Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Wed Dec 29, 2010 5:34 am  

Chico wrote:

A few lessons need to be learned from Leigh's stadium management shambles yesterday. The food kiosk was crap. Halfway through the first-half they couldn't keep up with food orders. Ordering grub was a lucky dip. No onions or condiments were available for hot dogs and burgers, leaving the former feeling like you were eating a dry-wall butty. The cash turnstile operators had about two pounds worth of change on them, thus holding the queue up past kick-off. And the stadium bar (legends bar) had hardly anyone in it after the match; it was dead. I hazard a guess because the drinks were almost double what the surrounding pubs charge.

Remember kids, a crap ground with a good customer experience beats a nice ground with a crap customer experience every day of the week.

agreed but shouldn't we,the paying public expect decent facilities plus decent customer care ? The best french RU/RL stadium I've found so far is Stade Toulousain - easy acccess from the motorway,good grub,good booze,friendly staff & good facilities,what more could you ask for ?

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Wed Dec 29, 2010 10:40 am  

sanjunien wrote:

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agreed but shouldn't we,the paying public expect decent facilities plus decent customer care ? The best french RU/RL stadium I've found so far is Stade Toulousain - easy acccess from the motorway,good grub,good booze,friendly staff & good facilities,what more could you ask for ?

Better than the other place then , at 5 euro for a can not even a pint

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Wed Dec 29, 2010 11:52 am  

sanjunien wrote:

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agreed but shouldn't we,the paying public expect decent facilities plus decent customer care ? The best french RU/RL stadium I've found so far is Stade Toulousain - easy acccess from the motorway,good grub,good booze,friendly staff & good facilities,what more could you ask for ?

An atmosphere? Something distinctly lacking in contemporary, corporate and clinical stadia.

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Wed Dec 29, 2010 6:03 pm  

Red Preacher wrote:

An atmosphere? Something distinctly lacking in contemporary, corporate and clinical stadia.

'atmosphere' isn't some magic formula which can be bought at your local supermarket - it's something that's created by US,the fans - you go to a Stade Toulousain RU home game and you will find your 'atmosphere'



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the price at TO last year was €2.50 for a token - 2 tokens = half a litre = €5

mind you,didn't seem to stop you Leythers from getting thoroughly p****d up tho',did it ? as a matter of interest what do they charge you for a pint at LSV nowadays ?

obviously the thing to do is buy a case of cheap booze from any supermarket,have a skinful before the match and then top-up with a few more in the ground ?

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Wed Dec 29, 2010 6:05 pm  

Fully wrote:

It is still, technically, the newest stadium to be in rugby league.

Newest age wise, all the ones you mention are old stadia as you well know, no building yet then... No rush now eh now Wakeys has been sent for public inquiry.

So I reckon I'll still have my sig until at least the middle of 2012, and I should then be removing it as Saints ground should be ready. I'm fairly confident the Salford Fairy Tale Stadium will not be ready before Saints ground

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Wed Dec 29, 2010 6:07 pm  

Chico wrote:

A few lessons need to be learned from Leigh's stadium management shambles yesterday. The food kiosk was crap. Halfway through the first-half they couldn't keep up with food orders. Ordering grub was a lucky dip. No onions or condiments were available for hot dogs and burgers, leaving the former feeling like you were eating a dry-wall butty. The cash turnstile operators had about two pounds worth of change on them, thus holding the queue up past kick-off. And the stadium bar (legends bar) had hardly anyone in it after the match; it was dead. I hazard a guess because the drinks were almost double what the surrounding pubs charge.

Remember kids, a crap ground with a good customer experience beats a nice ground with a crap customer experience every day of the week.

Complaints to Events Management Catering, think Fax also have them now and they are just as bad there.

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Wed Dec 29, 2010 6:59 pm  

sanjunien wrote:

Red Preacher wrote:

An atmosphere? Something distinctly lacking in contemporary, corporate and clinical stadia.

'atmosphere' isn't some magic formula which can be bought at your local supermarket - it's something that's created by US,the fans -Yes, I'm fully aware of that. Although there are other factors involved. you go to a Stade Toulousain RU home game and you will find your 'atmosphere' Equally, the atmospheres at the DW, HJ, KC and LSV are distinctly lacking in comparison to their former stadiums. (Something many of these teams own fans have commented on) So what do you propose happened in Wigan, Warrington, Hull and Leigh? (Outside derby games) Perhaps the contemporary, corporate and clinical nature of their stadia is a factor?

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Wed Dec 29, 2010 8:31 pm  

I've mentioned this before but it'd be great to see the SMC do things differently on the catering front at the new stadium. A freshly prepared, healthy-ish menu with quality ingredients (eg. the cheese, ham and salad rolls you get at Italian football, good quality bratwurst, jacket potatoes perhaps) with a more imaginative drinks selection (a local ale, decent continental lager, I'm sure there must be a local company that makes soft drinks (Ben Shaws?)) would show a little bit of leadership and initiative, especially if SCC could get involved from a health initiative perspective (yes I know bratwurst isn't the healthiest food but it has to be better than a death burger).

We can do without another identikit stadium that serves boiled hot dogs and over-priced watered down Carling.

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Wed Dec 29, 2010 9:13 pm  

Diavolo Rosso wrote:

I've mentioned this before but it'd be great to see the SMC do things differently on the catering front at the new stadium. A freshly prepared, healthy-ish menu with quality ingredients (eg. the cheese, ham and salad rolls you get at Italian football, good quality bratwurst, jacket potatoes perhaps) with a more imaginative drinks selection (a local ale, decent continental lager, I'm sure there must be a local company that makes soft drinks (Ben Shaws?)) would show a little bit of leadership and initiative, especially if SCC could get involved from a health initiative perspective (yes I know bratwurst isn't the healthiest food but it has to be better than a death burger).

We can do without another identikit stadium that serves boiled hot dogs and over-priced watered down Carling.

Quality idea. With thinking like that you'll go far. Perhaps, perhaps even as far as London...

Re: New Stadium Site Update Thread!!! : Wed Dec 29, 2010 9:41 pm  

DemonUK wrote: Newest age wise, all the ones you mention are old stadia as you well know, no building yet then... No rush now eh now Wakeys has been sent for public inquiry. So I reckon I'll still have my sig until at least the middle of 2012, and I should then be removing it as Saints ground should be ready. I'm fairly confident the Salford Fairy Tale Stadium will not be ready before Saints ground Saints ground should be finished by no later than the end of October 2011. Work at Saints has been ongoing now since the end of August. You can watch the stadium being built on this website. Live webcam. http://www.the-new-sthelens-stadium.co.uk/

DemonUK wrote: Newest age wise, all the ones you mention are old stadia as you well know, no building yet then... No rush now eh now Wakeys has been sent for public inquiry. So I reckon I'll still have my sig until at least the middle of 2012, and I should then be removing it as Saints ground should be ready. I'm fairly confident the Salford Fairy Tale Stadium will not be ready before Saints ground Saints ground should be finished by no later than the end of October 2011. Work at Saints has been ongoing now since the end of August. You can watch the stadium being built on this website. Live webcam. http://www.the-new-sthelens-stadium.co.uk/