Policy on taking babies on Turf Moor

[Claret Till I Die]

Afternoon all

My son and his wife recently made us first time grandparents and he's looking at taking his daughter on a game before the end of the season. He's emailed the ticket office & SLO asking what the official policy is for 'babes in arms' but hasn't received a reply from either. I'm assuming there are posters on her who've had experience of taking their kids on in the last couple of years who could answer his query..

TIA

[fidelcastro]

Why on earth would you want to take a tiny baby to a football match?

[claretonthecoast1882]

Why on earth would you want to take a tiny baby to a football match?

To prevent them from reading the match threads on here ?

[dsr]

Why on earth would you want to take a tiny baby to a football match?

So that by the time they are old enough to object to going, it will have become a fact of life and they won't realise they had a choice!

[ClaretTony]

Why on earth would you want to take a tiny baby to a football match?

Can often be of huge help to the mother if she's a supporter - enabling her to go back.

[fidelcastro]

Can often be of huge help to the mother if she's a supporter - enabling her to go back.

I think it's selfish personally. I don't wish to listen to a screaming brat next to me, especially if the game isn't all that at the time either.

Get a babysitter.

[ClaretTony]

He's emailed the ticket office & SLO asking what the official policy is for 'babes in arms' but hasn't received a reply from either.

TIA

This remains a serious issue at our club - it's the SLO's job to respond.

[ClaretTony]

I think it's selfish personally. I don't wish to listen to a screaming brat next to me, especially if the game isn't all that at the time either.

Get a babysitter.

I've been near you at a game and a baby couldn't be any worse

[fidelcastro]

I've been near you at a game and a baby couldn't be any worse

Hilarious.

[dsr]

I think it's selfish personally. I don't wish to listen to a screaming brat next to me, especially if the game isn't all that at the time either.

Get a babysitter.

If the baby is screaming every week, then they almost certainly won't keep bringing it, and will take it home early. That's how parents work, as a rule. They don't want their baby to be screaming either.

[colne-claret]

I think it's selfish personally. I don't wish to listen to a screaming brat next to me, especially if the game isn't all that at the time either.

Get a babysitter.

Quite selfish of you

[ClaretTony]

Quite selfish of you

Very selfish

[fidelcastro]

Quite selfish of you

Why?

I don't pay ever increasing prices to watch a football match in order to listen to a baby crying.

[ŽižkovClaret]

Why?

I don't pay ever increasing prices to watch a football match in order to listen to a baby crying.

Have to agree tbh. I'm not sure a noisy football match is a place for a small child.

[fidelcastro]

Very selfish

Perhaps you could come to an agreement with the club, where they stick you next to the mother with a few weeks' old baby, if they promise to reduce the price of your ST, that you've got so upset about?

[fidelcastro]

Have to agree tbh. I'm not sure a noisy football match is a place for a small child.

I'm amazed everyone can't see that logic.

[FeedTheArf]

I asked this question around 5 years ago and was told that as long as you buy them a ticket, there wasn’t a minimum age as such.

Things might have changed though.

[ClaretTony]

Perhaps you could come to an agreement with the club, where they stick you next to the mother with a few weeks' old baby, if they promise to reduce the price of your ST, that you've got so upset about?

Grow up

[fidelcastro]

Grow up

You started it

[dsr]

Have to agree tbh. I'm not sure a noisy football match is a place for a small child.

Surely that would depend on the child.

[StayingDown4Ever]

Perhaps you could come to an agreement with the club, where they stick you next to the mother with a few weeks' old baby, if they promise to reduce the price of your ST, that you've got so upset about?

A crying section! I like your thinking, Alan should give you a job.

Put me down for a season ticket between the little baby and Tony if Trafford gets another start this season…

[ŽižkovClaret]

Are there even baby changing facilities at the club? I guess this would be less of an unknown had we established a dedicated "Family Stand" or Section, rather than just allowing the JML / JMU to serve as that by virtue of pricing alone

[Pickles]

a noisy football match

Turf sounds ideal then...

[fidelcastro]

A crying section! I like your thinking, Alan should give you a job.

Put me down for a season ticket between the little baby and Tony if Trafford gets another start this season…

Sorry. Tony is fine with being next to the crying baby.

It's selfish to object apparently.

[dsr]

It seems to be taken for granted that all babies cry, all the time. Can this be proved?

[ŽižkovClaret]

It seems to be taken for granted that all babies cry, all the time. Can this be proved?

Tbf i've been close this season myself and im 42

[Vegas Claret]

This remains a serious issue at our club - it's the SLO's job to respond.

this is the biggest thing on this thread, the rest is just (excuse the pun) noise. It's staggering how the club aren't getting the basics right.

[ŽižkovClaret]

Tbh though, at Zizkov, i've had to distance myself from people i used to sit with, as they all bring their kids now, and the dirty looks i get for using sometimes "industrial and expressive language" in the same way, and in the same area we always sat, p****d me off. If im at the football i'm going to be vocal.

Frankly it resembles a bloody creche some days.

Designated areas are the way forward i reckon.

[StayingDown4Ever]

I wonder if they’d have to be allocated a seat even though they wouldn’t be using it?

[TheFamilyCat]

Don't buy it a pie.

[ŽižkovClaret]

Don't buy it a pie.

Hmmm Twix as a pacifier?

[Targetman]

I thought that I had read somewhere that infants must be at least 2 years old to go on the Turf?

Maybe I'm mistaken!

[bumba]

I'm amazed everyone can't see that logic.

In fairness if the atmosphere was good and the Turf was loud you wouldn't hear a baby!
How do you manage on planes?


I think the rules regarding babies are that if they have to be carried through the turnstile they don't need a ticket as they'll be sat on your knee up until 2 years old.

[ŽižkovClaret]

In fairness if the atmosphere was good and the Turf was loud you wouldn't hear a baby!
How do you manage on planes?


I think the rules regarding babies are that if they have to be carried through the turnstile they don't need a ticket as they'll be sat on your knee up until 2 years old.

Well, if i can add my two penneth, on planes i'll book a wing seat where possible as small children aren't permitted in those seats. Between that and good ANC headphones, it tends to manage the issue pretty well

[bumba]

Well, if i can add my two penneth, on planes i'll book a wing seat where possible as small children aren't permitted in those seats. Between that and good ANC headphones, it tends to manage the issue pretty well

They aren't permitted in those seats but under 2's don't require their own seat so one day you may find yourself next to a mother in the next seat with a screaming child on her knee haha

[ŽižkovClaret]

They aren't permitted in those seats but under 2's don't require their own seat so one day you may find yourself next to a mother in the next seat with a screaming child on her knee haha

Not allowed babes in arms on a wing seat either.

[bumba]

Not allowed babes in arms on a wing seat either.

Ahh apologies I'm meaning window seat not wing seat!

[NewClaret]

this is the biggest thing on this thread, the rest is just (excuse the pun) noise. It's staggering how the club aren't getting the basics right.

Sadly, this is the thing that frustrates me the most this season.

I can handle the poor results, what I can’t abide is:

- the frankly quite shocking deterioration in fan engagement (SLO not responding is a disgrace- assuming the OP doesn’t have an email in his junk box);
- the kits we’ve had this year;
- the catering debacle;
- the delayed ST announcement and bad comms around the whole thing, seemingly now for no valid reason other than ineptitude;
- the deterioration in the social media content (just doesn’t seem to be as good any more);
- the lack of investment in the ground or any attempts to improve the atmosphere after drum gate (rail seating, etc)

These are the basics and SO EASY to get right.

I’ve been a huge fan of Alan and ALK and I defend him and them a lot on here when I think they come in for unwarranted criticism but they just seem to have regressed in to a bunker this year. Witnessing that has been worse than the football in my view. Such a shame after getting my hopes up we were heading in the right direction off the field.

[CaptJohn]

Not in anyway related to the current policy but I recall taking my little one to the Orient match. My wife and I lifted the pushchair, complete with baby, over the turnstile at the Beehole End

[dandeclaret]

Why?

I don't pay ever increasing prices to watch a football match in order to listen to a baby crying.

Does a baby crying stop you from seeing the game? We all have personal preferences that being in a crowd requires us to be tolerant to others.

[Big Vinny K]

Why?

I don't pay ever increasing prices to watch a football match in order to listen to a baby crying.

Which of the posters on the James Trafford thread do you sit next to ?
You have my deepest condolences

[The Shire Claret]

Why?

I don't pay ever increasing prices to watch a football match in order to listen to a baby crying.

I bet you're fun at parties

I was going to say you were a baby once .... but sounds like you might still be

Ba dum tish

[fidelcastro]

I bet you're fun at parties

I was going to say you were a baby once .... but sounds like you might still be

Ba dum tish

Fine. Let's turn the place into a crèche.

The kids are the only ones who aren't complaining about the prices anyway.

You're right about parties though. I've haven't enjoyed one yet.

[fidelcastro]

Which of the posters on the James Trafford thread do you sit next to ?
You have my deepest condolences

Judging from the comments I heard when he was playing, all of them!

[fidelcastro]

Does a baby crying stop you from seeing the game? We all have personal preferences that being in a crowd requires us to be tolerant to others.

No it doesn't, but it certainly spoils my enjoyment and concentration.

[AmbleClaret]

I think it's selfish personally. I don't wish to listen to a screaming brat next to me, especially if the game isn't all that at the time either.

Get a babysitter.

I'd rather have a baby next to me than some swivelled eyed coke-head screaming idiotic abuse at Trafford, for example. And there's plenty of those.

[fidelcastro]

I'd rather have a baby next to me than some swivelled eyed coke-head screaming idiotic abuse at Trafford, for example. And there's plenty of those.

Agreed. I've no time for people like that either.

[AmbleClaret]

My son was born September 1995,we took him on 4th November, night game v Notts County,so he was about 6 weeks old. He slept through the entire game and didn't disturb anyone. He's now 28 and been a season ticket holder all his life.Start them young I say.

[Thejkr]

This remains a serious issue at our club - it's the SLO's job to respond.

Tried for over a week to get a response to a query. Finally get a bland response copying ground regulations in with a false promise saying any questions please ask. Needless to say no response to any question I have asked for over 2 weeks. I will keep going.

[daveisaclaret]

Sadly indicative of this messageboard that a sensible question is met by one user acting like an arse and loads more falling over themselves to argue with him.