I was going to post this under the all weather car parking thread but I think it deserves it's own.



Agreed but they could at least sell some decent bottled ales. No issues with wastage there. They could do a tie up with a Bradford brewery provided the contract with the current beer provider allows it. They could do a mark up on price to make a profit like they do on Roger's cans of Guinness.

On Saturday I was driving so was looking for somewhere in the ground to buy a cold soft drink. There wasn't anywhere other than the main bar on the pop side which had a queue a mile long. The little sweet stall wasn't there and the burger joint only sold warm cans of coke zero. On a hot day like that I thought it was very poor.

I've also been struck with how many cars are driving around with Ingerlund flags now we're in world cup week. I'd like to see Bulls Car flags on sale again. I'd also buy a decent Bulls tie if they had them for sale.

There's certainly scope for improvement in the income generation side of things.

Daughter; "Dad can I have an ice cream?"
Me; "Ok here's some money. don't for one minute think you are keeping the change"
Daughter goes to the stall at the back of the stand
"Do you have any ice creams?"
Girl behind counter "No but we have Bulls soup!"

That has to be the most optimistic attempt at selling soup I've ever heard... 20 odd degrees and they decide it's soup day

Definitely some scope for improvement. I notice hot pies are for sale again now it's summer.

I agree with Bullseye, years ago we used to into the ground at 1.30pm and buy beer from the club. Nowadays we stop in the Top House until around 2.50pm and then walk across. One of the main reasons, is that the bitter in the ground is very poor and over priced. Bottled real ales will bring people in - if sold at the right price. If the club buys bottles at around £1.25/£1.40 and then sells at £2.50/£2.80, then its a win win for all concerned.

Btw, I went to one of the vans for two cans of coke and it was priced at £3.30 - no thanks.

odd one I saw on Saturday was the group stood I front of me rocked up with a full KFC. Thought there was a ban on bringing in food from fast food outlets and that was one of reasons for the bag searches. Wasn't like they even tried to hide it as it was in original KFC brown bags

Problem with ice cream is any not sold, you have to leave the freezers on for a fortnight 24/7 awaiting your next customer. Much easier to charge a van pitch fee for a local ice cream van and let them sell as much as they like.

Problem with real ale is it takes to long to pull a pint properly in a situation eg half time when a large number of people want to be served very quickly. There are ways to get real ale into occasional venues but that isn't the issue, the issue is finding ways (including the time, extra funding eg bringing it in and seting it all up and cooling it a couple of days or more in advance) to set it up, using top pressure or whatever, clear, and critically sell it all. It won't keep a fortnight so anything left is dead money. Then there is staff training, and general quality control. Nothing worse than going to a bar for a nice real ale and the product being poor.

Weren't the drinks and snacks stalls behind the main stand concessions? Why aren't they there any more? They always seemed to do a fair amount of trade. Is it because we now sell the prefab hotdogs and burgers ourselves and that would conflict?

Mick tells me that Bradford Brewery are now on board and there should be ales on in the marquee bar on the 24th as well as Origin 2 and the Ingurland world cup match. They're opening from 11am.

Sounds good.

Surprised they haven't setup some kind of 'big screen' at Odsal for the soccer matches, since it's, apparently, not going to happen in town.

Not that I particularly put any blame on the council as loads of drunks running round shouting, "Ingerlund, Ingerlund", whilst simultaneously falling into the mirror pool might have its comic element, it might also cause a fair bit of disruption and might not be fair on the majority of people in the town centre who, to be honest, probably aren't that bothered about soccer matches.

Problem with doing stuff like that at Odsal is always the location. Apart from people who live in the local area, the only people who would turn up would likely be driving, which doesn't lend itself to a few beers watching the football on a big screen, so they'd chose to go somewhere nearer home where they can stagger home instead. The locals who may be tempted probably already have their own watering hole they would go to for it (Cue Gardens for example). So even if they were to put it on, there wouldn't likely be many people who'd actually turn up.

The only days that make any sense doing that kind of thing at Odsal is a matchday when you've got a load of people going to Odsal anyway, so they may be tempted to go early / stay late to watch the football too. But a lot of RL fans are very anti-football so you still probably wouldn't get a huge amount. Then you're looking at costs potentially outweighing the income.

That's correct Sam.

We've also hired a big screen that will be positioned at the Rooley Lane end of the ground to show the State Of Origin and England game.

I hope everyone enjoys the Bradford Brewery Bar in the marquee.