Heineken at BDTBL

[WhiteHawk]

You're right, hope they can sort something out as their beer is pretty good.

I'm not a real ale drinker. I want to be cause lager is fucking shit but when it come's to ales I never know what to have. I like a lot of the Bradfield ales but if I walk into a pub and they don't have any of them on, I don't have a clue what to go for.

Like you say though, I hope they can sort something out. I work literally round the corner from there and often see the "beer garden" (if that's what you can call it} really busy.

 

[steve26272]

preparation for our inclusion in the champions league within 3 years??

if a pedigree horse drinks a bottle of Moet then pisses it out, it becomes horse piss, need to sort out compass as well as the stuff they serve...

 

[Sean Thornton]

preparation for our inclusion in the champions league within 3 years??

if a pedigree horse drinks a bottle of Moet then pisses it out, it becomes horse piss, need to sort out compass as well as the stuff they serve...

Moët is pretty much horse piss anyway, just fizzy.

I see a problem with Moretti at the Lane though. All the lightweights used to drinking Carling, Coors or whatever will struggle to handle it......

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

Moët is pretty much horse piss anyway, just fizzy.

I see a problem with Moretti at the Lane though. All the lightweights used to drinking Carling, Coors or whatever will struggle to handle it......

There is a difference?

 

[bromtom]

Likely a stupid question: I saw something on Dragon's Den a few years back that was a plastic wine glass with wine in it that had a film lid on, so you could sell it and then tear it off and sup it. Can't something like that be done for beer at football? Has it been looked into? Can I get a Jaipur Calypso cup or something? Buy a machine to sort the dispensing out and then the staff can just take the money.

Or they should just give up with beer and start selling red/green/blue pints like Corp. They can serve you one of those in 10 seconds flat.

 

[Top Cat]

Big in the States, although not so sure that the "craft ale" lovers would like it

 

[bromtom]

I'm not a real ale drinker. I want to be cause lager is fucking shit but when it come's to ales I never know what to have. I like a lot of the Bradfield ales but if I walk into a pub and they don't have any of them on, I don't have a clue what to go for.

Like you say though, I hope they can sort something out. I work literally round the corner from there and often see the "beer garden" (if that's what you can call it} really busy.

Would never claim to be an expert on ale, but it's all I drink beer wise when I have a choice, but I'd say any ale on tap over 3.5% is better than almost any lager (unless the pub is shit and it's full of silt, which occasionally happens, at least to me). Usually I go for whatever's there, golden ale, IPA, or if they have a stout or something interesting, go for it. At least it's more interesting than another Becks or Carlsberg.

Supermarket ale is a different kettle of fish and most is what I call brown booze ale, because it's all the same and it's weak, so you may as well get Carlsberg.

Anyway, at certain places like a football match, or a festival or something, I wouldn't be expecting nice beer although if there was a way to get me a Jaipur at half time without getting an Uber to the Sheffield Tap, then I'd be all for it, but as long as it's not Tuborg, it's fair enough. Time is the real issue.

 

[I should coco]

Its just different drinks, the same idiots pouring it....

Won't matter what they sell if they employ sloths with one brain cell to staff the place.

So come on then let's have some guidance how you attract brilliant sharp intelligent people to work a few casual hours every other week for 9 months of the year? It's hardly a glittering career path is it?

I've said before that my daughter, her boyfriend and a mate's daughter work there. They are paid minimum wage, although Compass try to cheat them out of the odd half hour here and there. They are basically zero hours contract with no hours guaranteed and the occasional Saturday night events often go on to 1-2am. The team leaders are the same but paid a slightly higher rate with a guaranteed sum for each shift. I would guess the managers are on £20-25k per year pro-rata.

I agree Compass are crap but United have chosen to go down this low cost model to maximise revenue. If the beer and pies were cheaper and the staff better (i.e better paid), United would lose even more money every year, McCabe would have to fund bigger losses and we'd have even less for transfers.

I don't buy anything at the Lane and rarely at away grounds. I've yet to see another ground where they have the perfect mix of decent products, reasonable prices and great service. Two fifteen minute windows before each half limit the opportunities for a leisurely chat with the punters as perfect pints of cask ale are lovingly hand pulled, so get it elsewhere.

 

[BushBlade]

So come on then let's have some guidance how you attract brilliant sharp intelligent people to work a few casual hours every other week for 9 months of the year? It's hardly a glittering career path is it?

I've said before that my daughter, her boyfriend and a mate's daughter work there. They are paid minimum wage, although Compass try to cheat them out of the odd half hour here and there. They are basically zero hours contract with no hours guaranteed and the occasional Saturday night events often go on to 1-2am. The team leaders are the same but paid a slightly higher rate with a guaranteed sum for each shift. I would guess the managers are on £20-25k per year pro-rata.

I agree Compass are crap but United have chosen to go down this low cost model to maximise revenue. If the beer and pies were cheaper and the staff better (i.e better paid), United would lose even more money every year, McCabe would have to fund bigger losses and we'd have even less for transfers.

I don't buy anything at the Lane and rarely at away grounds. I've yet to see another ground where they have the perfect mix of decent products, reasonable prices and great service. Two fifteen minute windows before each half limit the opportunities for a leisurely chat with the punters as perfect pints of cask ale are lovingly hand pulled, so get it elsewhere.

I blame the gentrification of the game. When I was a lad we'd eat owt and sup owt, now every fucker wants a Michelin starred restaurant and a micro brewery.

 

[Slim Man]

Heineken and Moretti on tap. What more could a girl want.

 

[I should coco]

When I was a lad we'd eat owt and sup owt,

I bet you still left your crusts though and Ma BushBlade had to tell you that you weren't going back to the rec for a game of togga, until you'd cleared that plate.

now every fucker wants a Michelin starred restaurant and a micro brewery.

Serving the latest in Indonesian food and West Coast IPAs.

 

[BushBlade]

I bet you still left your crusts though and Ma BushBlade had to tell you that you weren't going back to the rec for a game of togga, until you'd cleared that plate.



Serving the latest in Indonesian food and West Coast IPAs.

They doing Nasi Goreng pies next season then?

 

[I should coco]

They doing Nasi Goreng pies next season then?

Yup, whatever they are.

Delicately cooked in true compass 'style', with the soft buttery pastry flame hardened and the beautiful succulent meat content still frozen solid.

The Wagon Wheels are smaller this year too.

 

[Ted Danson]

Likely a stupid question: I saw something on Dragon's Den a few years back that was a plastic wine glass with wine in it that had a film lid on, so you could sell it and then tear it off and sup it. Can't something like that be done for beer at football? Has it been looked into? Can I get a Jaipur Calypso cup or something? Buy a machine to sort the dispensing out and then the staff can just take the money.

I think they have something like that, I think they call it a bottle

I do agree though, just have some can vending machines or if thats a problem with kids buying from them then just get those guys back with rucksacks full of bottles

 

[Sean Thornton]

Heineken and Moretti on tap. What more could a girl want.

To pretend to like a hoppy IPA to look cool?

 

[Ted Danson]

I've said before that my daughter, her boyfriend and a mate's daughter work there. They are paid minimum wage, although Compass try to cheat them out of the odd half hour here and there. They are basically zero hours contract with no hours guaranteed and the occasional Saturday night events often go on to 1-2am. The team leaders are the same but paid a slightly higher rate with a guaranteed sum for each shift. I would guess the managers are on £20-25k per year pro-rata.

Thing is Im sure nearly all of us have had dead end bar jobs and washed pots and the like but we could still do it properly.

Mr Baldwin would have had me out of the door if Id washed dishes as badly as they serve customers and I was only on £2.15 an hour so these sob stories dont really wash with me.

 

[I should coco]

Mr Baldwin would have had me out of the door if Id washed dishes as badly as they serve customers and I was only on £2.15 an hour so these sob stories dont really wash with me.

Ah yes, the 'good old days'......

It wasn't a sob story it was an explanation of the pay rates and hence the type of people they attract. Some of them are hard working but plenty are clueless tossers as you might expect for minimum wage.

I'm not really sure what the 'In my day...' line really adds to this if I'm honest.

 

[Ted Danson]

Ah yes, the 'good old days'......

It wasn't a sob story it was an explanation of the pay rates and hence the type of people they attract. Some of them are hard working but plenty are clueless tossers as you might expect for minimum wage.

I'm not really sure what the 'In my day...' line really adds to this if I'm honest.

its just pointing out that I and many others have had comparibly equaly shit jobs in our life time with shit pay and shit hours and thats no reason to do them badly, so its no excuse that its a minimum wage job.

It's unskilled work and until these people acheive a skill either through education or exerience then they should still do the job properly or get replaced.

 

[Slim Man]

To pretend to like a hoppy IPA to look cool?

'Ooooh Heineken and Birra Moretti, I don't drink that piss. Purely craft beers for me, support your local businesses, it's a lovely drop this *takes a sip, does a sick burp*'

 

[Canterbury Blade]

Tranmere Rovers have Beavertown on draught apparently. Total hipsters.

I bet a pint there is more than admission into the ground!!

Interesting owner has Beavertown, though no idea of a connection to Birkenhead. Wolverhampton of course, given Daddy's allegiance, but Tranmere is baffling.

The host pub down Hackney way has a 364 day barbecue going and decent bar staff last time I was in. Though the costs were incredible..

 

[Canterbury Blade]

I'm not a real ale drinker. I want to be cause lager is fucking shit but when it come's to ales I never know what to have. I like a lot of the Bradfield ales but if I walk into a pub and they don't have any of them on, I don't have a clue what to go for.

Like you say though, I hope they can sort something out. I work literally round the corner from there and often see the "beer garden" (if that's what you can call it} really busy.

Mate, the journey of life is to continue to find the finest ale. A journey that can never end. There a few Blades who bump into one another at various ale pubs at away fixtures. A good Beer Guide is worthwhile investment and let the quest start.

Personally, if you live in Sheffield get down to Hop Hide Out. If you're near Brighton (White Hawk?) the Evening Star near the station has a good range. If in London it has to The Harp.

 

[WhiteHawk]

Mate, the journey of life is to continue to find the finest ale. A journey that can never end. There a few Blades who bump into one another at various ale pubs at away fixtures. A good Beer Guide is worthwhile investment and let the quest start.

Personally, if you live in Sheffield get down to Hop Hide Out. If you're near Brighton (White Hawk?) the Evening Star near the station has a good range. If in London it has to The Harp.

Nowhere near Brighton mate

The reason for WhiteHawk is because that is what my real name means

 

[S64 Blade]

I bet a pint there is more than admission into the ground!!

Interesting owner has Beavertown, though no idea of a connection to Birkenhead. Wolverhampton of course, given Daddy's allegiance, but Tranmere is baffling.

The host pub down Hackney way has a 364 day barbecue going and decent bar staff last time I was in. Though the costs were incredible..

It may have been a wind up, but didn't seem so in the context it was written.

 

[TJB.]

Unless you were in the queue 10 mins or so before HT, you weren't getting a beer which could be finished before the second half began (South Stand).

Lots of pumps, but still lots of people.

Bring back the bottle boys, or do a separate bottle bar with a big fucking arrow above it saying 'Bottle bar'.

 

[Canterbury Blade]

Thing is Im sure nearly all of us have had dead end bar jobs and washed pots and the like but we could still do it properly.

Mr Baldwin would have had me out of the door if Id washed dishes as badly as they serve customers and I was only on £2.15 an hour so these sob stories dont really wash with me.

I always thought Baldwin's paid more. I spent 2 years at Michel's wine bar washing the pots with the odd bit on the side at Hallam Towers hotel. Learnt to keep me gob shut and get on with my job ( except the obvious Lech at the barmaids and waitresses. Way too old but obviously an early MILF incarnation)..

 

[WhiteHawk]

Unless you were in the queue 10 mins or so before HT, you weren't getting a beer which could be finished before the second half began (South Stand).

Lots of pumps, but still lots of people.

Bring back the bottle boys, or do a separate bottle bar with a big fucking arrow above it saying 'Bottle bar'.

Are you talking about tonight? When there was a crowd of just 7,000?

 

[Grizzly blade]

So come on then let's have some guidance how you attract brilliant sharp intelligent people to work a few casual hours every other week for 9 months of the year? It's hardly a glittering career path is it?

I've said before that my daughter, her boyfriend and a mate's daughter work there. They are paid minimum wage, although Compass try to cheat them out of the odd half hour here and there. They are basically zero hours contract with no hours guaranteed and the occasional Saturday night events often go on to 1-2am. The team leaders are the same but paid a slightly higher rate with a guaranteed sum for each shift. I would guess the managers are on £20-25k per year pro-rata.

I agree Compass are crap but United have chosen to go down this low cost model to maximise revenue. If the beer and pies were cheaper and the staff better (i.e better paid), United would lose even more money every year, McCabe would have to fund bigger losses and we'd have even less for transfers.

I don't buy anything at the Lane and rarely at away grounds. I've yet to see another ground where they have the perfect mix of decent products, reasonable prices and great service. Two fifteen minute windows before each half limit the opportunities for a leisurely chat with the punters as perfect pints of cask ale are lovingly hand pulled, so get it elsewhere.

I don't buy anything in the lane very often.
I come to the football to watch that....if I wanted a drink I would go to the pub. Probably because I have to drive to every game, I suppose I never really consider it an option.

However, I realise that for many folk this is a big part of the day out.

So solution.....in my opinion the issue is exactly what you describe. It's young kids who need that kind of work and will work for the low wages as it's unskilled. Problem comes in where they have to be 18 to serve alcohol. But the serving part is open to interpretation.
As I understand it, anyone can pour it provided the transaction is by a person of 18. So solution is to have someone pouring and like a conveyor just passing them along for someone else to serve. Like a McDonalds. If they get it right and these drinks systems can pour that quickly it should benpossible provided they have enough folk serving the drinks.

 

[TJB.]

Are you talking about tonight? When there was a crowd of just 7,000?

Aye, but they weren't all in the South Stand, and it's probably indicative of the season ahead somewhat if it's to be believed that the vast majority of seats have been taken up by ST holders on there.

Lots of people want a beer. Bottle-only bars are faster and will ease congestion. That's all I'm getting at.

 

[WhiteHawk]

Aye, but they weren't all in the South Stand, and it's probably indicative of the season ahead somewhat if it's to be believed that the vast majority of seats have been taken up by ST holders on there.

Lots of people want a beer. Bottle-only bars are faster and will ease congestion. That's all I'm getting at.

It was bottles only at the Kell Brook fight, but they still had to pour them into a glass. It was absolutely ridiculous. Took me 45 minutes to get served but some people had to wait 2 hours.

 

[TJB.]

It was bottles only at the Kell Brook fight, but they still had to pour them into a glass. It was absolutely ridiculous. Took me 45 minutes to get served but some people had to wait 2 hours.

Aye I was there. People were supping Heineken bokkles today as opposed to the Carling ones we had last year.

It irks me that English people can't be trusted to take beer into the stands. It'd solve so many problems!