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Ball boys

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 8:34 am
by beddie
Been saying as have others for sometime that they can play a big part if they are trained and organised, from slowing the game down to getting the team on the front foot. Well done to the young man at Liverpool last night.

Re: Ball boys

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 9:58 am
by Cubanclaret
He should have had an assist.

Re: Ball boys

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 10:43 am
by Bosscat
4th officials occasionally act as ball boys too :( as we know to our cost.......

Re: Ball boys

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 1:00 pm
by South West Claret.
Bring them back as it must be good to get youngsters involved with the club I would have thought, and please no money to the club from the kids parents.

Re: Ball boys

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 1:02 pm
by Damo
South West Claret. wrote:Bring them back as it must be good to get youngsters involved with the club I would have thought, and please no money to the club from the kids parents.
We have ball boys.
It's easy to think that we dont though most of the time

Re: Ball boys

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 1:02 pm
by MACCA
Are they always all boys, I'm sure I've seen a girl before on the Turf?
Also many are not just young kids like the old days, often youths or even later teens for those reasons listed in the OP.

I'm not quite comfortable people assuming their gender.

I'm sure there's a none gender specific way to describe them.

Re: Ball boys

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 1:06 pm
by CaptainKirk
MACCA: GET A LIFE.

Re: Ball boys

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 1:08 pm
by South West Claret.
Damo wrote:We have ball boys.
It's easy to think that we dont though most of the time
Really? I hadn't noticed them but I sit corrected.

Re: Ball boys

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 1:11 pm
by Bosscat
MACCA wrote:Are they always all boys, I'm sure I've seen a girl before on the Turf?
Also many are not just young kids like the old days, often youths or even later teens for those reasons listed in the OP.

I'm not quite comfortable people assuming their gender.

I'm sure there's a none gender specific way to describe them.
Non Gender Specific Spherical Object Collectors

Or "Nongensocs" for short

Re: Ball boys

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 1:34 pm
by MACCA
CaptainKirk wrote:MACCA: GET A LIFE.
So you believe there's a place for this sort of behaviour in our society?

Hopefully unlike racism and homophobia, it wont take generations for people to realise it's not ok to label or discriminate people.

It's your children, family and friend I feel sorry for if you don't care about these serious issues.

Where does mental health appear in your table of things that don't matter and we should just crack on and tell people they isn't a real problem?

Re: Ball boys

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 1:37 pm
by MACCA
Bosscat wrote:Non Gender Specific Spherical Object Collectors

Or "Nongensocs" for short
Yeah not bad ideas, but maybe just ball person is enough.

I know firefighters, police officers and refuse collectors took to the name change easy enough.

But suppose there's still people out there thinking we play in the premiership.

Re: Ball boys

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 1:38 pm
by Vino blanco
Macca, follow the advice and get a life.

Re: Ball boys

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 1:43 pm
by Damo
Ball scrubbers

Re: Ball boys

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 1:46 pm
by MACCA
Vino blanco wrote:Macca, follow the advice and get a life.
I have one thank you, a very good one I believe, but it's one where discrimination, sexism and racism has no place.

If having "a life" means these things are accepted or a blind eye should be turned regards to them, then I'm happy to be labelled as not having one...

Re: Ball boys

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 1:52 pm
by bfccrazy
MACCA wrote:I have one thank you, a very good one I believe, but it's one where discrimination, sexism and racism has no place.

If having "a life" means these things are accepted or a blind eye should be turned regards to them, then I'm happy to be labelled as not having one...
You’re the most racist person I’be ever encountered tbh ;) :lol: :lol: :lol:

Re: Ball boys

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 1:52 pm
by chekhov
Funny that regular users of a football message board would suggest another user get a life.

Re: Ball boys

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 2:20 pm
by MACCA
bfccrazy wrote:You’re the most racist person I’be ever encountered tbh ;) :lol: :lol: :lol:

Well that's a load of old tosh, I've only know you 2 years, and I've had a black labrador 5 years!
Blows your theory out of the water.
Ppfftt, Racist my eye.

Re: Ball boys

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 2:31 pm
by Rick_Muller
If they’ve got balls they’re boys...

Re: Ball boys

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 4:28 pm
by IanMcL
They are invisible to me!

Re: Ball boys

Posted: Thu May 09, 2019 12:21 am
by Millertime v1.7
Macca mate, you need to get a life bud

Re: Ball boys

Posted: Thu May 09, 2019 6:01 am
by deanothedino
South West Claret. wrote:Really? I hadn't noticed them but I sit corrected.
If common consensus is to be believed we only lump the ball into the stands, so they mainly sit and watch the ball soar over them.

Re: Ball boys

Posted: Thu May 09, 2019 8:28 am
by Chip Harrison
Liverpool instructed their ball boys to speed up and get the ball back into a players arms asap. Look how it worked out for them with the 4th goal.
Ours look at the ball as if its nothing to do with them. Get some urgency into them!

Re: Ball boys

Posted: Thu May 09, 2019 9:34 am
by Burnley Ace
Chip Harrison wrote:Liverpool instructed their ball boys to speed up and Get some urgency into them!
It’s not urgency it’s having an understanding of the game, sometimes a little fumble or awkward bounce to slow the game down is just as useful!!