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Formic wrote:http://www.thediamondsfc.com/page/NewsD ... 91,00.html

This is a cock up of biblical proportions, can you believe a football club holding a beer festival, during a world cup, when England are playing, and NOT SHOWING THE GAME

Im flabergasted............this takes ineptitude to a new level

Nothing can be done though, it's all kind of ironic I guess, the club does it to make money, yet it doesnt have enough money to show the game which will make the money :(

I'm sure most that went to other places to watch the game now wished they'd just come to NP for the beer and forgot about the football! :(

The most appropriately named Beer at the Festival after the most recent performance...

I should imagine that anyone who went to the Beer Festival last evening had a great time sampling all the brews on offer and not having to put up with that c**p transmitted from Cape Town.

What was the turnout like?

BartonRaz wrote:What was the turnout like?

Not too bad, but we could do with more as always. Fun night with Dr Busker and the Pirates.

Local band Anyone Out There playing tonight - from 8pm til 11-30pm tonight, Cloverdale also doing Hog Roast as well to go with the beer.

Lots of great beers (and a few ciders) to try out, either tonight, or tomorrow afternoon (1pm-5pm)

The turnout was very disappointing last night, I was a little bit merry by the end of the night so my addition skills might not have been too good, but I would say there were no more than 30 people there - I just hope I wasn't seeing double!

There are some special offers on this afternoon (presumably they still have loads of beer left due to the poor turnout), so if you bring some empty containers along they will fill them up at a discount price.

davealbon wrote:The turnout was very disappointing last night, I was a little bit merry by the end of the night so my addition skills might not have been too good, but I would say there were no more than 30 people there - I just hope I wasn't seeing double!

There are some special offers on this afternoon (presumably they still have loads of beer left due to the poor turnout), so if you bring some empty containers along they will fill them up at a discount price.

Yes - I would say that was about right, a disappointing turnout.

The Beer Festival is opening a little earlier today - Midday (til 5pm), and will catch the end of the Car Boot as well. Still plenty of nice beers to be had as seen below.



And from the other side ;-)

Dazzler wrote:
....... a disappointing turnout.

How well was the Festival promoted in the wider non-footballing community? Did the Club enlist the local Northampton branch of CAMRA to promote or was it a case that the powers that be decided that it was simply enough to list on the Official web-site?

I know, from experience, that a well advertised beer festival is generally a success.

Perhaps this aspect ought to be looked at more closely if the Club decide to promote another one in the future.