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Online luke95

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Re: Drinking by the Ground
« Reply #15 on: July 23, 2022, 01:41:38 PM »
I'm curious about this myth that we don't drink in town. I usually go straight to Witton when arriving at New Street. Do we have large numbers of Villa fans drinking in the centre before and after a game? I know a lot of our support is North Brum but the trains back into the city are rammed after a game. I'm just interested. Is it complete bollocks on the Noses part? Obviously on derby day we would be segregated.

It is just that........ A Myth. Pubs on or just off New St are usually brimming with villa on match day.

As is the South of Brum being solid blues. Try catching a train from Any of the stations on the south side of the cross city line on a match day  & itll be bursting to overflowing with villa.

Offline Deano's Mullet

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Re: Drinking by the Ground
« Reply #16 on: July 23, 2022, 01:57:05 PM »
I knew the myth about Villa fans all being non Brummies which was hysterically funny, stupid, and patently untrue but the one.about drinking in town had me curious. I'd presumed they meant on match days for the Noses.

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Re: Drinking by the Ground
« Reply #17 on: July 23, 2022, 02:26:54 PM »
Still free to enter venues about. The Villa Tavern is my preference after match and The Safe Harbour now has a lovely outside area.

What are they like now? I was never too keen on the Diggers but the Villa Tavern was a lovely old-fashioned place.

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Re: Drinking by the Ground
« Reply #18 on: July 23, 2022, 02:52:02 PM »
Still free to enter venues about. The Villa Tavern is my preference after match and The Safe Harbour now has a lovely outside area.

What are they like now? I was never too keen on the Diggers but the Villa Tavern was a lovely old-fashioned place.

The Diggers has had a lot of work done to it and is quite pleasant. Basic fayre beer wise, but a nice relaxed atmosphere pre-match and as I mentioned, the beer garden is nice. The Tavern is same as really, but I've always liked it. It can be uncomfortably packed for an hour or so after the match, but then it's fine. DJ on after every game.

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Re: Drinking by the Ground
« Reply #19 on: July 23, 2022, 04:58:26 PM »
Still free to enter venues about. The Villa Tavern is my preference after match and The Safe Harbour now has a lovely outside area.

What are they like now? I was never too keen on the Diggers but the Villa Tavern was a lovely old-fashioned place.

The Diggers has had a lot of work done to it and is quite pleasant. Basic fayre beer wise, but a nice relaxed atmosphere pre-match and as I mentioned, the beer garden is nice. The Tavern is same as really, but I've always liked it. It can be uncomfortably packed for an hour or so after the match, but then it's fine. DJ on after every game.
I drink in the Villa Tavern matchdays and it does get uncomfortably full for a couple of hours before the game and for about an hour after. It's actually my local boozer and I know it struggles out of season so I'm happy to put up with it being rammed for a few hours on a match day to keep the tills ringing. Without our home games it wouldn't survive.

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Re: Drinking by the Ground
« Reply #20 on: July 23, 2022, 05:01:09 PM »
Thanks both.

Offline walsall villain

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Re: Drinking by the Ground
« Reply #21 on: July 23, 2022, 05:29:45 PM »
Still free to enter venues about. The Villa Tavern is my preference after match and The Safe Harbour now has a lovely outside area.

What are they like now? I was never too keen on the Diggers but the Villa Tavern was a lovely old-fashioned place.

The Diggers has had a lot of work done to it and is quite pleasant. Basic fayre beer wise, but a nice relaxed atmosphere pre-match and as I mentioned, the beer garden is nice. The Tavern is same as really, but I've always liked it. It can be uncomfortably packed for an hour or so after the match, but then it's fine. DJ on after every game.
Is this the Safe Harbour?

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Re: Drinking by the Ground
« Reply #22 on: July 23, 2022, 05:47:21 PM »
Still free to enter venues about. The Villa Tavern is my preference after match and The Safe Harbour now has a lovely outside area.

What are they like now? I was never too keen on the Diggers but the Villa Tavern was a lovely old-fashioned place.

The Diggers has had a lot of work done to it and is quite pleasant. Basic fayre beer wise, but a nice relaxed atmosphere pre-match and as I mentioned, the beer garden is nice. The Tavern is same as really, but I've always liked it. It can be uncomfortably packed for an hour or so after the match, but then it's fine. DJ on after every game.
Is this the Safe Harbour?
Yes it is, opposite the main gates of Witton Cemetery on Moor Lane. Was past there last year and ut was surrounded by shuttering. Spent a decent part of my late teens and early 20's playing 'Arrers for them.

Offline LeeB

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Re: Drinking by the Ground
« Reply #23 on: July 23, 2022, 06:49:35 PM »
Still free to enter venues about. The Villa Tavern is my preference after match and The Safe Harbour now has a lovely outside area.

What are they like now? I was never too keen on the Diggers but the Villa Tavern was a lovely old-fashioned place.

The Diggers has had a lot of work done to it and is quite pleasant. Basic fayre beer wise, but a nice relaxed atmosphere pre-match and as I mentioned, the beer garden is nice. The Tavern is same as really, but I've always liked it. It can be uncomfortably packed for an hour or so after the match, but then it's fine. DJ on after every game.
I drink in the Villa Tavern matchdays and it does get uncomfortably full for a couple of hours before the game and for about an hour after. It's actually my local boozer and I know it struggles out of season so I'm happy to put up with it being rammed for a few hours on a match day to keep the tills ringing. Without our home games it wouldn't survive.

Used to drink in the Tavern every game till around 2007 I think, the nice couple that ran it were kicked out (the bloke was my folks neighbours son) and some right rabble took over, it went south quickly and we switched to the Bartons.
But it was a bloody nightmare trying to get a pint in there most of last season, and I was thinking of trying the Tavern again as I drive past it on my way in. You've put me off now!

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Re: Drinking by the Ground
« Reply #24 on: July 23, 2022, 07:25:20 PM »
Both are rarities - the Diggers because it was empty for so long and re-opened rather than being demolished or converted, the Tavern because there are so few surviving inner city back street locals.

Offline SoccerHQ

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Re: Drinking by the Ground
« Reply #25 on: July 23, 2022, 07:27:07 PM »
I'm curious about this myth that we don't drink in town. I usually go straight to Witton when arriving at New Street. Do we have large numbers of Villa fans drinking in the centre before and after a game? I know a lot of our support is North Brum but the trains back into the city are rammed after a game. I'm just interested. Is it complete bollocks on the Noses part? Obviously on derby day we would be segregated.
Every pub is full of Villa .We do the rounds of town,from Colmore Row to John Bright Street, with roads in between.Also JQ is all Villa.

You posted that in the manner of how the Holte End would chant, would be amusing to sing that to them....if we ever meet again.

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Re: Drinking by the Ground
« Reply #26 on: July 23, 2022, 07:30:02 PM »
Town is also full of Villa even when we play them too. They don't have much to go with, so they choose outrageous myths.


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Re: Drinking by the Ground
« Reply #27 on: July 23, 2022, 08:18:17 PM »
Still free to enter venues about. The Villa Tavern is my preference after match and The Safe Harbour now has a lovely outside area.

What are they like now? I was never too keen on the Diggers but the Villa Tavern was a lovely old-fashioned place.

The Diggers has had a lot of work done to it and is quite pleasant. Basic fayre beer wise, but a nice relaxed atmosphere pre-match and as I mentioned, the beer garden is nice. The Tavern is same as really, but I've always liked it. It can be uncomfortably packed for an hour or so after the match, but then it's fine. DJ on after every game.
I drink in the Villa Tavern matchdays and it does get uncomfortably full for a couple of hours before the game and for about an hour after. It's actually my local boozer and I know it struggles out of season so I'm happy to put up with it being rammed for a few hours on a match day to keep the tills ringing. Without our home games it wouldn't survive.

Used to drink in the Tavern every game till around 2007 I think, the nice couple that ran it were kicked out (the bloke was my folks neighbours son) and some right rabble took over, it went south quickly and we switched to the Bartons.
But it was a bloody nightmare trying to get a pint in there most of last season, and I was thinking of trying the Tavern again as I drive past it on my way in. You've put me off now!
It's still a decent old pub. It's mainly the bar that gets rammed but it is pretty small. The room at the back is used as a real ale bar on matchdays and that never seems to be too overcrowded.

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Re: Drinking by the Ground
« Reply #28 on: July 23, 2022, 09:03:45 PM »
Thankfully, my ageing waterworks have made this sort of problem academic for me. A couple of pints before the game, and I'm spending the first half in the bogs. I envy you iron-bladdered buggers.

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Re: Drinking by the Ground
« Reply #29 on: July 23, 2022, 10:34:27 PM »
Every pub is full of Villa .We do the rounds of town,from Colmore Row to John Bright Street, with roads in between.Also JQ is all Villa.

You posted that in the manner of how the Holte End would chant, would be amusing to sing that to them....if we ever meet again.

Funnily enough I read it to this tune. Hopefully in a few years when we're conquering Europe again.


 


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