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Not sure if this has brought up before but the PA system in the DR Stand is crap. I sent an email to the County Ground during the start of the summer about this but without reply. Where I sit in Row P you cannot hear any of he announcements properly. Anybody else noticed this ?

Have i noticed you can't hear anything from row p? No

They've done that deliberately - he's saying things about you.

its really fucking annoying, i have not once heard an annoucement, proper gay.

Maybe they've never made any announcements - you wouldn't know if they had.

I mentioned it in that questionnaire

I went in the South stand just so I wouldnt have to hear 'Ready to Go' by 'Republica'.

I cant hear anything from row u,It's like listening to the fast show where you only understand bit's of it.

When will they change the pre match build up music? It's so bloody shit.

They should change it every game. Like others, I'm sick of Republica and 'na na na na na na' song.

I agree, I sit in the front row and can hear fack all form the PA System.  Bloody annoying when you are not sure who scored, have to wait for the score board and that only works every other week!

I contacted Nick Watkins last season about it and he claimed they were upgrading it!!  I have also invited him to come into the DRS on a matchday to listen to it and he claimed he would!!  A few more e-mails to NW might not go amiss.

The only reason I moved from the TE

the arkells is loud and piercing on the ears.those that can hear fuck all are better off.
has the catering improved?i dont think it has.
the coffee is vile and luke warm,the hot dogs smell awful and i wouldn't feed it to my dog.and i bet those cunts serving dont wash their hands either.

Not being able to hear the PA is a bonus. That bloke saying "make some noise for the Swindon boys" really gets on my tits. Couldn't he come up with something a bit less gay?

What PA ?

IPA is nice.

Particularly White Shield in a bottle with sediment.

too weak mate

Strength is not everything Andy.

It's like fannies. Sometimes they taste better than the force of their recoil.

Have you got a season ticket in the arkells stand arriba?

no.you ask alot of me lately.wanna bum?

I know what you mean

However, tonight I have been partaking of 4 cans of this

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Followed by a bottle of this

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Thought I had better start cutting back a bit weeknights prior to me starting work on Monday

Paranoid? Just hoping your as far from me as possible  :)

Hmmm. I understand. That's a bit like a fanny that tastes of ripe sweet blackberries and then bounces you off the bed.

That and being banned from the TE :D

One thing that they have definitely sorted out last season is the queues in the DR stand. It's a lot more organised now. Also I noticed last week they are now selling beer from the catering outlet too. Good move, but they did manage to run out of burgers & hot dogs on Saturday !
As fot the PA, didn't the supporters club upgrade it last year ! Still rubbish mind.
And I saw Nick Watkins in the DR stand on Saturday

To be honest your best bet is to mention it to Roger Bunce as the supporters club paid for it to be improved last season so if it hasn't worked he'll probably chase it up.

ssshhhhhhh

Quite a few people have been complaining about the food going up in price and portions going down

They ran out of Burgers & Hot dogs in DRS just before half time and was giving out hot dogs in burger buns for a while - very poor - and why dosen't the food counter at the end of the DRS do chips but they do all other food ?

probably because they have got no fryer in there ?

Well done Elliott, officer material there I think. :)

I can't believe that they manage to sell so much food of such a dubious quality. I do think increasing the price of a coffee from £1.20 to £1.50 is pushing their luck though.

it is very weird that they increased prices on every thing even a yorke choccolate bar is know £1

Not if people are buying it all (as described by the comments of running out of food etc).  Supply and demand - although I would guess supply is a little short.

The burger van oustide the DR's does a decent enough burger and a Burger King is just over the road.  Most grounds provide poor quality, it's what you get in a strange set-up where they effectively only have about 30 minutes in total of selling time.

I agree with what you're saying - my surprise is that people continue to buy the crap on offer.

I very rarely buy anything in the stand now as the prices seem abit stupid, I used to have a bovril or something in Winter but with things like that costing £1.50 it's a bit stupid. I don't really understand our matchday pricing policy if I'm honest, with matchday prices £22 and the price of food escalating it seems as though they are trying to subsidise the good season ticket prices by overcharging elsewhere.
 I think the boards strategy is to spread the cost more than reduce the overall costs so if season ticket prices come down something else will go up and so on.

Some of the workers don't know how do add. Nearly everything they advertise in the South Stand, they don't sell.
There is always a queue of people waiting for chips to be cooked, then they only get half of cup.

soem of the people selling look like they dont know how to wash let alone cook or add up! the adverage age must be 12????

On the rare occasion I buy a hot drink I end up trudging round the stand trying to find adequate amounts of those little milks - Mr Elliott will vouch for me on this!

I bring my own goods from home!

Did anyone fill out that survey they did a while back? I did, but I must admit I haven't bought anything at the ground since.

I filled it out. But last season was a little tad better than now.
They didn't do any of my suggestions, boo.

That reminds me, I still haven't been offered a half time cookie!

Do you mean the one right in the far end, the town end, of the DRS.  If so that is meant to be for the disabled supporters, perhaps they don't like chips!

Nah it is the other end of the DRS SB End

its odd you cant hear it in the stand but walk down the cycle path round the back that goes to greenbridge and you can hear it clear as day...

The PA's not that bad in the DRS. Certainly beter than the town end

It's better than it was but still not clear though