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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2014 15:39:35 GMT
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And most odd articles they are too Barton. As a Bristow's Bench regular I found them to be a major distraction during the early games of this season, but am now finding myself gradually being able to ignore them and thereby concentrate more on the match.
I also assumed they were shoes, until a recent match when possibly due to Chris swivelling quickly to see from which section the 'Sort it out Hargreaves' cry had emanated, the result was that the bottom of one managerial trouser leg hitched in the top of his tan boot, and stayed in that position for the remainder of the half.
I've almost grown to like them, and imagine they will soon be stocked in the Club Shop if interest continues to grow. I can imagine at least one on-line order coming in from North London.
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Post by hector on Oct 2, 2014 5:47:57 GMT
Am I alone in thinking Rice could have done better with both goals? Especially the 2nd plus he looked at fault for some at Telford. Seems he is returning to dodgy-upon-keeperville.
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Post by jmgull on Oct 2, 2014 8:31:59 GMT
Seems he is returning to dodgy-upon-keeperville. Not so much returning, he's always lived there... The 1st maybe he could have done a little better, the 2nd he had no chance....point blank, hit firmly. He cost us the points at Telford almost single handedly. I don't want to be too critical as he has done pretty well (for him) this season making some fine saves but he will never instil much confidence in any defence as he stays rooted to his line, making us defend far too deep, a recipe for disaster. The 500 odd minutes without conceding was to be fair, more to do with the comparative poor finishing at this level, we had a very welcome period of (mainly) part time strikers missing several sitters against us. The fact that he's our no.1 this season, is the biggest sign that promotion this season would be most unlikely, Hargreaves has managed to bring in some very decent and promising attacking players, I think, in fact, we may well have the best attacking unit in this league - I guess we were so lacking in other areas, the budget didn't stretch to bringing in a good L2/conf keeper. I would have preferred to see us loan a big young keeper from the Prem or Champ for this season - Seabright doesn't seem, from reports, to be much better sadly. It's an old cliché but nevertheless very true, successful teams are built from the back. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2014 10:18:05 GMT
Somewhat selfish attitude from the owner of the club to force everyone who goes to the match and wants to eat, to eat vegetarian just because he is...probably why so few people attend matches. I'm a vegetarian, but I don't force my wife to stop eating meat!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2014 10:25:06 GMT
Somewhat selfish attitude from the owner of the club to force everyone who goes to the match and wants to eat, to eat vegetarian just because he is...probably why so few people attend matches. I'm a vegetarian, but I don't force my wife to stop eating meat!
Where's the thread for tomorrows match...I have things to say!
Just noticed the third picture up^^^ the guy walking around the area must have had chips with a curry sauce...hence all the Torquay players have been gassed!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2014 12:11:09 GMT
Somewhat selfish attitude from the owner of the club to force everyone who goes to the match and wants to eat, to eat vegetarian just because he is...probably why so few people attend matches. I'm a vegetarian, but I don't force my wife to stop eating meat! Register is a man of principle. But his words may be entirely tongue-in-cheek (or even lentils-in-mouth). I don't know but I'm laid back about this. I like vegetarian food. I like most vegetarians. But I'm not particularly enamoured when they start moralising to me. Yet that's not how I see the actions of Forest Green Rovers. To serve vegetarian food solely is entirely their prerogative just as it would be with any other business. My only regret is that, having looked forward to something slightly different, the fare on offer wasn't particularly exciting. I'm not sure of the obligations of any football club towards serving food to spectators. It may be a condition of league membership above a certain level. Where the requirement exists I doubt there's an insistence that meat must be available. But, from experience, you can pretty much assume there will be food and drink available anywhere in the top ten tiers of the English game (and frequently below). That's a thousand places where I can enjoy a cuppa and, should I wish (and I often do), something that was once a living animal. I might be wrong but I'd be amazed if the absence of meat products reduces attendances. They tend to like a bit of meat in the North East - you'll even find clubs selling raffle tickets promising a "meat prize" - but I can't imagine you'd not travel from Gateshead to Nailsworth on the basis there won't be a meat pie on offer at the other end. Not at the top of the hill anyway. As for the locals I'm sure that, living close to Stroud, they've a pretty tolerant attitude. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2014 12:55:01 GMT
Somewhat selfish attitude from the owner of the club to force everyone who goes to the match and wants to eat, to eat vegetarian just because he is...probably why so few people attend matches. I'm a vegetarian, but I don't force my wife to stop eating meat! Register is a man of principle. But his words may be entirely tongue-in-cheek (or even lentils-in-mouth). I don't know but I'm laid back about this. I like vegetarian food. I like most vegetarians. But I'm not particularly enamoured when they start moralising to me. Yet that's not how I see the actions of Forest Green Rovers. To serve vegetarian food solely is entirely their prerogative just as it would be with any other business. My only regret is that, having looked forward to something slightly different, the fare on offer wasn't particularly exciting. I'm not sure of the obligations of any football club towards serving food to spectators. It may be a condition of league membership above a certain level. Where the requirement exists I doubt there's an insistence that meat must be available. But, from experience, you can pretty much assume there will be food and drink available anywhere in the top ten tiers of the English game (and frequently below). That's a thousand places where I can enjoy a cuppa and, should I wish (and I often do), something that was once a living animal. I might be wrong but I'd be amazed if the absence of meat products reduces attendances. They tend to like a bit of meat in the North East - you'll even find clubs selling raffle tickets promising a "meat prize" - but I can't imagine you'd not travel from Gateshead to Nailsworth on the basis there won't be a meat pie on offer at the other end. Not at the top of the hill anyway. As for the locals I'm sure that, living close to Stroud, they've a pretty tolerant attitude.
I'm sure you're right about the vegetarian issue not affecting the crowd numbers. I doubt though, that the food on offer would be all vegetarian if the owner didn't happen to be one. It's a personal thing, but I hate being dictated to. When I was at school, I didn't want to learn a bloody thing because I was forced to be there, but almost from the day I left, I couldn't get enough of learning new things. I was in various armies for some years and spent most of my time trying to grow my hair longer than regulation length, because I hated being told to keep it short...probably a wrong career choice! Since I left the army (many years ago) I've always had very short hair! And the one thing that really does give me the raging abdabs is adverts!!! Every time you go to look at anything on the bloody computer you get thirty seconds of adverts! On principle, I have never bought anything I have ever seen advertised...they ruin my day, i'm buying sod all from them!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2014 14:01:37 GMT
I doubt though, that the food on offer would be all vegetarian if the owner didn't happen to be one. I'm sure you are right. It's hard to imagine anybody making an entirely commercial decision to withhold the sale of meat products to football supporters. Why, why, isn't the consumption of pies and pasties right at the heart of our culture? Or is this mere conditioning? I can hear a voice (with a North Derbyshire accent) saying we shouldn't categorise all football watchers in this way. Many are vegetarians; others may wish for culinary variety at games; the rest won't keel over if there are no meat and potato pies. Offering purely vegetarian food at football grounds could be a commercial success. It's fair to say I didn't feel dictated to at Forest Green Rovers. I don't know how vegetarians feel when, upon arrival at a match, they find the last cheese and onion pasties (both of them) were sold ten minutes ago. I don't know if that's dictation, frustration or simple resignation.. But, had there been a "Meat is Murder" poster above the urinal trough at FGR - or an "Eating Meat Causes World Poverty" slogan on the team shirts - I would have felt less comfortable. But, of course, that would remain the club's prerogative. As it happens, everything was low-key and restricted to the content of the menus as pictured on this thread. I suspect that the owner of FGR operates a business that is commercially astute as well as "ethical". Preaching to potential customers probably isn't sound business practice. Mind you, there's a rumour Torquay United may be investing in solar energy. I wonder if Ecotricity offer a discount to clubs in FGR's league? |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2014 14:31:02 GMT
Some good examples from Reg relating to objecting on the grounds of compulsion. Some adverts annoy me more than others, but I'll probably feel duty bound to use MB Insolvency soon if Alpine Enterprises continues to struggle.
Thanks again to Barton for providing us with a much appreciated 'flavour' of the evening at FGR, both on the pitch and by the catering outlets. The Clyst Rovers pics were ones I found too depressing to thank him for, even though I was in Pinhoe at the time and could have given him a distant wave.
As for the third from bottom pic, it's the players demonstrating how badly they need to grab any chance of a lie down after all their recent travelling before matches. |
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Post by gullone on Oct 3, 2014 14:31:06 GMT
[quote source="/post/113913/thread" I'm not sure of the obligations of any football club towards serving food to spectators. It may be a condition of league membership above a certain level. Where the requirement exists I doubt there's an insistence that meat must be available. But, from experience, you can pretty much assume there will be food and drink available anywhere in the top ten tiers of the English game (and frequently below). That's a thousand places where I can enjoy a cuppa and, should I wish (and I often do)...... With an exception being at Bucks Head last week along with myself i presume. On finally arriving and entering the away end i was gagging for a decent cup of tea (one sugar). Told by the guy serving we dont sell tea while the other guy looks at me in total disbelief for even asking ! I realise there was beer in plastic bottles and there may have been coffee which i didnt fancy. No tea avaliable at a football ground......now that is a first for me. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2014 15:25:35 GMT
On finally arriving and entering the away end i was gagging for a decent cup of tea (one sugar). Told by the guy serving we dont sell tea while the other guy looks at me in total disbelief for even asking ! I realise there was beer in plastic bottles and there may have been coffee which i didnt fancy. No tea avaliable at a football ground......now that is a first for me. Criminal. Unforgivable. Immediate ten point deduction. No appeal. You can't imagine it happening down at The Rec in Torquay back in 1938. Proper old tea urns, steam on the windows, whiff of Woodbines. Talk too of the "usual open style of football". And, quite possibly, whispered conversation away from the children about the news that - on the very day Torquay Athletic played Devonport Services - the Germans had annexed Austria. |
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Post by Ditmar van Nostrilboy on Oct 3, 2014 15:37:27 GMT
Somewhat selfish attitude from the owner of the club to force everyone who goes to the match and wants to eat, to eat vegetarian just because he is...probably why so few people attend matches. I'm a vegetarian, but I don't force my wife to stop eating meat!
Where's the thread for tomorrows match...I have things to say! I seem to remember a lot of press articles when they introduced the idea of herbivorous fare at FGR. The club did state at the time that carnivores were welcome to bring their own meat pies/pasties etc if they wished. Not sure how they would have reacted to someone turning up with a Smokey Joe and some steaks for a in-game snack though... |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2014 17:03:04 GMT
Register is a man of principle. But his words may be entirely tongue-in-cheek (or even lentils-in-mouth). I don't know but I'm laid back about this. I like vegetarian food. I like most vegetarians. But I'm not particularly enamoured when they start moralising to me. Yet that's not how I see the actions of Forest Green Rovers. To serve vegetarian food solely is entirely their prerogative just as it would be with any other business. My only regret is that, having looked forward to something slightly different, the fare on offer wasn't particularly exciting. I'm not sure of the obligations of any football club towards serving food to spectators. It may be a condition of league membership above a certain level. Where the requirement exists I doubt there's an insistence that meat must be available. But, from experience, you can pretty much assume there will be food and drink available anywhere in the top ten tiers of the English game (and frequently below). That's a thousand places where I can enjoy a cuppa and, should I wish (and I often do), something that was once a living animal. I might be wrong but I'd be amazed if the absence of meat products reduces attendances. They tend to like a bit of meat in the North East - you'll even find clubs selling raffle tickets promising a "meat prize" - but I can't imagine you'd not travel from Gateshead to Nailsworth on the basis there won't be a meat pie on offer at the other end. Not at the top of the hill anyway. As for the locals I'm sure that, living close to Stroud, they've a pretty tolerant attitude.
I'm sure you're right about the vegetarian issue not affecting the crowd numbers. I doubt though, that the food on offer would be all vegetarian if the owner didn't happen to be one. It's a personal thing, but I hate being dictated to. When I was at school, I didn't want to learn a bloody thing because I was forced to be there, but almost from the day I left, I couldn't get enough of learning new things. I was in various armies for some years and spent most of my time trying to grow my hair longer than regulation length, because I hated being told to keep it short...probably a wrong career choice! Since I left the army (many years ago) I've always had very short hair! And the one thing that really does give me the raging abdabs is adverts!!! Every time you go to look at anything on the bloody computer you get thirty seconds of adverts! On principle, I have never bought anything I have ever seen advertised...they ruin my day, i'm buying sod all from them!
Just install Adblock Plus ( Link). It's free and banishes those pesky intrusive adverts from your screen. Great little program. |
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