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Post by hhsussex on Jun 28, 2016 8:14:44 GMT
. The fact that it's a beautiful ground always distracts us from properly assessing the pros and cons of Arundel IMO. It has the whiff of Establishment about it, and cannot cater properly for the size of a T20 crowd. That whiff being ventilated in the Twitter post below: Lucy Bartholomew @lucybartholomew Jun 26 Crawley, South East You know you're at the @faccc_Cricket ground when the people next to you break out the wild boar sausages..! #poshpicnic @sussexccc  |
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Post by philh on Jun 28, 2016 8:48:50 GMT
. The fact that it's a beautiful ground always distracts us from properly assessing the pros and cons of Arundel IMO. It has the whiff of Establishment about it, and cannot cater properly for the size of a T20 crowd. That whiff being ventilated in the Twitter post below: Lucy Bartholomew @lucybartholomew Jun 26 Crawley, South East You know you're at the @faccc_Cricket ground when the people next to you break out the wild boar sausages..! #poshpicnic @sussexccc Last year at Arundel, I bought one of their jumbo sausage rolls from the cafe near the scoreboard - incidentally, the jumbo sausage rolls weren't so jumbo this year. They had run out so I was told to come back in 15 minutes when a new batch would be ready. I returned 15 minutes later, but the hopeless man serving had forgotten. Just as I reminded him, someone tried to order what turned out to be the last sausage roll of the new batch. "That's mine", I pointed out as the new customer was about to receive my sausage roll. A wonderfully pompous new customer tried to pull rank on me "I'm on the committee of the FACCC and want that sausage roll". I stood my ground and took the sausage roll as he began to place some curse on me moaning about "outsiders ruining the place". |
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Post by flashblade on Jun 28, 2016 8:52:49 GMT
That whiff being ventilated in the Twitter post below: Lucy Bartholomew @lucybartholomew Jun 26 Crawley, South East You know you're at the @faccc_Cricket ground when the people next to you break out the wild boar sausages..! #poshpicnic @sussexccc Last year at Arundel, I bought one of their jumbo sausage rolls from the cafe near the scoreboard - incidentally, the jumbo sausage rolls weren't so jumbo this year. They had run out so I was told to come back in 15 minutes when a new batch would be ready. I returned 15 minutes later, but the hopeless man serving had forgotten. Just as I reminded him, someone tried to order what turned out to be the last sausage roll of the new batch. "That's mine", I pointed out as the new customer was about to receive my sausage roll. A wonderfully pompous new customer tried to pull rank on me "I'm on the committee of the FACCC and want that sausage roll". I stood my ground and took the sausage roll as he began to place some curse on me moaning about "outsiders ruining the place". Yes, Arundel has this indestructible sense of entitlement - which is an Establishment hallmark. |
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Jun 28, 2016 10:13:40 GMT
This year their sausage rolls had been reduced in size due to public demand. "We were told they were too big," smiled a lady at the counter. Thankfully, the price had been reduced from £3.50 to £2 which is refreshing given consumers still pay the same money for chocolate bars and sweet packets/tin boxes where the content size or numbers have been drastically cut.
Arundel and a connection with the establishment is a fair comment but I am not clear where that line is drawn? Polo and Cowdray Park is an obvious example but at Hove there is a regular smattering of the elite. Does Johnny Barclay represent this crowd whereas Dave Day with all his £££millions the hoi polloi?
In the past, it was about breeding, money and influence. No idea what it means today.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2016 10:25:48 GMT
That whiff being ventilated in the Twitter post below: Lucy Bartholomew @lucybartholomew Jun 26 Crawley, South East You know you're at the @faccc_Cricket ground when the people next to you break out the wild boar sausages..! #poshpicnic @sussexccc Last year at Arundel, I bought one of their jumbo sausage rolls from the cafe near the scoreboard - incidentally, the jumbo sausage rolls weren't so jumbo this year. They had run out so I was told to come back in 15 minutes when a new batch would be ready. I returned 15 minutes later, but the hopeless man serving had forgotten. Just as I reminded him, someone tried to order what turned out to be the last sausage roll of the new batch. "That's mine", I pointed out as the new customer was about to receive my sausage roll. A wonderfully pompous new customer tried to pull rank on me "I'm on the committee of the FACCC and want that sausage roll". I stood my ground and took the sausage roll as he began to place some curse on me moaning about "outsiders ruining the place". Sausage Roll Rage at Arundel - in many ways more alarming than our poor form in the Championship. |
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Post by flashblade on Jun 28, 2016 10:38:52 GMT
"I'm on the committee of the FACCC and want that sausage roll" You couldn't make that up, could you?  Is there food for a possible sitcom here? How would Ben Elton portray the FACCC, I wonder? |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2016 10:47:22 GMT
"I'm on the committee of the FACCC and want that sausage roll" You couldn't make that up, could you? Is there food for a possible sitcom here? How would Ben Elton portray the FACCC, I wonder? Theme tune would have to be Money For Nothing with the refrain 'I want that, I want that, I want that sausage roll'. |
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Post by deepextracover on Jun 28, 2016 16:50:38 GMT
I would like to see the club roll out the RLC tournament next season to at least 4 different out-grounds. But which ones? Arundel, Eastbourne, Hastings and Sheffield Park |
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Post by coverpoint on Jun 28, 2016 19:32:47 GMT
I would like to see the club roll out the RLC tournament next season to at least 4 different out-grounds. But which ones? Arundel, Eastbourne, Hastings and Sheffield Park Arundel, Eastbourne, Hastings and Horsham. |
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