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Originally Posted by lancsdave
Instead of the crossbar challenge why don't they get a penalty competetion for local schools or kids football teams. Generates interest for quite a while and parents who are daft like me will pay to get on the match just to see their little darlings take part.  |
they will be doing. At the Barrowford show the Football in the Community programme ran a penalty shoot out. The kids who got 8 out of 10 or more were given prizes and their details taken. At some point this season they will be invited back to take part in a proper penalty shoot out.
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Originally Posted by lancsdave
Why not give them out at schools, thats what our lot do including ones in Accrington.
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they will be doing. Again the FITC team are actively working with the schools from here on in. It's something we've never had before, so it has got to be given time. BUt they are now doing these things. Apparently as well, there is some kind of code of conduct between clubs that they will not encroach on each others territory without prior permission., Burnley will now have to scale things down in this area (so too Blackburn) and that should allow us to set our stall out properly.
As nobody knows about these things because it's not on the website, it's no wonder that they are commented on, but the main thing is that work is now being done to encourage the future.
I would go a step further than the under 12's free and make it anybody under 16 with their parents gets in for free. At the JPT game there were a few groups of chavs knocking about here and there who had obviously only come ' for the warmth' as they were blatantly not watching the football, but they may get the bug. At that game under 16's were free.