The Terrace View - Holte End Upper

[PaulTheVillan]

People having been drinking beer at football matches since Adam was a lad. If they want one, it shouldn't be beyond the capabilities of a club to serve them. There's a huge captive audience there, ready and willing to pay eye watering prices for rubbish. Most businesses would be rubbing their hands at that.

I remember about 2010/11 (ish) there was a guy who had a keg of lager strapped on his back, and you could wave him down and he would pour you a pint. It was probably £4 back then. I thought that worked really well.

[astonvilla82]

So it looks like the T won't be repaired before our  game live on TV Sunday. Embarrassing

It’ll really ruin my weekend.

As long I get my seat,I couldn't give a monkey's,

[VILLA MOLE]

It really isn’t a great experience trying to have a beer at Villa so most of the time I would not bother

[Nev]

It's come to something when just the thought of a simple refreshment before the match or at half time seems a fanciful idea.

Some of us don't get the chance to meet up prior to getting into the ground so having a beer together is a social thing, and expecting a decent level of service is not asking for the earth.

[Risso]

It's not just getting a beer in any case, it's getting served anything.

[Marlon From Bearwood]

It's come to something when just the thought of a simple refreshment before the match or at half time seems a fanciful idea.

Some of us don't get the chance to meet up prior to getting into the ground so having a beer together is a social thing, and expecting a decent level of service is not asking for the earth.

Exactly. For one of the Sunday 2pm kick offs last season we went straight to VP from my son’s football game. As we hadn’t eaten we went to that chicken & chips place in the Upper Holte. Started queuing 25 minutes before KO, and took our seats (food in hand) just as the game kicked off.

[Dr Butler]

should be interesting to see this on Sunday as my seat is just to the left where the windows are as you look from the pitch...

I will report back to the class after the game on the view etc

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The Doc

[saunders_heroes]

People having been drinking beer at football matches since Adam was a lad. If they want one, it shouldn't be beyond the capabilities of a club to serve them. There's a huge captive audience there, ready and willing to pay eye watering prices for rubbish. Most businesses would be rubbing their hands at that.

I remember about 2010/11 (ish) there was a guy who had a keg of lager strapped on his back, and you could wave him down and he would pour you a pint. It was probably £4 back then. I thought that worked really well.

It worked great as well. I wonder why it stopped?

[Clampy]

People having been drinking beer at football matches since Adam was a lad. If they want one, it shouldn't be beyond the capabilities of a club to serve them. There's a huge captive audience there, ready and willing to pay eye watering prices for rubbish. Most businesses would be rubbing their hands at that.

I remember about 2010/11 (ish) there was a guy who had a keg of lager strapped on his back, and you could wave him down and he would pour you a pint. It was probably £4 back then. I thought that worked really well.

It worked great as well. I wonder why it stopped?

Maybe he drank too it all himself.

[PaulTheVillan]

People having been drinking beer at football matches since Adam was a lad. If they want one, it shouldn't be beyond the capabilities of a club to serve them. There's a huge captive audience there, ready and willing to pay eye watering prices for rubbish. Most businesses would be rubbing their hands at that.

I remember about 2010/11 (ish) there was a guy who had a keg of lager strapped on his back, and you could wave him down and he would pour you a pint. It was probably £4 back then. I thought that worked really well.

It worked great as well. I wonder why it stopped?

Maybe he drank too it all himself.

One for you, one for me

[Clampy]

People having been drinking beer at football matches since Adam was a lad. If they want one, it shouldn't be beyond the capabilities of a club to serve them. There's a huge captive audience there, ready and willing to pay eye watering prices for rubbish. Most businesses would be rubbing their hands at that.

I remember about 2010/11 (ish) there was a guy who had a keg of lager strapped on his back, and you could wave him down and he would pour you a pint. It was probably £4 back then. I thought that worked really well.

It worked great as well. I wonder why it stopped?

Maybe he drank it all himself.

One for you, one for me

[Des Little]

People having been drinking beer at football matches since Adam was a lad. If they want one, it shouldn't be beyond the capabilities of a club to serve them. There's a huge captive audience there, ready and willing to pay eye watering prices for rubbish. Most businesses would be rubbing their hands at that.

I remember about 2010/11 (ish) there was a guy who had a keg of lager strapped on his back, and you could wave him down and he would pour you a pint. It was probably £4 back then. I thought that worked really well.

The stewards made him take the lid off his keg, so all the beer went flat.

[pauliewalnuts]

I don't really ever feel the urge to get something to eat inside the ground, I would always get something outside, but if we have a captive audience of people who want to give the club too much money for low quality crap then they should absolutely get the possibility to buy it.

[London Villan]

At the Springsteen gig I had a hospitality ticket and had some of the worst food I have ever had in a football ground. So I'm in no rush to try any of our new or existing catering.

[Chris Smith]

It's not just getting a beer in any case, it's getting served anything.

As I’ve mentioned before the system they introduced in the Lower Holte seemed to work well. Basically order and pay  for your stuff at a terminal then collect from the bar. We normally drink in a pub but used it a couple of times for an evening game or an early kick off and it’s perfectly fine. My assumption was that they would roll that out to the rest of the stadium.