Kids go free on Monday

[wh]

Kids go free to Monday's Setanta shield game against Nuneaton Borough.

The usual "if accompanied by a paying adult" doesnt apply.

So ALL under 16's get get in free accompanied or not by a paying adult.


This like the penalty shootout at the Stalybridge game has happened as a result of suggestions made at the recent fans forum.

[mazeythe2nd]

yay i get in for free!

[mazeythe2nd]

i take it you can't use your season ticket as per any other cup game?

[B*ue dragonstander]

Excellent.

I thought there were too few young 'uns in the crowd on Saturday which (and this is wholly unscientific) was guys who remember the Liverpool game or people seduced by Nobby and (with a few notable exceptions) and not much else.

We need a whole new generation of fans who are between 12 and 16 to become the fans who will fill the new ground.

Well done the Board and the the suggestive fans!

[andy]

Am doing my best, BDS!

[Deleted]

and they need to find their own way there, parental pressure to become a Worcester City fan, or any other clubs fans, will most likely lead to an opposite reaction. I remember going down with my Dad when I was younger than 10, and the only attractions were the blackcurrant and liquorice sweets and the minestrone soup. The 45 minutes each side of half time were such a drag! When I started going on my own or with friends at 14, the football was what it was all about, together with taking the piss out of Brookside regulars! Kids for free without parents is absolutely the right idea, well done to the club on this one!

[tim]

blue0dragonstander said:

or people seduced by Nobby and (with a few notable exceptions) and not much else.

An unfortunate turn of phrase, given his conviction once he'd left WCFC!

[B*ue dragonstander]

tim said:

blue0dragonstander said:

or people seduced by Nobby and (with a few notable exceptions) and not much else.

An unfortunate turn of phrase, given his conviction once he'd left WCFC!

Well chosen words!

[B*ue dragonstander]

And do you know why people named Clark are known as Nobby?

[gobby cow]

Please can this be for children accompanied by an adult in future and I suggest the older ones have to provide proof of age. I was appalled by the behaviour of the teenagers last night, if that is the standard of youth today what is the country coming to.

[Deleted]

We'll have to get used to this kind of behaviour if we're promted to the Conference and segregation is put in place for every home game.

[Deleted]

blue0dragonstander said:

And do you know why people named Clark are known as Nobby?

It dates back to when young "clerks" who were upwardly mobile would dress in the manner of more well to do folk in London, imitating the style and dress of the Nobs. They were considered to be trying to be "nobby" or "nobby clerks" They would wear smart coats and hats, and hence the words of the song "Where did you get that Hat" include the lines

Where did you get that hat,
Where did you get that tile,
And isn't it a nobby one,
And what a proper style.

So there you have it, a Nobby Clerk became a Nobby Clark or a Nobby Clarke

[Deleted]

Nicknames - who'd want one? I saw this article recently from a guy who'd done National Service

In a piece about cookery yesterday our regional television news magazine Granada Reports mentioned the dish 'Scouse', originally 'Lobscouse', a sailor's stew, which is famously popular in the Liverpool area. 'Scouse' is also of course the nickname given to people who hail from Liverpool, and I can rarely hear it spoken without being reminded of my time spent doing National service in the Army in the late fifties, a time I spent in the company of several 'Scousers'.
No private soldier in the Army is ever called by his Christian name. His superiors call him by his surname or number and his peers call him by a nickname. Thus Fred Clarke on entering the Army is immediately Nobby Clarke, his Fred dispensed with for the duration. Fred Clarke isn't aware of it at the time but he is lucky as there's a fairly good chance that he'll be the only Nobby. If he had hailed from a certain part of the country he would have had to share a nickname. For example all Scots are called Jock - the Scots in my platoon were Jock Mackay, Jock Lachie and Jock Dalkeith. All Welshmen are Taffy, Taffy Jones, Taffy this, Taffy that, Taffy the other. All Irishmen are called Paddy. All people from Birmingham are called Brummie and all people from Newcastle are called Geordie. Oddly enough, as far as I know, there isn't a nickname for people who come from Leeds, 'Leedser' or 'Leedsie' or something like that. We had a bloke from Leeds in our platoon whose name was Gary Spragg and everybody called him 't**t', although because he undoubtedly was a t**t we might very well have caused him that even if there had been a nickname for people hailing from Leeds. So in our platoon we had Jocks and Taffies and Paddies and Geordies, but mostly we had Scousers. We had Scouse Aldridge, Scouse Nicholson, Scouse Jenkinson, Scouse Murray and Scouse Little. Then one day another lad from Liverpool was posted in. And he really was a Scouse. Dave Scouse. That was his name. And the thing was - nobody called him Scouse. Everybody called him Dave. And this really annoyed him because hailing from Liverpool and proud to be a scouser he wanted to be called Scouse just like all the other scousers. One night in the barracks room he demanded to know why it was that we didn't call him Scouse. I had no idea why really but as nobody else appeared to know either I offered the opinion that if we called him Scouse it might appear that we were calling him by his surname, like his superiors did, and this being the case it wouldn't be very matey of us. Brummie Weston then said that if we called him Scouse his name would be Scouse Scouse and that if he had to say Scouse Scouse it would sound like he was stuttering and he wasn't going to have anybody hearing him stuttering as it would make him sound daft. Geordie Galbraith said that as Brummie Weston was from Birmingham he sounded daft anyway and a fight broke out. Over the course of the next few weeks Dave Scouse pleaded with everyone to call him Scouse but nobody would. Then someone, not me, although I would have had I known the eventual outcome, suggested to Dave that if he was so desperate to be called Scouse why didn't he simply change his surname by deed poll, to say Hibbert, then, no longer Dave Scouse but Dave Hibbert, he would be known as Scouse Hibbert. Dave thought this was an excellent suggestion and put the wheels in motion immediately. It took six weeks to come through, Dave deciding on his mother's maiden name for his new surname, and the day he announced it will remain etched in my memory for all time. He gathered us all round him and said, pride tinged with a touch of defiance in his voice: "Right you lot, I'm not Dave Scouse any more, I'm Dave Smith!"
"Good old Smudger," said Jock Lachie.

[B*ue dragonstander]

jcp said:

blue0dragonstander said:

And do you know why people named Clark are known as Nobby?

It dates back to when young "clerks" who were upwardly mobile would dress in the manner of more well to do folk in London, imitating the style and dress of the Nobs. They were considered to be trying to be "nobby" or "nobby clerks" They would wear smart coats and hats, and hence the words of the song "Where did you get that Hat" include the lines

Where did you get that hat,
Where did you get that tile,
And isn't it a nobby one,
And what a proper style.

So there you have it, a Nobby Clerk became a Nobby Clark or a Nobby Clarke

Correct.

But what is a "nob" and where did it originate from?

[andy]

I'm all for ideas that help the Club, and it seems this was a response to some issues raised at the Fans Forum. But was it really a good idea?

For the first time in ages, there was trouble outside the ground. What kind of response might that lead to at the next game against Nuneaton next Monday? A big police bill? Problems with the neighbours around SGL? A souring of relations with a Club that City fans normally have an excellent relationship with.

Yes, there was some atmosphere at a game that might otherwise have seen a crowd of say 400. But was the exercise really worth it? Happy to hear the views of others.

[Deleted]

Good question - it has come to mean a person of standing, and of course a person of standing would wear a hat, but that doesnt quite cut it. I wonder whether it originates from Nob, the so called City of Priests near Jerusalem, consider a very "high place"

[DrAgony]

andy said:

I'm all for ideas that help the Club, and it seems this was a response to some issues raised at the Fans Forum. But was it really a good idea?

For the first time in ages, there was trouble outside the ground. What kind of response might that lead to at the next game against Nuneaton next Monday? A big police bill? Problems with the neighbours around SGL? A souring of relations with a Club that City fans normally have an excellent relationship with.

Yes, there was some atmosphere at a game that might otherwise have seen a crowd of say 400. But was the exercise really worth it? Happy to hear the views of others.

It is a real shame that a decent gesture by the club towards under 16's was spoilt last night. Another post has said that it may not have been helped by an element of Nuneaton supporters - I guess some feedback from the police to the club might clarify this.

Other than that the only way to know if it will ever work is to try it again when we're playing a team other than Nuneaton. If there is more trouble then unfortunately it will have to be filed in the 'Failed' tray.

[Deleted]

It was more likely to work on a Saturday afternoon in a league game, where the number of travelling fans is about 26. Hindsight being such a wonderful and exacting science, it probably wasn't a good idea for a Monday evening Cup game against a more local team with enough of a reputation to have segregation for some games already.

[colinlayland]

Not a good idea, they need an adult with them to keep them in order, they were not interested in watching the football, just a case of meeting up with their mates down the lane, instead of outside a shop or youth club, but they did not come to see a football game.

[Deleted]

Hang on though, I used to meet up with my mates down the lane, instead of at the railway station, or Poppins (banned) or Heroes (not banned) or The Crown. And we never had an adult with us to keep us in order. These idiots wouldn't bother going if it was with an adult, so they wouldn't be missed.

[alwaysnextyear]

Brooksider - Sadly times have changed and Colin Layland is correct. Instead of congregating outside shopping parades various at night, they moved to SGL as a change.

[Deleted]

I think the fact that this was a Cup match against Nuneaton had a bit more to do with it. A league game against Workington on a Monday night wouldn't have seen much "action"

[dago]

jcp said:

I think the fact that this was a Cup match against Nuneaton had a bit more to do with it. A league game against Workington on a Monday night wouldn't have seen much "action"

true....but will they come back as nuneaton are the visitors again this coming monday....probably yes is the answer.

[DazaB]

Get their fivers off them, thenkick them out.

[dago]

make em pay a tenner to make up for the setanta game which they clearly abused!!!!!

[DazaB]

Well said Sir.