Win beer with West Ham v Chelsea
The Dale Bar will be open before Saturday's game with York City to both sets of supporters with free beer to be won.
Doots open at midday at the Dale Bar and the Ratcliffe Suite as Dale welcome York City to Spotland for the first time since 2003.
The five screens at the venue will be showing the West Ham v Chelsea game, and will again be running the first goalscorer promotion that was recently introduced. Buy any pint of Carlsberg, Traditional or Smooth bitter, and you will be given a voucher referring to a player in the West Ham v Chelsea game. Should that player score the first goal, then you win a free pint. And if that first goal is scored in the first half, then the competition is relaunched (With new vouchers) for the first goal of the second half.
Dale Trust members can continue to claim 50p off a pint on production of their Trust membership card in the Dale Bar (not the Ratcliffe Suite) between midday and 2pm. Representatives from the Trust will be at the desk in the Ratcliffe Suite as per usual, and supporters can visit this desk to find out which player they have for the first scorer or speak about any Trust related issue.
The Dale Bar will be open at half time for any supporters who go in the Main Stand, where supporters can grab a pint and a pie whilst watching the latest scores come in courtesy of Jeff Stelling. The club are looking in to ways in which they can open the Dale Bar up at half time to Sandy Lane based supporters.
Supporters are reminded that the Dale Bar / Ratcliffe Suite are the only venues where all profits go straight to the football club.
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