Flatcap, the beers in BTH were ok but got a bit boring in the end. I still used to drink in the stadium pre-match to support our finances and always love having one of the pies from MyPie, however if these were not available I wouldn’t be consuming the clubs alternative offering and would eat and drink elsewhere, I’m sure I’m not unique in this either. Offering Doombar would be comedy gold.

By the Horns did have a good rotation of ales. Some ok, some not. If we're lucky, we'll get Doombar or London Pride. Bog standard and owned by multinationals, which is why you find them in so many pubs these days.

Sutton pre-season friendly, does anybody know where we are housed in the stadia, it says on the diagram Curza terrace, but when you have to select an area to book, it doesn’t have the Curza terrace. Cheers

Craft beer is the hipster's favourite, cold,longer shelf life overpriced easy to keep for poor cellar work.BTH shouldn't of moved to their bigger premises,but sainsburys stopped selling their beer was the death knell

Anyone seen the Led Zeppelin film, and if so, is it any good…?

Finished Mobland last night, it was brilliant, and though all the music was perfect. Great watch!

It would be a huge fail if the independent traders got squeezed out - I think they are one of the best bits of our non-game match day experience. Certainly I don’t recall anything similar at any away/non-AFCW games that I’ve been to.

Looking forward to a pint at halftime standing in a concrete corridor jostled by punters. Just not an enjoyable prospect. New catering company cannot change that!

I’m with Nick on Sympathy for the Devil. Incredible song which I’ve heard played live many times. Someone mentioned the Sopranos as well. I can recommend Alabama 3, who recorded the theme Woke Up This Morning. Great band. There’s also a Simpsons version of it.

If we have agreed a bigger payment from the new caterers they need to fund that payment somehow and I can guarantee that a big corporation like that isn’t going to do that by accepting a lower profit margin. The obvious routes for a company like that to get more money out will be (1) higher prices (2) squeezing suppliers and staff (3) increasing sales by forcing out the independent on-site competitors. We definitely needed to get more money from catering to reduce our annual losses, so the new contract definitely makes sense, but anyone expecting it to improve the catering in the ground from the perspective of us as fans is likely to be disappointed

Repd - BtH have outlined in some detail why they went under and it wasn't to do with sales at PL.

I don’t mind what the new caterers do to the “club” food outlets (it’s pretty hard to see that they could make them worse than now in terms of food available, price or speed of service) but they absolutely need to leave the “independent” food vendors alone -those are definitely something that we do well. If those vendors get driven away we will lose way more than we gain in terms of extra payments under the contract.

Spit, and nick (and anyone else into their beers…) - if you fancy a good read about the British local pub, you could do worse than this 2024 book, written by a good friend of mine - [Link] or his 2022 book recommending 250 top beers in bottle/can [Link] Yes, he’s actually a beer journalist - nice work if you can get it… 🤪🍺👏

Saveloy - while I would like to see the breakdown of what beers sold more than others at PL, and having seen/been in line for the craft beer vendors, if BTH still couldn't make it work in a captive market like Plough Lane then perhaps it's not as viable as first thought...

REPD - what are you referring to when you say BTH/craft beer wasn’t a success? Clearly The Phoenix as a standalone pub hasn’t been a hit, but not sure it’s their fault we stuck it in a stairwell. Similalry they went bust because of things unrelated to us. Lots of people drank their beer on match day, which I think is the metric that matters for whether craft beer is wanted or not.

Oh, if the Gimps are around and able to work - none of the CSS scripts are working. Can't move the text box from right to left, and it's so small I can't resize it either

Morning all. Forget why, but there's a good reason why beers at sports venues tend to be similar to anywhere else. It won't stop people at even our games having a bevvie before or at half time, although if Aramak are smart they'll keep the food vendors onside. Also, as BTH proved, having craft beer inside a stadium isn't always a guaranteed winner...

Sympathy for the devil is one of the greatest songs ever recorded in Barnes. Superb piece of music with a great story that still manages to remain relevant 57 years after it was released

Prefer the Guns n Roses version to The Stone one [Link] Used in Interview with a Vampire

I think that's what will happen,a ruthless big American company won't want small independent businesses as compatition, sorry TBN

Nick - the usual method would be offering such poor terms that the vendors all pull out of their own accord and then Aramark and the club can claim it wasn't their fault.

Sorry about the fake news this morning, football league fixtures Thursday 26th June

Nick, I absolutely hate Sympathy for the Devil. A dreadful earworm as is Hey Jude.

Nicander, even some of the current vendors are of the opinion that the new catering company will want to bring all the outlets “in house” and there may not be a long term future for them once Aramark take over. Like you say supporters have become invested in the food outlets and are unlikely to accept the inferior offerings from the club concessions so we could lose out big time. It would be sad to lose our food park if that is a possibility.

Wow how good is Mobland and how many times can “Sympathy for the Devil” and “The Beast In Me” be used as a perfect commentary/accompaniment in/to the storyline of a great piece of work?