The Tuck Shop at the end of the South Stand.

[Lord Bracknell]

This whole venture struck me as a fine example of offering 'punters' what they've never thought they wanted, at prices they don't want to pay.

I was delighted to see that custom was minimal.


Incidentally ... what has happened to the South Stand food outlets generally? Has there been a complete change of staff? Where were the cheese and onion pasties? Why couldn't they cope with the queues? "You'll have to wait a few minutes" is the WRONG answer to to the question "Can I have a bag of chips?"

 

[burrish-gull]

This whole venture struck me as a fine example of offering 'punters' what they've never thought they wanted, at prices they don't want to pay.

I was delighted to see that custom was minimal.


Incidentally ... what has happened to the South Stand food outlets generally? Has there been a complete change of staff? Where were the cheese and onion pasties? Why couldn't they cope with the queues? "You'll have to wait a few minutes" is the WRONG answer to to the question "Can I have a bag of chips?"

Was I seeing things but were they selling marshmellows and popcorn? Another completely bizzarre thing for the club to do, but then its been like that all season

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

"You'll have to wait a few minutes" is the WRONG answer to to the question "Can I have a bag of chips?"

Just about sums the whole shoddy enterprise up. I'd buy a bag of chips, maybe even a burger, every home game if it didn't mean standing in a queue of a hundred people. Life's too short y'know. f*** 'em.

 

[champion7]

This whole venture struck me as a fine example of offering 'punters' what they've never thought they wanted, at prices they don't want to pay.

I was delighted to see that custom was minimal.


Incidentally ... what has happened to the South Stand food outlets generally? Has there been a complete change of staff? Where were the cheese and onion pasties? Why couldn't they cope with the queues? "You'll have to wait a few minutes" is the WRONG answer to to the question "Can I have a bag of chips?"

The 2 brothers who use to be seen wandering around the south have sold a pecentage of their buisness to a couple,The brothers stay at home and reap the rewards while the new people have started to bring in stupid ideas that would fit in with a cinema foyer rather than a football stadium.

 

[portlock seagull]

Dover was banging on about being charged 70p for a Twix

They're too share, so he could always have recouped 35p from a mate?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

They're too share, so he could always have recouped 35p from a mate?

Dover? Mate? Behave!

 

[clapham_gull]

Absolutely amazing. I was going to take a picture and post it on here, but I didn't think it fair on the person having to work there.

Me and my brother walked the length of the pitch just to take a look.

I couldn't work it out at first, I was confused by the authentic wagon wheel resting against the side.

It was only when I got nearer that I saw it a cross between a miniature organ and a fairground attraction.

Put it this way, there were marshmallows in there just waiting to be shot with an air gun.

 

[clapham_gull]

Incidentally ... what has happened to the South Stand food outlets generally? Has there been a complete change of staff?

Looked the same to me, just with new uniforms.

In view of the above, I really believe a traveling circus has moved in Withdean....


... but we knew that didn't we.

 

[vegster]

sorry... I thought this a clever simile upon a Douglas Adams book.. I'll get me coat then ?

 

[junior]

This thread is making me remember why i havent bothered to go to Withdean at all this season.
Think i'll stick to away games.

 

[Djmiles]

Why on Earth they take caps away from bottles is beyond me.

I could just walk 100m and get a chilled beverage WITH a lid.

 

[clapham_gull]

Why on Earth they take caps away from bottles is beyond me.

I could just walk 100m and get a chilled beverage WITH a lid.

If they did they made a mistake, they're not allowed to do that anymore.

 

[Djmiles]

If they did they made a mistake, they're not allowed to do that anymore.

I was watching during HT, and they did that to everyone. Didn't see much point in it myself, but hey!

 

[clapham_gull]

I was watching during HT, and they did that to everyone. Didn't see much point in it myself, but hey!

Well you should make a point on ask the club, because they haven't been allowed to do that for years. I took my own water in today, showed it to the stewards and they were fine.

 

[vegster]

Why on Earth they take caps away from bottles is beyond me.

I could just walk 100m and get a chilled beverage WITH a lid.

the theory is that if you throw a bottle of Water/Piss/Fosters with a lid on, simple physics ( Newtons 2nd law) means that the vessel and its load will be propelled forward in the form of a missile. If you take the top off this invokes Newtons 1st law in which the vessel will move but progressively leave it's contents behind.. efffectively not disimilar to a North Korean "satellite" launch in asmuch as the launch fizzles out.

 

[Lady Bracknell]

Marshmallows are a queer old thing. You don't NEED them until you catch sight of some. Then, irrationally, all you want are marshmallows. Fortunately the ones on sale in the Tuck Shop were beastly Haribo jobbies so it wasn't necessary to go and get a second mortgage in order to feed the need.

 

[O Lads]

Why is it you can buy a drink inside the gates and it comes with a lid, and yet at the end of the south stand they have to be removed on the instruction of one of the south stands legalised thugs (stewards).

The 'tuck shop' is being run by an external company, not the club which is why there's a difference.

I think the law now actually states that you aren't allowed to give bottled drinks with caps on due to them being used to throw onto the pitch. We're clearing not abiding to this rule though!

 

[Giraffe]

the theory is that if you throw a bottle of Water/Piss/Fosters with a lid on, simple physics ( Newtons 2nd law) means that the vessel and its load will be propelled forward in the form of a missile. If you take the top off this invokes Newtons 1st law in which the vessel will move but progressively leave it's contents behind.. efffectively not disimilar to a North Korean "satellite" launch in asmuch as the launch fizzles out.

Actually as was explained to me by a steward in Cardiff before the play off final it is because people may stand on a rolling bottle and fall over, whereas with no lid the fluid will release and therefore the person will not fall. Complete bollocks of course to justify why I couldn't take drinks into the stadium with me.

Good to see this season they have not stopped people taking bottles of water into the stadium.

 

[Giraffe]

Marshmallows are a queer old thing. You don't NEED them until you catch sight of some. Then, irrationally, all you want are marshmallows. Fortunately the ones on sale in the Tuck Shop were beastly Haribo jobbies so it wasn't necessary to go and get a second mortgage in order to feed the need.

But what tosser sanctioned this as a good idea?

And equally having done so, didn't they think in front of the family stand would be a better spot??

 

[clapham_gull]

The 'tuck shop' is being run by an external company, not the club which is why there's a difference.

I think the law now actually states that you aren't allowed to give bottled drinks with caps on due to them being used to throw onto the pitch. We're clearing not abiding to this rule though!

That ruling was taken away very early into our tenure at Withdean and I'm not aware of any law that stops them being sold.

I took a bottle in the ground today (with a lid on) the Stewards saw it and were fine.