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Ball Boys

Post by warksclaret » Sun Aug 19, 2018 4:46 pm

Whats happened to the ball boys around the ground. Suspect we lost around 3 minutes today as Watford were clearly not rushing to get the ball. Have they been dispensed of their services
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Re: Ball Boys

Post by Devils_Advocate » Sun Aug 19, 2018 4:49 pm

warksclaret wrote:Whats happened to the ball boys around the ground. Suspect we lost around 3 minutes today as Watford were clearly not rushing to get the ball. Have they been dispensed of their services
Got a couple injured and we failed to bring in sufficient additions in the summer so we are a bit threadbare. The fact they did 120 mins on Thursday didnt help and you can understand them being a bit off the pace today
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Re: Ball Boys

Post by Targetman » Sun Aug 19, 2018 5:36 pm

warksclaret wrote:Whats happened to the ball boys around the ground. Suspect we lost around 3 minutes today as Watford were clearly not rushing to get the ball. Have they been dispensed of their services
Ive often thought the same thing over the last season or two. Some of those lads dont seem remotely interested in retrieving the ball. Are they actually ballboys or do we use members of some of our younger age group teams?

Some of them seem as if they dont want to move off their small stools. In days gone by the young ballboys would be almost fighting each other to get to the ball first so they could get it back on the pitch as soon as possible. I know it seems a bit trivial but it is something which I have noticed regularly at our home games.
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Re: Ball Boys

Post by tim_noone » Sun Aug 19, 2018 5:49 pm

And who's the suited whited haired chap religiously chasing the match ball at half time full time...saw him last season and again Thursday night...like we only have one ball a bit Bizzare tbh.
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Re: Ball Boys

Post by Burnleyareback2 » Sun Aug 19, 2018 6:48 pm

Who is the lady from Sky that tell the referee when we can kick off?
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Re: Ball Boys

Post by warksclaret » Sun Aug 19, 2018 6:57 pm

There were times today when Watford got a throw in and as you can expect when its 30-40 yards away with no ball boys, it took ages to re-start and felt like a massive loss of time which over a game could equate to the equivalent of injury time
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Re: Ball Boys

Post by bobinho » Sun Aug 19, 2018 6:57 pm

She's the lady from sky who tells us when we can kick off...
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Re: Ball Boys

Post by Claret Till I Die » Sun Aug 19, 2018 9:22 pm

The club sort the ballboys out now. I suspect the lads chosen do so without any guidance as previously given.
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Re: Ball Boys

Post by tybfc » Sun Aug 19, 2018 9:56 pm

Claret Till I Die wrote:The club sort the ballboys out now. I suspect the lads chosen do so without any guidance as previously given.
The lad who sits in front of Block 6 of the Bob Lord understands when he has and hasn't to get up from his stool to chuck the ball back.

We instruct him depending on the score etc.

Poor lad looks petrified.
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Re: Ball Boys

Post by IanMcL » Sun Aug 19, 2018 9:59 pm

We missed ball boys today, for sure and last Thursday.

No pies, no ballboys, no points at home....what's going on?
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Re: Ball Boys

Post by SalouClaret » Sun Aug 19, 2018 10:33 pm

tybfc wrote:The lad who sits in front of Block 6 of the Bob Lord understands when he has and hasn't to get up from his stool to chuck the ball back.

We instruct him depending on the score etc.

Poor lad looks petrified.

:lol: :lol: Brilliant!
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Re: Ball Boys

Post by tybfc » Sun Aug 19, 2018 10:40 pm

IanMcL wrote:We missed ball boys today, for sure and last Thursday.

No pies, no ballboys, no points at home....what's going on?
They were there today and on Thursday.
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Re: Ball Boys

Post by tim_noone » Sun Aug 19, 2018 10:47 pm

tybfc wrote:They were there today and on Thursday.
And the pies?
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Re: Ball Boys

Post by IanMcL » Sun Aug 19, 2018 10:57 pm

Invisible ballboys and invisible pies?
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Re: Ball Boys

Post by tybfc » Sun Aug 19, 2018 11:13 pm

My mate got the last bottle of cider today 5 minutes before half time.

Not like they are going to pass their sell by date before long!
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Re: Ball Boys

Post by morpheus2 » Sun Aug 19, 2018 11:36 pm

Yeah went to get two steak and pepper pie meal deals for Clarethomer 5 mins before kick off and no pies! Had to cancel and do without.
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Re: Ball Boys

Post by Vino blanco » Sun Aug 19, 2018 11:40 pm

No wonder we lost. The ball boys were crap, thank God for that,in thought it might be something to do with the team selection .
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Re: Ball Boys

Post by cricketfieldclarets » Mon Aug 20, 2018 12:09 am

Hart bollocked the ball boys twice on thursday.
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Re: Ball Boys

Post by SandyLaneClaret » Mon Aug 20, 2018 6:23 am

In all seriousness the ball boys have been useless for a number of years. Whenever we are chasing the game and need them to be quick they don't move but if the opposition are chasing the game the ball boys move like lightning!
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Re: Ball Boys

Post by bfcmatt » Mon Aug 20, 2018 7:08 am

I used to be a ball boy on the turf many years ago (Orient season time) and always remember Leighton James giving us a pep talk. "If we are winning lads I want you to really take your time getting the ball but of were losing I want you to run like mad".
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