Guest bob the builder Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 (edited) Completely disagree. However if a bar/pub was to be launched it would need to be done properly . Otherwise it would fail. i.e food/ Drink/ Pricing/ Service standard/ Entertainment etc standards benchmarked by major multiple high street pub co's. If offer to customers accross the board was sub standard then no chance- but thats obvious isnt it???? Edited January 28, 2009 by bob the builder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waddleisgod Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 i often think Wednesdayite should take over the lease at the Gate pub, run it as a supporters bar with a % going direct to SWFC. a proper run pub open 7 nights a week, doing meals, good family entertainment during the week, lots of special events, comedians bands quizes special SWFC guest appearance nights pub only on match days could work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGaffer Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 Can I be the first to put my name down to work behind the bar? Will work up to 2.45pm on matchdays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darra Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 i often think Wednesdayite should take over the lease at the Gate pub, run it as a supporters bar with a % going direct to SWFC. a proper run pub open 7 nights a week, doing meals, good family entertainment during the week, lots of special events, comedians bands quizes special SWFC guest appearance nights pub only on match days could work! would add open mike comedy nights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulva Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 Anyone who thinks buying/leasing a pub would make money should take up the mike at these 'comedy nights' Just have a drive around the city and look at the number of pubs boarded up. Pubs that don't alienate 50% of the population through its links to 1 of the football clubs in the city, and pubs that don't just rely on 23 decent takings a year. There is no money in pubs. Supermarkets, credit crunch and the smoking ban have killed them. Anyone with any degree of commercial acumen would not touch a pub. All the club need to do is maximise the space at Hillsborough. This 'buy a pub' idea is plain bonkers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waddleisgod Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 Anyone who thinks buying/leasing a pub would make money should take up the mike at these 'comedy nights' Just have a drive around the city and look at the number of pubs boarded up. Pubs that don't alienate 50% of the population through its links to 1 of the football clubs in the city, and pubs that don't just rely on 23 decent takings a year. There is no money in pubs. Supermarkets, credit crunch and the smoking ban have killed them. Anyone with any degree of commercial acumen would not touch a pub. All the club need to do is maximise the space at Hillsborough. This 'buy a pub' idea is plain bonkers. don't think of it as a normal pub because it isn't how many pubs start up with a guaranteed base of customers like this would have, it would be more a community venture than your normal pub a meeting place for wednesdayites to talk all things wednesday every day and every night Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWednesdayFC Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 Get an ex player involved. Possibly to be the landlord, anyone remember the opening day at Swindon couple of seasons back....PHIL KINGY, DO YOUR THINGY! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark$ide Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 Anyone who thinks buying/leasing a pub would make money should take up the mike at these 'comedy nights' Just have a drive around the city and look at the number of pubs boarded up. Pubs that don't alienate 50% of the population through its links to 1 of the football clubs in the city, and pubs that don't just rely on 23 decent takings a year. There is no money in pubs. Supermarkets, credit crunch and the smoking ban have killed them. Anyone with any degree of commercial acumen would not touch a pub. All the club need to do is maximise the space at Hillsborough. This 'buy a pub' idea is plain bonkers. I think the owners of the Dev cat, Kelham Island Tavern, HH and the washington would disagree with you. Stick the bath & the York and the fox & Duck on there as well. All making money and ALL doing well. Selling the same beer that you can get in supermarkets such as wee wee poor calsbergs, carling, Stella etc won't work, and won't make money as you can buy the same product cheaper else where. The club should do a deal with Abbeydale, Kelham Island or even thornbridge breweries and get locally made beers on tap. Now you CAN make money doing this as you can't buy this beer in the supermarket and it tastes miles better than larger qand other mass consumed wee wee poor beers. And you can drink more of it. Pale Rider can down in vast quantities for instance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulva Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 Fair point about the Dev etc. Pubs like that, and the Milestone are excellent. I was trying to make the point that I don't reckon buying/leasing a pub would make commercial sense. The football ground must have loads of room where a proper theme pub could be developed. Lets use up our space, rather than paying for somewhere else. The logical place for a Wednesday pub would be Sheffield 6, so why not just have it in the ground, which we own? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Oxlong Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 Anyone who thinks buying/leasing a pub would make money should take up the mike at these 'comedy nights' Just have a drive around the city and look at the number of pubs boarded up. Pubs that don't alienate 50% of the population through its links to 1 of the football clubs in the city, and pubs that don't just rely on 23 decent takings a year. There is no money in pubs. Supermarkets, credit crunch and the smoking ban have killed them. Anyone with any degree of commercial acumen would not touch a pub. All the club need to do is maximise the space at Hillsborough. This 'buy a pub' idea is plain bonkers. Correct. Although if it only opened on Matchdays it might stand a chance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waddle82 Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 don't think of it as a normal pub because it isn't how many pubs start up with a guaranteed base of customers like this would have, it would be more a community venture than your normal pub a meeting place for wednesdayites to talk all things wednesday every day and every night that was a quality day - if i remeber correctly the kick off was delayed alittle cos of the mass of wednesdayites coming into the ground late cos they'd been to visit phil kings bar - looked like a scene from the pipe piper or summat - was a baking hot day - therefor alot of beer had to be consumed - which apparently drank Kingys Bar dry Happy Days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogers Posted July 23, 2009 Share Posted July 23, 2009 Is there still a bar open for supporters under the south stand? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owls2k Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 Didn't delia buy all the pubs near carrow rd and close them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest awoodward Posted August 8, 2009 Share Posted August 8, 2009 What happened to the SWFC pub experiance after the game today. We were promised extended opening after the game, went down after the game only to find all the shutters down on the bars and the stewards with no ideas whats going on (no change there then). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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