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Re: Paying to watch games in the pub
Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2024 9:55 am
by Dunners
Currywurst and Chips wrote: ↑Sat Jul 13, 2024 9:27 am
I was offered a walk in (in South London) some friends are going to
The caveat is they are getting there at opening time (11:30) and spending the entire day there
Eight and a half hours of boozing before kick off. At least if England lose you wouldn't remember it.
Re: Paying to watch games in the pub
Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2024 10:08 am
by BIGRON
Dunners wrote: ↑Sat Jul 13, 2024 6:34 am
BIGRON wrote: ↑Fri Jul 12, 2024 9:54 pm
Watched the semi final in my local , it was absolutely heaving and about 80% of the punters I've never seen in there before, the landlord reckons I need to be in there by 6 on Sunday or I won't get a seat and he may even have to refuse entry , bollox to that I'll watch it at home .
Whereabouts is this, Ron? Our local is accepting walk ins (I can't believe I'm even saying this) as all tables and seats are reserved, but no way am I going to stand up in a pub for 2 hours before kick off.
The Marquess of Cornwallis Bethnal Green Road , I can't do 4 hours in a pub these days cos I like a drink and would end up hammered
Re: Paying to watch games in the pub
Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2024 10:11 am
by Dunners
Max B Gold wrote: ↑Fri Jul 12, 2024 4:49 pm
I shall be watching the game in my lounge wearing my sombrero, drinking Sangria and cheering on mi neuvo amigos all the way back to Madrid.
Re: Paying to watch games in the pub
Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2024 6:12 pm
by Currywurst and Chips
Managed a table at the local spoons at 18:00 quite easily
Only downside is it’s a Spoons
Re: Paying to watch games in the pub
Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2024 7:10 pm
by east saxon gas
Proposition Joe wrote: ↑Fri Jul 12, 2024 3:32 pm
Dunno about the Trades Hall tbf, love the venue but never thought of watching sport there. We've got tickets for High Hill Taproom, was about the only one with any left when I was looking yesterday morning. Everywhere that was doing walk-ins now seem not to be. Not that we ever reached finals in the last 30 years but how did pubs manage previously? Don't really see why this is all suddenly an issue.
Tavern on the Hill might be an option if Trades Hall is a bust?
it became the Warrant Officer to attract the modern version of yuppies, I thought. Why has it changed back - no yuppies to attract?
Re: Paying to watch games in the pub
Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2024 7:26 pm
by BIGRON
6pm and my local was rammed , enough standing room left for about a dozen people
the security guy on the door said loads of them were in the pub at midday and were already Pissed
I can see trouble in there later so I'm watching it at home
Re: Paying to watch games in the pub
Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2024 10:29 pm
by Proposition Joe
east saxon gas wrote: ↑Sun Jul 14, 2024 7:10 pm
Proposition Joe wrote: ↑Fri Jul 12, 2024 3:32 pm
Dunno about the Trades Hall tbf, love the venue but never thought of watching sport there. We've got tickets for High Hill Taproom, was about the only one with any left when I was looking yesterday morning. Everywhere that was doing walk-ins now seem not to be. Not that we ever reached finals in the last 30 years but how did pubs manage previously? Don't really see why this is all suddenly an issue.
Tavern on the Hill might be an option if Trades Hall is a bust?
it became the Warrant Officer to attract the modern version of yuppies, I thought. Why has it changed back - no yuppies to attract?
Think the opposite tbh. It was still vaguely sketchy at TWO but then local brewery Wild Card took it over and changed it back - it's been gentrified since then but, to be honest, not as badly as it could have been, kept staff on and a few non-Wild Card beers for the old fellas who still go there. Doing it's best to find some kind of middle ground.
Re: Paying to watch games in the pub
Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2024 10:40 pm
by Rich Tea Wellin
So so glad I wasn’t at the pub
Re: Paying to watch games in the pub
Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2024 10:40 pm
by Dunners
Dog & Duck was a decent option in the end. A mixed crowd of sandal wearing luvvies and cor blimeys.
Saw one fella drop his bag of coke, and a bird and her bloke slip into the toilets for a quick half time knee trembler. Bloke behind me spent the entire game shouting out his opinions of Walker's football abilities (or lack of). Decent beer selection though, and big screens everywhere.
Re: Paying to watch games in the pub
Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2024 10:46 pm
by Proposition Joe
Went to the D&D while "working from home" for Slovenia-Serbia. Mate and I made up about 40% of the clientele so probably a slightly different vibe. We both wore sandals, obvs. Absolutely fascinated by the Only Fools themed toilets though.
Re: Paying to watch games in the pub
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2024 7:32 am
by Dunners
There's something depressing about how 15,000 actually watched the game at the O2.
Re: Paying to watch games in the pub
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2024 7:46 am
by Long slender neck
Queue down the street to get into a pub near me charging £30 entry
Re: Paying to watch games in the pub
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2024 10:31 am
by Proposition Joe
Long slender neck wrote: ↑Mon Jul 15, 2024 7:46 am
Queue down the street to get into a pub near me charging £30 entry
How long were you in the queue for?