Total lack of commercial acumen....

[I should coco]

Or maybe ISC, there are other people on here who care just as greatly about 'what happens on the pitch' as you do (or maybe even more though not sure there is a such a thing as a bladeyometer to test this who cares more scenario!), BUT also want to get a pie and a beer or any other product served to them in an efficient and sensible way. Maybe they just have greater expectations or aspirations than your good self on that they want excellent football but also other parts of the match day experience to be improved also. It's not a case of only being able to pick one. They are completely independent issues from each other. Of course the football is by far the most important aspect of the match day experience - it colours people's day/weekend/week. But other parts which can be improved should be if there is a genuine control in place and it is feasible and cost effective to do so.

I get that, but in my simple mind the football is about 99.9% of the day and everything else is pretty much irrelevant.

Of course the other bits can be improved and although it would make bugger all difference to me, it may improve the 'match day experience' for others.

Being as how we are just over a week from the start of one of the most eagerly awaited seasons in years, I can't really understand why we have long threads about the lager brand, lack of away shirts and beach towels, but then maybe that's just me.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Would cost sod all relative to the costings of a football club to pay those absolute mongs up!

How much would it cost?

 

[Tunstall Fred]

I get that, but in my simple mind the football is about 99.9% of the day and everything else is pretty much irrelevant.

Of course the other bits can be improved and although it would make bugger all difference to me, it may improve the 'match day experience' for others.

Being as how we are just over a week from the start of one of the most eagerly awaited seasons in years, I can't really understand why we have long threads about the lager brand, lack of away shirts and beach towels, but then maybe that's just me.

Do not start dissing the beach towels,some of us care deeply about this subject

 

[Davalon]

If I have a cracking night out with friends but one pub offers crap beer and unfriendly service with attitude, it won't spoil my night but I'll still comment on that experience.

It may well be that that pub is a favourite of a friend and therefore if I go out we still go in that pub.

It won't stop me enjoying the night and the company but I might still 'piss' and 'moan' about the quality of product and service in there.

The above is true to life for me btw.

 

[BushBlade]

If I have a cracking night out with friends but one pub offers crap beer and unfriendly service with attitude, it won't spoil my night but I'll still comment on that experience.

It may well be that that pub is a favourite of a friend and therefore if I go out we still go in that pub.

It won't stop me enjoying the night and the company but I might still 'piss' and 'moan' about the quality of product and service in there.

The above is true to life for me btw.

The insistence on going in shit pubs is partly why I rarely go drinking with some of my mates these days.

 

[Sean Thornton]

If I have a cracking night out with friends but one pub offers crap beer and unfriendly service with attitude, it won't spoil my night but I'll still comment on that experience.

It may well be that that pub is a favourite of a friend and therefore if I go out we still go in that pub.

It won't stop me enjoying the night and the company but I might still 'piss' and 'moan' about the quality of product and service in there.

The above is true to life for me btw.

You have a friend that likes crap beer and poor service? I hope he's a Blade, lifeblood of the club

 

[MobileBlade]

Chuffin hell, which end is that, kop or BL?

Spose it could have been worse, could become the Adidas stadium

Kop end. They didn't bother opening the BL end

 

[KneeDeepBlade]

Serving '25,000' people in a 15 minute half time window is not easy, especially with the facilities available.
The staff are mainly college and university students who work 4-6 hours only at home games. Very difficult to motivate them as the majority get £50-£70 a month to be treated appallingly by fans.

Do you really think the football club could run it better than the world's largest contract food service provider? I highly doubt it.

Chill out, it's only a pie.

 

[I should coco]

Do you really think the football club could run it better than the world's largest contract food service provider? I highly doubt it.

I haven't seen many of the complainers pointing to other grounds where the service is so much better. In the new grounds better design meand bigger and more easily accessed counters, but the service isn't much better.

FFS, Rochdale were charging £3 for a can of Tetleys that was poured with the speed of a time wasting sloth on Mogadon.

 

[Weasel]

Serving '25,000' people in a 15 minute half time window is not easy, especially with the facilities available.
The staff are mainly college and university students who work 4-6 hours only at home games. Very difficult to motivate them as the majority get £50-£70 a month to be treated appallingly by fans.

Do you really think the football club could run it better than the world's largest contract food service provider? I highly doubt it.

Chill out, it's only a pie.

I agree it would be nigh on impossible to serve 25,000 people in a half time interval period. Thats a given. But they don't. Not everyone in the ground (and we have been averaging around 20k mark crowds recently) is going to buy food at half time or a pint.

I have seen some catering staff get abuse and for me that is out of order. Usually it's by drunken idiots or people trying to look funny in front of their mates by showing off. All very unfunny tbh and they make themselves look prize idiots. But there are occasions when just a little bit of common sense and preparation would go a long way to helping the catering staff help themselves. Plus if you pay peanuts you tend to attract monkeys.

 

[Harrisblade]

In 15 minutes you should have a chance to go for a piss - anything else, wait until after the game.

Bloody snowflakes

 

[veganblade]

In terms of 'off pitch' business, the catering has been poor; nutritionally and in service but this just the outcome of big catering chains. But there's never been an effort to ask fans about their choices. Do we even serve hendo's relish? I think the frustration can be emphasised since the Kell Brook fight, where there was zero to little extra planning even though the event was announced way before.

I do wish we could work more with local businesses; an 'ale of the week'. Also wouldn't have to be in barrels, bottle it and pour into the plastic cups. Wish we would be more innovative. Quid a kid works well, how about something like that for the catering?

Food for thought...

I'll get my coat.

 

[ShockingBadBuy]

We like a pie at the match, especially an away pie.

Partly because the whole "pie at football" thing makes us smile. Partly because a good pie has gone at least some way to redeeming many a bad afternoon / evening at games over the years. Partly because, even in today's increasingly homogenised pieworld, there is still a proper diversity of local pie-provision out there in the Football League (Chesterfield and Carlisle, eg, get big ticks for pies). Partly because we just like pies.

It's part of the culture for us, even if it's a (covers eyes in shame) Pukka Pie.

 

[Bladesince59]

You could have purchased 2 beach towels with your £50

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