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What happened to the open days in pre-season where you could go near enough anywhere in the ground, open training sessions or a signing session from all the players.

When I was younger, it was the day I was looking forward to for the whole season. Made me feel more connected with the club, surely it would be a good thing for it to continue? Get more younger kids involved and up close and personal with the club
 



Lmaobob said:
What happened to the open days in pre-season where you could go near enough anywhere in the ground, open training sessions or a signing session from all the players.

When I was younger, it was the day I was looking forward to for the whole season. Made me feel more connected with the club, surely it would be a good thing for it to continue? Get more younger kids involved and up close and personal with the club
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ISIS put paid to all that pal.
 
I asked the same a few weeks back.
Great for the kids, sad if they are a thing of the past.
Pigs in the park is bigger than Woodstock so there's still a demand for that kind of thing
 
As a so called family club I find it hard to believe we don’t do this anymore. I wanted to introduce my son to United this season gently so back to the drawing board
 
The Prince and Kev couldn't agree on who was going to give up their parking spot.
 
Many happy memories at open days.

Listening to Alan Kelly tell stories on the Kop, seeing the dressing room, managers office, Dane Whitehouse catching up on his correspondence randomly in the middle of the open day when computers were still cool, standing behind Borbokis and being terrified of his thighs, getting Wayne Quinn to sign my shirt.

And the one when we'd just been promoted, with the Premier League balls on the pitch, sat in the dugout with my ridiculously baggy shirt on.

Randomly the first time I ever had sushi was at Bramall Lane too on an open day but fuck knows why they were serving it haha

Suppose the tours before home games cross into open day territory a bit but not as kid friendly (not in a violence and tits way, just in a kids don't care about a cap from 1922 way)
 
INTAKE BLADE said:
A shame that, hopefully it's a one off and they bring it back next season.
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sheffielder said:
As a so called family club I find it hard to believe we don’t do this anymore. I wanted to introduce my son to United this season gently so back to the drawing board
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They’re doing a ‘home debut’ scheme thing this season. So your lad would get a mini tour before his first game. Seems a very good idea.
 
Still have the memory of going on the TV gantry in the South Stand at the 1982 Open Day. What a fantastic view. I'm guessing that health and safety would probably put paid to hundreds of fans making their way up to the gantry these days, though.

The regular pre-season public training session in Graves Park in the early 80's is also a fond memory.

In my mind, it was always a glorious sunny day trying to catch a glimpse of the players as they jogged through the park. 'King' Edwards, who most of the fans would be wanting to see, was invariably ambling along right at the back. As the man himself would say, though, he was a footballer not a long-distance runner.

Halcyon days.
 



Lmaobob SYP wanted £300k to police stating “every young fan is a potential hooligan when they grow up. We want to ensure that risk is not realised. As such we requested the club to hold a behind closed doors open day at 3am to prevent crowd trouble. It was a trouble free event”
 
LS16Blade said:
Still have the memory of going on the TV gantry in the South Stand at the 1982 Open Day. What a fantastic view. I'm guessing that health and safety would probably put paid to hundreds of fans making their way up to the gantry these days, though.

The regular pre-season public training session in Graves Park in the early 80's is also a fond memory.

In my mind, it was always a glorious sunny day trying to catch a glimpse of the players as they jogged through the park. 'King' Edwards, who most of the fans would be wanting to see, was invariably ambling along right at the back. As the man himself would say, though, he was a footballer not a long-distance runner.

Halcyon days.
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I remember going to a birthday party at BDTBL and as well as the gantry they let a few walk near to the edge of the roof (past where you go down the ladder on to the gantry)
 
SwissBlade said:
SYP wanted £300k to police stating “every young fan is a potential hooligan when they grow up. We want to ensure that risk is not realised. As such we requested the club to hold a behind closed doors open day at 3am to prevent crowd trouble. It was a trouble free event”
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IIRC our 3am open day was the dearest open day to police in all of football, ......ever.

SYP bravely used justice and courage to pay overtime to Durham plod to come and stand around in riot gear. Several 8 year olds hung around the corner of the stand swapping Pannini stickers, so SYP stopped all trams in Sheffield, Manchester and Croydon to be safe.

Thanks to their courageous and well planned actions, it all passed off in peace.
 
I should coco said:
IIRC our 3am open day was the dearest open day to police in all of football, ......ever.

SYP bravely used justice and courage to pay overtime to Durham plod to come and stand around in riot gear. Several 8 year olds hung around the corner of the stand swapping Pannini stickers, so SYP stopped all trams in Sheffield, Manchester and Croydon to be safe.

Thanks to their courageous and well planned actions, it all passed off in peace.
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You missed out the fact SYP insisted on it being held on a Friday night as there was less risk of 8 year olds drinking copious amounts of fruit shoots all day before the visit.
 
Westran said:
Are these still a thing of the past? It'd be good to have something to take the young 'uns to that gets them used to the ground a bit without loads of people in it.
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God knows.
The kids absolutely loved them.
The pigs seem to do one every year which is extra annoying.
But no, like announcing our preseason they'll keep us in the dark and probably announce nothing.
 
It would be great to do the open days again to get the kids interested, just a shame once they were interested they'd struggle to buy a ticket now we are in the Premier league. We really do need a higher ground capacity as we are maxxed out for season tickets, and casual fans have to jump through hoops to attend.
 



The club do the “your home debut scheme” which offers a tour of the ground etc for over 5s going to their first game.

Likewise the club offers regular tours of the stadium (albeit about £10 a piece).

Can’t remember the last open day I went to. Must be more than 10 years ago.

The pigs do their “Owls in the Park” which is a glorified fun fair. Clearly the Chan Siro is in such a state of disrepair that it can’t be opened up to the general public.
 
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