Any questions?

[DBTW]

I'm attending the Supporters Consultation Group tomorrow and was wondering if anyone had any questions they would like me to put to the heads of departments?

[mshurst]

Ask 'em something about the terrible kit delivery times. We're not getting it until November, and considering it's a reused design I, personally, think that's absolutely ridiculous.

And then chuck a bottle.

[pauliewalnuts]

I don't know if this is the sort of thing that gets fielded at these meetings, but I posted this on the General's thread (no reply).

It's a real ballache for anyone who exits the ground in that direction.

General

To lighten the mood, I've got a more routine question.

It has been mentioned before, but sometimes after the match, the traffic up Aston Hall Road towards Lichfield Road and the motorway is made one way (obviously away from the ground). They also put a policeman on the junction with Lichfield Road and turn off the traffic lights. Sometimes, however, there is no policeman there, the traffic is two way AND the traffic lights are on. When the traffic lights are on, cars are stuck waiting whilst the very little traffic coming up the Lichfield Road passes.

The difference in the flow of traffic away from the ground is absolutely incredible. On Sunday, we had the latter situation. To make things worse, one of the vehicles coming in the opposite direction in the two way traffic was a 40 ton lorry which could hardly fit between parked cars, let alone have traffic squeeze past it in the opposite direction.

I know you've said before that this is in the ambit of the police, but is there any way the club could talk to them to assess how they decide whether or not to have two way traffic, and whether or not the traffic lights are switched on?

[peter w]

How would you know what the traffic is like after the match?

[pauliewalnuts]

How would you know what the traffic is like after the match?

Because I'm usually sitting in it?

[peter w]

How would you know what the traffic is like after the match?

Because I'm usually sitting in it?

Negates the need for you to leave early then.

[pauliewalnuts]

How would you know what the traffic is like after the match?

Because I'm usually sitting in it?

Negates the need for you to leave early then.

No, no it doesn't. In fact, it makes not leaving early even worse as the traffic just gets worse and worse.

I've no idea why they do it sometimes and not others, there seems no logic to it.

[peter w]

Accept it as a bad job and shrug?

[pauliewalnuts]

Accept it as a bad job and shrug?

Like you did with your endless halal food / local community hectoring?

Absolutely.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

Don't start Peter off with the local community and Halal meat, they've got enough to put up with, with me throwing chip wrappers in their gardens and using their entries as makeshift latrines.

[peter w]

Accept it as a bad job and shrug?

Like you did with your endless halal food / local community hectoring?

Absolutely.

Hectoring? It was a genuine question. Just because you didn't give a shite. Funny when its turned around and you have your gripe about how busy it sometimes is when you're leaving a ground with 30 000 + people in, you think that the world will stop until we get to the bottom of the mystery lights and policeman.

[peter w]

Don't start Peter off with the local community and Halal meat, they've got enough to put up with, with me throwing chip wrappers in their gardens and using their entries as makeshift latrines.

On my last visit to Villa Park it was still reassuring to see the locals still running after people getting into their cars saying they'd looked after them. This was grown men after their pounds.

[pauliewalnuts]

Accept it as a bad job and shrug?

Like you did with your endless halal food / local community hectoring?

Absolutely.

Hectoring? It was a genuine question. Just because you didn't give a shite. Funny when its turned around and you have your gripe about how busy it sometimes is when you're leaving a ground with 30 000 + people in, you think that the world will stop until we get to the bottom of the mystery lights and policeman.

No, Peter, the difference is I've asked this question once.

You've asked yours 300 times.

And for what it's worth, I did give a shite, as I said at the time. The difference was, you then went on and on about it and generally acted like a tit.

If you're going to be an arse, go and wind someone else up.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

Peter.
I think the traffic problem and how it's dealt with around Villa Park is a tad more important than halal meat.

[pauliewalnuts]

Peter.
I think the traffic problem and how it's dealt with around Villa Park is a tad more important than halal meat.

Don't bother trying to be rational with him, Mark, he's on one of his rebel without a cause crusades this morning. Anything for a dig.