Lap of Honour/Appreciation?

[SteveD]

Dunne and Collins will be doing a crawl and have a fight half away around.
Young's shirt, like most of his free kicks this season, will end up near the back of the Holte
Look to see how many more kids Gabby brings out with him this season.

Much will be depend on the SH result for the general mood I feel.

[Brend'Watkins]

Why do footballers bring out their kids for the lap of appreciation, what's the purpose?

[cheltenhamlion]

I will be out of the ground pronto at the end of the game and doing a lap or two of The Bartons.

[sid1964]

Everyone who stays (wont be too many) should turn there backs on them, because in truth they have mostly been an embarrasment to our club this season!

[Damo70]

It's been a hugely dissapointing season but I would imagine wins for Villa and Spurs would make for quite a bubbly atmosphere in the ground at ten to six.

[martin]

A pact: There is nothing to honour so disappear as quickly as possible after 90 minutes and we'll all be in the pub half-an-hour earlier than we need be. 

[mrfuse]

Ive always seen it as players showing appreciation to the fans rather the other way round so ive no problem with it, cant stay though got to leave early

[Clampy]

At least Sir Graham had the decency to pick up the mic and apologise for the season we endured under him second time round. I can't see that happening tomorrow somehow.

[Olneythelonely]

Everyone who stays (wont be too many) should turn there backs on them, because in truth they have mostly been an embarrasment to our club this season!

Turn you back on Bent? Downing? Albrighton? Friedel? Walker?

As I said before, it's nothing to do with us appreciating them, it's the other early around.

[Des Little]

It's all a load of old conkers.  I will be long gone.

[amfy]

They need to do it straight away without leaving the pitch. If they expect people to hang around for 15 minutes whilst they collect their various offspring, then they will be coming out to "appreciate" an empty stadium.

[ez]

Why do footballers bring out their kids for the lap of appreciation, what's the purpose?

Maybe they think the fans will be more polite if there's kiddywinks with them.

[Guy M]

Why do footballers bring out their kids for the lap of appreciation, what's the purpose?

Maybe they think the fans will be more polite if there's kiddywinks with them.

Because it's nothing to do with them actually showing any real appreciation. On the whole, Premier League players couldn't give a toss about the fans and so this is nothing more than an out-dated relic from the pre-PL days and seeing as most clubs aren't ever going to win anything where they can take their kids onto the pitch at Wembley (which I also hate), they do the next best thing and this is it.

I stayed last year to see how the players and the fans behaved. Was pleasantly surprised to hear MON roundly chanted from the Holte and the wee man having a very pleasant conversation with Harewood, shaking his hand and wishing him well.

If I were there today, I'd probably stay around to keep an eye on Ash, Big Brad and a number of others and how they react.

[olaftab]

Did they do a lap of whatever? I didn't stay to see that if they did.

[PeterWithesShin]

Yep they did. A lot stayed to watch it as well. Man with a mic also said it's so as the players can show their appreciate of the fans for the support.