I was called negative when these plans were being made, for saying I would rather we spent 300K on a striker than an old club for somewhere else to drink on a match day at the ground.
The counterpoint to this was that “this place will be making us money 7 days a week!” and that it was going to be some bistro/restaurant/corporate event centre/sports bar/craft brewery/wedding venue/God Knows What.
I said I hope so, because I have knowledge in this industry, I have seen the finances of pubs and clubs in the local area and it isn’t pretty. In fact, it’s not pretty across the industry as a whole. Drinking habits have changed. Unless you have a solid customer base built up over literally decades, you better have a USP or a /God Knows What, because just being a bar doesn’t really cut it anymore. Much less in an area of very limited foot fall, with no other amenities close by other than a clapped out retail park and a football ground open 9 months of the year and every fortnight.
The result was, in my opinion, a basic refurb, with an uncomfortable and cold look, bizarrely based on a garage. And people go “well what did you expect! It was never going to be a bistro/restaurant/corporate event centre/sports bar/craft brewery/wedding venue/God Knows What! Its just somewhere to buy a pint on a match day! 
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