there playing ~Super Mario whilstr the game goes on around her.

[Faded Jaded Semi Plastic SOB 1,215]

I think some of you may have missed the point being made by Pennywise, I would guess the people he was referring to where at the game for a bank holiday day out.......

[Lord Horn 0]

[quote user="jas the barclay king"][quote user="pennywise "]

anyone else in the jarrold today notice lots of young kids who did not have the slightest interest in what was happening on the pitch..their was a couple in front of me who had 3 kids aged between  about 3 and 6 and it was  like a bloody picnic going on throughout the whole game... sandwiches and cakes being passed up and down the line, capri suns,  haribos and easter eggs  the whole works .. they would have been better off going to thrigby hall for the day  [:D]

[/quote]

unfortunately thats the "Family club fans" that the board harp on about... Mum dad and the 2 nippers all turning up smiling, clapping and not really caring who wins, they will be back next wee for their "family day out".

 

Whilst its good they spend money at the football what gets my goat is that they probably know nothing about the game and are using it as a day out and denying a proper fan the chance of a seat.

My little girl is 4 in April and is crazing me to take her to a game! she has some interets in football and if i put an old DVD of Norwich on she starts getting escited and shouting at the TV. i''m going to risk taking her to a pre season friendly in the summer as they tend to be cheap and if she doesnt like it i havent lost anything apart from 2 hours.

she wont be one of these kids who need a wee every 5 minutes, want to go home before its kicked off or sit there playing ~Super Mario whilstr the game goes on around her.

[/quote]Do it Jas!  She will love it.