Family Lounge

[Deleted member 1486]

"Starting from the Doncaster game on Saturday 3rd October, the Blades will be throwing open the doors of Legends of the Lane as an ‘Enjoy the Match’ area for youngsters and their parents.

Bramall Lane’s “Safe N Ground” family lounge will be open from 1pm and is FREE OF CHARGE to enter (adults will not be admitted without children, maximum of 2 adults per child).

Children can take part in a host of activities including table football tournaments and quizzes. Great prizes will be on offer from winning match tickets to taking part in a half-time penalty shoot-out on the pitch.

Children will get the chance to become a sports journalist, interviewing a Sheffield United Player and creating their own newspaper article.

Other activities will also be available including a cut and paste area to create your own SUFC collage, Playstation 2 games, the chance to lift the FA Cup, like the FA Cup winners of 1925 and the opportunity to learn more about the history of Sheffield United FC.

Food and drink will be available to purchase, so parents can sit back, relax and watch the live lunchtime football match on Sky Sports.

Only 50 places are available, and entry will be on a first come first served basis."

Sounds like a good idea. Anyone know if "food and drink" includes beer? :thumbup:

 

[KPO]

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Bramall Lane’s “Safe N Ground” family lounge will be open from 1pm and is FREE OF CHARGE to enter (adults will not be admitted without children, maximum of 2 adults per child).

:thumbup:

According to the website its £5 to get in!!

 

[Jon Bon]

Other activities will also be available including a cut and paste area to create your own SUFC collage....:

Don't forget to take this along then kids....

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

According to the website its £5 to get in!!

Surprising that Webbo hasn't had time to upadte the website epecially as he doen't now have BU to run........

 

[Jon Bon]

Surprising that Webbo hasn't had time to upadte the website epecially as he doen't now have BU to run........

You HAD to mention BU, didn't you eh..? You wouldn't let it lie.... you just WOULDN'T let it lie...!

 

[Deleted member 1486]

Checked this place out today. It was OK. Fairly decent actually, it's in the Legends of the Lane room. They have a few competitions and activities (I'll not bother listing them because they are listed in the first post, all were present and correct), also a TV with the match on and they had reasonably priced drinks, food, etc (from the top of my head: J20's £1:50, glass bottles of coke: £1, Becks/Bud £2, chip butty £1:50, those are rough prices, cheaper than inside the stadium anyway).

It was a nice change from just going to the pub, the staff were great with the kids (not sure if they were event staff or united staff tbh).

Not sure if anyone from the club ever reads this forum but if they do I'd suggest a couple of changes are made:

1) There are tables everywhere with historic blades shirts and other items on open display. Due to lack of table space elsewhere these tables were getting used to fill in all the competition forms that were being handed out. Kids + pens + bottles of blackcurrant J20 + table full of United memorabilia = disaster waiting to happen.

2) Need bins. There were none at all

3) Some sort of sign up system for the football table and console competitions is needed. While we were there a group of kids just took them over while lots of other eager kids stood around waiting patiently (including us, we got sick of waiting and left).

edit: 'twas free today btw, I'm not sure if they are ever thinking of charging but I certainly wouldn't pay to get in. It's not that great

 

[Northyorksblade]

We went too. The kids seemed to enjoy it and it was nice to be able to watch the Preston West Brom game and then shoot off into the ground. 'Family Lounge is slightly over egging it, just a few tables and chairs. Would go again, but would not pay to get in. Nice touch Jamie Ward coming to give a bit of an interview and sign some autographs.