TheGreatNebber Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 According to a steward on Saturday it was Wednesday's decision not to allow the sale of alcohol in the away end. Pretty surprised it is our decision and not he host club but also wonder what was behind the decision. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roscoe P. Coltrane Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 WTF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneManBand Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 Channers thinks we're bad uns. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inspector Lestrade Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 Stewards love winding up Wednesday fans, once gave us wrong directions to the toilets, how they laughed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casbahowl Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 28 minutes ago, TheGreatNebber said: According to a steward on Saturday it was Wednesday's decision not to allow the sale of alcohol in the away end. Pretty surprised it is our decision and not he host club but also wonder what was behind the decision. Think I would hope to be a little less gullible & question the stewards integrity! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owls2k Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 They served it to the manager and players instead. 2 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatNebber Posted December 12, 2022 Author Share Posted December 12, 2022 Just now, Inspector Lestrade said: Stewards love winding up Wednesday fans, once gave us wrong directions to the toilets, how they laughed. Could have been a windup of course, but the guy seemed genuine, and it wasn't in response to me complaining about it. I was just chatting to him before they opened the turnstiles. There was a bar in the 'fan zone' that away supporters could use but from an Exeter perspective I would have thought there would have been a significant drop in revenue involved. If it was our decision I wonder if the club were concerned about reputation as the ground is in a very residential area and thinking back to Gillingham last year, there were some incidents with disappointed fans breaking windows. Or maybe they were worried about full bladders with a long journey home to come after the game. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatNebber Posted December 12, 2022 Author Share Posted December 12, 2022 2 minutes ago, casbahowl said: Think I would hope to be a little less gullible & question the stewards integrity! What would the steward gain by lying though? I wasn't complaining about it and neither did I make any comment that I was disappointed as personally I wasn't planning on having a drink. In fact, as it was before I went in I could have quite easily gone round to the Thatcher's bar in the fanzone and bought myself a drink if I'd wanted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madfan Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 Hot Chocolate was £2.00 a cup. Can't see a problem, very reasonable and quickly served.; Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatNebber Posted December 12, 2022 Author Share Posted December 12, 2022 Just now, madfan said: Hot Chocolate was £2.00 a cup. Can't see a problem, very reasonable and quickly served.; It was definitely a Bovril or hot chocolate day rather than a day for a cold pint and they even gave free tea or coffee to the first 50 people through the turnstiles. No complaints from me personally as I'm not a huge away day drinker but just struck me as odd if it's true what he said, and it was Wednesday's decision. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HopefulOwl Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 To be fair the alcohol on sale in most grounds is pants anyway.... i'd much rather have a few decent pints in a boozer before and after. Anyway, most of it just gets chucked on the concourse.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horny owl Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 Like Wednesday can tell a rival business to cut their revenue when the biggest away allocation all season is in town The steward was thinking on his toes getting ready for Wednesday fans sobering up and wondering where their next pint was coming from. I certainly couldn’t watch Wednesday sober at the moment. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FattyOwl72 Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 One of the SWFC stewards in the away end at Lincoln was telling me he cleans the toilets and concourses in the North after home games and they find not only cocaine wraps but evidence of heroin use after every game. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mrbluesky Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 1 minute ago, FattyOwl72 said: One of the SWFC stewards in the away end at Lincoln was telling me he cleans the toilets and concourses in the North after home games and they find not only cocaine wraps but evidence of heroin use after every game. Smacks of b***s**t that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatNebber Posted December 12, 2022 Author Share Posted December 12, 2022 7 minutes ago, horny owl said: Like Wednesday can tell a rival business to cut their revenue when the biggest away allocation all season is in town The steward was thinking on his toes getting ready for Wednesday fans sobering up and wondering where their next pint was coming from. I certainly couldn’t watch Wednesday sober at the moment. So you're saying that Exeter themselves decided to cut their revenue when the biggest away allocation all season was in town. You could argue that they didn't want the hassle but that also seems odd from a purely commercial perspective. As I've said, I was pretty much sober and hadn't made any complaint so the steward would have to be playing the long game if it was part of some sort of strategy. It did strike me as odd though and that's why I posted about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inspector Lestrade Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 45 minutes ago, madfan said: Hot Chocolate was £2.00 a cup. Can't see a problem, very reasonable and quickly served.; How is £2 for a cup reasonable? People just want to be ripped off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inspector Lestrade Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 33 minutes ago, mrbluesky said: Smacks of b***s**t that. Agree... no way do they clean the toilets 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horny owl Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 32 minutes ago, TheGreatNebber said: So you're saying that Exeter themselves decided to cut their revenue when the biggest away allocation all season was in town. You could argue that they didn't want the hassle but that also seems odd from a purely commercial perspective. As I've said, I was pretty much sober and hadn't made any complaint so the steward would have to be playing the long game if it was part of some sort of strategy. It did strike me as odd though and that's why I posted about it. Yes that’s what I’m saying Exeter didn’t want Wednesday fans drinking Its not Wednesdays decision The Steward was sticking to his story because it’s a good one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roscoe P. Coltrane Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 1 hour ago, madfan said: Hot Chocolate was £2.00 a cup. Can't see a problem, very reasonable and quickly served.; Sex, drugs and rock roll baby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morganowl Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 2 hours ago, TheGreatNebber said: Could have been a windup of course, but the guy seemed genuine, and it wasn't in response to me complaining about it. I was just chatting to him before they opened the turnstiles. There was a bar in the 'fan zone' that away supporters could use but from an Exeter perspective I would have thought there would have been a significant drop in revenue involved. If it was our decision I wonder if the club were concerned about reputation as the ground is in a very residential area and thinking back to Gillingham last year, there were some incidents with disappointed fans breaking windows. Or maybe they were worried about full bladders with a long journey home to come after the game. yer some idiots where acting right fools at gillingham . saw 1/2 on that street getting upset with the actions of idiots Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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