Rugby boys given ‘final warning’ by Roo Bar for ‘naked antics’
Onlookers were ‘astonished’
Edmund WiseThe Bristol University rugby team have been given a final warning by the Roo Bar, their fifteen year traditional haunt, for “smashing plates”, “pissing in the beer garden” and “naked antics”.
The new manager of the Roo Bar, Lisa, told The Tab that the Rugby team had been “intimidating customers” on the 21st of January.
Lisa said: “I went upstairs and saw them in the backroom, on the CCTV, throwing nacho boards about the place. When I went downstairs, I saw smashed china plates all over the floor.”
There is no suggestion anyone in this picture was involved in the incident at Roo Bar
She added that after a few hours the vast majority of them were naked.
“There was about sixty or seventy of them there that evening. Only ten of them were not naked. And later on that evening, I found a group of them pissing outside on the walls.”
One eyewitness told us they were “astonished” by what they had seen:
“Even by their standards this seemed outrageous. It was utter pandemonium in the sofa bit, like a boozy 9/11.”
An email from one of the Rugby secretaries confirms much of these antics, stating that “The Roo manager was less than pleased with our (pretty tame by standards) antics”.
The email tells the players to “dispel with any nakedness for the (near) future” and advises the boys that “naked scrums should probably be conducted in the car park arena.”
A spokesperson for the team said: “The actions of a few individuals shouldn’t reflect on the rest of the club. I don’t think that anyone has actually ever pissed over chairs naked in Roo Bar.
“Its stories like that that gives us a bad name and why bar managers such as the new Roo Bar manager have a lower tolerance for us.”
“Having the predetermined mentality that we’re going to do stupid things doesn’t help us, but it’s not our fault completely. It is more how university rugby teams are viewed generally that is the problem.”
*Originally this article claimed members of the rugby team pissed on the tables outside the bar in the smoking area. After further conversations with Roo Bar, The Tab is happy to clarify this did not occur, and members of the team only pissed against the walls of the building outside.