Parents to be banned from Liverpool practices

From what I hear, apparently Liverpool wants to follow the Texans and ban parents from watching practices. Got to wonder what they have to hide by not allowing parents to hold coaches accountable and watch their own children practice....

I hadn't heard that but hey if they throw in free beer At blue sky during practice I think I am in

Are the parents somehow interferring with the practices? (i.e. Sitting too close so that they're in the way? Talking to their kids during practices?)

Actually, they are putting an area where parents can sit and watch to counter those occasional parents to like to park their chair on the sideline 5-10 yards from the practice or behind the goal.

Perhaps silentparent would like to sit in on his kids school lessons, sit 10 feet from them in tests, sit in the rear seat during drivers ed and sit at the next table on their dates. Heaven forbid parents not be allowed to coach their own kids and distract them during practices.

Hmm, that's interesting. Hadn't heard that but honestly I can't say it's necessarily a bad deal, just depends on how you look at things I guess. Not everyone is a silent parent like you and the majority of the problems with kids these days are over active parents. You know you've seen it before, the parent that's yelling at their kid during practice so much that the kid is just miserable and thus plays even worse for the coach because they are so distracted by the parent that's pissed off.

Honestly I wish more clubs would do something like this, might actually keep kids interested in the sport longer.

the7wolf wrote:Actually, they are putting an area where parents can sit and watch to counter those occasional parents to like to park their chair on the sideline 5-10 yards from the practice or behind the goal.

Perhaps silentparent would like to sit in on his kids school lessons, sit 10 feet from them in tests, sit in the rear seat during drivers ed and sit at the next table on their dates. Heaven forbid parents not be allowed to coach their own kids and distract them during practices.

and perhaps coaches would like to conduct their practices without any accountability from pesky parents who want to watch what their kids are being taught for 2400 a year, secrecy is ALWAYS bad when it concerns children. heard this was to start after signing, gee i wonder why that would be the time to institute it, perhaps when parents have no leverage?

Sounds like a great idea and one that all clubs should follow. Why not let the coaches do their job and "back off"? This assumes you have a good comfort level in the safety of the kids at practice, but once that is met, there is no reason to hover around the field while the kids practice.

silentparent wrote:

the7wolf wrote:Actually, they are putting an area where parents can sit and watch to counter those occasional parents to like to park their chair on the sideline 5-10 yards from the practice or behind the goal.

Perhaps silentparent would like to sit in on his kids school lessons, sit 10 feet from them in tests, sit in the rear seat during drivers ed and sit at the next table on their dates. Heaven forbid parents not be allowed to coach their own kids and distract them during practices.

and perhaps coaches would like to conduct their practices without any accountability from pesky parents who want to watch what their kids are being taught for 2400 a year, secrecy is ALWAYS bad when it concerns children. heard this was to start after signing, gee i wonder why that would be the time to institute it, perhaps when parents have no leverage?

Secrecy? Making the parents watch from 30 yards instead of 5-10 yards?

Your tinfoil hat is slipping.

or perhaps there is no secrecy and parents can watch practice. Maybe you just made that up or you heard it from your friends and you just need to get better friends. But either way you are having a discussion on an issue that doesn't exist unless you are a Texan at Ross Stewart

go99 wrote:or perhaps there is no secrecy and parents can watch practice. Maybe you just made that up or you heard it from your friends and you just need to get better friends. But either way you are having a discussion on an issue that doesn't exist unless you are a Texan at Ross Stewart

they haven't told you yet, why don't you ask your hero LW and see.....

silentparent wrote:

the7wolf wrote:Actually, they are putting an area where parents can sit and watch to counter those occasional parents to like to park their chair on the sideline 5-10 yards from the practice or behind the goal.

Perhaps silentparent would like to sit in on his kids school lessons, sit 10 feet from them in tests, sit in the rear seat during drivers ed and sit at the next table on their dates. Heaven forbid parents not be allowed to coach their own kids and distract them during practices.

and perhaps coaches would like to conduct their practices without any accountability from pesky parents who want to watch what their kids are being taught for 2400 a year, secrecy is ALWAYS bad when it concerns children. heard this was to start after signing, gee i wonder why that would be the time to institute it, perhaps when parents have no leverage?

You either pay city taxes on your house or send your kid to a private school, either way thousands of your dollars are going to your child's education each year. I really doubt your sitting in the back of the class making sure your thousands of dollars are being well spent. The way to measure if your child's education is paying off is if their grades are good and they are enjoying school. Same goes for soccer, if they are enjoying soccer and your child is playing well in games, then you don't need to hawk the coach and kids during practice. Most practice I attend I read or nap. Simply ask my girl at the end of practice, "You have a good practice". So far the answer is always yes, so all is good.

JewelsBMF wrote:

silentparent wrote:

the7wolf wrote:Actually, they are putting an area where parents can sit and watch to counter those occasional parents to like to park their chair on the sideline 5-10 yards from the practice or behind the goal.

Perhaps silentparent would like to sit in on his kids school lessons, sit 10 feet from them in tests, sit in the rear seat during drivers ed and sit at the next table on their dates. Heaven forbid parents not be allowed to coach their own kids and distract them during practices.

and perhaps coaches would like to conduct their practices without any accountability from pesky parents who want to watch what their kids are being taught for 2400 a year, secrecy is ALWAYS bad when it concerns children. heard this was to start after signing, gee i wonder why that would be the time to institute it, perhaps when parents have no leverage?

You either pay city taxes on your house or send your kid to a private school, either way thousands of your dollars are going to your child's education each year. I really doubt your sitting in the back of the class making sure your thousands of dollars are being well spent. The way to measure if your child's education is paying off is if their grades are good and they are enjoying school. Same goes for soccer, if they are enjoying soccer and your child is playing well in games, then you don't need to hawk the coach and kids during practice.

nice try, the way to measure things is if parents are made to feel welcome or made to feel as a burden. i doubt you would send your kid to a school that banned parental involvement or didn't let you come to the school. I would have to think twice about joining any organization that viewed parents as a burden....

What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.



Seriously though, you've obviously been told something that no one else has been told about what LP is going to be doing so please spill the beans. The way you make it sound is like the kids are going to be loaded in a bus and driven miles away to a secret location that is completely blacked out from all satelites surveliance and all who know the exact location are sworn to secrecy or face the firing squad.

IF the plan is to have parents to be able to see but not hear, I have no problem with that in the least bit and I would venture to guess that if all clubs had that cabability then they would certainly do so. If you believe you are better equiped to coach your daughter then start up a team and coach, if not find a coach who you trust and pay them to coach and get the heck out of the way. You don't have to be standing on the sidelines of every practice to know if your coach is good or bad.

I imagine how this is presented to the families will drive the perception. I don't mind sitting away from the field for practices or games. (I prefer to do that.) I'm not a fan of being told what I can and can't do though.

If Liverpool builds out a nicely appointed area with seating and shelter from the elements, I suspect they won't have to say a word to anyone as the parents will naturally start to congregate there instead. Maybe a short fence or even a natural barrier, I doubt the club's leadership will get any fuss at all.

BUT... if parents are rudely shooed away from the practices by off-duty bouncers from a local night club, that might get ugly.

bigtex75081 wrote:

If Liverpool builds out a nicely appointed area with seating and shelter from the elements, I suspect they won't have to say a word to anyone as the parents will naturally start to congregate there instead.

So THAT's what they're building next to the water tower at Blue Sky Allen, huh?

And the blind sheep will follow anywhere the shepherd leads.

silentparent wrote:

JewelsBMF wrote:

silentparent wrote:

the7wolf wrote:Actually, they are putting an area where parents can sit and watch to counter those occasional parents to like to park their chair on the sideline 5-10 yards from the practice or behind the goal.

Perhaps silentparent would like to sit in on his kids school lessons, sit 10 feet from them in tests, sit in the rear seat during drivers ed and sit at the next table on their dates. Heaven forbid parents not be allowed to coach their own kids and distract them during practices.

and perhaps coaches would like to conduct their practices without any accountability from pesky parents who want to watch what their kids are being taught for 2400 a year, secrecy is ALWAYS bad when it concerns children. heard this was to start after signing, gee i wonder why that would be the time to institute it, perhaps when parents have no leverage?

You either pay city taxes on your house or send your kid to a private school, either way thousands of your dollars are going to your child's education each year. I really doubt your sitting in the back of the class making sure your thousands of dollars are being well spent. The way to measure if your child's education is paying off is if their grades are good and they are enjoying school. Same goes for soccer, if they are enjoying soccer and your child is playing well in games, then you don't need to hawk the coach and kids during practice.

nice try, the way to measure things is if parents are made to feel welcome or made to feel as a burden. i doubt you would send your kid to a school that banned parental involvement or didn't let you come to the school. I would have to think twice about joining any organization that viewed parents as a burden....

To truly equate school to soccer; then classroom teaching is actually equal to soccer practice. Schools are NOT going to allow you to sit in on classroom teaching everyday, but school plays or extracurricular activities are equal to our girls soccer games, and we are all welcome to come watch those. You can poll any coach and close to 100% would rather have parents in cars rather than 5-10 yards from the practice field. If in fact Liverpool is setting this rule then chances are SOME of the parents have become a burden. Yes, if your sitting or worse yet, standing 5-10 yards from the side of the practice field, even if your being silent, then you are a distraction to both the coach and your daughter. There are tons of more constructive things parents could be doing, exercise, read, nap, I'll even go as far as shagging balls when they are shooting on goal, anything is better than hawking on the sideline. Save that for the games...

silentparent wrote:

JewelsBMF wrote:

silentparent wrote:

the7wolf wrote:Actually, they are putting an area where parents can sit and watch to counter those occasional parents to like to park their chair on the sideline 5-10 yards from the practice or behind the goal.

Perhaps silentparent would like to sit in on his kids school lessons, sit 10 feet from them in tests, sit in the rear seat during drivers ed and sit at the next table on their dates. Heaven forbid parents not be allowed to coach their own kids and distract them during practices.

and perhaps coaches would like to conduct their practices without any accountability from pesky parents who want to watch what their kids are being taught for 2400 a year, secrecy is ALWAYS bad when it concerns children. heard this was to start after signing, gee i wonder why that would be the time to institute it, perhaps when parents have no leverage?

You either pay city taxes on your house or send your kid to a private school, either way thousands of your dollars are going to your child's education each year. I really doubt your sitting in the back of the class making sure your thousands of dollars are being well spent. The way to measure if your child's education is paying off is if their grades are good and they are enjoying school. Same goes for soccer, if they are enjoying soccer and your child is playing well in games, then you don't need to hawk the coach and kids during practice.

nice try, the way to measure things is if parents are made to feel welcome or made to feel as a burden. i doubt you would send your kid to a school that banned parental involvement or didn't let you come to the school. I would have to think twice about joining any organization that viewed parents as a burden....

I think EVERY organization would view YOU specifically as a burden so I'm figuring home schooling, countless hours of solitaire and existential musing courts large quantities of your time.

If you genuinely don't see an issue with parents sitting behind goals or 5-10 yards from practice coaching their kids without having to draw ludicrous parallels between secrecy, banning parents from all involvement, etc. you're crazier than most of us thought. And some of us though you'd already reached the limit a while back when your conspiracy theories on the forum being run by Liverpool and BWGophers being paid by Liverpool to rank their teams highly.

Have a good disassociative identity disorder type of day. The signs are good.

Why do I get the feeling there are people who chastised this approach when used by the Texans who are now fully embracing it at Liverpool.

Btw, Texans stopped doing it a year ago.

the7wolf wrote:

silentparent wrote:

JewelsBMF wrote:

silentparent wrote:

the7wolf wrote:Actually, they are putting an area where parents can sit and watch to counter those occasional parents to like to park their chair on the sideline 5-10 yards from the practice or behind the goal.

Perhaps silentparent would like to sit in on his kids school lessons, sit 10 feet from them in tests, sit in the rear seat during drivers ed and sit at the next table on their dates. Heaven forbid parents not be allowed to coach their own kids and distract them during practices.

and perhaps coaches would like to conduct their practices without any accountability from pesky parents who want to watch what their kids are being taught for 2400 a year, secrecy is ALWAYS bad when it concerns children. heard this was to start after signing, gee i wonder why that would be the time to institute it, perhaps when parents have no leverage?

You either pay city taxes on your house or send your kid to a private school, either way thousands of your dollars are going to your child's education each year. I really doubt your sitting in the back of the class making sure your thousands of dollars are being well spent. The way to measure if your child's education is paying off is if their grades are good and they are enjoying school. Same goes for soccer, if they are enjoying soccer and your child is playing well in games, then you don't need to hawk the coach and kids during practice.

nice try, the way to measure things is if parents are made to feel welcome or made to feel as a burden. i doubt you would send your kid to a school that banned parental involvement or didn't let you come to the school. I would have to think twice about joining any organization that viewed parents as a burden....

I think EVERY organization would view YOU specifically as a burden so I'm figuring home schooling, countless hours of solitaire and existential musing courts large quantities of your time.

If you genuinely don't see an issue with parents sitting behind goals or 5-10 yards from practice coaching their kids without having to draw ludicrous parallels between secrecy, banning parents from all involvement, etc. you're crazier than most of us thought. And some of us though you'd already reached the limit a while back when your conspiracy theories on the forum being run by Liverpool and BWGophers being paid by Liverpool to rank their teams highly.

Have a good disassociative identity disorder type of day. The signs are good.

lol, funny you are ok with organizations that view you the paying customer as a burden. i never posted that about liverpool, so not only are you wrong, you are a sloppy poster who does not even know who posted what. Come back when you can get your facts straight....

Gunners wrote:Why do I get the feeling there are people who chastised this approach when used by the Texans who are now fully embracing it at Liverpool.

Btw, Texans stopped doing it a year ago.

Because the Texans then sold those kids on Chinese eBay when the parents were too far away to stop them being loaded on the Greyhound bus.

Plus the parents were waterboarded for no reason at all.

Obviously not the same situation.

the7wolf wrote:

Gunners wrote:Why do I get the feeling there are people who chastised this approach when used by the Texans who are now fully embracing it at Liverpool.

Btw, Texans stopped doing it a year ago.

Because the Texans then sold those kids on Chinese eBay when the parents were too far away to stop them being loaded on the Greyhound bus.

Plus the parents were waterboarded for no reason at all.

Obviously not the same situation.

lame, completely lame. The reason i suspect was the bad pr they took. you again don't know what you are talking about...

silentparent wrote:

the7wolf wrote:

silentparent wrote:

JewelsBMF wrote:

silentparent wrote:

the7wolf wrote:Actually, they are putting an area where parents can sit and watch to counter those occasional parents to like to park their chair on the sideline 5-10 yards from the practice or behind the goal.

Perhaps silentparent would like to sit in on his kids school lessons, sit 10 feet from them in tests, sit in the rear seat during drivers ed and sit at the next table on their dates. Heaven forbid parents not be allowed to coach their own kids and distract them during practices.

and perhaps coaches would like to conduct their practices without any accountability from pesky parents who want to watch what their kids are being taught for 2400 a year, secrecy is ALWAYS bad when it concerns children. heard this was to start after signing, gee i wonder why that would be the time to institute it, perhaps when parents have no leverage?

You either pay city taxes on your house or send your kid to a private school, either way thousands of your dollars are going to your child's education each year. I really doubt your sitting in the back of the class making sure your thousands of dollars are being well spent. The way to measure if your child's education is paying off is if their grades are good and they are enjoying school. Same goes for soccer, if they are enjoying soccer and your child is playing well in games, then you don't need to hawk the coach and kids during practice.

nice try, the way to measure things is if parents are made to feel welcome or made to feel as a burden. i doubt you would send your kid to a school that banned parental involvement or didn't let you come to the school. I would have to think twice about joining any organization that viewed parents as a burden....

I think EVERY organization would view YOU specifically as a burden so I'm figuring home schooling, countless hours of solitaire and existential musing courts large quantities of your time.

If you genuinely don't see an issue with parents sitting behind goals or 5-10 yards from practice coaching their kids without having to draw ludicrous parallels between secrecy, banning parents from all involvement, etc. you're crazier than most of us thought. And some of us though you'd already reached the limit a while back when your conspiracy theories on the forum being run by Liverpool and BWGophers being paid by Liverpool to rank their teams highly.

Have a good disassociative identity disorder type of day. The signs are good.

lol, funny you are ok with organizations that view you the paying customer as a burden. i never posted that about liverpool, so not only are you are you wrong, you are a sloppy poster who does not even know who posted what. Come back when you can get your facts straight....

If the "paying customer" wants to regularly tell me how to do my job then yes, they are a burden. Feel free to tell people at the tattoo parlor, nail salon and hairdressers exactly what you want and how you want it. If your coach is happy with you telling your kid what to do, when to do it, suggest formation changes, where to play your dd, who to sub, etc. then good for you. In 99.9% of cases, you'd be declared a pain in the lower duodenum.

silentparent wrote:

the7wolf wrote:

Gunners wrote:Why do I get the feeling there are people who chastised this approach when used by the Texans who are now fully embracing it at Liverpool.

Btw, Texans stopped doing it a year ago.

Because the Texans then sold those kids on Chinese eBay when the parents were too far away to stop them being loaded on the Greyhound bus.

Plus the parents were waterboarded for no reason at all.

Obviously not the same situation.

lame, completely lame. The reason i suspect was the bad pr they took. you again don't know what you are talking about...

They took bad pr from people who hold the same view as you. So are you saying those people were wrong or right?