Lady Gull
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Not a lot if I'm honest apart from chairs to sit on if your early enough to get one x
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Dicks Bar
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Not a lot if I'm honest apart from chairs to sit on if your early enough to get one x
El Sid
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Once you've got past the queue to get in it is generally quicker to get served. Some seating as well.
However with the excellent facilities in the new ESU this season we have decided to give Dick's a miss in future.
Postman Pat
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If you have mates/family in different stands its the only place you can meet for a drink before the game (other than The Swan)
severnside gull
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Ah yes - hence the queues
Have to admit I'm very happy with the service in ESL - no queues and happy to sit in my seat with a pie and a coffee and just gaze around and soak up the atmosphere pre-match.
We were thinking about trying the east stand brasserie before the Cardiff game but went to Nandos instead. Maybe before the Sheffield game
Lady Gull
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Yes but no good if you have kids!!! I know one family whose son travels down with the grand children and they can't all have a drink together as a family - madness!!!
Why cant they have a drink together in a concourse bar?
Lady Gull
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Because some are in the west stand upper I think and the son and grand child in 1901 east so you can't go in the concourses until after the match but because they travel a fair distance they want to get on their way home.
You can meet up with friend's on the concourse after the match but not before if you are in a different stand - sorry if this doesn't make sense!!! I know what I mean though lol x
The Large One
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'They' never really started with live bands.
There were a couple after the first couple of games, but that wasn't organised by the club. In fact, I don't think any of them have been.
Live bands have been the exception rather than the rule.
Postman Pat
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Yeah that was what I meant, we are in South west, my brothers and mates in North, other mates in east, west lower and west upper. I sometimes meet some of them in the Hikers, but if they are getting the train its dumb to walk back to Coldean.
At least with the access between south and west lower I can meet people there now.
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Poor service in Dicks yesterday, got fed up waiting at the bar for my second and left.
I said last season i would stop going in Dicks but as i like a quick Cognac or two and they don't do shorts in the concours (which pisses me off somewhat) i have been drawn to drink with the lickers.
The club/Azure seem to be driving me towards the Swan on a regular basis.
I said last season i would stop going in Dicks but as i like a quick Cognac or two and they don't do shorts in the concours (which pisses me off somewhat) i have been drawn to drink with the lickers.
The club/Azure seem to be driving me towards the Swan on a regular basis.
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SIMMO SAYS
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I excpected a band being the first Saturday home game and was disappointed.
Tbh i thought the general buzz post match was fairly disappointing.
upper East was quiet and emptied quickly, North was packed but very quiet, same for dick's.
I think everyone was a bit shell-shocked at how immensely good we were.
The games last season when buckley or Barnes score the winner in the last mins, the North was still singing for upto an hour after the game.
However, I'll take the result over the post match atmosphere every time of course
Tbh i thought the general buzz post match was fairly disappointing.
upper East was quiet and emptied quickly, North was packed but very quiet, same for dick's.
I think everyone was a bit shell-shocked at how immensely good we were.
The games last season when buckley or Barnes score the winner in the last mins, the North was still singing for upto an hour after the game.
However, I'll take the result over the post match atmosphere every time of course
disgruntled h blocker
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Although Dick's Bar is a nice place for a pre or post-game drink I find the service lacking. Yesterday they had problems with the Strongbow pump and the bar girl instead of serving someone else to reduce the queue just stood there smiling, rolling her eyes. The queue to the bar was 2/3 thick at 2:30 and there was another bar girl just clearing the bar area with a J-Cloth, guess that was her set job instead of serving customers... Bit different to the Hikers where you get served within seconds of getting to the bar!
Garage_Doors
Originally the Swankers
Do people need to drink so badly thet they would do that? what must the're home life be like. christ on a bike.
Lady Gull
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I know - sad - I remember seeing it at the crystal palace game and the two dads had gone in Dicks and left the kids of about 10 sat on the wall opposite - it was a night game and the police were just herding the scum up the ramp and I thought blimey I'd no longer leave mine out there on their own with that lot around than fly to the moon - but I guess everyone is different!
NS Herald
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The club/Azure could do worse than to learn a lesson from the Swan - wander OUT of the 1901 lounges - over the road and see how proper service is provided at sensible prices.
Queue on Saturday at the Swan was around 20 people in front of me when I arrived and I was served in around 5 mins. You can queue twice that time at the Amex with 2 people in front of you.
They are lucky there aren't lots of Swans nearby or a lot more people mught be spending their money elsewhere.
Twinkle Toes
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rouseytastic
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In what way?!
Because I think Dicks Bar is bland and prefer to go to a proper pub. Or because I had kids with me. Or.......yours was a totally pointless post?
The last one I reckon
I think he may have been on about the old guy and grandson for not knowing about the "no kids on matchdays" rule at Dick's