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Offline Hookeysmith

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Season tickets
« on: August 19, 2011, 01:16:00 PM »
Article in the mail today is that we have easily exceeded 20K this year

Not bad considering so many stating that it was over for them

Offline Holtenderinthesky

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Re: Season tickets
« Reply #1 on: August 19, 2011, 01:21:37 PM »
20,000? Where does that put us in terms of season ticket sales in the league?  Don't Norwich have about 18k?

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Re: Season tickets
« Reply #2 on: August 19, 2011, 01:29:45 PM »
Any of the promoted teams will get a huge swell of ST's upon their trip into the pormised land (TM sky sports)

Considering that United are down again this year on ST's i think that is not too bad for us.
DW once said that as always with the Villa if a casual wants to attend a game there is always a seat

we kid ourselves that we are a hugely supported team

Offline richardhubbard

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Re: Season tickets
« Reply #3 on: August 19, 2011, 01:43:52 PM »
35% down on 3 years ago, pretty shit really

Offline nordenvillain

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Re: Season tickets
« Reply #4 on: August 19, 2011, 01:55:26 PM »
35% down on 3 years ago, pretty shit really
So we had at least 30,769 ST's 3 years ago ? I think not. I believe that we have struggled to get above 25K most years. The proof of the pudding will be in how many in total come through the gates, not just the number of ST's sold. I live 110 miles away and cannot afford to come to many games due to cost and time taken.

Offline TheSandman

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Re: Season tickets
« Reply #5 on: August 19, 2011, 01:59:57 PM »
If we typically averaged 30,000+ then yes that would be disappointing but I think we typically always have been between 20-25,000? Three years ago was when we were having untypically high attendances.

Offline mrfuse

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Re: Season tickets
« Reply #6 on: August 19, 2011, 02:30:23 PM »
I wouldnt worry too much about this seasons tickets, wait until next years!

Offline eamonn

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Re: Season tickets
« Reply #7 on: August 19, 2011, 02:31:49 PM »
Easily over 20,000, not 20,000.
I think 27k was as high as it got under that mad little man from Ulster.
Close to 25,000 wouldn't be bad going considering the economy and the strife at Villa in recent times.

Offline Marlon From Bearwood

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Re: Season tickets
« Reply #8 on: August 19, 2011, 02:55:37 PM »
I read yesterday that even Man Utd have about 4,000 unsold seats for this Monday night's game.

An interesting sign of things to come for everyone?

Offline Lucky Eddie

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Re: Season tickets
« Reply #9 on: August 19, 2011, 03:08:47 PM »
I read yesterday that even Man Utd have about 4,000 unsold seats for this Monday night's game.

An interesting sign of things to come for everyone?

So we need a gate of 39.300 tomorrow to be able to tell the dirty mid shire mancs that they've got more empty seats than we have!

If that aint an incentive for your casuals to get down to VP tomorrow I don't know what is?

Offline dave.woodhall

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Re: Season tickets
« Reply #10 on: August 19, 2011, 05:02:06 PM »
35% down on 3 years ago, pretty shit really
If you're going to moan, get your facts right.

Offline Hale

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Re: Season tickets
« Reply #11 on: August 19, 2011, 07:11:27 PM »
I have not renewed my 2 season tickets  - after 10+ years. I still intend to go to selected games - on a saturday at 3pm - but dear reader you will be bored by the various reasons for non renewal (not purely financial).

But I have received a letter from the CEO.

Now we were completely ignored under previous regimes, so this is an improvement.

However, after a paragraph on why Eck is the right man (and indeed he may be), the next para states that the focus and ambition is in order "that the Club's revenue can grow and contribute accordingly to player,manager and other football related costs". This is where I have a problem  - perhaps we should look to bring down the costs - e.g. lobby for a premier wage cap. Sky pay a small fortune but the money goes not to improve the club or its long suffering supporters but the player, manager and other football related namely agents. Until this is properly dealt with the more we will play in Hong Kong etc and look to "supporters" around the world.

Anyway to all those going tomorrow I sincerely hope that the Villa win and in style.

UTV
« Last Edit: August 19, 2011, 07:15:40 PM by Hale »

Offline robbyfvillain

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Re: Season tickets
« Reply #12 on: August 19, 2011, 08:05:49 PM »
I calculated approx 24k season tickets.

Using the select a seat option for the blackburn game on the monday following closure date for season tickets it was possible to calculate the amount of seats available in each section of villa park and those that were still available. By deduction the rest were season tickets = 24410.

All a bit sad but I was bored!

Offline mistymopcap

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Re: Season tickets
« Reply #13 on: August 19, 2011, 08:12:55 PM »
I too have received the same letter from the CEO as I too have not renewed my season ticket. I started watching Villa in 1968 (v Rotherham 0-1) when my father decided I was old enough to go. Not so much 'Holte Enders in the Sky' as 'Witton End in the Pouring Rain'! Stopping my ticket has been sad and not easy. Paul Faulkner, for all his good intentions, will never have that depth of belonging or memories. Which is why I resent his letter. For footballl to have meaning it is about belonging. Once that tie is broken then something dies. RL & PF may well have chosen the right man in the Blues man. But that's not the point. On the one hand football is just  ... football. So I don't wish McLeish any ill. But, on the other hand, his 'heritage' is not something I can accept and I find it an insult that folk who, for all their good intentions and ambition, cannot appreciate that. So time to move on.
I hope to keep the faith through reserve team matches. But I have found that they are going to keep playing at Hinckley. What is that about? Surely there is a ground in the West Midlands we could use. O yes. I forgot. It's the money, stupid! What is heritage after all? Villa are just another brand.

Offline TheSandman

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Re: Season tickets
« Reply #14 on: August 19, 2011, 08:16:20 PM »
I calculated approx 24k season tickets.

Using the select a seat option for the blackburn game on the monday following closure date for season tickets it was possible to calculate the amount of seats available in each section of villa park and those that were still available. By deduction the rest were season tickets = 24410.

All a bit sad but I was bored!

If that is accurate then it is not bad at all and I think is a bit more than last season.

 


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