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Junior Blues Trip Notification Everton v Cardiff City St. Patrick's weekend

Irish Toffees News

Next Official Trip: Junior Blues v Cardiff City St. Patrick's weekend

And if you know your history!!! It's that time of year again - the Junior Blues trip 2014!  You will find out the expected itinerary below.  There has been a lot of interest already so please contact Owen Kearney asap on 087-2182065 (after 6pm) or email owen@irish-toffees.com.
Can you believe this year's trip is The Irish Toffees' 18th annual Junior Blues trip! So far we haven't lost a game on any Junior Blues trip so lets make sure we keep up this great tradition!! We have selected the J Blues trip this year to be the home game verses Cardiff City on the bank holiday weekend in March. We have gone with the successful format of the boat trip. Places are filling fast so get in touch quick to secure your spot. Here's the expected itinerary -
Friday 14th of March
06:45  Welcome and Introduction at Irish Ferries Terminal, North Wall.
07:15  All aboard Irish Ferries Ulysses Vessel. 
08:10  Set sail for Holyhead. Shortly followed by breakfast by voucher on board.
11:30  Depart Holyhead by coach.
13:00  Short 30min stop off for a light snack and to break the journey.
15:00  Kids training session with Everton coaches.
16:30  Depart for the Novotel, Liverpool City Centre.
17:30  Check in.
19:15  Meet in the hotel lobby.
19:30  Depart for bowling in the Hollywood Bowl. 
20:00  Bowling for all followed by leisure time in the complex and well deserved refreshments for the parents!!
22:30  Depart for the hotel to the tune of “It’s a grand old team……”
Saturday 15th of March
11:30  Face painting and tattoos at the hotel.
12:30  Families make their way to Goodison. Players arrive (Park End) between 12:30 and 13:00 for photos and autographs.
15:00  The main event Everton v Cardiff City. 
17:30  Players stop for autographs and photos on their way out of Goodison. 
20:00  Activities begin for families in function area of the hotel on the first floor with food (£5 per family). There will be a brilliant kids entertainer from 20h-22:30hrs and for the bigger kids there will be a special guest joining us for some light stories and a Q&A.
22:30  Weekend winners announced and prizes presented followed by adult raffle.

Sunday 16th March
10:00  The  coach will leave for Holyhead for the 14:10 sailing.
Travel & ticket costs €110 per adults and €50 per child (Irish Toffees Members).  This covers coach and boat transfers (with breakfast onboard on the outgoing journey) and match ticket! Please inform us if you intend to fly instead and we will include you in the weekend's activities.

The hotel is costed at £90 per room per night (this must be booked directly with the hotel by each family travelling, quoting reference you will receive) and includes breakfast for all guests.

If you are interested please contact Owen Kearney on 087-2182065 (after 6pm) or email owen@irish-toffees.com and register your interest and for further information please check out our website www.irish-toffees.com and facebook page
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Please note: All details subject to fixture change as Sky have not released their televised games yet for March.  Membership of the Irish Toffees for this season closes end of January.  
 
If you haven't brought your kids on a Junior Blues weekend before, why don't you check out a review of last year's trip! Looking forward to seeing you all on board! COYIT
 
Yours in sport
 
Owen Kearney
For and on behalf of the Irish Toffees
www.irish-toffees.com/about-us.html





“Once a sandpit car, always a sandpit car"

Great post on our chat forum from Andrew Mulligan regarding last year's Junior Blues trip:

"Last Years Junior blues trip was great. I took my two kids with me. Robert was seven and Daniel was five. 3 weeks after the trip I was out in the back garden getting it ready for summer. My wife was cleaning out the sandpit. The boys like to drive small cars in the sandpit, Daniel wanted to take the cars that were in the sandpit over the winter into the house and replace them with new cars. You can imagine these cars are covered in dirt so my wife said no and told him the agreement that we made with him last year, “once a sandpit car, always a sandpit car”. Like all five year olds he wasn’t getting the message and kept on asking and my wife, like all women didn’t give in and kept giving the same reply “once a sandpit car, always a sandpit car". Robert, like all older brothers started to get annoyed at Daniel’s moaning and butted in with “yeah Daniel, it's like once a blue, always a blue.” I was very proud and knew that I was on my way to converting my first born to becoming a lifelong blue. 

He won a book on the Junior Blues trip which he looked at most nights in bed. One night we were going through all the matches that Dixie Dean scored his sixty goals a season in, when I came across an article about Nyarko, he is the fella that asked to be substituted after an everton fan ran onto the pitch to swap jerseys with him as he felt he could play better. This was at the time that Walter Smith was manager. Nyarko was supposed to be the next patrick viera, instead he turned out to be the next carlton palmer. I told him the story and he was really interested, he must have asked me about a dozen questions, like what positions did he play in, what was his jersey number. Was his jersey the same colour as the fan. Was the fan arrested, did he go to jail. I tried to find in on youtube but had no joy so if anyone has a video of this, will you stick it up. 

Robert regularly watches a DVD of david moyes 10 favourite matches and I even have him watching a video I got about 15 years ago called Joe Royle six of the best. 
Suffice to say he is now a fully fledged blue. It would have been a lot harder, if it wasn’t for the junior blues trip so I recommend any parent with young kids to try your best and go on this trip."

- Great story Andrew, thanks for the feedback. It's brilliant to hear as we all know how hard it can be at times growing up in Ireland as an Everton fan, when you're faced with so many band wagon supporters, and it inspires us as a committee to bring Everton fans in Ireland together. To all - here's the link to this year's Junior Blues trip http://www.irish-toffees.com/events.html (Ronan)
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