DizzyBala
Jack Armstrong
It did actually take quite a while lmao
-
All - as you will understand, the forum is exceptionally busy at this time. The admins and moderators simply don't have time to read every post in every thread. Could you PLEASE use the "Report" option below a post to flag any content that you feel we need to be aware of. We'll review everything reported as a priority and deal with it accordingly. Thank you.
The World Famous City Ground - Home of the PROPER WORLD‘S OLDEST LEAGUE CLUB
- Thread starter donny
- Start date
Rockabilly
GAFF LAD. "Open your knees and feel the breeze"
Nice one Dizzy.
Ashley
Steve Chettle
Marinakis being in it is bad enough, as is including promotion winning players but not the manager who acheived it, but why is Nuno on there?Actual state of this LMAO, I can't with this club anymore man.
No disrespect to him, but he's been here 5 minutes and is not exactly setting the world alight with 1 win in the last 12 games. If he fails to win one of the next 2 games there's a chance he might not even be here much longer.
This club sometimes...
Last edited:
Rockabilly
GAFF LAD. "Open your knees and feel the breeze"
Totally agree Ash.
MaxiRobriguez
Bob McKinlay
Let us be honest @Alf-engelos Mindminackers would have done a better job than this shit.
I have heard, that apparently ambition is all you need?
Wes' Organ
Biggles
Are you allowed to paint on The Great Wall of China?
They are a great bunch of lads, the Chinese, but I don‘t think they would stand for such cultural vandalism.
eyupmeduck
Geoff Thomas
The video got me right up for it, the Simod Cup winning squad, bomb squadded ex captain and an owner putting themselves front and centre have got me feeling like running into a brick wall rather than through it!
Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk
Lady Penelope
First Team Squad
I swopped seats tonight and I went in the TE Upper for the first time in a while. Noisy, great view (although you can't see the tifo), leg room average, toilets for women pathetic (although there was cold water, and hand gel dispenser and paper towels), concourse possibly the worst in the WFCG. There is a lovely view over the river but no room to enjoy it. After the match all the facilities are closed so you can't take ten minutes and let the crowds go whilst having with a drink with friends. The stairs on the way in were filthy I noticed. Dreadful facilities.
Come on Forest, you can do better than this.
Come on Forest, you can do better than this.
Redemption
Agenda Benda
Do any of the other stands have this facility?
Lady Penelope
First Team Squad
Only in the 'hospitality' areas but that's what's wrong. The WFCG is not easy to get away from so some facilities for supporters to relax for a while after the final whistle would be really good and would demonstrate that the club do actually care.
Football has come a long way from the bad old days that I hear so much about, from my dad and uncles, standing on overcrowded terraces, wet with rain and someone else's ale, and with zero facilities other than perhaps a tea stall with plastic cups and a burger van selling total crap. That progress came about when someone, somewhere, recognised that you can't treat football fans like the railways used to treat passengers. First, second and third class. TE Upper concourse is third class.
Redemption
Agenda Benda
Do any clubs do that?
The costs of staffing the bars for another 2 hours after half time for the stragglers would probably not be profitable. Probably objections to the licence extension too.
Although I agree it would help with staggered egress.
Last edited:
Lady Penelope
First Team Squad
I can't answer that because when travelling I usually get the posh seats. I'm reliably informed that Norwich keep the tea bars open, and for what it's worth, Inverness too.
Grounds abroad almost always have much better facilities both pre and post match, in America particularly so but also Germany. France is good too although much derided football wise (but count the World Cups!). I've seen games at Lille and Lyon (fantastic stadia) and Marseille (again, a great stadium but not for the faint hearted).
I would like to see Forest address the facilities that are provided for the 'ordinary' supporter and not just get too "EPL about it" and focus solely on the 'prawn sandwich' brigade.
I wouldn't worry about alcohol licensing, it's a soft touch these days unfortunately, as you can see when visiting pubs and clubs around Notts. Standards have slipped, money talks.
In some countries I could mention this is quite common!
Especially with stadia so well served with public transport, there is often a rush to get to the tram or train, so instead, why not hang around for another half-hour and have another Bier?
Redemption
Agenda Benda
Yes, but we're not in some countries. We're in England and Wales where there is a specific set of laws for drinking at Football matches which include in the stadium and after the match.
Changing the laws is a different set of issues to bemoaning the club doesn't do something that is currently not done elsewhere in English football.
Likewise, there is a specific set of laws that prohibits the broadcasting of live football between 1500-1700 on a Saturday, and just like those laws, the current ones centred around the - shock, horror! - consumption of alcohol at football grounds are outdated, and not fit for purpose.
Lady Penelope
First Team Squad
Unless I have been misinformed The Veltins Arena in Gelsenkirchen, home of Schalke 04, pump is around 50,000 litres of their very fine bier for every home game. I got that information from a guy in Gelsenkirchen who was interested in g=football, worked on infrastructure projects like me, and who was sober!
Lady Penelope
First Team Squad
No need to change the laws (well there is because it is a mess) but for the purpose of extending the hours for selling alcohol, it is highly probable that there would be no pushback because it would lessen to some degree the issue of everyone leaving at the same time. Further, as facilities improve, habits will change, and so it goes .....
PS licensing in this country is a free for all nowadays, go into town on a weekend and you'll see what I mean.
Gyros Peter
Sauce salad?
I'm convinced Forest (as well as other clubs) could make a killing setting up their own brewery (or better yet cuckooing one). I say convinced - I haven't done any serious maths, other than to know the cost of making beer vs selling it. I'd love to know how many pints are consumed matchday.
Shearstone
Misses the champ
Can't be any worse than the foam aka Madri you get now.
congo_red_49
Ale Ape
Considering the amount of small breweries that have gone bust, called it a day or been forced to sell out to the Global mega-breweries in the last 24 months...I'd have severe doubts that a football club could make it work as a sideline.
Lady Penelope
First Team Squad
Sadly I have to agree. One of the reasons being that clubs like Forest are not supporting local enterprises and insist on selling what the Germans call chemibier simply because of profitability and the advertising that is behind these products. Madri, Carling with even more chemicals and no links to Spain at all!
Rubics
Bin VAR!
Agree with Congo - we’ve got bigger fish to fry.
That said Bristol must have a very close tie in with the Bristol beer factory - couple of cracking pints when we sneeked in the independence bar for the home fans. Again this was packed after the game + all the food stalls and beer / cider trucks were busy after so it can be done. Bristol is a bloody nightmare to get away from so it’s one of their tactics to ease congestion.
That said Bristol must have a very close tie in with the Bristol beer factory - couple of cracking pints when we sneeked in the independence bar for the home fans. Again this was packed after the game + all the food stalls and beer / cider trucks were busy after so it can be done. Bristol is a bloody nightmare to get away from so it’s one of their tactics to ease congestion.