Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
Jam The Man said:
To be honest there are at least three players I have not signed having seen their parents
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Tossers at kids football matches
- Thread starter supaseagull
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To be honest there are at least three players I have not signed having seen their parents
Bromley shrimp
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thedonkeycentrehalf said:
I can vouch for this merely in the capacity of regular linesman at kids games, altho' in fairness it is only a minority that I, as a grown, up feel intimidated by when making decisions.
Mellor 3 Ward 4
Well-known member
There are far too many idiots watching kids football.
Having been involved for many years in running sides I have seen things get worse over the years.
I'm afraid that a lot of the time it comes down to the attitude of the teams Manager. If the kids are told by their coach that 'winning at all costs' is the most important thing then this attitude tends to rub off on the watching parents.
I've heard some remarks/language that wouldn't be tolerated at Withdean - and most of the time it comes from parents/supporters who know sweet FA about football or how it should be played.
Too many people (including coaches) are simply pushing their kids into football because they weren't any good themselves and in some way think that they own children can make up for their own shortcomings, and they seem to think that bawling abuse at the opposition is in some way going to help their own players.
The standard of Coachig in Youth Football overall is quite simply shocking. (I think this is what Trevor Brooking is concerned about at the moment) - Dads with little knowledge take over a team as their son plays in it, however they themselves need to be taught how to coach.
Unfortunatley however the FA don't help to encourage more Coaches to progress through their badges as the majority of coaching Courses are done during the day, Monday-Friday rather that at weekends/evenings, meaning those who want to progress with their badges have to take holiday to do so.
No wonder the Premier league is so full of overseas players.
Having been involved for many years in running sides I have seen things get worse over the years.
I'm afraid that a lot of the time it comes down to the attitude of the teams Manager. If the kids are told by their coach that 'winning at all costs' is the most important thing then this attitude tends to rub off on the watching parents.
I've heard some remarks/language that wouldn't be tolerated at Withdean - and most of the time it comes from parents/supporters who know sweet FA about football or how it should be played.
Too many people (including coaches) are simply pushing their kids into football because they weren't any good themselves and in some way think that they own children can make up for their own shortcomings, and they seem to think that bawling abuse at the opposition is in some way going to help their own players.
The standard of Coachig in Youth Football overall is quite simply shocking. (I think this is what Trevor Brooking is concerned about at the moment) - Dads with little knowledge take over a team as their son plays in it, however they themselves need to be taught how to coach.
Unfortunatley however the FA don't help to encourage more Coaches to progress through their badges as the majority of coaching Courses are done during the day, Monday-Friday rather that at weekends/evenings, meaning those who want to progress with their badges have to take holiday to do so.
No wonder the Premier league is so full of overseas players.
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
Fairly good summary there as I have only ever attended one FA training weekend and have managed a team for seven years.
The FA need to get these courses more available and I have no training on child protection but renewed my coaching licence by reading a book and answering a simple multiple choice paper on line.
The FA need to get these courses more available and I have no training on child protection but renewed my coaching licence by reading a book and answering a simple multiple choice paper on line.
Mrs Coach
aka Jesus H. Woman
bhaexpress said:
Thanks for your opinion. But you shouldn't tar all teams at a club with the same brush. My son plays for Denton and we have NEVER had a problem playing against any side. Which age group is it you have problems with?
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
Coach said:
See what I said about the U15s - no problem at all bar one bad decision on calling a game off.
Mrs Coach
aka Jesus H. Woman
The current Under 15's? Managed by a nice chap called Mark. Never hear of any problems with them, they're a nice bunch of lads.
Re the pitch - unfortunately, we suffer flooding 4 months of the year and are raising funds to replace the pitch. Sorry to hear the pitch wasn't inspected early enough to save you a trip - but these mistakes do happen occasionally. We're all only human!
One of our mini soccer sides played a local game the other week, where the parents of the opposition threw insults at an obviously disabled member of our team. So you can get bad parents at every club.
Denton won Charter Standard Club of the Year for the South East Region this year, beating over 300 other junior clubs. So we cant be ALL bad, eh?!
Re the pitch - unfortunately, we suffer flooding 4 months of the year and are raising funds to replace the pitch. Sorry to hear the pitch wasn't inspected early enough to save you a trip - but these mistakes do happen occasionally. We're all only human!
One of our mini soccer sides played a local game the other week, where the parents of the opposition threw insults at an obviously disabled member of our team. So you can get bad parents at every club.
Denton won Charter Standard Club of the Year for the South East Region this year, beating over 300 other junior clubs. So we cant be ALL bad, eh?!
Mrs Coach
aka Jesus H. Woman
And you find in these instances there's two sides to every story - I'm sure the Denton parents in question (being kindly called 'chavs' and worse on here) would give a different version of events.
The shame of it is, it's never the kids. They just want to get on and play football - it's the over enthusiastic parents making a scene. A very good idea is to make them stand 10 feet away from the pitch either side. Justs puts a bit more of a buffer in.
Mrs C by the way.
The shame of it is, it's never the kids. They just want to get on and play football - it's the over enthusiastic parents making a scene. A very good idea is to make them stand 10 feet away from the pitch either side. Justs puts a bit more of a buffer in.
Mrs C by the way.
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
I know the pitch has been an issue for a while and there are plans to do something about it.
Both Denton and ASC share one thing in this age group - both had to endue a broken leg incident, not much fun at all.
Both Denton and ASC share one thing in this age group - both had to endue a broken leg incident, not much fun at all.
Mrs Coach
aka Jesus H. Woman
Blimy! Poor kids!
Our age group has just had a broken ankle (done at school rather than on the pitch!) and two broken wrists (on the pitch) last year. Lots of cast signings being done by the lads the next week!
Our age group has just had a broken ankle (done at school rather than on the pitch!) and two broken wrists (on the pitch) last year. Lots of cast signings being done by the lads the next week!
Mrs Coach
aka Jesus H. Woman
I'm not sure the Junior Seagulls are actually involved officially with the club? I know when we've seen them at tournaments, they've worn the kit and stuff - but I'm sure the ACTUAL youth sides at the Albion starts at age U9? It's a bit confusing - I've not quite sussed out yet if there's TWO junior sides - one officially with the club and one unofficially?
Anyone know?
Anyone know?
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
Well the U15s one is based at Poynings that we played today and one of their players was with us last season so therefore apart from kit provision (thankfully they had yellow away shirts) they are not a feeder for BHAFC
Mrs Coach
aka Jesus H. Woman
And to go back to the original poster - supaseagull, we played you last year, and I'm sure you can confirm, you had no problems with Denton! We had a good friendly, competative couple of games. Although we're in different sides of the league now, if you have a free week and want a friendly, just give us a call.
Sorry to hear one of your kids was subject to such intimidation today. The adult concerned should be ashamed of himself (that's if he can spell the word!)
Mrs C.
Sorry to hear one of your kids was subject to such intimidation today. The adult concerned should be ashamed of himself (that's if he can spell the word!)
Mrs C.
Mrs Coach
aka Jesus H. Woman
Beach Hut - is Del still with you at ASC? Mr Coach was on his level 1 course with him!
Mrs C.
Mrs C.
Mrs Coach
aka Jesus H. Woman
Much younger age group of course!
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
Coach said:
Del runs the U8s
Mrs Coach
aka Jesus H. Woman
Yes, that's the one. Nice chap.
Mrs C.
Mrs C.
bhaexpress
New member
Coach said:
Granted it was a few years ago, maybe the league straightened your team's parents out but as you can see I'm not the only person with a low opinion of North Newhaven. Of course it didn't help the act that my nephew played for Southdown Rovers who were at that time virtually unbeatable and in fact far superior to Denton.
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