It's crazy, I went from the New Burley club paying about £2.20 for a decent pint, 300 yards up the road for a crappy one at £3.50

I must be spending too much time drinking in town. I came away thinking £3.50 was quite reasonable!

Come out to sunny tadcaster and drink Sam Smiths, cheapest beer in yorkshire and most of its superb. Although his wine is becoming a bit expensive .
My pal went in a bar in Edinburgh , asked for a pint of Stella ,the barman pulled it and asked for seven pound fifty pence,obviously he was told were to insert the said pint.

£7.50?! Fook me it's like being at wembley

I think I can guess where this thread is going. I'll brush up on my percentages and fractions!

No they weren't, the Cas v Cats game was down on last year.

Was going to mention Sam smiths. There one in Pudsey less than two pound for a pint of strong larger, can't go wrong

Now then lads, there is good real ale to be had all over the country for as little as £1.75 and choice of guest beers for around £2.10 if you look for it.
Just find a Wetherspoons and do without in the ground.
Simples!
Fizz at £3.50 then becomes completely unneccessary in or out of the ground.

(Then, if you join CAMRA you get 40X 50p off vouchers to spend in Wetherspoons, bringing the cheapest pint to as little as £1.25!
That would get you approximately three ultra-cheap pintsat every home game
- use your head and stop being exploited.

Do you still have to have a beard and wear sandals to join camra.

No, but it sounds like you do have to drink in Wetherspoons.

I'm not sure which is worse.

The last time I was in a Weatherspoons the group I was with sent a total of twelve pints back to the bar because they were "off" (for want of a better word), it doesn't help that one of the group was employed in the labs of a large brewery for 35 years so knows what he is talking about but the bar staff couldn't understand the nature of the complaint and kept pouring replacement pints from the same pump - so they got sent back too.

Eventually they bought lager, supped it and we left.

I don't know how true the urban myth is that Weatherspoons sell cheap "ale" because its close to its sell-by date and they buy it in cheaper because of that, but the beer they were serving that night had not been kept well at all and the staff just didn't understand that.