Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: Fred Elliot on Monday, September 17, 2007, 16:52:48 So Jenna's second week back at school starts with her bringing home the curriculum that she will be working though for this years PE.
Lots of good stuff in there thinks me...........until I get to the last page and a flyer drops out advertising football coaching courses at the following locations New College Ferndale School Millbrook school in Wantage All good me thinks until I start reading a little further................ Dear Parent/Guardian Glynn Evans Soccer School, in association with Reading Football Club.............. I re-read and I have not made a mistake.......Reading FC peddling their coaching schools to our schoolkids, who should be growing up to follow the Town I will write to SBC as clearly they must have given authority for the flyers to be distributed accross the town http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n70/FredElliot_2006/scan4.jpg Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: Red81 on Monday, September 17, 2007, 16:53:59 How wrong is that!?
Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: Arriba on Monday, September 17, 2007, 16:55:37 my daughter got one of those from her primary school :evil:
Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: Fred Elliot on Monday, September 17, 2007, 16:58:32 Makes a mockery of our own "football in the community" team of Clive and Johnno
Not the clubs wholesale fault, but a little communication between the club and SBC would not go amiss STFC should be monopolising the town Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: herthab on Monday, September 17, 2007, 16:58:58 Shrewd move by Reading methinks, they've probably done the same in places like Newbury as well.
You can't blame the council for letting it happen if the local league team can't be arsed to get involved. This is surely down to STFC not being a community focused club. Over to you Mr Little................ Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: Bushey Boy on Monday, September 17, 2007, 16:59:18 Isnt there an FA rule against this thing. Send Jenna on a STFC course.
Im sick of Reading and hope they go down, plastic cunts Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: Fred Elliot on Monday, September 17, 2007, 17:02:38 Quote from: "herthab" You can't blame the council for letting it happen if the local league team can't be arsed to get involved. We dont know that though I have known Clive for many years and I am sure that he has endeavored to do whats right Whether the monkeys in the boardrooms of STFC and SBC care is another thing all together and it should be something that the board of the Trust should be highlighting in my opinion Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: adje on Monday, September 17, 2007, 17:05:39 Sneaky Nicky Hammond!
Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: Reg Smeeton on Monday, September 17, 2007, 17:06:30 When I was running a local youth FC, the scum used to recruit heavily in Swindon, they'd send out letters asking for any likely lads to be recommended etc......of course STFC never bothered.
Once I'd established the contents, any time a letter with the (very apt) moronic ox head logo on, dropped on the doormat I'd lift it at arms length with a suitable tool and deposit it in the fire or bin. Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: Fred Elliot on Monday, September 17, 2007, 17:08:14 Quote from: "adje" Sneaky Nicky Hammond! Sneaky maybe A club showing some business accumen and tapping into a captive audience and then widening their fanbase et al Sneaky or Shrewd I think its shrewd Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: Hexagon on Monday, September 17, 2007, 17:09:40 If all the kids are going to Reading might suggest why crap like this is happening.
http://www.oufc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/0,,10342~1114440,00.html Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: Bogus Dave on Monday, September 17, 2007, 17:11:39 Show how desperate oxford are when they get excited about beating our under 9's-15's
Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: Fred Elliot on Monday, September 17, 2007, 17:12:02 Quote from: "Hexagon" If all the kids are going to Reading might suggest why crap like this is happening. http://www.oufc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/0,,10342~1114440,00.html FUCKING HELL !!!!! :emo: :rain: Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: Fred Elliot on Monday, September 17, 2007, 17:12:45 Quote from: "STFC dave" Show how desperate oxford are when they get excited about beating our under 9's-15's It is quite indicative of the thread though Dave Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: Hexagon on Monday, September 17, 2007, 17:13:08 Quote from: "STFC dave" Show how desperate oxford are when they get excited about beating our under 9's-15's Thats what i said to the Pox fan that sent it to me! Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: Bogus Dave on Monday, September 17, 2007, 17:18:33 Yeh but results don't really matter at that age do they. And these days most youth players at their clubs dont come from the town/city where they're playing anyway.
If we did stumble across a real talent then a bigger club i.e. reading, would snaffle them up anyway. Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: Samdy Gray on Monday, September 17, 2007, 17:24:19 Didn't the FA introduce catchment areas to stop things like this happening?
That said, the 'area' is probably about 50 miles so Reading would fall in that. Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: Miss Angry on Monday, September 17, 2007, 17:31:10 My son started getting them at the juniors the last school year, they got binned.
I always thought it off as They have "STFC in the community" each week and have done for years at his school... it's a great programme for the kids, really affordable to, even though they have put it up considerabley this year - it's gone from £1.50 a session to £3.00! Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: Boeta on Monday, September 17, 2007, 17:44:12 does it really matter? it's still getting kids active and playing sport
Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: Fred Elliot on Monday, September 17, 2007, 17:52:23 Quote from: "Boeta" does it really matter? it's still getting kids active and playing sport Of course it fucking matters !!!!!! My issue is not that we maybe uncovering a hidden gem (maybe 1/1000) its the 999 that will never become a pro footballer. BUT if nutured and "locked in" will become a fan, and bring their Mums and Dads to games, will start buying food and merchandise. It's not rocket science just the first rule of any business Go and find your customer early and then tie them into the business for as long as possible and by any means possible !!! Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: herthab on Monday, September 17, 2007, 17:56:40 Quote from: "Fred Elliot" Quote from: "Boeta" does it really matter? it's still getting kids active and playing sport Of course it fucking matters !!!!!! My issue is not that we maybe uncovering a hidden gem (maybe 1/1000) its the 999 that will never become a pro footballer. BUT if nutured and "locked in" will become a fan, and bring their Mums and Dads to games, will start buying food and merchandise. It's not rocket science just the first rule of any business Go and find your customer early and then tie them into the business for as long as possible and by any means possible !!! :nod: I've already seen quite a few Reading shirts in Swindon, which is to be expected I suppose, due to them being top flight. Doesn't mean SBC and STFC have to help them promote their club. Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: Fred Elliot on Monday, September 17, 2007, 17:58:17 Exactly hertha
I might get pissed tonight and write a letter Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: Rich Pullen on Monday, September 17, 2007, 18:05:52 I remember getting a text from a Bristol City fan after losing a reserves game!
Back to topic - you're right Fred, this is something the town whether it be football club or council we must keep the kids interested in STFC. Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: ronnie21 on Monday, September 17, 2007, 18:24:05 Quote from: "Fred Elliot" Exactly hertha Since when did you have to get pissed to get your quill and parchment out Mr Elliott? :beers:I might get pissed tonight and write a letter Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: SwindonTartanArmy on Monday, September 17, 2007, 18:29:22 If Glynn is who I think he is, he was on my Level 2 coaching course. He is a very good coach and was at Southampton before Reading. Shame that Swindon havent cottoned onto this sort of thing already though. But no suprise.
Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: Spud on Monday, September 17, 2007, 18:34:55 Quote from: "Bushey Boy" Im sick of Reading and hope they go down, plastic cunts I would love it!, love it! if those Plastic Cunt's got relegated. They're in the Premier League and can't sell out every week, fucking wank support. Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: Batch on Monday, September 17, 2007, 18:42:11 I doubt if it restores any faith, but my little 'un (3) had his first ever coaching session today, He went with his mum to pay at the community office at the CG last week and proudly come home with a "football in the community, Swindon Town FC, Tiny Tots" T-Shirt. If it had said Reading on it he would still be on the naughty step now!
He has got over the fact the session wasn't actually held on the CG turf and seemed to quite enjoy it. I'm sure he'll get into it more after a few weeks. Quote from: "Spuddy_STFC" They're in the Premier League and can't sell out every week, fucking wank support. Really? I thought they were looking to expand the madjeski? Anyway I hope the cunts go down too. Last two Saturdays I've seen Reading shirts in town. They didn't even look embarrassed about it. Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: dell boy on Monday, September 17, 2007, 18:49:57 Fred, I use to be heavily involved in scouting in the Berkshire/Hampshire area. I brought two lads for trials at Swindon when Cannon was head of the Swindon youth.
One African lad in particular was the best I have ever seen at 15 years of age, he played a couple of games for Swindon youth and either they lost interest or he did, not quite sure, anyway he ended up at Arsenal Youth and didn't quite make the grade there, anyway he did become a professional footballer until he went back to Africa about 8 years ago, he played a handful of first team games for Luton. The other was never given a chance at Swindon, he was big, black, 6 foot 5 and at the age of 15 and extremely fast but to be truthful not the most skilful young player I have ever seen, he didn't make the professional ranks, but still good enough to play for Basingstoke at 17, unfortunately he ended up inside for armed robbery. It seems to me if you are over 14 and haven't been signed by a professional club then you are an also ran, just look at Ian Wright how old was he when he signed professional forms. What I will say about the youth set-up at Reading is it is one of the best in the country. Its a shame that a club like Swindon cant even keep their own, and on that point I totally agree with you Fred. Swindon schools should be promoting Swindon lads, end of. Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: Spud on Monday, September 17, 2007, 18:50:09 Quote from: "Batch" Quote from: "Spuddy_STFC" They're in the Premier League and can't sell out every week, fucking wank support. Really? I thought they were looking to expand the madjeski? Anyway I hope the cunts go down too. Last two Saturdays I've seen Reading shirts in town. They didn't even look embarrassed about it. Whenver ive seen them at Home on MOTD there are always a mass of Blue empty seats right behind the goal next to the Away fans. Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: STFC_Gazzza on Monday, September 17, 2007, 19:02:20 As much as I hate Reading its a smart move by RFC. Quite simply as much as we hate those plastic pricks, they are a premiership club and they can brag about that so they will get people to go to these courses simply because of that fact... altough after this season us and reading will be in the same division so...
Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: magic8ball on Monday, September 17, 2007, 19:43:34 I'm sure in 10 years time we'll have half the Portugeuse under-18's squad playing for us anyway so its all immaterial.
Seriously though, something needs to be done about this. All the fans who have hung around since '69 and the good days will be dead before long, and we need some fresh kids getting interested in Town early, and not fucking off to watch Reading because they get to watch Premiership football week in week out. Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: sonic youth on Monday, September 17, 2007, 20:25:11 swindon used to do coaching courses in west oxfordshire as recently as a two or three years ago the football in the community had a monday night session at bampton recreation ground.
Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: STFC_Gazzza on Monday, September 17, 2007, 21:07:49 We should go back to oxford then! give their kids a chance to play league football if they are any good!
Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: Arriba on Tuesday, September 18, 2007, 00:33:24 Quote from: "Hexagon" If all the kids are going to Reading might suggest why crap like this is happening. http://www.oufc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/0,,10342~1114440,00.html what that fails to mention is that swindon has many lads playing in age groups older than themselves,ie 10 year olds in the under 12s, 11 year olds in the u13s ect.oxford dont! the coaches at stfc are trying to mould footballers for the future,the results are secondary to the boys footballing development. oxford might be trying to deperately win games.swindon are trying to make footballers out of the lads. Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: Bennett on Tuesday, September 18, 2007, 06:20:32 Quote from: "magic8ball" and we need some fresh kids amen sister Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: ronnie21 on Wednesday, September 26, 2007, 19:34:55 Have just heard that Arsenal are organising kids' coaching courses in Priory Vale - Gorse Hill infants school all came out with their leaflets this afternoon! :?
Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: Kinky Tom on Thursday, September 27, 2007, 10:19:02 Quote from: "arriba" Quote from: "Hexagon" If all the kids are going to Reading might suggest why crap like this is happening. http://www.oufc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/0,,10342~1114440,00.html what that fails to mention is that swindon has many lads playing in age groups older than themselves,ie 10 year olds in the under 12s, 11 year olds in the u13s ect.oxford dont! the coaches at stfc are trying to mould footballers for the future,the results are secondary to the boys footballing development. oxford might be trying to deperately win games.swindon are trying to make footballers out of the lads. That's the English poroblem isn't it. With England's problems during the Euro qualifiers there has been much debate about letting kids just play football to hone their individual skills - there has been too much pressure put on kids to win from an early age and as such they are encouraged to be efficient and responible too early. Other countries seem to allow flair to blossom and encourage lads to let their skill loose. Hopefull this is what Swindon are doing - once lads are 15 or 16 then they can be encouraged to be a bit more disciplined and to worry about results more while still allowing them to express themselves. More fool the pox for promoting false success... Or something like that... Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: McLovin on Thursday, September 27, 2007, 10:27:03 See, i disagree... I think in England kids are told all about how 'its the taking part that counts' etc. and all the competetive edge is removed when they are young. I mean in some areas, until a certain age, they dont publish league tables, so as not to upset the shit ones.
The difference in countries such as Australia and the U.S, is that winning is everything. Bollocks to taking part, sport is competetive. Certain countries breed and nurture that winning mentality and desire, whereas we do not. Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: Fred Elliot on Thursday, September 27, 2007, 10:34:18 Agreed
Thats why all the school "sports" days have been replaced with "fun" days Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: jayohaitchenn on Thursday, September 27, 2007, 11:05:52 Quote from: "Blackcurrant" See, i disagree... I think in England kids are told all about how 'its the taking part that counts' etc. and all the competetive edge is removed when they are young. I mean in some areas, until a certain age, they dont publish league tables, so as not to upset the shit ones. The difference in countries such as Australia and the U.S, is that winning is everything. Bollocks to taking part, sport is competetive. Certain countries breed and nurture that winning mentality and desire, whereas we do not. When was the last time Australia or the US won a world cup? Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: Fred Elliot on Thursday, September 27, 2007, 11:09:30 Sports in general John
Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: McLovin on Thursday, September 27, 2007, 11:11:40 Well in football maybe not. But throughout the world of athletics it is especially noticable. Then there is rugby, cricket, motorsport, tennis... all sorts.
Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: jayohaitchenn on Thursday, September 27, 2007, 11:18:33 i disagree.
Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: Fred Elliot on Thursday, September 27, 2007, 11:25:14 i disagree with you disagreeing
Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: Lumps on Thursday, September 27, 2007, 11:55:31 Quote from: "Spud" Quote from: "Bushey Boy" Im sick of Reading and hope they go down, plastic cunts I would love it!, love it! if those Plastic Cunt's got relegated. They're in the Premier League and can't sell out every week, fucking wank support. We were in the Premiership with a ground with a capacity about 8,000 lower and we didn't sell out every week either FFS! However we did find we suddenly had several thousand more fans than we'd had for years. This "plastic" thing gets on my tit's to be honest. Reading had fewer fans when in the lower leagues and playing at the shithole that was Elm Park did they? No shit! I think you might find our gates tend to fluctuate a bit depending on how sucessful we are on the pitch as well. I can't be arsed to look up the figures but I'm pretty sure Reading probably averaged about 7,000 or so when playing at this level. So if you're only a real fan if you've followed your team in the bottom two divisions they've probably got roughly as many as us. (Although where that leaves the likes of Liverpool, Spurs, Everton etc who haven't been out of the top flight for decades I don't know. They're all plastic I suppose.) I've always had a certain respect for the way Reading went about things myself. They're not Franchise, nick somone elses club and try to graft it artificially onto the town; or Wigan, local millionaire spends a fortune on the ground and team and the local population don't really give a shit and keep going to wath Rugby League; they did it properly. Madjeski didn't just chuck money at the club, he's built it up gradually turning it into a proper business, growing the fan base organically over time, and keeping pretty much in the black. We should be looking at the way they've gone about things and seeking to emulate their success. Bitching about them just makes us look jealous. Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: Bushey Boy on Thursday, September 27, 2007, 12:11:23 Lumos I really do get agree at you and I dont even know you, in real life your probably a sound fella. Before you say it, I probably annoy you as well.
The plastic 'thing' in my opinion is the fact I maybe only saw one or two Reading FC shirts in Swindon in the 5 years prior to them being in the top flight. Since they were promoted, lots of cars, people and football supporters sport the shirt and stickers. To me plastic is when you start supporting a team when they are successful. Being a supporter to me is when you are relegated, or on a losing streak yet still get behind teh team and are proud of them. Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: Lumps on Thursday, September 27, 2007, 12:13:32 Quote from: "Fred Elliot" Agreed Thats why all the school "sports" days have been replaced with "fun" days They HAVEN'T. My kids only left school 4/5 years ago and they had competitive school sports throughout their school careers. My neice and nephew are were at Greendown (the lads just gone to the Cirencester Academy as a football scholar) and it's been the same. Can we all stop just writing headlines for the Daily Mail please. Oh and there's a point about not caring too much about results in youth football. It's a piece of piss to win football matchs with lads between 11 and 15. They all hit puberty and grow at such varying rates that if you pick a side of the ones that mature early they're twice the fucking size of the opposition and they just steamroller them. (It's kind of the approach that Brentford took to the professional game about ten (ok maybe 15) years back when 8 out of 11 players would be 6'6'', 16 stone, black guys that could cover 100 metres in less than 12.5 seconds) I've seen it happen in youth football a lot. If you're totally results focused the little skillful kid doesn't get a game and eventually just drifts away from the club. By the time he hits his growth spurt and catches up with the others he might not even be playing the game. Meanwhile the side that were world beaters for the last three years have been caught up by the more forward thinking teams in terms of power and speed, and are now having rings run around them by kids that can actually dribble and pass rather than just lump it to the Goliath up front. Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: Lumps on Thursday, September 27, 2007, 12:43:11 Quote from: "Bushey Boy" Lumos I really do get agree at you and I dont even know you, in real life your probably a sound fella. Before you say it, I probably annoy you as well. The plastic 'thing' in my opinion is the fact I maybe only saw one or two Reading FC shirts in Swindon in the 5 years prior to them being in the top flight. Since they were promoted, lots of cars, people and football supporters sport the shirt and stickers. To me plastic is when you start supporting a team when they are successful. Being a supporter to me is when you are relegated, or on a losing streak yet still get behind the team and are proud of them. Ash, that just happens mate. It's a fact of life at a club like ours, or Reading. If we were in their position you'd be only too pleased to see some new faces wearing our shirts wouldn't you? When we go up to the Championship what would piss you off more, a whole load of people starting to come to games that didn't go before and are therefore plastic, or us still getting gates of under 8,000? I'm not saying you can't feel good about yourself for being a more loyal supporter than others but if people aren't careful they can end up adopting a "where were you when we were shite you plastic bastard" attitude, and that isn't going to help increase attendance is it? Anyway, being up in the frozen north (the boiler in the office is fucked) I've not been to a game in ages so I probably don't even qualify as having a right to an opinion on all of this. In my defence however, I did watch a number of home games during the 83/84 season under Ken Beamish when we finished 17th in Div 4 (our lowest league finish ever I think) so I have suffered probably as much as anyone who posts on here with the obvious exception of Reg. (It was worth the misery of that season though as Lou turned up the next) Actually that's the thing to comfort yourself with. Those people that only turn up for the good times won't appreciate it as much as you. It means much more to watch them win a title and pick up a record points tally, if you've watched them narrowly avoid having to reapply to league status the year before. Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: sonic youth on Thursday, September 27, 2007, 12:46:39 i think there's a very valid comparison to be drawn between sportsmen in general from the uk and australia and their respective competitive streaks.
Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: Arriba on Thursday, September 27, 2007, 12:52:02 some good points have been raised in this thread imo.
with regard to football,as i have already pointed out oxford getting carried away with wins is up to them.but its not about winning matches.the whole centre of exellence and academy system is to create professional footballers.nearly all wont make it but if a few come through then the job has been done correctly. its about individual players doing the right things and progressing year on year.the teams are just there for the individual boys to how their own talents.kids are rotated with trailists involved in games.if it was about winning then teams would be set up for that purpose and better lads would get more pitch time ect. with regard to other sports ie athletics then i agree that the not winning its the taking part bollocks that has now become the norm in schools is wrong. i dont even bother to attend my kids sports days as they are a joke! look at the state of british athletics for example.the commentators are creaming their pants if we scrape a bronze nowadays.fucking pathetic! its dogooder namby pamby let them all have a go brigade that are to blame. talented kids aint coming through in the numbers they used to and its showing now in the medals tally.or other sports like tennis where you have to be wealthy for your children to even join clubs and play. Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: Arriba on Thursday, September 27, 2007, 12:53:11 the arsenal footy school is run by wayne hatswell and adi viveash by the way
Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: Colin Todd on Thursday, September 27, 2007, 13:01:41 That'll be some top quality coaching then. JUST HOOF IT LADS
Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: Bushey Boy on Thursday, September 27, 2007, 13:19:50 Quote from: "Lumps" Quote from: "Bushey Boy" Lumos I really do get agree at you and I dont even know you, in real life your probably a sound fella. Before you say it, I probably annoy you as well. The plastic 'thing' in my opinion is the fact I maybe only saw one or two Reading FC shirts in Swindon in the 5 years prior to them being in the top flight. Since they were promoted, lots of cars, people and football supporters sport the shirt and stickers. To me plastic is when you start supporting a team when they are successful. Being a supporter to me is when you are relegated, or on a losing streak yet still get behind the team and are proud of them. Ash, that just happens mate. It's a fact of life at a club like ours, or Reading. If we were in their position you'd be only too pleased to see some new faces wearing our shirts wouldn't you? When we go up to the Championship what would piss you off more, a whole load of people starting to come to games that didn't go before and are therefore plastic, or us still getting gates of under 8,000? I'm not saying you can't feel good about yourself for being a more loyal supporter than others but if people aren't careful they can end up adopting a "where were you when we were shite you plastic bastard" attitude, and that isn't going to help increase attendance is it? Anyway, being up in the frozen north (the boiler in the office is fucked) I've not been to a game in ages so I probably don't even qualify as having a right to an opinion on all of this. In my defence however, I did watch a number of home games during the 83/84 season under Ken Beamish when we finished 17th in Div 4 (our lowest league finish ever I think) so I have suffered probably as much as anyone who posts on here with the obvious exception of Reg. (It was worth the misery of that season though as Lou turned up the next) Actually that's the thing to comfort yourself with. Those people that only turn up for the good times won't appreciate it as much as you. It means much more to watch them win a title and pick up a record points tally, if you've watched them narrowly avoid having to reapply to league status the year before. Fair points you have raised on this. Its often hard to put a post up on here and justify what I am saying. It just infuriates me that people only came against walsall last year etc. Was sat in teh front of nationwide and when started singing a song some fans in liverpool and arsenal tops looked at us like we had murdered someone! Fair play 25 years watching this club?? Not far behind and shows what a good fan base, albeit it small is Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: reeves4england on Thursday, September 27, 2007, 14:53:33 Getting full attendances at the CG is very much a two-sided coin. The place is full of idiots who just want to say they saw Swindon get promoted and couldn't actually care less about the club, but the revenue from the gate is twice what it would normally be.
I get annoyed seeing Reading shirts in Swindon as I NEVER used to see Reading shirts in town. Now I see them far too often Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: Simon Pieman on Thursday, September 27, 2007, 15:53:35 Sports day at Greendown was super lame. Nobody wanted to do it.
All the other sports were taken more seriously in the tutor tournaments though. Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: Arriba on Thursday, September 27, 2007, 15:57:39 when i was there they didn't ever have a sports day.infact we never did any athletics at all.no footy team until the last year either.
Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: ronnie21 on Thursday, September 27, 2007, 16:03:07 Quote from: "arriba" the arsenal footy school is run by wayne hatswell and adi viveash by the way :lots of laughing cunts:Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: sonic youth on Thursday, September 27, 2007, 16:48:32 Quote from: "arriba" when i was there they didn't ever have a sports day.infact we never did any athletics at all.no footy team until the last year either. my secondary school was woeful for sports, i was captain of my primary school team for a little while which just goes to show how poor it was! a bloke i work with is a saffa and a big rugby fan, he played in the first team for his school side which is a huge achievement and the school's first teams used to get crowds of up to 2,000 when they played - can you imagine that over here? Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: Miss Angry on Thursday, September 27, 2007, 18:52:23 Quote from: "Lumps" Quote from: "Fred Elliot" Agreed Thats why all the school "sports" days have been replaced with "fun" days They HAVEN'T. My kids only left school 4/5 years ago and they had competitive school sports throughout their school careers. My neice and nephew are were at Greendown (the lads just gone to the Cirencester Academy as a football scholar) and it's been the same. I think you'll find alot of schools in Swindon have "fun days" to replace sports day - having said that, this year for the first time in 5 years my son had a good old fahsioned Sports day and the children seemed to have alot more fun! Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: Mexicano Rojo on Thursday, September 27, 2007, 18:53:55 i am fucking disgusted, millbrook school is in grove not wantage.
Title: Fucking Disgusted Post by: Lumps on Friday, September 28, 2007, 07:43:34 I think it's less to do with a PC attitude and more to do with schools attempting to get the balance right between encouraging broad participation in sport and sporting excellence. In my day at school the PE teachers were only really interested in the ones with some natural ability because they wanted to win things with the school team, get pupils into county teams etc. The rest of the school could just skive around at the back of the school field or up the wall bars in the gym for a few hours a week and no-one cared.
However, now they've got all sorts of pressures to try to ensure that everyone gets into sport to stop the rest of the school population turning into a bunch of lardy bastards. Not an easy balance to get right. Combine that with the fact that school playing fields have been sold off, after school activities have been limited, and the number of PE lessons each week have been reduced and it's not an easy job. |