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No ball boys?

Siv_in_Norfolk
Siv_in_Norfolk Posts: 4,063
in General Charlton
Ummmmm.... No ball boys tonight

Is that normal for a night game? Or cost-cutting from Roland and Nightmeire?

Comments

  • FishCostaFortune
    FishCostaFortune Posts: 10,816
    They've been shipped out to another network club for an undisclosed fee.
  • cafcsinger
    cafcsinger Posts: 5,569
    Which Valley were you at mate?
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    They resigned, ill health
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,895
    Undisclosed.
  • Cafctekkers
    Cafctekkers Posts: 1,256
    they all refused to sign their ABC's
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,417
    They're all in training to clear 2000 beach balls in one minute
  • daveydanger
    daveydanger Posts: 1,340
    Was only one in the East.
  • daveydanger
    daveydanger Posts: 1,340
    CafcTeckers said:

    they all refused to sign their ABC's

    Always Ball Collecting
  • C4FC4L1f3
    C4FC4L1f3 Posts: 1,917
    Katrien said she would come in early and do it before the match

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  • Hex
    Hex Posts: 1,905
    Not many pitch-side gate stewards either.
  • throughthickandthin
    throughthickandthin Posts: 955
    Hex said:

    Not many pitch-side gate stewards either.

    Not many fans to control.

    However seriously if attendances like this continue we will need more ball boys not less. I too noticed how slow the ball was returned from certain remote areas of the ground. Yes some areas are looking remote
  • DOC64
    DOC64 Posts: 333
    Ball boy's sourced from the Academy.

    May have been a shortage of volunteers for Shrewsbury on a Tuesday night....
  • addick05
    addick05 Posts: 2,348
    Many years' ago I -as a match-day Junior Reds volunteer - used to organise the ball boys. Only proviso was the boys (or girls) had to be Junior Reds. Believe me there were no shortages of willing youngsters. Also it didn't cost the club a penny and there were at least 10 for every game. No idea why there are so few now.
  • Hartleypete
    Hartleypete Posts: 4,706
    DOC64 said:

    Ball boy's sourced from the Academy.

    May have been a shortage of volunteers for Shrewsbury on a Tuesday night....

    Probably been sold to premiership clubs to ball boy there, then we can all say we saw a ball boy at Charlton before he joined a premier club.
  • Terry Naylor
    Terry Naylor Posts: 2,126
    Normal ball boys were training but you will find they are made too as most nearly all couldn't give a fig about the first team especially in this league!! They had to ask my son (Ex academy and 100%CAFC) who was watching from the stand to ball boy the covered end!!!
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,098
    Terry Naylor said:

    They had to ask my son (Ex academy and 100%CAFC) who was watching from the stand to ball boy the covered end!!!

    So Alfie has left the Academy ?
  • mogodon
    mogodon Posts: 3,423
    throughthickandthin said:

    Hex said:

    Not many pitch-side gate stewards either.

    Not many fans to control.

    However seriously if attendances like this continue we will need more ball boys not less. I too noticed how slow the ball was returned from certain remote areas of the ground. Yes some areas are looking remote
    Perhaps the netting for the Burnley game in May wasn't to stop missiles but a practice to stop time wasting this season when the ball is kicked into one of the many unoccupied areas at the Valley.
  • willieduff
    willieduff Posts: 987
    Another great example of how to run a professional football club.
  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,919
    probably needed for rolands chimney sweep network

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