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How can it be any fairer when we’ve all payed a different 34 games, some have played teams once, some twice, some have played more home games, some more away, some more against top clubs, some bottom etc etc? There simply is not a ‘fair’ way of doing it now (including playing on) and PPG...

If you don’t go to St Andrews you’re not a proper fan. ;)

Maybe the story got embellished a little in the telling by my ex-colleague, although when I worked with him nothing would have surprised me. I did a brief stint of nights in a factory in the early 90s that was unsupervised for a while. It is fair to say there was a certain amount of ‘larking...

Don’t they have a fiduciary responsibility to do what is in the best interests of their club (business)? I get people saying ‘what about the collateral damage to other clubs’, but that’s not their responsibility - their own club is. Pretty sure in Tranmere’s position we’d be making noises too...

Wasn’t that a fair description of a lot of manufacturing in the area in the 70s? Worked with a bloke who did an apprenticeship at Herbets in the 70s and some of the stuff that went on was hilarious, however you could see why they all closed down. Miracle anything ever actually got made...

Fair enough, just a touch before then. Maybe it went downhill after you left then! (Woodlands certainly did around then when Thompson left and Hogarth took over).

Depending on when your lot went there I’d guess you know some of my mates from the area. They were all Templar’s boys in the 70s and then woodlands 80-85. Good lads. Shan’t mention names on here, but if you were there around then you’d know them.

Not certain of ownership as such, but they definitely ran it for years. Ken, his wife was Mary (it’s slowly coming back) and his daughter was Jen with the mad hair. They left (when Gus took over?) and opened the original Browns in the lower precinct. The door policy there was crazy, let you in...

Was owned by Ken Brown (of Browns infamy) and his mad daughter (Mary?) used to be a regular sight in there. They were always up there own arses and could be right twats on the door sometimes (just like Browns new and old), but it was always rammed at the weekend in the mid to late 80’s. Any idea...

That’s the fella. Had forgotten his surname and didn’t know he’d passed away, but it’s been a while. RIP. Just a patch of overgrown wasteland last time I passed there. Blimey, trip down memory lane this thread.

Remember that sign. Vaguely.

Think I had a very drunken conversation with him one night in scholars when I tried to convince him to do a ‘proper’ club night. He basically told me to make it happen. I wasn’t as motivated when sober and never did anything about it. Did he buy the Dog from the Brown family?

You’d have a long trip (depending where you live), and have to sit in the beer garden and get your drinks from a portable (dunno) serving thing. In Hammersmith. Not the only one either. Madness. Be fucking mayhem.

Became the Courtyard I think.

Got any of the Rose and Crown or Dog and Trumpet in the 80’s?

Speaking of pubs, I am reliably informed that the company my wife works for are opening one on Friday night....

It varied. You used to be able to skin up on the bar at one time. Like all of Tile Hill it very much depended who was in there and how long they’d been on the pop for. Was also a regular for a few years. The gaffer (Moz?) could look after himself, but some of the bar staff used to get a bit of...

Has it changed much over the last 20 years? I remember someone getting their head smashed repeatedly on the kerb outside by one (well known) local. Poor chap is no longer with us, perpetrator got 7 for manslaughter. Used to drink in the New Star (also no longer with us!) back in the day and that...

If it’s like the black prince of old, I’d just avoid it personally. Some lovely characters used to drink in there....

See, that’s exactly what I would have said (and I totally 100% agree on the premier league) before I left the city (marriage and jobs) and then had children. So for me now your parent’s team, assuming they are actual fans of said team, are also a justifiable reason to support someone. My lad...