THE CONCRETE ROUNDABOUT (TCR)

Fully agreed - lovely day out, Banks's beer -mmmm taste of growing up. Soft spot for Walsall as my first full time job was there

Saddlers bar is great and it's a nice little stadium. Only up the road really so its a great day out

Saddlers club was £3-00 a pint and £2-00 for a pie or burger. Good atmosphere and we are next to the big screen for replays

Really not understanding the love for Walsall away. Has to be one of the dullest in the season.

Shit stadium (one of the worst in the league IMO), poor service and no beer inside (usually a queue of about 50 people for half an hour from the shack in the corner serving about 5 things), stadium is basically in the middle of an industrial estate and nothing decent in Walsall town. Restricted view too from some parts of the away end with the stand supports.

Yes there's the Saddlers bar, but its no different to any other reasonable pub/supporters bar at other grounds. Beer certainly isn't anything extraordinary (but I find it hard to describe any beer as "special" or "excellent", just some are slightly better than others). Hardly a complex 30 year old single malt.

See that black thing over there? It's black. What colour would you argue it is?

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You're entitled to an opinion, but your opinions shit.

You seem to be suggesting that I disagree with everything for the sake of disgareeing? Just an opinion Gers, people have them.

Speaking of opinions. I'm not going Saturday, but if there's trouble I'll be offering mine on something I didn't witness.

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You're entitled to an opinion, but your opinions shit.

You bad man.

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I don't need your ill-informed, half-baked, idiotic opinions. I have plenty of those myself.

Well, here's a detailed explanation for you:

No beer inside: no longer the case, according to Football Ground Guide.

Stadium is basically in the middle of an industrial estate and nothing decent in Walsall town: you could say exactly the same about a lot of other stadia, including our own.

Restricted views in the away end: not really much of a problem with our levels of away support.

Saddlers Bar no different to any other reasonable pub/supporters bar at other grounds: I'd be interested to hear your views on which are better. In my extensive experience, Saddlers is without equal, for reasons already stated on this thread by a number of people. Stevenage, Bury and Hartlepool are all good, but much smaller and more basic.

Beer certainly isn't anything extraordinary: subjective, of course, but there are very few places you can go that close to any football ground with that wide a choice of sensibly priced beers and ales.

Hardly a complex 30 year old single malt: I enjoy my whiskeys just as much as my beers, and I can taste equally different ranges of flavours in beers as in whiskeys. If you can't, then you're probably drinking the wrong beers!

Ultimately, it's an easy and cheap day out from MK by train, the stadium is right by the station, and a very good bar (in the opinion of many of us) is right next door. For the basic stuff that makes a good away day, it ticks all the boxes.

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Stevenage, I forgot about Stevenage. It's also good.

But it's no Walsall.

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You're entitled to an opinion, but your opinions shit.

Nothing wrong with giving an opinion, even if you didn't witness something as we've already discussed - otherwise there would be no point in history lessons. And as you're referring to the other thread, I made an assumption not an opinion. Different things.