Fed? No. Fed Up? You Bet.

I sometimes wonder if the catering can get any worse at Ashton Gate.

Take the farce at the Mansfield game. It’s 40 minutes into the game and Tomarse’s belly is aching for a nice meaty pie. I wander down to the kiosk at the end of the Dolman nearest the Ayteo. Patiently waiting my turn I finally get to the front of the queue within two minutes.

“Meat pie please.”
“ Sorry, we ain’t got none.”

“Okay. Hot dog then.”
“ Sorry, we ain’t got ANY hot food.”

“Okay a Coke and a mineral water please.”
“ We ain’t got any mineral water.”

I walked away fuming with a couple of cups of Coke, while the FIRST HALF came to an end. The kiosk has sold out of food before the busiest food rush of the day.

Why is this happening? It’s not the first time this has happened. In fact this is the second time in three home games I have had the same experience. Now why can’t the club/catering company foresee that there is more demand for food than they stock? The club seem to be missing out on lost revenue by an inability to have enough food when it is needed. We’ve had excuses. I’d rather just have some food.

I think from now on I shall get my grub outside of the ground. It might not be going to the club’s coffers, but right now they are not providing the food and service for me and countless others, so we have to go somewhere.

Something needs to be reviewed. We are losing money as a club yet we still seem unable to cash in on potential match day revenues.

One Team In Bristol - 100 not out

From one fanzine to another, can I say a big well done to One Team In Bristol on reaching 100 editions.

Having managed the feat of reaching ten with The Incider, I know just how much work goes into every issue – even more so with a paper fanzine. I recall buying my first copy of OTIB back in the Denis Smith era for the princely sum of 50p. Issue Four sits in line with the other 93 copies I have purchase. It is publications like OTIB that have given me a laugh when just about everything else to do with City is doom and gloom.

Here’s to the next 100 issues.

Incider Mailing List

Just a shameless plug to remind you all that we now have a super mailing list up and running. Simply send a blank email to maillist-subscribe@theincider.com and you’ll get up-to-date information when the next Incider issue it ready for you to read.

Finally, let’s get behind the boys. We could start next season in Division One and we as fans must cheer the boys onto glory.

Just think, Sunderland at the Stadium of Light…or Hartlepool on a Tuesday night. If that’s not an incentive for the team to give 100 per cent, I don’t know what is!

Tomarse