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The Ball-boys

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Durhamish said:
The real reason we lost today.

Dallying along all game, sometimes not even watching. I recall a couple of occasions late in the second half where the ball boys didn't even muster up a jog.

Apologies if any of your relatives were ballboys today, i'm sure there real good kids but I think there shit at ballboying
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They weren't as bad as those useless sods in the West Stand throwing it back like little girls. :D
 

sick said:
How do you become a ball boy ?
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My cousin used to be one. His Sunday League team was picked at random and as one of the few Sunderland fans he was selected by his team. This was a few years ago now (Keane's first season) so it's probably changed now. A lot of the time clubs use their youth teams as ballboys too.
 
Behind Enemy Lines said:
We should do what Barcelona do and have a ball boy with a spare ball behind the opposition goal. When it goes out for a goal kick, he rolls the spare ball straight into the 6 yard box so the keeper hasn't got a chance to waste time. The amount of time wasted by keepers on goal-kicks is a joke.
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Really annoys me when opposition keepers do that. It's okay when we do it though;)
 
Funnily enough we discussed this anarl daft as it sounds.

Didn't seem strong enough to throw the ball back far enough
 
Durhamish said:
The real reason we lost today.

Dallying along all game, sometimes not even watching. I recall a couple of occasions late in the second half where the ball boys didn't even muster up a jog.

Apologies if any of your relatives were ballboys today, i'm sure there real good kids but I think there shit at ballboying
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I've been on about the BB for three or four seasons now.......don't go apologising to the BB relatives, they are not to blame that they are useless.. The club should take some responsibility for the way they trained, I think I read somewhere that two local schools supply them for each home game on a rota basis or they are at the Academy of light either way they have been shocking.....Whoever is in charge of the selection of the BB/Bgirls, they really needs a kick up the arse at the SoL.
 
Alan Partridge said:
If I'm not mistaken John O'Shea told one of them to hurry up during the last ten minutes in front of the East Stand.
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I sit in the North Stand but looking to the east stand, the ball boy furthest away from where I sit was the lad your saying O'shea had a go at...several people sitting beside me commented exactly the same.
 
Behind Enemy Lines said:
We should do what Barcelona do and have a ball boy with a spare ball behind the opposition goal. When it goes out for a goal kick, he rolls the spare ball straight into the 6 yard box so the keeper hasn't got a chance to waste time. The amount of time wasted by keepers on goal-kicks is a joke.
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There was only one ball.

I think both teams have to agree to multi balls and Fuham showed they wouldn't want that.

Wasted time right from the kick-off.
 
I think both teams have to agree to multi balls ....So what is the truth of this? Only one ball allowed or not? - have to admit I hadn't ever heard about that ruling :oops:
 
Fireball07 said:
You can't say it's the real reason we lost, because it's not. But the delays in getting the ball on the pitch were awful. It's hard to up the tempo and urgency if it takes 30 seconds to get the ball to someone taking a throw-in.
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Was thinking the same thing...

How difficult is it to have a ball in hand to flip to the player and then run and shag the punted one??

Was remedial...

SurreyMackem said:
There was only one ball.

I think both teams have to agree to multi balls and Fuham showed they wouldn't want that.

Wasted time right from the kick-off.
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Is that really a rule?? Both teams must agree for multiball??
 
molthemackem said:
I sit in the North Stand but looking to the east stand, the ball boy furthest away from where I sit was the lad your saying O'shea had a go at...several people sitting beside me commented exactly the same.
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Yes, that's the lad I meant. He took an age during the first half to realise he was supposed to throw the ball back on too. Surely the club must brief them on what to do?

I feel like Jimmy Hill greifing the ball boys.
 
GiantHogweed said:
Is that really a rule?? Both teams must agree for multiball??
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It may depend on the competition or be the refs final decision but I remember one cup game where it started multi-ball but once the home team scored the kit-man went round and collected all the balls off the ball boys.
 
Not the reason we lost but they are slow and unaware of what's going on.

Probably the only good thing Wilkinson done was use the youth team as ball boys.
 
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