BlueDean
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I for one won't be stepping foot in this pub. Not because of anything the landlord may / may not have done/said/shown, just because I have no fuckin idea where it is
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Boycott The Lass O'Gowrie Pub
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Fame Monster
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Fuck it, I'm burning it down.
glen quagmire
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More anti establishment shite from nashark!
thelass said:Gaudino said:Don't remember seeing me or not, I have been a user of the Lass since 1983. (Unsuprisingly not since 2988, as you claim I said) And was last in two Saturdays ago in a party of 10 people....
I called the pub earlier to ask if the game was being shown, not to enquire how many tv's you were showing it on......
All three of us heard you say you hate City....don't know if you like Liverpool, you never said, and I didn't put that in the op, but yeah, of course you will deny that now.....
As far as we are concerned....show whatever games you choose....legally or otherwise. Boycott for us and all the Blues we know stands
Sorry, I can't have that. You can say what you like about whether you bullied the staff or not into showing it on the screen of your choice, but I will not be painted as anti-City.
I didn't at any point say I hate City, because it simply isn't true. I know a lot of our City regulars and it has been a privilege over the years seeing the unique City rollercoaster ride unfold. Personally, I'm a Blackburn fan from wales Who runs a Manchester boozer, owned by a Suffolk brewery named after a Scottish poem. My business partner is a Tottenham fan. What reason would we have to hate City, who by and large are lovely fans who like the atmosphere in the pub and come to the games we show, mostly the away games.
As I say, I'd be grateful for people reading this thread to simply make their own minds up. If we hated City as much as you suggest, then why are we bumping all the other games this Bank Holiday Sunday to enable fans to watch Sunderland v City @ 3pm. It's not solely for the Sunderland fans, let me tell you.
Oh and we'll be stocking Blue Moon on draft from late September. Hardly the act of an anti-City landlord I'd suggest.
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Gareth
The smell of fear.
SouthStandStander
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funny how TheLass has gone quiet since the "german channel" was mentioned, how do you get this by the way, is it on sky/virgin/freeview.... come on im curious.
and blackburn fan my arse, this guy is a rag and is just trying to keep us blue customers so he can still afford lemon and lime scarfs and buy his ryan giggs duvet cover.
and blackburn fan my arse, this guy is a rag and is just trying to keep us blue customers so he can still afford lemon and lime scarfs and buy his ryan giggs duvet cover.
I've been in the lass to watch quite a few games and the main reason I can see for boycotting it is that we always manage to lose (four out of four last season which was pretty impressive).
I do agree that City should be on over Liverpool (but then Liverpool was always likely to be the trickier game so it's not a surprise that interest was high). A couple of points though:
I think it's a little unfair to describe the screen near the bar as "the small screen". It's pretty big, and I much prefer the standing atmosphere in that area to the seated section with the bigger screen.
It's also a bit cheeky to go on about the 'German' channel. If you only ever watch Sky/ESPN games in pubs then feel free to cast the first stone - but I love the fact that some publicans are willing to take a risk and show the 3pm away games.
I do agree that City should be on over Liverpool (but then Liverpool was always likely to be the trickier game so it's not a surprise that interest was high). A couple of points though:
I think it's a little unfair to describe the screen near the bar as "the small screen". It's pretty big, and I much prefer the standing atmosphere in that area to the seated section with the bigger screen.
It's also a bit cheeky to go on about the 'German' channel. If you only ever watch Sky/ESPN games in pubs then feel free to cast the first stone - but I love the fact that some publicans are willing to take a risk and show the 3pm away games.
SouthStandStander said:funny how TheLass has gone quiet since the "german channel" was mentioned, how do you get this by the way, is it on sky/virgin/freeview.... come on im curious.
and blackburn fan my arse, this guy is a rag and is just trying to keep us blue customers so he can still afford lemon and lime scarfs and buy his ryan giggs duvet cover.
Happy to clarify. The channel we used last night was Eurosport Germany, which can be found at 19.2e Astra. It's a free to air channel, so no problems from a legal standpoint (check out <a class="postlink" href="http://www.liveonsat.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">www.liveonsat.com</a> - any channel in red is free to air) for anyone worried about that. In fact, if you had a motorised dish you'd have been able to watch it no problem at home.
Clearly, it's not ideal it was on in German but we had no other choice as ESPN is not available to us at present. A similar situation happens to us with away games in the Champions League which often don't have an English language feed.
As I'm sure people will have gathered, we don't have a UK commercial Sky system in the Lass. We use a combination of free to air channels and legally procured EU cards for EU channels, which are currently in legal hiatus due to the Karen Murphy case (I won't bore you with the details, but if you google Karen Murphy you'll find plenty of info on there). As we understand it, this case is due to be heard at the European Court in October and a ruling given in the spring of next year on the legality of using EU systems to show football in pubs in the UK under the principle of the free movement of goods and services (a key tenent of the Treaty of Rome).
So, until then we won't be using Sky but a combination of things which means we have to be pretty nimble on our feet when trying to please everyone and show as many games as possible. Sky are very aware of al this, but feel free to tell them or anyone else what we're doing (although I'm pretty sure they know exactly who is using EU cards in town, frankly).
The alternative is to hand Rupert Murdoch £20,000 pa for the privelige of showing the games he wants us to see, which probably doesn't make a lot of sense either....
Fame Monster
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glen quagmire said:More anti establishment shite from nashark!
lol
sam221985
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BlueDean said:I for one won't be stepping foot in this pub. Not because of anything the landlord may / may not have done/said/shown, just because I have no fuckin idea where it is
it's behind the BBC.
I'm continually shocked on here that people don't know where it is, I only lived in Manchester for three years and I know where it is.
For the record I think it's an okay pub, neither poor nor great, I watched the derby where we got fucked by Scurvy Time in there...
MCFCTrick
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thelass said:SouthStandStander said:funny how TheLass has gone quiet since the "german channel" was mentioned, how do you get this by the way, is it on sky/virgin/freeview.... come on im curious.
and blackburn fan my arse, this guy is a rag and is just trying to keep us blue customers so he can still afford lemon and lime scarfs and buy his ryan giggs duvet cover.
Happy to clarify. The channel we used last night was Eurosport Germany, which can be found at 19.2e Astra. It's a free to air channel, so no problems from a legal standpoint (check out <a class="postlink" href="http://www.liveonsat.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.liveonsat.com</a> - any channel in red is free to air) for anyone worried about that. In fact, if you had a motorised dish you'd have been able to watch it no problem at home.
Clearly, it's not ideal it was on in German but we had no other choice as ESPN is not available to us at present. A similar situation happens to us with away games in the Champions League which often don't have an English language feed.
As I'm sure people will have gathered, we don't have a UK commercial Sky system in the Lass. We use a combination of free to air channels and legally procured EU cards for EU channels, which are currently in legal hiatus due to the Karen Murphy case (I won't bore you with the details, but if you google Karen Murphy you'll find plenty of info on there). As we understand it, this case is due to be heard at the European Court in October and a ruling given in the spring of next year on the legality of using EU systems to show football in pubs in the UK under the principle of the free movement of goods and services (a key tenent of the Treaty of Rome).
So, until then we won't be using Sky but a combination of things which means we have to be pretty nimble on our feet when trying to please everyone and show as many games as possible. Sky are very aware of al this, but feel free to tell them or anyone else what we're doing (although I'm pretty sure they know exactly who is using EU cards in town, frankly).
The alternative is to hand Rupert Murdoch £20,000 pa for the privelige of showing the games he wants us to see, which probably doesn't make a lot of sense either....
Yadda yadda....whatever....won't lose sight that you went with a Scouse game over City in a Manc pub.....will leave it now.
Think we made our feelings clear, and have had a lot of emails from Blues outside our circle who back our boycott of the Lass.....end of debate for me...just will add that as an 'outsider' you have no grasp of how things are in Manchester re this kinda thing...hey ho, plenty of other pubs here...