torchomatic
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Anyone else going this afternoon or is it just treacherous scum like my son and I?
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Astute
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Nothing wrong with your lad in the slightest. Not his fault you are his father.
torchomatic
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Nice one. I'll ask everyone who isn't a player if they're SW88.
steveo1987
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All roll up for the freebies . Can't take my lad as my daughter is at a end of year Northampton swimming club ten pin bowling day.
torchomatic
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Where abouts is the Xcel centre or wherever it's called?
Sbarcher
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Surely the pins don't float.........
torchomatic
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Xcel Leisure Centre, Mitchell Avenue.
Nick
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Ahh, it is over by Canley / Tile Hill I think!
sw88
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Canley. Just off Charter Avenue by a small round about.
There's also a rugby club opposite (club name escapes me)
sw88
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Yourll get a few dodgy looks I bet! They'll be thinking 'that's a strange name.....'
italiahorse
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Can you ask the fat man in the red suit, with the dog with reindeer antlers on, to bring us home for xmas.
How did you know what Fisher and Hector would be wearing today
ccfcway
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your right, but sadly, i am sure there were fewer of them than in the past....
Why would any Cov kid 5-10 want to follow a team who play further away from their house than Prem League Aston Villa ?. "come to sixfields, a mere 34 miles from coventry, to watch us play Stevenage..., oh, and 20 odd miles up the road is Villa v Chelsea, you know, the ones you see on the tv".
Most kids who followed Coventry (and me included) mearly did this out of pride for their home town / or being told to be parents
We are losing the next generation, and that is sad
Nick
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your right, but sadly, i am sure there were fewer of them than in the past....
Why would any Cov kid 5-10 want to follow a team who play further away from their house than Prem League Aston Villa ?. "come to sixfields, a mere 34 miles from coventry, to watch us play Stevenage..., oh, and 20 odd miles up the road is Villa v Chelsea, you know, the ones you see on the tv".
Most kids who followed Coventry (and me included) mearly did this out of pride for their home town / or being told to be parents
We are losing the next generation, and that is sad
It has to do with how the kids are brought up I guess, when I was a kid the ground could have been 50 miles away. I just wanted to go and watch my heroes play football, I didn't have a clue who our owners were but I'd be in the garden for hours trying to be Peter Ndlovu.
I didn't care who owned the club at that age, I just wanted to put my city shirt on, have a burger and panda pop and watch the game and take it all in and analyse the game, tactics etc. I'd then stay up and watch the highlights and then go to bed in my ccfc pyjamas with ccfc wallpaper and quilt cover.
I wasn't bothered by big names, why would I want care about other teams games unless their result had an impact on us?
Why wouldn't kids go and watch villa? It depends how they had been influenced I guess, never understood how dad's and sons could support different teams or how people could change the team they support.
A lot of people do try to keep it going, there are a lot of fathers with their sons that do go to sixfields, it's not because they support sisu it's probably because their kids live and breath ccfc and want to go and watch any game that ccfc play in. They are lucky that their kids have the taste for it.
Astute
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My eldest two lads support different clubs to myself. The further away the club plays to where you live the more of a chance of it happening. Both of them love watching our club play. The best time both of them have ever had for atmosphere was a game against WBA. That was the day of the tsunami. And the eldest lad supports a club that plays in the Scottish Prem. Both of them supported their clubs as freinds of theirs went to their games and were much closer than 34 miles. Neither lived in the immediate area to them clubs.
My eldest lad is on leave until 8th Jan. He is off to Scotland in a couple of days to see his mates. He is going to get three games in. Now he is older he can afford to and can get himself there. But when he was younger it was the clubs that were easier to get to follow. And as you say who could change their club? Most fans are lost forever once a club is chosen.
letsallsingtogether
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Sky Blue Pete
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It's not to do with how the kids are brought up nick. Cause of other commitments I can't take my 6 year old lad to sixfields and it is hard to encourage his interest without going in the flesh. Surely it's more than a name that makes a club? Temporary move is a game or 2. 5 years is not temporary
letsallsingtogether
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I brought up my lad and daughter to support CCFC however my lad is now 18 and has lost the passion doesn't even know the score unless I tell him, My daughter however still likes to know whats going on and she is on a career break in Oz.
More lost soles for CCFC
More lost soles for CCFC
ccfcway
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I agree with the sentiment, but as for the "lot of fathers and sons who do go to sixfields", its simply not the case. Even if every seat of the 1000 or so CCFC fans was taken up by a father and son, that's only 500 boys going to see CCFC out of a catchment area of way over 300,000 people.
The likelyhood is, when they are in the garden playing and they want to be John Fleck, their 3 mates are Rooney, Suarez and Aguero. When I was a kid before we started playing, we had an arguement about who was Gallacher, Ndlovu and Jenkinson
then after playing, we would actually get the bus to Highfield Rd and watch the team.My families youngsters support Arsenal and Chelsea. One of them had their 1st game at the Cov v Chelsea FA Cup match. They got the bug and started supporting CCFC. As their old man doesnt want to go to Northampton, the kid has started to follow Chelsea, bought the kit and got took to Stamford Bridge on their birthday. I know its just an example, but thats one, probabily life long fan, born in Coventry, lost for good, due to our move !
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letsallsingtogether
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Nick
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I know what you mean and I do feel for the people who would want to go but can't for other reasons and I think it was one of SISU's mistakes the way they handled it PR wise. If they moved us, they should have been fighting tooth and nail to get people to go there, especially the people who physically can't get there.
Astute
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It certainly is. Coventry City should mean Coventry and not Northampton.
torchomatic
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He loved it as did all the other kids. It's weird as for kids who support our team Clarke, Wilson, Baker, etc are as heroic as your Ronaldo's and Messi's, aren't they? I remember when I was a kids I didn't care about Keegan and all those kinds of players it was Wally and Fergie I was in awe of. It was a big hall and there were lots of kids and parents there. The players were great with the kids. My lad had a chance to play FIFA 14 with the winner of the Leon Clarke Callum Wilson match but he was too embarrassed! Presley and Oggy turned up later during the afternoon.
Great that the club do it for the kids. Such a little effort on behalf of the club really makes a difference to our young fans.
EDIT: I asked Chris Dagnell if he was staying. He said he would like to and finds out next week.
Great that the club do it for the kids. Such a little effort on behalf of the club really makes a difference to our young fans.
EDIT: I asked Chris Dagnell if he was staying. He said he would like to and finds out next week.
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Nick
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There is the difference, the parents buying them Chelsea kits and taking them to Stamford Bridge. Their first game was a game against Chelsea, without knowing them I can't judge but surely that tells you something?
Is their dad a city fan? I wouldn't have dared asked for another team's shirt as a kid and if I had you could bet I would never have got one. I got Gillingham away in the FA cup years ago as a birthday present, none of the glory stuff!
torchomatic
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YEah, of course that will happen, but it always has. When I was a kid in my class of 35 or whatever I was the only City fan. Everyone else supported Liverpool or Arsenal - not Man Utd as they were second division then. It's like when my son goes to his football thing with Warwick Juniors on a Saturday morning, he's the only one in a City top. The rest are Arsenal, Utd, Chelsea, Liverpool, Man City (that wouldn't have happened five years ago), Real Madrid, Barcelona...you name it.
The City move will, of course, affect teams that kids support, but that always happens. A kid in my sons class is a mad Arsenal fan. Wears everything Arsenal, etc. He's never been to see them though and he probably never will. That's not being a fan in my book.
The City move will, of course, affect teams that kids support, but that always happens. A kid in my sons class is a mad Arsenal fan. Wears everything Arsenal, etc. He's never been to see them though and he probably never will. That's not being a fan in my book.
Sky Blue Pete
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that was my point that I didn't make very well! Sorry. It can't be Coventry city playing in Northampton for any extended period of time and 5 years! At some point the club ceases to be able to use the name surely??
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ccfcway
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yep, a city fan since he was born and season ticket holder up until this season !
Nick, its a fact that thousands are not going to CCFC games now, and you have to think that many will be lost for good. You can portion some of the blame onto the parents for giving into the children and buying what they like if you wish, but the simple fact is, in my families case, they would still be a CCFC fan today if we still played in COVENTRY.
Nick
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I think a lot has to do with kids not going to games (even when at the Ricoh) which is what I meant by the parents. If the only football they see / experience is FIFA 14 or Sky Sports then they will end up just liking the big names and big teams but if their parents were taking them to games (whether it is Sixfields, Wolves away, MK Dons away, the Ricoh) then they are more likely to be a city fan. If you go out and buy them a Chelsea or Arsenal shirt you can't really blame moving to Sixfields for your kids not being interested.
It isn't just young kids with their dads at Sixfields, there are a lot of older blokes with which I assume their sons who just want to spend time with their dad / son and go to the game.
WestEndAgro
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Blimey something I finally agree with Nick on , have you been drinking Nick ?
QUOTE=Nick;610651]There is the difference, the parents buying them Chelsea kits and taking them to Stamford Bridge. Their first game was a game against Chelsea, without knowing them I can't judge but surely that tells you something?
Is their dad a city fan? I wouldn't have dared asked for another team's shirt as a kid and if I had you could bet I would never have got one. I got Gillingham away in the FA cup years ago as a birthday present, none of the glory stuff![/QUOTE]
QUOTE=Nick;610651]There is the difference, the parents buying them Chelsea kits and taking them to Stamford Bridge. Their first game was a game against Chelsea, without knowing them I can't judge but surely that tells you something?
Is their dad a city fan? I wouldn't have dared asked for another team's shirt as a kid and if I had you could bet I would never have got one. I got Gillingham away in the FA cup years ago as a birthday present, none of the glory stuff![/QUOTE]