Are kids allowed in Dick's Bar?

[kevtherev]

Yes. But people come for the football, not for a drink in a child-free bar. Or do they? Are there sad numb nuts out there whose whole match day experience is ruined by the very important business of drinking without a child in sight?

I agree....So if they come for the football, as you have correctly stated, then they shouldn't be bothered about children not being allowed into a bar area, should they For the record I think Dick's Bar is crap. We have a fantastic stadium, you would have thought the club might have built a proper boozer into it and a bookies....I'm sure both would have done a fair trade during the week,,,,,shame..

 

[Buzzer]

Hold on ... it's now being suggested that people are going to Dick's Bar BECAUSE it's child-free. That's simply not the case.

This thread suggests otherwise.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Yes. But people come for the football, not for a drink in a child-free bar. Or do they? Are there sad numb nuts out there whose whole match day experience is ruined by the very important business of drinking without a child in sight?

It's not really about them being in sight, it's more about being able to enjoy a beer without kids charging around kicking plastic bottles etc. This goes on in the concourses and ESB. Not a bad idea to have an area where it's not an issue

 

[Brian Fantana]

It's not really about them being in sight, it's more about being able to enjoy a beer without kids charging around kicking plastic bottles etc. This goes on in the concourses and ESB. Not a bad idea to have an area where it's not an issue

This.

 

[Buzzer]

I agree....So if they come for the football, as you have correctly stated, then they shouldn't be bothered about children not being allowed into a bar area, should they For the record I think Dick's Bar is crap. We have a fantastic stadium, you would have thought the club might have built a proper boozer into it and a bookies....I'm sure both would have done a fair trade during the week,,,,,shame..

Eh? That's putting the cart before the horse. Take it from the top - we're here for the football. There's a group of blokes who say they don't want children in one of the bars (the supporters bar no less, what message does that send?). Surely the logical response is that this is a community football stadium for football fans of all types not just for the petty-minded.

No other club does this adults-only gubbins. It's frankly pathetic but yes.....it is a soulless canteen and the old farts are welcome to it. I'm just enjoying pointing out the hypocrisy.

 

[Buzzer]

It's not really about them being in sight, it's more about being able to enjoy a beer without kids charging around kicking plastic bottles etc. This goes on in the concourses and ESB. Not a bad idea to have an area where it's not an issue

Haha. And this is such an important part of the match day experience is it? How do you lot cope on away days?

 

[Brian Fantana]

Haha. And this is such an important part of the match day experience is it? How do you lot cope on away days?

Surely the idea of having a community stadium is that you provide facilities to suit visitors of different tastes/interests? I really don't see what the problem is in having an area where those people who wish to enjoy a drink/chat without children charging around can do so?

 

[hans kraay fan club]

It's not really about them being in sight, it's more about being able to enjoy a beer without kids charging around kicking plastic bottles etc. This goes on in the concourses and ESB. Not a bad idea to have an area where it's not an issue

Absolutely NOT this.

If there is a problem with anyone behaving inappropriately in any part of the ground, then that behaviour should be addressed. If kids are running riot in the ESB then they should be asked to leave, just as a loud boorish drunken middle-aged man might be asked to leave. I presume that we would all agree that the answer to that scenario would not be to ban all middle-aged men from the bar, in case some of them behaved poorly?

If my children were in any stadium bar they'd be as well behaved as just about anybody in there, not to mention quiter, more polite and more knowledgable about the football.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Haha. And this is such an important part of the match day experience is it? How do you lot cope on away days?

No it's not. Like I said, why not allow the kids in before kick off? It's great there is a kids free bar I reckon, but at the end of the day if there wasn't it's easy enough to head into the city for drinks, after 1 beer on the concourse to let the queues subside.

Away games are not a problem either - leave the stadium, go to bar.. simple

 

[Easy 10]

My God, that's badly written. I KNOW you don't care about the music. I paraphrased and I don't have the quote, just a good memory. My point is very clear, I think that you and the other farts are hypocrites to demand a special little area away from other football fans at a football match...attended by children. As you and the others misanthropes have said, we're here for the football, not for an adult only drinking experience.

Well, apologies if my prose wasn't quite up to scratch, but it was a reply on a poxy football messageboard, not the Gettysburg Address.

And I haven't "demanded" anything. The club have seen fit to make Dicks an 18+ zone on matchdays, and on balance, for my own reasons which I've already given on here, I agree with that policy and hope it continues. That doesn't mean I'm some kind of miserly old scrote who recoils in abject horror at the sight of anyone under 5 foot. It just means that I think people without children should at least have a choice, just as those with children have a choice. I don't always go to Dicks for my pre-match anyway. Sometimes I go to the concourse for a few beers instead, where I am SURROUNDED by adults and their offspring. And guess what - I've yet to run screaming down the stairs like my hairs on fire at the sight of it. Its fine.

Of course we are here for the football, mainly. But it is also a social occasion when (for me) I meet up with people who I don't see day in, day out. Having a few beers in a bar with them is all part of the "matchday experience" as they call it, and having a choice of doing that in a bar without children is not, I think, very much to ask. You feel children should routinely be allowed in bars, I disagree. That doesn't make me a hypocrite, and it doesn't make you wrong. Its just opinions and preferences.

 

[Buzzer]

Surely the idea of having a community stadium is that you provide facilities to suit visitors of different tastes/interests? I really don't see what the problem is in having an area where those people who wish to enjoy a drink/chat without children charging around can do so?

It's wrong because it automatically excludes a huge part of the people attending AND it's the supporters bar. If drinking out of sight of children is THAT important then there are pubs in Brighton that cater for that. Falmer is a community football stadium not a pub.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Dicks Bar is bar though is it not? However it is protectively guarded by the 'I sat next to Dick Knight at Withdean' brigade.

Could they not admit a limited number of kids. Wasn't it 'Falmer for ALL'?

 

[Brian Fantana]

It's wrong because it automatically excludes a huge part of the people attending AND it's the supporters bar. If drinking out of sight of children is THAT important then there are pubs in Brighton that cater for that. Falmer is a community football stadium not a pub.

I agree with you that it seems a bit odd to have a supporters bar which doesn't allow children in on matchday, but I disagree that having an area that excludes children is fundamentally a bad idea.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

It just means that I think people without children should at least have a choice, just as those with children have a choice.

How do those with children have a choice, exactly? They can go to a cold concourse or nowhere (pre-game).

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Dicks Bar is bar though is it not? However it is protectively guarded by the 'I sat next to Dick Knight at Withdean' brigade.

Could they not admit a limited number of kids. Wasn't it 'Falmer for ALL'?

Eh?

Where and how does this "protective guarding" go on?

And how would admitting a "limited number" of kids work?

 

[Brian Fantana]

But it is also a social occasion when (for me) I meet up with people who I don't see day in, day out. Having a few beers in a bar with them is all part of the "matchday experience" as they call it, and having a choice of doing that in a bar without children is not, I think, very much to ask. You feel children should routinely be allowed in bars, I disagree. That doesn't make me a hypocrite, and it doesn't make you wrong. Its just opinions and preferences.

This.

 

[Monsieur Le Plonk]

How do those with children have a choice, exactly? They can go to a cold concourse or nowhere (pre-game).

East Stand Brasserie?

 

[hans kraay fan club]

East Stand Brasserie?

Is not open as a bar pre-match.

 

[MattBackHome]

I didn't have an opinion on this at all, having as I do exactly the same number of kids as amount of desire to go into Dicks Departure Lounge ever again i.e. ZERO.

After a thorough read through of this thread I am now of the opinion that kids should be allowed in, though as stated it won't affect me a blind bit either way, so I'm probably not a great barometer of judgement here.

You're welcome, NSC.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Eh?

Where and how does this "protective guarding" go on?

And how would admitting a "limited number" of kids work?

Protective , well being vehemently against children being admitted.

They could click 10 or 20 in per match perhaps.

The only time I went in there a guy had taken his kids in , but the uproar this created ensured he had to leave, drinks ordered or not.