It really wouldn’t.
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Selling alcohol will help us to achieve our environmental targets by discouraging people from taking their cars to games. I love Hibs holistic approach to climate change.[emoji3]
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surely it's more than just bringing back drink with Big Ron's vision of a better match day experience if we had a bar in each of the West/East and FF put on some food and some entertainment (a comedian say) or show replays of some classic Hibs matches it would get us in the mood for the game which would help the atmosphere and bring in extra revenue to the club to enhance the 1st team which would then get more people to attend which would then bring in extra revenue and so on ?
All of the trouble we have at games is at games with these clubs. Whenever they are evening games (with ample opportunity for more bevvying) the problems are worse. When we have our singalongahun Friday night parties at Easter Road it is worse still.
We do not need to be chucking any more alcohol into that particular mix. Whilst it might not exactly be our idea of "carnage", if we're trying to attract new fans along to Easter Road who might disapprove of sectarian singing, chucking glass bottles onto the pitch or fans running on to the park to confront players, we'd maybe better not chuck more bevvy into the mix.
The vast majority of our games (and the behaviour of our fans) would not be affected in a negative way by alcohol being sold in grounds.
Stick pop-up beer gardens outside the stands for non old-firm matches and allow people to leave the stadium and re-enter through the turnstiles at half time. Would get around the current restrictions and open open up a new revenue stream for us.
Just to add to what some are saying against certain games. People that turn up totally plastered will do so, so they will either spend money at the club bar if we start to sell beer, or they spend it in a Leith pub. Either way, people are going to drink pre-match.
If it another revenue stream, then why not? ( with the obvious staff implications, some people that can't behave would need to be dealt with/removed from premises etc)
I usually go to the Edinburgh City Club bar to have a pre match pint, so if I could do this at Hibs, I would.
Oh and how much money does the Murrayfield hotel make from Hibs fans before an away Derby?
There’s more turnover and profit in selling food rather than booze - as any modern pub refurb shows.
The real goal will be getting people to have pie/chips/burger/artisan bacon roll/wood fired pizza with a couple of pints at the ground. That could be £100k extra turnover per game.
Great summary & you haven't even mentioned the most ludicrous part. I'm a senior citizen who can go to Murrayfield on a Friday night & actually drink a beer while watching a rugby game. The next day en route to ER I suddenly turn into a geriatric hooligan who can't be trusted with a beer inside the ground! Yet another piece of nonsense down to the uglies!
I think the answer is to make the pints extortionate, so that no one is going to have more than a couple during the game.
If they are 7 quid each i think that would put people off having more than 1 or 2, whilst giving folk the option of having the mythical 'pint at the game' experience. Also, if the catering is brought in house, then this would mean bigger profit margins for the club 👍
If alcohol was sold in the crowd you’d eliminate any glass bottles being thrown which has been our big issue with crowd trouble. You will never stop people having a drink in the ground so may as well make some money from it. This would definitely fit with RG planning on increasing all of our revenue
I regularly enjoy a couple of pints and have never got into trouble or a fight afterwards. Ever.
I think I would manage just fine if I bought them them at ER.
Why do so many of you assume that I, and others like me, will suddenly turn into neds?
I am with you on this, I like the atmosphere of a pub and don't like drinking crap beer out of plastic glasses in the freezing cold. So I wouldn't imbibe, but I can see some folks who would and would remain congenial however there would be the odd one or two who wouldn't! And one or two nutters is too many, especially if they sit beside you!
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Why would there be utter carnage by selling pretty weak lager at the ground?
People drink up until kick off anyway, this would be a way of controlling what people are drinking though. Its not a full bar people are suggesting is brought in.
By having the option of a lager only bar you are taking away the option of drinking stronger things like Vodka, JD, shots etc...,,,,
It’s a complete no brainer imo and all the arguments against it don’t stand up to any scrutiny at all.
As far as I remember, alcohol was never generally on sale to the vast majority of fans in the ground. Drinking at matches was commonplace because fans were allowed to bring it in with them. I can still recall the days of wading through piles of cans and bottles on the way out of the old east terracing after every match. I don't believe anyone wants a return to that.
As long as it is suitably controlled, and bringing your own booze is still prohibited and strictly enforced, I don't see any problem with selling beer at matches to those who would probably have gone to a nearby pub anyway.
Selling alcohol in the stadium could be our answer to the new singing section.
I’ve changed my mind. We need to keep alcohol out of football.
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Would fancy it except for Cat A games.
So if that is before the game, that's not a whole lot different from BTG, and if it is at half-time, we are looking for fans to shift a pint in 10 minutes or so. That maybe doesn't match all the messages about health and well-being? I guess that this one has pros and cons.
Would it though? The same idiots who are already bevvied before the games and do stupid things currently may continue to do so, but that is a small minority. I doubt people who actually know how to behave at football games are suddenly gonna go ape **** just cause they could have a couple during the game instead of before.
They could start by doing it in the upper tiers of the west and FF where there is no pitch access. See how it works out.
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Why?
What do you think will happen in category A games on the back of people drinking relatively low alcohol lager in a concourse behind a stand?
Do you think not selling it will restrict how much people drink or do you not just think they will drink elsewhere first?
Do you think people are likely to try and sneak stronger bevy in if there is an option to buy a beer before the game in the ground and at half time?
So many questions 😉
I’m not meaning to sound like a dick about it btw, for the life of me though I can’t see any good reason not to sell beer at football grounds, the idea that people will get drunker because of it and cause more trouble is ridiculous imo.