Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: TimTheVillain on August 21, 2011, 11:58:45 AM
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....was HOT yesterday, HOT and tasted like piss.
I tried to exchange for a cold one, but no-go, they were all HOT !
Act and together comes to mind, thank God is wasn't a hot day !
Winge over !
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That's why you should drink a fine ale that doesn't have to numb your taste buds so you can't taste it ;)
It's at this point when discussing beer than I'm usually called a twat.
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Fosters? Ugh.
Weren't they selling Heineken last season?
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I love how in the UK you can get a warm coke and cold sausage roll. No idea how they do it.
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That's why you should drink a fine ale that doesn't have to numb your taste buds so you can't taste it ;)
It's at this point when discussing beer than I'm usually called a twat.
Twat :)
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I'm intrigued as to why you would have wanted a cold Fosters that tasted liker piss.
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You want a pint that's cold AND doesn't taste like piss? Fussy bastard.
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I can't remember so well from the 80s ads. Was it Fosters or Castlemaine that was the amber neck-tie?
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I had a Fosters too. It's a fcuking horrible lager.
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I'm intrigued as to why you would have wanted a cold Fosters that tasted liker piss.
HOT Fosters tastes like piss, COLD Fosters has a different taste.
Go figure !
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I'm intrigued as to why you would have wanted a cold Fosters that tasted liker piss.
HOT Fosters tastes like piss, COLD Fosters has a different taste.
Cold piss?
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Australian lager is horrible. Fizzy yellow piss.
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I hate fosters also but warm fosters that's not on, someone should complain to the general...oh
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I'm intrigued as to why you would have wanted a cold Fosters that tasted liker piss.
HOT Fosters tastes like piss, COLD Fosters has a different taste.
Cold piss?
Undefinable, not beer as we know it !
And the staff, gormlessosity personified.
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Fosters is like making love in a canoe. Close to water
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My first pint in the Holte was Heineken but it tasted like it had been in the barrel since May. Serves me right for getting there early!
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I like beer, make that most beers.
Australia has some of the best beers I have ever tasted.
Fosters does not fit into either of these categories.
It is rank.
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Australians don't like it either
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Australians don't like it either
Yup, they have some seriously good beers over there. I'm not surprised they don't drink that piss.
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We keep our good beer for ourselves and export that crap, yet you lot still drink it by the olympic-size swimming pool.
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On the subject of shoddy offerings by the kiosks at the ground I asked for my usual chip butty yesterday (a snack I've appreciated for years at the ground) to be told they don't do them anymore.
They have baps for the burgers and they still sell chips. But they no longer serve chips in baps.
If someone can explain the logic in that they're a better man than me!
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Given the fantastic choice of tasty and cheap food from all the various outlets in the vicinity of Villa Park and the fact that there are several pubs within walking distance (one or two of them are even decent), anyone who eats or drinks inside the ground deserves to be ripped off.
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Given the fantastic choice of tasty and cheap food from all the various outlets in the vicinity of Villa Park and the fact that there are several pubs within walking distance (one or two of them are even decent), anyone who eats or drinks inside the ground deserves to be ripped off.
It's difficult to get to the pub at half time.
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Given the fantastic choice of tasty and cheap food from all the various outlets in the vicinity of Villa Park and the fact that there are several pubs within walking distance (one or two of them are even decent), anyone who eats or drinks inside the ground deserves to be ripped off.
It's difficult to get to the pub at half time.
I'm sure you can go two hours without beer.
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On the subject of shoddy offerings by the kiosks at the ground I asked for my usual chip butty yesterday (a snack I've appreciated for years at the ground) to be told they don't do them anymore.
They have baps for the burgers and they still sell chips. But they no longer serve chips in baps.
If someone can explain the logic in that they're a better man than me!
Carb-overload. They're thinking about your arteries.
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Given the fantastic choice of tasty and cheap food from all the various outlets in the vicinity of Villa Park and the fact that there are several pubs within walking distance (one or two of them are even decent), anyone who eats or drinks inside the ground deserves to be ripped off.
It's difficult to get to the pub at half time.
I'm sure you can go two hours without beer.
I can but it would be nice if the club served what the fans wanted. We are customers after all.
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It would indeed. But surely by now you realise that it's not going to happen, and even if it did you are going to pay a stupid price for it!
Maybe if people weren't so willing to buy the overpriced shite they serve they would have a think about it and do something decent at a good price, but the queues never seem to get any smaller.
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So long as people are prepared to be ripped off for a bottle of warm piss they will continue to sell it. The only way to get them to provide decent refreshments at a fair price is by eating and drinking elsewhere.
It never ceases to amaze me that people pay a small fortune to watch the game then miss the last ten minutes of the first half so they can queue up to buy such crap food and over-priced beer.
Admittedly I'm from the generation when dining inside the ground meant being lucky enough to get a Wagon Wheel before they sold out at 2 o'clock - or standing by the bloke who was generous with his murray mints or Fishermans Friends.
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wanted to buy my lad a coke at half time in the lower holte, waited for 10 mins and didnt get near the front, then went back to watch the game. Ridiculous
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Given the fantastic choice of tasty and cheap food from all the various outlets in the vicinity of Villa Park and the fact that there are several pubs within walking distance (one or two of them are even decent), anyone who eats or drinks inside the ground deserves to be ripped off.
It's difficult to get to the pub at half time.
I'm sure you can go two hours without beer.
You'd be surprised how many people go down to get a beer 10 minutes before half time. I don't get it personally.
Talking of rip-offs, i bought a can of coke from one of those burger vans under the bridge by the church and stood waiting for my change from my £1 coin which i did'nt get.
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Football grounds eh., they do a great job of selling crap expensively to a captured market, not a bad model if you think about it !
Re. Fosters, two questions WHY ? and if so WHY HOT ? !
What's stopping Banks' bottling their stuff up and doing a deal ? - makes you wonder whether Prem grounds HAVE to sell that stuff, is it contractual or are the margins just too good to refuse ??
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wanted to buy my lad a coke at half time in the lower holte, waited for 10 mins and didnt get near the front, then went back to watch the game. Ridiculous
I sit Lower Holte and went down bang on the half time whistle to get my chip butty (minus the butty). By the time I'd got to the front of the queue and walked straight back to my seat I'd missed the first 5 minutes of the 2nd half!
Something is seriously wrong with the service if it takes 20 minutes to get served at half time. But then like others have said, if people keep paying they've got no incentive to change.
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Ad@m,
The service is appalling all around the ground I reckon, and I understand the time pressures.
It's just the calibre of service staff that is addressable imo- 'can't be arsed' is the look on their faces.
The club could double its half time income if it made a better effort t get its act together.
PS. Fosters and HOT, man alive !!!!
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We've been discussing the standard of service on here for as long as I can remember. It's not a major issue for me these days as I'm happy to wait a couple of hours, but you have to wonder whether it's done deliberately. Maybe they don't want hordes of pissed-up loons cluttering the ground by the time the second half comes around.
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And Fosters report a A$93m loss which is about £55m.
Given the taste of their product I'm not surprised. An improvement on previous losses but shit product = shit results. There's a football analogy there somewhere.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14626488
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It's just the calibre of service staff that is addressable imo- 'can't be arsed' is the look on their faces.
It's the same at any stadiums. Try motivating people who are on minimum wage and get one shift every 2 weeks.
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We were in section Q of the DE Witton Lane stand and the service at the refreshment kiosks was ok. Long wait at half time apparently according to my eldest son who gave up trying to get his coke fix!
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Service in the Upper Holte tonight was very poor. Lots of bars closed for obvious reasons but still not enough staff AND the draft was off at half time due to a problem with the pipes and then the barrels. I can only imagine how much more money they would have taken if these small yet, important issues were addressed. So poor it's almost funny.
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It's just the calibre of service staff that is addressable imo- 'can't be arsed' is the look on their faces.
It's the same at any stadiums. Try motivating people who are on minimum wage and get one shift every 2 weeks.
I understand that, however to compensate, I would get the product right.
Poor service of an acceptable product is better than dreadful service of a more than deadful product.
Chill !
( The Fosters that is !)
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Took a few friends into the Holte Pub last night seeing as it was free entry and they were very impressed. It's shame they have to charge £3-4 a time for a league game, it's a nice place to have a drink. They did run out of Fosters by 7pm though.
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Took a few friends into the Holte Pub last night seeing as it was free entry and they were very impressed. It's shame they have to charge £3-4 a time for a league game, it's a nice place to have a drink. They did run out of Fosters by 7pm though.
How cold was it though.
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Maybe we should start a campaign for quality real ales in the ground.
Then we could train some pigs to fly.
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Maybe we should start a campaign for quality real ales in the ground.
Then we could train some pigs to fly.
Bathams and Pig On The Wall mild would go down well.
But having read the comments in this thread I think I'd rather go without for a couple of hours.
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When my nephew was little we just used to pack a small plastic bottle or can of pop in his pocket or his wee backpack with his chocolate / sweets. The stewards never had an issue with this. This was partly a practical solution to avoid queuing but also to save money. Football grounds are universally a rip off for food and drink and usually offer the bland popular brands as the lowest common denominator. It is much easier these days to drink beforehand and arrive at 10 minutes to kick off.
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or standing by the bloke who was generous with his murray mints or Fishermans Friends.
There were paedophiles in your day also?Thought they were a new invention.
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Maybe we should start a campaign for quality real ales in the ground.
Then we could train some pigs to fly.
Brighton do it.Fly piggy fly!
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I hope when I do take advantage of my season ticket card's free pie im not waiting long. As a rule I do not consume from the kiosks inside the ground but, hey when its free...