The beer swillers will make me an armchair viewer

NICK Cain is spot on with his opinion piece in last week’s TRP but alas, it’s not just internationals that suffer from the booze brigade.

I’m a season ticket holder at Exeter and this season I bought a second ticket for my partner.

I had to move two rows back to get two seats together and now find I have a number of booze brigade members sitting in the same row that continuously disrupt the match and are offensive when challenged by those of us who have bought tickets to watch the match.

The icing on the cake occurred against Quins when, after two booze brigade members arrived back after half time and missing a try, the conversion was being taken. When asked to ‘just wait a minute please’, one of them said, ‘what’s the problem, he’s just kicking off !’

This booze situation is a blight. Whether stewards need to be more aware and grip the situation I’m not sure.

But I might be getting a season ticket to BT Sport next year.

TREVOR NASH Devon READING Nick Cain’s column on drinking, he did not mention the timing of the game. A Bath supporter known to me says he would happily take his eightyear-old grand daughter to a Bath game on a Saturday afternoon but the behaviour is such that he would not take her to evening games.

Later games draw a very different crowd and time for drinking has been greater before the match.

MERYL HARRIES Chiefs supporter

COULD not agree more with Nick Cain about inconsiderate beer swillers.

As an Exeter Chiefs season ticket holder I have not been able to watch 40 minutes of uninterrupted rugby all season.

There is an almost constant stream of people pushing and shoving past me to service drinkers who are incapable of making a pint last 40 minutes.

Often it is their female halves doing the fetching making it difficult to give vent to one’s feelings.

True rugby fans are fed up to the back teeth.

JOHN STRINGER Cornwall