The People's Forum: Re: Its a Day trippers Vs Legacy fans issue

The menu in the Lower East yesterday had Corona in a can and Budweiser zero and neither of them are enticing me whatsoever to spend beer £ inside the stadium.

Is it different in other areas of the ground does anyone know? Are there other beers, Guinness etc?

I hoped there’d be some half decent quality options to entice people to stay.

It may be a bit different in Club View perhaps where I have my season ticket.

Again, not being overly negative and I understand this isn’t the finished product yet that we are experiencing right now.

Perhaps my expectations of what it all would be like were unrealistic in the first place!

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and you are a legacy fan for want of a better description. Like many blues, we all have our matchday routine and probably don't really want to change. Goodison is an old school ground, where you were out and into a local boozer fairly quickly. It was not designed to hold on to thousands of fans after the game, BMD is the opposite and wants fans the to stay.

In the new world order, the day trippers arrive and are heading to the ground early to get photos and soak up the occasion as they spend on food, drink and merchandise. This is the holy grail for a football club.... its not a cinema where you move on before the next screening starts. The club wants you spending money and using its catering services, hence the stadium is designed to offer you more than just a seat to watch the game.

The access / egress issues will be sorted, but the main goal of the club is to make money from fans and this is why the pressure will be on the mamager to produce a winning team.... any continuation of our recent past is simply not going to garner enough desire to hang around and spend money when your team is losing.