[RANT] Fosters

[Linz]

Not often do I have to whinge about things down at BDTBL.

The team is arguably stronger than the one we were promoted with.

We have a fantastic looking stadium compared to the rusty fishing boat across the city.

We have a club which is forward thinking in many cases, both on and off the pitch. The hotel being one example.

So why oh why do they insist on serving us lukewarm, fizzy, "australian" piss and charging us £2.90 for the bloody privilege?

I think this is an outrage :rant:

 

[shorehamview]

You are right Linz, it's both expensive and crap. The pint I had yesterday was cold, but pretty tasteless. The simple answer is don't buy it. Have a drink before the match, then after, but don't part with your cash for that Aussie widdle. I won't be bothering when the bar on the Kop is open.

 

[Linz]

You are right Linz, it's both expensive and crap.

Not as expensive at my place of work... £3.10 a pint!

It doesn't get better in bottles either... Carlsberg?!

They're hoping they've got people over a barrel and people will pay it... sadly, people will.

 

[shorehamview]

I think the bogs on the John Street side of the Kop are plumbed straight into the beer pumps. That explains the taste of piss.

 

[DazBlade88]

That's why I drink in the pub before hand, and then go up to the local at night

 

[The One]

Not as expensive at my place of work... £3.10 a pint!

It doesn't get better in bottles either... Carlsberg?!

They're hoping they've got people over a barrel and people will pay it... sadly, people will.

I know your place is bad linz, it's a good job the owner of my work wasn't having a tight day and put a tab on the bar for us. (probs cos it was christmas?)

 

[happyhippy]

Russian Coke ...... it's the way forward ......

 

[Robbie]

Let's face it, how many places do we agree with the drinks they supply?

 

[happyhippy]

True Robbie, true .........

 

[rotherhamblade]

Russian Coke ...... it's the way forward ......

i do prefer colombian tbh lol

 

[Tinoblade]

They probably get it cheaper than any other beer therefore make more money off it?

 

[Jack & Helga]

Being a season ticket holder at the kop, the ability to buy beer in the ground was a novelty on Saturday but it's one that I can't see me going for again. A disaster from start to finish, not only because I can't stand Fosters.

Started queuing as soon as the first half injury time announcement was made, with maybe 10 people in front of me. As the second half kicked off I was half-way to the front. Having missed about 10 mins of the 2nd half I finally got to the front, only to find they'd run out of lager (and VK) so I had to buy Marstons at £2.90 a pint. Well, okay, I didn't HAVE to buy it, but the novelty of it n all that.

Worse for a group of lads behind us in the queue though. Because the 2nd half was well under way, the time had passed when the bar had to be closed...so they just shut it!! These lads had queued for about half n hour only to be told they couldn't have a drink when they got to the front. Obviously they kicked off big time (they weren't blathered or owt - one was with his son and just fancied a half-time pint) and eventually after speaking to the bar manager they got a pint of piss, on the house.

Conclusion: Absolute shambles!! Not enough staff, not enough booze, over-priced piss-flavoured lager. Unless the kop facilities are 10 times better then I'll happily give it a miss.

 

[happyhippy]

It's no different elsewhere in the ground to be honest. Beer caused me to miss 4 goals during the Wycombe match in the Worthington Cup a few years ago.

We went 1-0 up early doors (I saw that one), and then just before half-time, a slight thirst became me. I thought "Well I'd best go and queue a bit early for my couple of pints.", and so did, ensuring I missed the second. As my thirst was raging by now, I had an extra beer, thus ensuring I missed the third just after half-time.

Obviously with chief brat in tow, and on a school night, I decided to try to miss the traffic, and get the bus quickly to deposit her at home, and then get to the anti social club to run the quiz I used to do there. And have more beer.

We'd not even got off the concourse of the South Stand when the fourth went in. Then I found out that the Chairboys had got one back in the last minute.

Four goals missed, three while in the ground, all due to beer.

 

[silverfox]

Your Fosters might go up in cost as well......

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/08/07/bcnscot107.xml

 

[Bladesman]

Not often do I have to whinge about things down at BDTBL.

The team is arguably stronger than the one we were promoted with.

We have a fantastic looking stadium compared to the rusty fishing boat across the city.

We have a club which is forward thinking in many cases, both on and off the pitch. The hotel being one example.

So why oh why do they insist on serving us lukewarm, fizzy, "australian" piss and charging us £2.90 for the bloody privilege?

I think this is an outrage :rant:

Thats just 1 of the reasons why i buy nothing when at the match. I buy food and drink before i go and its normally 10 times better than the shit served in there.