TrickyOne
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Won't be queing for refresments this year, brought meself a lovely lil' flask which will be getting it's first outing tomorrow! expecting much piss-taking tbh!
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honey boy zimba
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hope contains a nice single malt
If its metal you may have an issue on access. Stewards would be perfectly within their rightts to take it off you as a condition of entry into the stadium - they insist on the tops comig off the plastic bottles of water
TrickyOne
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I do hope not i see loads of the old boys going in with much bigger ones than mine!! with their sarnies to boot!
No they don't, at least in the wsu they don't take lids off anything.
ifuhatepalacestandup
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used a metal flask a lot last season, bag was searched on several occasions and was never questioned about flask once
ROSM
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No. It's £3.90, a rise of a whopping thirty pence. Criminal.
Someone remind me how many beers were on offer at Withdean?
depends where you were drinking.
Now somebody remind me what the food options were at withdean? bacon rolls, fish and chips, burgers, hot dogs, pies, ice cream......anything I've missed?
Yous ee Zteve, just comparing what was on offer at withdean compared to Falmer is not a valid argument. You have to compare last season to this season.
I can't believe for a second that the ditched Kronenbourg because nobody was buying it. You've only got to look at the pub pumps in town to see that that type of lager is far more popular than Fosters and has been for a long time. It's far more likely that the decision hinges on the profit margin - the cost price of weak lager that tastes like piss must surely be much lower than on decent beer.
Mellor 3 Ward 4
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What's that got to do with anything? You can't compare The Amex to Withdean.
We were told that catering was going to be better than, and different to, the normal football match experience.
Now there is one (crap) lager on the concourses, one veggie option, and everything has gone up by far more than the rate of inflation.
Oh, and as far as the sales of Kronenborg is concerned, perhaps if it has been more readily available then they might have sold more.
It won't affect my enjoyment of watching The Albion at all - it just means I won't be spending my money at the stadium, and will I arrive later/ leave straight after the game, rather than hanging around. Shame, as I thought the club wanted us to stay behind, to help with traffic congestion etc...
Titus
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The big mistake the club made was to have the prices too low for last season. They must have been around 10% cheaper than most clubs. Now people are up in arms because they've increased prices to the going rate.
meanmachine25
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- Jan 24, 2009
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Nothing to do with price its to do with lack of choice and crap beer ;-)
Stuart Munday
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Same here but after increasing the little bottles from £3.00 to £3.90 (the same as a pint I think and no chance to use your card to get the 10% off) I will give them a miss this season as they appear to be the biggest ripoff. £3.90 for a pint isn't too bad especially with the discount although I think the loss of a strong lager will affect sales.
The Large One
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Foster's was the best selling 'beer' (I use the word loosely, of course) at the stadium last season - and that includes Harvey's.
grummitts gloves
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Don't mind a small increase if the beer and choice of food is decent. Bored with pies, burgers and hotdogs are shite and Fosters is only fit for clearing the drains. Can't help but feel the club has shot itself in the foot on this one. I'll be interested to see what the food and drink revenues are like at the end of this coming season.
Spider
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- Sep 15, 2007
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Does that include bottled Fosters as well? You carefully just said 'beer' rather than specifying if you meant draught beer.
The Large One
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Sorry - yes, draught beer.
Hotchilidog
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- Jan 24, 2009
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The annoying thing was that Fosters was the biggest seller by far, although I suspect that this may have been due to there being greater stocks of the stuff as the Kronenberg seemed to run out quite a lot. As has been pointed out by others, the Fosters may well have drunk by an awful lot of people for whom it was not a first choice but had no alternative once reaching the counter. Sadly I include myself amongst this number, however this season, if it's a choice between Fosters and nothing, i'll take the nothing.
Completely agree, I used to enjoy my couple of pre-match pints of Kronenberg last season, there's no way I'm going to drink dishwater Fosters, so the club can do one as far as I'm concerned. And I agree about the pies, novelty has worn off for me as well. And watch out all you Harveys lovers, what's the betting they replace it with John Smiths before long. From now on I will be drinking at a pub and probably getting something to eat there as well, my gain, the clubs loss. The club really seem to think they can chuck anything at us and we'll buy it, well I for one won't.