John Boy Saint Posted 24 August, 2013 Share Posted 24 August, 2013 A few folks I was with today were pretty disappointed with the demise of Crantocks Traditional Cornish Pasties from the bill of fair of the stadium catering instead they have replaced them with Pukka Pies super cheapo, by comparison, offering over the past few seasons the Pasty has become a Matchday regular. Well as of today it looks like we will be probably just be putting our hands in our pockets for a beer. Previously we have just rolled with the prices as the environment we are in you expect to pay through the nose. However when a Hot Dog a very disappointing Pasty and 2 bottles of water came to £11 the crap Pasty alone brought that into focus. Shame really just to save a few pennies the club has lost £40 at least through their tills for the next 18 home matches! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zigsdad Posted 24 August, 2013 Share Posted 24 August, 2013 Lost my ££ today too. In the family Centre concourse there was no draft beer available, despite them advertising Saints Ale prominently. When I pointed this out to them the took the sign down in a hurry, then told me it was being served at the other counter, which of course it wasn't. It's not like the Saints Ale is any good, but choosing between bottled Carlsberg, Magners or Singa is no choice at all... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpturner Posted 24 August, 2013 Share Posted 24 August, 2013 Great thread - thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manji Posted 24 August, 2013 Share Posted 24 August, 2013 A fan on the board would sort that disaster in a flash. To me it overshadows we are 4th in the table. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BotleySaint Posted 24 August, 2013 Share Posted 24 August, 2013 No-one wants to watch the game on an empty stomach Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldskoolsi Posted 24 August, 2013 Share Posted 24 August, 2013 Us being forth in the table now is about as inconsequential as us being bottom after 2 games last season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toadhall Saint Posted 24 August, 2013 Share Posted 24 August, 2013 Personally I find this thread boring but this place isn't just about the team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted 24 August, 2013 Share Posted 24 August, 2013 Seriously. Were you there for the football or to stuff your fat faces? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doggface Posted 24 August, 2013 Share Posted 24 August, 2013 Saints catering (& prem/football league clubs in general) is appalling. The Americans & Canadian catering is usually pretty amazing. At Toronto fc food & beer is unbelievable. Bacon on a stick, Butter Chicken Fries, Massive chicken fingers, pizza. List is endless. About 8 different types of beer too on pump & bottles. no problem getting served either. Unfortunately the football is shocking.... Better than nothing I suppose : / Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isla Wight Posted 24 August, 2013 Share Posted 24 August, 2013 Despite the couple of sarcastic comments it is a relevant thread. Service in the family area was appalling. Insufficient staffing resulted in lengthy queues still as the second half was getting under way. Unfortunately the club has never really got to grips with the catering for the masses. Food very expensive and I too will be giving it a miss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted 24 August, 2013 Share Posted 24 August, 2013 Saints catering (& prem/football league clubs in general) is appalling. The Americans & Canadian catering is usually pretty amazing. At Toronto fc food & beer is unbelievable. Bacon on a stick, Butter Chicken Fries, Massive chicken fingers, pizza. List is endless. About 8 different types of beer too on pump & bottles. no problem getting served either. Unfortunately the football is shocking.... Better than nothing I suppose : / That's one of the reasons why yanks and canadians are so fat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doggface Posted 24 August, 2013 Share Posted 24 August, 2013 Haha true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Boy Saint Posted 24 August, 2013 Author Share Posted 24 August, 2013 Seriously. Were you there for the football or to stuff your fat faces? You live in such a perfect world, if this thread is so inconsequential to you why bother to comment with such banal rubbish, aside from massaging your uber fan ego by keeping up your internet forum post count up. Just resist the urge and move on. Stadium catering is part of the package presented by the football club, whilst I was stuffing my "fat face" no football was being played so my viewing of football was no effected, my getting my face in the trough happens before the game kicks off. Living out of the city the concourse catering has been convenient as other factors see us get to the stadium around 1:45pm on a normal matchday. Having disposable income we have lived with the expense of what was a pretty good Pasty and a drink. All football clubs will squeeze their fans as much as they can, but when, in this instance, they de-spec something to the point of highlighting how far they are pulling your trousers down then that is not sound business. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted 24 August, 2013 Share Posted 24 August, 2013 You live in such a perfect world, if this thread is so inconsequential to you why bother to comment with such banal rubbish, aside from massaging your uber fan ego by keeping up your internet forum post count up. Just resist the urge and move on. Stadium catering is part of the package presented by the football club, whilst I was stuffing my "fat face" no football was being played so my viewing of football was no effected, my getting my face in the trough happens before the game kicks off. Living out of the city the concourse catering has been convenient as other factors see us get to the stadium around 1:45pm on a normal matchday. Having disposable income we have lived with the expense of what was a pretty good Pasty and a drink. All football clubs will squeeze their fans as much as they can, but when, in this instance, they de-spec something to the point of highlighting how far they are pulling your trousers down then that is not sound business. Wow, you seem very upset, that pie must have been awful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlakeySFC Posted 24 August, 2013 Share Posted 24 August, 2013 A few folks I was with today were pretty disappointed with the demise of Crantocks Traditional Cornish Pasties from the bill of fair of the stadium catering instead they have replaced them with Pukka Pies Hope you told them to get a life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Boy Saint Posted 24 August, 2013 Author Share Posted 24 August, 2013 Wow, you seem very upset, that pie must have been awful The Pasty was pretty disappointing. Your earlier response was a bit tiresome and a poorly aimed shot at something that obviously has no real interest to you, but as usual you hear the clip clop of goat hooves on the bridge above your head and out you pop!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperMikey Posted 24 August, 2013 Share Posted 24 August, 2013 Have a sandwich before you go out, few bevvies at the pub, watch the game, few more bevvies afterwards and then a dodgy takeaway in the wee hours. That's the routine you should follow, don't bother with concourse food. It's always been sh!t, as has the drink. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Boy Saint Posted 24 August, 2013 Author Share Posted 24 August, 2013 Hope you told them to get a life. Obvoiusly my opening comment is attracting some smart mouthed comments to great mirth. Maybe a Matchday habit being cheapened was the stupid little thing that just touched a nerve with a group of people who have sat together in the same seats for 10 years only for this summer when they came to renew their season tickets find that they have been evicted from those seats with no warning, communication or apology for the inconvenience from the club: and along with it the breaking up of long established matchday friendships. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonManager Posted 24 August, 2013 Share Posted 24 August, 2013 Obvoiusly my opening comment is attracting some smart mouthed comments to great mirth. Maybe a Matchday habit being cheapened was the stupid little thing that just touched a nerve with a group of people who have sat together in the same seats for 10 years only for this summer when they came to renew their season tickets find that they have been evicted from those seats with no warning, communication or apology for the inconvenience from the club: and along with it the breaking up of long established matchday friendships. So you decided to take it out on the catering, On the evidence presented, it appears that you thought you were going out for a meal, when in fact you were attending a football match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted 24 August, 2013 Share Posted 24 August, 2013 Obvoiusly my opening comment is attracting some smart mouthed comments to great mirth. Maybe a Matchday habit being cheapened was the stupid little thing that just touched a nerve with a group of people who have sat together in the same seats for 10 years only for this summer when they came to renew their season tickets find that they have been evicted from those seats with no warning, communication or apology for the inconvenience from the club: and along with it the breaking up of long established matchday friendships. And to cap it all you had a dodgy pasty. Wasn't your day was it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint86 Posted 24 August, 2013 Share Posted 24 August, 2013 seriously... I take food and drinks in to every game... in broad sight of the stewards. mineral water, bags of chocolate' sandwiches etc. they do not care. do you need to buy yourself on £11 worth pies at half time? really? I would suggest that if you have the money to waste on substandard food like that, that you are probably just moaning for the sake of it tbh. if you were really fussed you wouldn't be buying it in the first place surely? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batman Posted 24 August, 2013 Share Posted 24 August, 2013 its almost like going to the cinema and moaning at the quality of the disgustingly over priced popcorn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonnyboy Posted 24 August, 2013 Share Posted 24 August, 2013 My hip flask is the way forward, swigs of whisky keep the munchies at bay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Posted 24 August, 2013 Share Posted 24 August, 2013 This thread is embarrassing. I bet you're great fun to sit near. Too busy crying into your pukka pie and drafting your forum post complaint in your head to watch the game. Hand your season ticket back if this is the sort of thing that bothers you, or eat before or after the game. Jesus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Boy Saint Posted 24 August, 2013 Author Share Posted 24 August, 2013 seriously... I take food and drinks in to every game... in broad sight of the stewards. mineral water, bags of chocolate' sandwiches etc. they do not care. do you need to buy yourself on £11 worth pies at half time? really? I would suggest that if you have the money to waste on substandard food like that, that you are probably just moaning for the sake of it tbh. if you were really fussed you wouldn't be buying it in the first place surely? It has never previously cost £11 to buy something for me and my Wife before the match (as it appears that some folks think I was eating it all myself) it has been under a tenner, the disappointment of the product now sold compared to the previously acceptable product emphasised the point of the cost. And like I said in the opening post having a degree of disposable income I have accepted that in a football stadium environment I will pay a premium for generally substandard fare. The previously sold Pasty stood above the other hot "foodstuffs" on offer. I won't be so lazy from now on and like you take my own lunch in future. This thread would have been so very different if it had been about the beer being changed from Stella Artois to Carling and the price being put up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonManager Posted 24 August, 2013 Share Posted 24 August, 2013 mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...... catering Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiggles31 Posted 25 August, 2013 Share Posted 25 August, 2013 mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...... catering Hahaha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiggles31 Posted 25 August, 2013 Share Posted 25 August, 2013 But seriously whoooooooooo cares! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mystic Force Posted 25 August, 2013 Share Posted 25 August, 2013 I hope you all drink at home and never go to restrauntsunts. I hear its cheaper to make your own dinner, and buy beer at the offie. Or maybe people like to eat food socially or when it is convinient, as long as its not too overpriced and it sucks. Way to maximize revenue = sell things people will buy. I guess because we only got a draw everyone has to act like dicks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonManager Posted 25 August, 2013 Share Posted 25 August, 2013 I hope you all drink at home and never go to restrauntsunts. I hear its cheaper to make your own dinner, and buy beer at the offie. Or maybe people like to eat food socially or when it is convinient, as long as its not too overpriced and it sucks. Way to maximize revenue = sell things people will buy. I guess because we only got a draw everyone has to act like dicks. We don't have restrauntsunts in the UK. What are they like? Do they sell food? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlakeySFC Posted 25 August, 2013 Share Posted 25 August, 2013 If only we had Rupert back...he'd sort out the catering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordswoodsaints Posted 25 August, 2013 Share Posted 25 August, 2013 Never understand people who feel compelled to stuff their faces and drink **** beer all in a 15 minute spell,where's the socialising/enjoyment in that? Either have a relaxed drink before or after the game if that's your thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manji Posted 25 August, 2013 Share Posted 25 August, 2013 Never understand people who feel compelled to stuff their faces and drink **** beer all in a 15 minute spell,where's the socialising/enjoyment in that? Either have a relaxed drink before or after the game if that's your thing. Youre forgetting missing the last ten minutes of the first half and five minutes of the second half. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
70's Mike Posted 25 August, 2013 Share Posted 25 August, 2013 before you moan about the catering at SMS, especially those old enough to remember, think about trying to get a pint in the Milton or Archers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint86 Posted 25 August, 2013 Share Posted 25 August, 2013 It has never previously cost £11 to buy something for me and my Wife before the match (as it appears that some folks think I was eating it all myself) it has been under a tenner, the disappointment of the product now sold compared to the previously acceptable product emphasised the point of the cost. And like I said in the opening post having a degree of disposable income I have accepted that in a football stadium environment I will pay a premium for generally substandard fare. The previously sold Pasty stood above the other hot "foodstuffs" on offer. I won't be so lazy from now on and like you take my own lunch in future. This thread would have been so very different if it had been about the beer being changed from Stella Artois to Carling and the price being put up. ha, well you have a fair grievance if the quality has dropped and the prices have increased. I long ago accepted it was a waste of money. for that amount you could just buy some nice sandwiches from M&S for example.. nothing to do about being lazy or not. I just think anyone who pays for the rubbish in the stadium has encouraged the club to charge those prices.... and it is a rip off quality wise. you are almost certainly right regarding this forum and a discussion over beers sold in the ground. the usual chap from block 18 is still there this year.... lagered up and letting fly with swear words from the 5th minute at anyone who mix controls, doesn't score or do exactly what he tells them. god forbid if the price or choice of half time pint(s) got any worse! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordswoodsaints Posted 25 August, 2013 Share Posted 25 August, 2013 Youre forgetting missing the last ten minutes of the first half and five minutes of the second half. Exactly,I'm sure people can go 90mins without a beer,why miss the game for a crap pie and a weak warm beer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldNick Posted 25 August, 2013 Share Posted 25 August, 2013 Why degrade a posters perfectly good concern. Iam sure all the posters who are commenting live a wonderful healthy lifestyle but I notice that 1000's enjoy a pie and pint at the game. If the standards drop it is potentially costing the club revenue,although I suspect the club franchise out the food and drink rights. It will be the caterers who see their sales drop. As the post from Canada mentioned the catering that part of the world is pretty slick, sadly wherever you go to mass events we don't seem to get it right. All customers should. Be served by the time the ref blows his whistle to start. It seems to me there should someone taking the money and a voucher given, the staff should be pouring drinks ready and so a steady supply could be dished out. The pour as you order takes so much time. I k ow we have some beer experts but in my experience it a L tastes foul in the plastic cups and so if it has been standing for a minute waiting to be given out what is the problem? As for the pies if the sales drop they might change them back to your favourites. I myself would like Pleasteds to be served, that would be an upgrade Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wes Tender Posted 25 August, 2013 Share Posted 25 August, 2013 This really is the wrong place to moan about the catering, because it isn't as if you have no alternative to turning up at the stadium not having had the opportunity to eat and drink at hundreds of alternative places beforehand. And then you seem surprised that some don't appear to share your view that stadium catering, which in the concourses is poor quality at vastly inflated prices is something to be overly fussed about on here. Do what everybody else does and either pay up without whinging, or boycott it and take your custom elsewhere. The simple laws of supply and demand will eventually come into play and the management will realise that selling food and drink of poor quality and over-inflated prices is uneconomical when demand drops substantially. I got stung for £2 for a small bottle of water and will from now on buy it outside for 80p. If you feel the desperate urge to have a good moan about it, why don't you just write to the club? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pap Posted 25 August, 2013 Share Posted 25 August, 2013 I'm surprised that John Boy Saint has decided to go public with his pastry nightmare. First, under the terms of the Ramirez Treaty, all happy clappers got to "own" a poster from the no brigade following the successful completion of the transfer. I "own" John Boy Saint. As someone who champions freedom of speech, I'd never use such ownership to curtail JB's chatter, but I do wish he'd kick a couple of these ideas upstairs before unleashing them on the general public. No one ever says "want a good pie or pint? Visit your nearest large football stadium". I appreciate that a pie and a pint are part of matchday tradition, but I'm with the majority on this one. I'd never take the hump because the coffee in McDonalds is crap, because I'm going there for the burgers, not the coffee. Same thing, innit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Bognor Posted 25 August, 2013 Share Posted 25 August, 2013 They used to serve grab bag sized walkers crisps, now you only get standard size for the same money. So I now buy a packet of crisps before the game. True Story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted 25 August, 2013 Share Posted 25 August, 2013 They used to serve grab bag sized walkers crisps, now you only get standard size for the same money. So I now buy a packet of crisps before the game. True Story. I can vouch for the truth in this, having witnessed your outrage first hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pap Posted 25 August, 2013 Share Posted 25 August, 2013 They used to serve grab bag sized walkers crisps, now you only get standard size for the same money. So I now buy a packet of crisps before the game. True Story. Can someone tell me how people got crisps into their hands before "grab bags" were invented? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnailOB Posted 25 August, 2013 Share Posted 25 August, 2013 Saints fan attends first game of new season and makes observations about his family match day experience. Observation about catering which (if numbers of people on concourse is anything to go by) seems to be used by many fans. Usual posters come on and ridicule Saints fan for pointless post (when its probably easier for them to ignore) Amazing when you consider some of the inane sh*te that is posted by others on a daily basis. With regards to the OP, quality of catering at UK arenas / stadia / events never seem to represent value for money. Yes, it would be easier to obtain food and drink before entering St Marys. Yes, this would probably be a more effective protest than sharing your match day experience on a Saints fans forum. That said, don't believe you should be treated like a pr*ck on here for sharing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ewell Posted 25 August, 2013 Share Posted 25 August, 2013 Maybe John Boy Saint was just looking to see if other people felt the same, which it seems a lot on here don't. John Boy Saint was probably wrong to come onto a message board of Southampton football fans who regularly visit the stadium and may possibly use the facilities he is talking about. How dare he share his views on this public forum. You trolls must start to try harder as you are just very boring now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fan The Flames Posted 25 August, 2013 Share Posted 25 August, 2013 Seriously. Were you there for the football or to stuff your fat faces? People can't resist a half time pasty just like you can't resist replying with the same thing to these types of threads. Both are compulsions just over different things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcjwills Posted 25 August, 2013 Share Posted 25 August, 2013 I'm surprised that John Boy Saint has decided to go public with his pastry nightmare. First, under the terms of the Ramirez Treaty, all happy clappers got to "own" a poster from the no brigade following the successful completion of the transfer. I "own" John Boy Saint. As someone who champions freedom of speech, I'd never use such ownership to curtail JB's chatter, but I do wish he'd kick a couple of these ideas upstairs before unleashing them on the general public. No one ever says "want a good pie or pint? Visit your nearest large football stadium". I appreciate that a pie and a pint are part of matchday tradition, but I'm with the majority on this one. I'd never take the hump because the coffee in McDonalds is crap, because I'm going there for the burgers, not the coffee. Same thing, innit? If it's tradition where's me Bovril? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spudders Posted 25 August, 2013 Share Posted 25 August, 2013 This thread's a fine example to use, to highlight why many people probably don't bother to express an opinion on here any more! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eelpie Posted 25 August, 2013 Share Posted 25 August, 2013 I couldn't see what was on sale because the service was so slow and the queues so big that I got nowhere near the counter. Sort it Don. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isla Wight Posted 25 August, 2013 Share Posted 25 August, 2013 This thread's a fine example to use, to highlight why many people probably don't bother to express an opinion on here any more! Spot on. The trolls have taken over. Always try to show how funny they are with their mid placed sarcasm. Then accuse others of being over sensitive. You know who you are - to++ers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qwertySFC Posted 25 August, 2013 Share Posted 25 August, 2013 This thread's a fine example to use, to highlight why many people probably don't bother to express an opinion on here any more! This forum has gone downhill , shame because once it was full of good reads and debate - nowadays it's just Troll City Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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