Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Tickets & Travel => Topic started by: sideshow on February 19, 2012, 02:59:58 PM
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Apparently The Fernhurst is under new management, and do not accept football supporters on match days.
New pub(s) needed for the majority by the looks of it.........
The Golden Cup by the overhead bridge does outstanding pies over the bar, but its tiny inside, and doubt if the usually mixed crowd in there would appreciate the Fernhurst crowd turning up!
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Apparently The Fernhurst is under new management, and do not accept football supporters on match days.
Who the hell else are they going to get?
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Exactly what i thought, must be losing them a fortune in takings if true.
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Tweet from WMP:
Fans travelling to Blackburn by car/coach the Anchor Pub on Bolton Road, Darwin, are happy to accept away fans
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Absolutely stupid decision by management surely, I cannot comprehend why they would do that, unless perhaps their target market is old Northern ladies who still think that we're in the third division and that Gordon Banks is the England Goalkeeper.
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The Fernhurst - Ugh!
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I think it maybe more to do with Villa fans actions over the years?
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It's been turned into a restaurant. In Blackburn.
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http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/blackburn/9419460.The_Fernhurst_pub_and_hotel_in_Blackburn_sold_by_Thwaites/
Bit out of date article.
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Awful place. Can't think why anyone would ever have wanted to drink in there.
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Awful place. Can't think why anyone would ever have wanted to drink in there.
I quite agree, but while those who want to be I there are in there they're not in the pubs we want to be in. ;)
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But it's a brilliant pub. Packed full of Villa.
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But it's a brilliant pub. Packed full of Villa.
Yeah, and they sing songs and throw their beer around.
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It is (was) the perfect away pub, massive, full to the rafters with villa fans, and you only had to cross the road at 2.55pm to enter the away end.
I cant think of many others like that except maybe the Witton Arms for the away fans at VP, and the Red Robin at Wigan. They better not turn that into a bloody restaurant before Saturday!!!
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Absolutely stupid decision by management surely, I cannot comprehend why they would do that, unless perhaps their target market is old Northern ladies who still think that we're in the third division and that Gordon Banks is the England Goalkeeper.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1060000/images/_1061163_ena_violet_martha300.jpg)
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I cant think of many others like that except maybe the Witton Arms for the away fans at VP, and the Red Robin at Wigan. They better not turn that into a bloody restaurant before Saturday!!!
Is'nt the Red Robin one of those restuarant type pubs with a Wacky Warehouse in it?
There's a decent enough, if small pub a bit further up past the ground on a corner, which has got a dartboard and Sky Sports, can't i for the life of me think what it's called though.
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The last time I went to Blackburn I took my dad, who's in his 60s. What joy the Fernhurst was on a cold February afternoon, drinking Aldi lager out of can in the car park because the pub was full. Watching the Villa fans getting more and more boisterous, tipping over the portable toilets, then someone punching a police horse... he hasn't been to an away since!
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I cant think of many others like that except maybe the Witton Arms for the away fans at VP, and the Red Robin at Wigan. They better not turn that into a bloody restaurant before Saturday!!!
There's a decent enough, if small pub a bit further up past the ground on a corner, which has got a dartboard and Sky Sports, can't i for the life of me think what it's called though.
Fox and Hounds?
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The last time I went to Blackburn I took my dad, who's in his 60s. What joy the Fernhurst was on a cold February afternoon, drinking Aldi lager out of can in the car park because the pub was full. Watching the Villa fans getting more and more boisterous, tipping over the portable toilets, then someone punching a police horse... he hasn't been to an away since!
That brings back a vague memory, I think the lad who punched the horse might have been on our bus on the way there.
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The last time I went to Blackburn I took my dad, who's in his 60s. What joy the Fernhurst was on a cold February afternoon, drinking Aldi lager out of can in the car park because the pub was full. Watching the Villa fans getting more and more boisterous, tipping over the portable toilets, then someone punching a police horse... he hasn't been to an away since!
That brings back a vague memory, I think the lad who punched the horse might have been on our bus on the way there.
But obviously not on the way back?
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The last time I went to Blackburn I took my dad, who's in his 60s. What joy the Fernhurst was on a cold February afternoon, drinking Aldi lager out of can in the car park because the pub was full. Watching the Villa fans getting more and more boisterous, tipping over the portable toilets, then someone punching a police horse... he hasn't been to an away since!
Fuck me, that must've been a hard punch.
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then someone punching a police horse... he hasn't been to an away since!
What the chap or the horse?
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I cant think of many others like that except maybe the Witton Arms for the away fans at VP, and the Red Robin at Wigan. They better not turn that into a bloody restaurant before Saturday!!!
There's a decent enough, if small pub a bit further up past the ground on a corner, which has got a dartboard and Sky Sports, can't i for the life of me think what it's called though.
Fox and Hounds?
No, i don't think it was called that. Nice enough pub though. We stop enroute not a milion miles away from Wigan where the beer is ridiculously cheap. Could'nt possibly say where though.
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Outside of Wigan, Billinge. Near the ground, The Anvil. Best pub? Where I will be tomorrow. Where is that? Get to fuck!
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Outside of Wigan, Billinge. Near the ground, The Anvil. Best pub? Where I will be tomorrow. Where is that? Get to fuck!
You don't know where you're posting, you don't know where you're posting.
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But it's a brilliant pub. Packed full of Villa.
Yeah, and they sing songs and throw their beer around.
And portacabin toilets...with people in them!
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Outside of Wigan, Billinge. Near the ground, The Anvil. Best pub? Where I will be tomorrow. Where is that? Get to fuck!
Correct answer.
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Are you going tomorrow cd?
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Yep, meeting Frank in the pub, assume you'll be there? If you want will PM you details.
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I am starting up the road an hour before that one opens!
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Are you avoiding the egg-chasing score?
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Yes, he says, stupidly. I am also staying overnight so we can experience the cut price version of Geordie Shore in Wigan Pier!
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I'm heading back to Birmingham afterwards to watch a Sex Pistols tribute band fronted by Ed Tudor-Pole.
It wasn't my idea...
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I'm heading back to Birmingham afterwards to watch a Sex Pistols tribute band fronted by Ed Tudor-Pole.
It wasn't my idea...
He doesn't front them, he's support. They're crap.
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I think I may be better off beguiling a single mother of 9 with a bottle of Prosecco oop North!
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I'm heading back to Birmingham afterwards to watch a Sex Pistols tribute band fronted by Ed Tudor-Pole.
It wasn't my idea...
He doesn't front them, he's support. They're crap.
Ah, my friend told me it wrong then. Might try to wrangle my way out of it.
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Anyone tried The Orwell in Wigan?
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Anyone tried The Orwell in Wigan?
It featured in Melvyn Bragg's class history of Britain on TV this evening. This is what Beer in the Evening says
The Orwell has a nice location next to the canal at Wigan Pier. After yesterday's football game, it was very busy, mostly with away fans. Live football was showing on various screens. We found seating in a section at the rear which also housed a pool table. The 2 ales available were both from the Prospect Brewery - Silver Tally & Gold Rush. Most drinks were being dispensed in plastic glasses. Pies were being sold from a counter to the side of the bar at an extremely good value of £1 each. Even plates and cutlery were provided. Not a bad choice if you ever attend a rugby or football game at the nearby stadium. But otherwise, not worth heading this way out of the town centre.
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Thanks, it wasn't bad, the beer was ordinary as were the pies although both were cheap enough. Friendly home fans as well but not worth seeking out again.
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I see we still haven't sold out our meagre 3000 allocation. That's pretty poor for such an accessible fixture irrespective of it coming 7 days after Wigan away.
Anyway it looks like it should be an amusing one to go to given that the Blackburn fans have promised the biggest anti Kean demo yet.
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There were apparently only 200 left nine days ago. Certainly is weird if we haven't sold out yet!
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They had about 170 yesterday.
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They had about 170 yesterday.
Just been down to the ground 20 mins ago to swap my previously bought lower tier tickets for some in the top tier. I want to get a better perspective of the thrilling one touch attacking display from the boys in claret n blue on Saturday.
Anyway, I have been informed that we have now sold the entire lower tier (except the 4 I just swapped presumably) and about 60/70 in the Upper and this equates to about 2,300.
For those that don't know and it certainly isn't on the website, they are selling Upper Tier on the day, at the away ticket office on the corner of the Darwin End and the Main Stand.
I can't tell you how many phone calls and visits to the shop I have made in the last 2 weeks trying to find out whether they had Upper Tier tickets or not. I know that an allocation of 3k is far too many for half the lower tier, but I couldn't get anyone to tell me if they had any for the Upper until I spoke to Nicky Keye. As the General often said, very helpful and very passionate about the club, she is a credit to them.
Anyway, hope to see a few more in the Upper on Saturday?