Yeah, we all agree, be kind to horses, but you can stuff yer Budgies....... please log in to view this image ......PENSIONER MAKES GOOD USE OF HER WINTER FUEL ALLOWANCE
We are indeed kind, proud and very fond of our beautiful Suffolk Punches, Dave! They are magnificent beasts that toiled our sweet soils, and we 606ers had a great plan to bring one to Portman Rd every home match...but of course the idiot PR team didnt see the benefit, so that was that. Waiting to be resurrected! I ended up sponsoring one instead at the Suffolk Punch Trust and several mates became members.....feel like chipping in Dave? This mighty rare breed no doubt toiled on Norfolk farms as well....a thankless task to be sure!
Sadly scog, I am old enough to remember the horses on farms before they were replaced by tractors, but I think ours in Norfolk were shire horses, magnificent beasts!
Now you are giving the game away! I too am old enough to recall those days of Horses on the farm...and my Dad's first tractor driving up the road from Halesworth...to our farm and scaring me ****less with its headlights full on! I was taken to my very 1st match at PR a year or two later....wooden boxes for nippers in those days!
I was born in Norfolk, 11 miles from Norwich to Norwich loving parents! I've always supported Norwich, never ever been to the dark side!
Fair Play to you Back in them days it was expected that you supported your Dad's team and it was usually the local football club. Far too many plastics around these days!
There was a brilliant chant at the Man Ure v Chelsea match recently, spoilt by a last minute equaliser, the Chelsea fans were chanting to the home crowd "We'll race you back to London!"
My eldest has always been Ipswich through and through ever since I took him to his first match against Burnley back in 2004. My youngest however is a bloody Crawley Town season ticket holder!
Nowt wrong with that mate, at least he's supporting a local team and not just a glory hunter, top four boy.
I tried brain washing him I really did but he wanted to be different so decided to support Crawley! Fair play to him as he does go to every home game. God he gave me some stick when we lost to them in the League Cup!
On a more serious point I hope our club carries on with the kids ticket promotions as we desperately need the next generation of Town fans going to PR regularly. I was pretty much hooked after watching a couple of games and now that the good times are coming back we should be taking full advantage of this. We are competing with many other clubs in the catchment area ie the London clubs. 22,500 was most encouraging last time and I hope we can now build on the renewed interest.
I admire your youngest boy's passion for good old Crawley...I pass the place on way back from Suffolk of course...but can fully understand his support for local Club. They all need that youth support and junior teams structure & coaching. Youth engagement is the life-blood of all sports as there is so much more competition for their time and money! My eldest son Tom is a Pompey fan thru thick and thin. Even tho he now works in Seagull territory. All because I took him to his first game there...with his first primary school friends...they all bonded, were given a great welcome by some seniors around....and the glue had set! He remains astonished that his ageing Dad still loves heading home to Suffolk!
Nice post Old Gaffer. When I lived in Cambridge I used to go to all of their home games if Town were playing away so I have a real soft spot for them and went to their play off final. I am indeed full of admiration for both my sons as they haven't taken the easy option in their choice of football teams to support. What I don't like are these kids who take the easy options and blindly follow the big clubs.
I suppose I am technically a 'plastic', albeit a lifelong one! Born in the Black Country, dad & grandad were dyed in the wool Throstles ( Astle, Pennington etc) and none of yer 'Baggies' rubbish back then. My auntie Jan even went out with Joe Mayo and his Amazing Moustache. They took me to the Hawthorns for a Div 2 game v Blackburn in 1974... nothing. November '76, having moved to Clare, Albion came to Portman Road so I got taken along to support my hometown team with the old fella... Mariner home debut, Whymark bagged 4, we won 7-0 and I was hooked from about half-time :-D Half the kids at Clare Primary wore blue, the others all folloowed Liverpool; not a budgie in sight. Moved to Hull, always had a soft spot for them since and, weirdly, Celtic because when I collected football cards as a kid (proper cardboard ones with a stick of deadly hard bubble gum in) the Celtic ones made me laugh as the players' numbers were on their arses!
One of the best games of football I have ever seen at Portman Road We were quite simply awesome! [video=youtube;NfmHW6bHXeI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfmHW6bHXeI[/video]
