If Ferres were still here, there'd have been pies.

I would agree, if it was just the last match. But certainly I've been hearing people moaning about them running out of different bits for at least the last couple of months (not the beer though).

I'd suggest that hot food was a, 'unique daily event', in all cases where the vendor only traded weekly, not just the last game. Fair enough, in some circumstances they could, if people were prepred to wait, do it to order, but once heated it has to be sold - I mean, they can hardly stick it back in the fridge, even until next week. Even unheated pies have a very limited shelf life.

They didn't run out, they had none. This was 2pm.

I am pretty sure that the hardcore pie eaters get into the ground for 1.30 and get five each.

So did Wigan fans arrive when the gates opened?

Hardcore? Have you tried Mrs Aardvark's pie then? After one of them, I don't brush my teeth, I count them

Was Nigel Wood at the game? That may explain the shortage.

He was meant to be at the game. Maybe we hid the pies

As a point of interest...we're castigating the club for the lack of pies but aren't the food stalls all concessions, so not directly controlled by the club?

That said, I have it on good authority that it was in fact the tea lady, who, on the basis of being a regular pleb who would automatically know what to order, had been given responsibility for co-ordinating the food sources with the outlet franchisees. She did ask for advice and was told to try and order the sort of food stalls that she herself liked. However, being on a diet, she was dead set against any pies being ordered. Apparently, the oiks who failed to find any pies, for some reason, didn't want to eat any of the Ryvitas and low fat cheese that she'd got in, despite them being infinitely better for their health, so we lost hand over fist on those.

The snacks I was referring to were bar snacks. Which would be controlled by the club.

The pies I don't know, as I've never bought one. Are they not bought from the same place though? (i.e. not the burger van that wouldn't be the club's). You certainly used to get pies from the bar directly behind the media section, before they closed that and left the little building bit the only open bar behind the stand. It may have changed since then though.

The young academy lads who were on the pitch at half time all had a pie as they passed me on the terrace where the teams come out. Those of you who wanted a pie should have put on a black Bulls polo shirt and shorts or trackie bottoms then wandered on and off the pitch and got not only your pie but no doubt a free pie

I'd have tried that before, but the fact I'm quite clearly not a professional athlete would probably rumble me. Although Lauaki seems to manage to pass as one, so maybe there's hope.