I ran a junior football team for 5 years.Now run a pub team.
The pub team is easier by miles.No irate parents for starters.
One of my personal favourites was having a team of 11 year olds and comments like "Get stuck in!" or "Give `em some grief." This usually from the mothers.

Come now sir, technical proficiency is no substitute for good old fashioned bulldog spirit and battlefield analogies. It isn't badminton, you know.

Both my lads play rugby and football. There is a marked difference between the attitudes of football parents and rugby parents whilst watching youngsters play.
One thing is for certain, we produce a lot more Super League players in this city than we do Premiership footballers and we have far, far more kids playing football than we do rugby.

went to eurodisney a couple of weeks ago and i would say butlins is better and im not joking

Is that because you find it easier to stick to the laws whilst driving at Butlins? Must be hard doing it all on the wrong side of the road using a different unit for speed.

No chance.

I was once playing amateur RL and in this one game there was a woman who I would discribe as a screaming banshe was supporting the opposition and hurling abuse at us.
Our hooker at one point turned around and just shouted 'get the pots washed love'.
Her reply was to shout 'I don't have too my husband does them'
'Who's your husband as he sounds a bit hen pecked to me' was our hookers reply.
'HIM' shouted the very nice woman pointing to their second rower.
Almost everyone of us shouted 'IS THAT YOUR WIFE????'
Looking very sheepish the second rower muttered under his breath whilst looking at the ground 'yeah'












Thinking about the look on his face still makes me chuckle now.

I went to Butlins when I was a kid, hated it. I have an irrational fear of things on my wrists, never wear a watch & can only wear loose bangles or bracelets without a clasp, (I go bizerk if I can't undo the clasp). On the first day someone put a wristband on me with my chalet number on, I went mental trying to get it off. I lost a helium filled balloon & I got stung by a wasp all in one week. Never again.

Edit. Beaver club was good, got a badge.

You could make a poem out of that

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Possibly.
The funny thing is that the game didn't stop our hooker was having this shouting match whilst the game was taking place (We had the ball in hand).

POEMTIME!

i stayed on the disney park the hotel was a shxxhole to be honest butlins was far better

I've been to Euro Disney twice in the past 3 years and it is AWESOME. I think i actually enjoyed it more than my lads.

and the weather and the french they dont seem happy in there work but my daughter loved it so thats the main thing

I'll second you on that one.

Mind you for what it cost for 4 nights there plus travel, we could have gone to America for 2 weeks for an extra 2K.

Happy Star Trek day Anakin, May the 4th be up you.

These aren't the droids your looking for.

Ramekin, turn the bloody read topics feature back on.

There is a reason for this. Admin told us the details. It was technical. I didn't understand. Makes site collapse less, possibly.

It's still Ramekins fault.

Or Mike Smith's.

It's Friday, Bank Holibob weekend looming, let's have some Friday questions.

I'll start us off.

What is the point of "Matty"?

Don't know.

Next question:- Has the Bear gone into the woods or hibernation?

Woods.

Will Rock God & AS have a Duel over Edith?

Has Edith offended Dum Dum, he seems to be quite scarce on here since her arrival!

Maybe Edith is Dum Dum