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Son (7) just joined a football team - how do we get to away matches?
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Elder son is football mad. We found a team nearby linked to my city’s professional team. He started practice last week and loves it. Matches start in September. I thought they’d be in different parts of the city but some are in towns fifteen or twenty miles away.
This may be a hopelessly naive question but do the players get a minibus all together to games from where they train or are parents expected to take them? I can’t find any info on this at all. Any/all experiences welcome.
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If it's like our area the parents take the children or car share. A minibus for lots of groups is an expense that's unaffordable.Make £2023 in 2023 (#36) £3479.30/£2023
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Have you asked his club how they get there? Common sense would suggest that would be the first option4
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annabanana82 said:If it's like our area the parents take the children or car share. A minibus for lots of groups is an expense that's unaffordable.Januray 2015
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baser999 said:Have you asked his club how they get there? Common sense would suggest that would be the first optionJanuray 2015
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Almost all teams I've been involved in it's up to you to get your child there, either by yourself or as a car share group with other parents.
If the game is much further away there's a chance they will borrow a bus but it's usually the exception.
If you're not getting a response from the coaches you could try asking a parent that has been there for the previous year.0 -
pramsay13 said:
If you're not getting a response from the coaches you could try asking a parent that has been there for the previous year.
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I know he's young but will he be picked for the away match if he misses the two training sessions immediately prior?
My sons had a variety of rules applied where there were more players than places.
It might help if he wasn't picked in this instance to give you chance to turn up a few more times and get chatting to people and see what options you have if you are not drivers yourselves. Parents driving and also taking other kids is very common.1
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