Has anyone got tips, advice or experience about taking relatively young children to Odsal on a regular basis? Mine will be 18 months and 4 by the time the season starts and because their grandparents have also got season tickets (curse you Bradford and your amazing deals), they'll have to come with us.

One thing I'm unsure of is how to ensure that they can physically see the game (we wont be in the seats). I can't hold them for hours on end and if I put them on the floor they can't see. So that leaves getting there at the crack of dawn to sit them on a crash barrier thing. Hmm.

i've got the same predicament. the wife has mentioned going early if they get fed up but I'm not sure if I agree with that! I just can't image how they will want to watch the rugby for all that time and not run off anywhere. I won't be taking them to all games but might bring them to one and see how they get on.

maybe stand right at the front where there is a black gridded fence?

To be honest, you're better off in the Stand with small kids

The rows of seats and everyone's legs stops them from running off everywhere all the time.

Obviously, there's a price premium but in my experience its only way

When the kids were younger I made great use of a back pack carrier. It allowed them to watch the match over my shoulder and then they could fall asleep when they wanted to and still be relatively protected from the elements. It also had the advantage of leaving my arms free for a beer and a burger.

Crucial considerations!

That's all very well, but you've got a build a bit like Big Joe...Shaggoth is only 4ft 10 and 7 stone, so I am assured...

I'd say 18 months is a little young, especially in the winter months.

If you sit kiddies on the barriers you will be given a stern telling off by the stewards it's almost as serious an offence as having your left big toe touching the yellow markings on the steps

What's a little frostbite to a kid? They're resilient little gits and, given time, can learn to hold a greggs pasty without a thumb.

We used to stand at the back and at the top of the curved end, near to the Rooley Avenue floodlight closest to the stand. Plenty of crowd free space just behind you for when they inevitably get bored and want to run around. You need a rota system for keeping one eye on them and rescuing them from half way up the grassy banking. I haven't stood there for a while but one of the attractions apart from the space was other people with kids had identified it and so there were other little uns around for them to make friends with.

You can place a child on a crash barrier, have someone in front, one behind clinging on for dear life and a steward will still ask you to put the kid back down on the floor. I suspect if you nailed the kid to it health and safety would still get in the way.

Don't do what my dad did with me and let them play on the crash barriers.

I fell off one around 1989 and banged my head on the terracing.