A great idea, but surely it would have been a good idea to announce this in the build up to the minutes silence so that everyone at the ground could have been aware of what was going on.

I am sure I was not the only one confused by it all as not only myself and dad but a number of fans from both clubs commented on the slightly random to us nature of proceeding.

I think on a sunny day with the game going our way you may have all thought differently about the events the club put on.
I always aprove of a minute's silence (but didn't really know why it was happening as the speaker system in the stands is shocking), and I actually enjoyed the whole 'kick for gold' contest. To be honest it was far more entertaining than our team's performance!

The kicking for gold was an ABSOLUTE JOKE today ...

The threads about Kicking for Gold - so forget the silence (or clapping as some of the crowd did!!!!)
The Kick comp was an absolute farce and an embarassment. Setting a competition which is in fact impossible to win is probably illegal.

PR gone to far, I knew there was going to a minutes silence and thought there was too many past hero's mention for a second time

if your going to put a kicking competition at least give them a chance

if you really want some advice on PR then listen to the fans

Some of the crowd clapped because Mr Smith blew his whistle at the wrong time; it was meant to be names - reading - Last Post - minutes silence, ended by Mr Smith's whistle. Instead, the daft get blew his whistle after the Last Post and some people in the crowd got confused and started clapping.

That, coupled with the Wigan players running straight through the Dolls whilst they were still 'performing', pretty much summed up how the pre-match stuff went.

The guy on the microphone did state that the minutes silence would start on the referee's whistle after the last post.

Got to say I was a little dissapointed with the club yesterday. My lad was the one in the pink Stanley Rangers shirt who kicked for goal, he is 10 yrs old and had absolutely NO CHANCE WHATSOEVER of making that kick. The guys who organised actually wanted them to kick from FURTHER BACK!!! It was only after some discussion that it was moved to the 25/30 yrd mark. My lad was gutted, after practising for an hour on Sunday morning from a reasonable distance, he thought he might be in with a shout of winning the boots. I actually told him before he kicked it that I would be buying him some boots myself because he had no chance of kicking it anyway







Very shortsighted of the club imho, I am a box holder at the moment, but don't think I will be next year. Still smarting about it today

It was a great idea in theory ... in practise it flopped, badly!

Shame really.

Felt for the little kids, they had NO chance.

What a farce, why not offer a million pound prize and make them take the kick from the other try line. Because they would have just as much of a chance of winning. If they are going to do things like this , at least make it look professional, not the shambles it was yestreday.

only at wakey

Its probably our way of finding young talent if a 10 year old can kick it, sign him up

I thought the kick off was a complete joke too, made me cringe!

The kids should have been able to kick from closer but i think that having the adults kick from the halfway line was fair. You cant just give away 9k. Lets be honest that the adults wernt the best of kickers and all had the ball at completely the wrong angle on the cone. I personally have kickd the sticks from the halfway line and i have not played rugby since school.

was not a vary happy site richard , felt for the lad yesterday and surely they could hear us appealing for it to be moved closer .

wonder what happened to the other 2 pairs left , maybe a question james elston could provide as its my understanding it was more off a community issue

sign him up

They told us before the event that the 'golden boots' were just a gimmick and that if he managed to knock it over



they would be giving us a voucher for JJB to buy some boots, hence why I told our young'n that I would buy him some seen as the club made it impossible







Still don't understand the logic?????

ermmm strange as a certain member of the community team i saw after the match had a pair in his possession

deffo gold as well and very well known to us

although i did say to say they look way to big for your young un.

This is the problem with doing something like a themed day like this. If you can pull it off, great, if you don't have the resources and it looks a mess - rain or not - then it has the complete opposite effect. That said, why did we do this againt Wigan, who always bring a load across, rather than a Quins/Crusaders/Catalans?

because we would end up with a pee poor crowd and look like we can not even give it away

I just don't get giving away cheap tickets against a top side. Makes little sense.

I agree that the kids should have been allowed to take it a lot closer. After all, a pair of boots isn't going to break the bank.

The kicks for the actual gold on the other hand were fair to be taken from halfway. You can't just give 9k away for a kick from under the sticks! I entered the adults kicking competition expecting to have to take the kick from out on the touchline. When I saw it was from halfway I expected at least one person to win from three. I know I'd have give it a good crack!

i have also kicked from halfway, but that was downhill at stanley rangers with the hill giving me an advantage, daddy cool was the closest, decent effort with that suit on...

With his pace we could put daddy cool on the wing but at the moment we wouldn't get the ball to him.

Here's my slant on it (I took the second kick) - It was impossible in those conditions (and in fairness I wouldn't have kicked it if it was sunny anyway) and I knew as soon as the balls were on the half way line I had no chance. I asked the organisors to move it forward for the kids but with no luck. The quotes of "I could have done it easily" on here are great - If any of you want to have a go after the next home match for a sportsman's bet then I would be happy to arrange for you!!!

Where did i say i could have done it easily...?? I said i once kicked it from the halfway at stanley down the slope, i have played rugby for the last 8 years, and in that time i think ive managed one conversion from the halfway. I had my boots on and rugby attire as well that day...
I doubt i could do it in my jeans and pumps...