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Offline Handsworth Wood Villa

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Re: Villa launch Tickets for Schools scheme
« Reply #15 on: January 24, 2012, 08:11:47 PM »
If you go to Newcastle, everyone supports Newcastle.

It should be like that in Birmingham (with Villa obviously.)

It's a one club town unlike Birmingham. We don't do too badly considering the amount of clubs in this area. We piss all over your club Small Heath when it comes to support, that's for sure.

How is it then that Everton and Man City (both the smaller clubs in their respective cities) have a similar fanbase to us (the bigger club in our city)?

Surely they should have next to no fans having to compete with the two biggest clubs in England?

They compete with Man Utd and Liverpool.

We compete with Blues (and Albion.)

Also Birmingham has a bigger population than Manchester and Liverpool.

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Re: Villa launch Tickets for Schools scheme
« Reply #16 on: January 24, 2012, 08:13:55 PM »
Is every single thing you post a thinly veiled piece of trolling?

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Re: Villa launch Tickets for Schools scheme
« Reply #17 on: January 24, 2012, 08:16:29 PM »
If, as a Villa fan, I was on an independent Villa message board with 500+ posts and had accusations and comments aimed at me at being a knuckledragger, I'd be long gone. Are you Villa? Or SHA?

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Re: Villa launch Tickets for Schools scheme
« Reply #18 on: January 24, 2012, 08:17:39 PM »
If, as a Villa fan, I was on an independent Villa message board with 500+ posts and had accusations and comments aimed at me at being a knuckledragger, I'd be long gone. Are you Villa? Or SHA?

Even the simpletons on Villa Talk thought the same.

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Re: Villa launch Tickets for Schools scheme
« Reply #19 on: January 24, 2012, 08:18:24 PM »
Is every single thing you post a thinly veiled piece of trolling?

Veiled?

Offline Handsworth Wood Villa

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Re: Villa launch Tickets for Schools scheme
« Reply #20 on: January 24, 2012, 08:20:42 PM »
If, as a Villa fan, I was on an independent Villa message board with 500+ posts and had accusations and comments aimed at me at being a knuckledragger, I'd be long gone. Are you Villa? Or SHA?

Villa.

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Re: Villa launch Tickets for Schools scheme
« Reply #21 on: January 24, 2012, 08:31:54 PM »
Hope its a success,its really important to get kids through the doors to see games,something which was easier for us when we were kids. In this day and age of wall to wall sky football its good that some kids will get to know how much better it is to be at VP.

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Re: Villa launch Tickets for Schools scheme
« Reply #22 on: January 24, 2012, 08:32:49 PM »
Excellent initiative.  Hope it goes well.

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Re: Villa launch Tickets for Schools scheme
« Reply #23 on: January 24, 2012, 08:35:36 PM »
If you go to Newcastle, everyone supports Newcastle.

It should be like that in Birmingham (with Villa obviously.)

It's a one club town unlike Birmingham. We don't do too badly considering the amount of clubs in this area. We piss all over your club Small Heath when it comes to support, that's for sure.

How is it then that Everton and Man City (both the smaller clubs in their respective cities) have a similar fanbase to us (the bigger club in our city)?

Surely they should have next to no fans having to compete with the two biggest clubs in England?

They compete with Man Utd and Liverpool.

We compete with Blues (and Albion.)

Also Birmingham has a bigger population than Manchester and Liverpool.

Because Everton have a history that comes close to ours and Manchester City are very likely going to win the Premier League. We are also in competition with three biggish clubs whereas they compete with one each. 

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Re: Villa launch Tickets for Schools scheme
« Reply #24 on: January 24, 2012, 08:39:50 PM »
I'm sure they will get round to the inner city schools but they can't visit them all on the same day.

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Re: Villa launch Tickets for Schools scheme
« Reply #25 on: January 24, 2012, 09:23:00 PM »
Only to be expected that some would try to find a negative with this initiative.

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The scheme is open to all primary schools with a Birmingham postcode.

That is a bit unfair though. The school I went to had a CV postcode, yet is closer to Villa Park than say, Henley in Arden school which has a Birmingham postcode. Oh well, a good initiative nontheless.

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Re: Villa launch Tickets for Schools scheme
« Reply #26 on: January 25, 2012, 08:45:47 AM »
I think the comparison to Manchester teams and their support, especially the red shite, is a little unfair. If anything there are so many other teams in and around the greater Manchester area that suffer because all the kids wanted to support the glamour club and in the Northwest for many years it was always United. The reason a lot of clubs in the north struggle is not just due to the easy travelling to United but also with that silly egg chasing game they have up there - which in most instances gets more crowds that most NW football teams.

A lot of the United fan base stems all the way back to Munich 58 - where due to the tragedy alot of people, including non football fans, adopted them as thier team and it just grew through generations - especially for fans that are not from Manchester.

Historically we have never had a huge home following - but for as long as i can remember we have always been known to have one of the largest and devout away followings across most teams

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Re: Villa launch Tickets for Schools scheme
« Reply #27 on: January 25, 2012, 08:59:07 AM »
http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10265~2587294,00.html

Very good idea but don't really see the point in going to a school in Sutton Coldfield where we already have a strong fanbase.

The headteacher alluded to this

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We have a lot of Villa fans here at Boldmere Primary School and we may have a few more soon with this great scheme.

What we need to do is target inner-city Birmingham where there is a high ethnic minority population - areas like Aston, Handsworth, Lozells, Nechells, Small Heath, Hockley, Winson Green, Sparkbrook, Ward End, Ladywood, Saltley etc.

These are the areas where we lose support to Man U, Liverpool and Arsenal.

The cynic in me would say target the more affluent areas where there is already a good fan base. More likely to convert pupils into regular fans, and more likely that the children/parents have the funds available for match tickets/replica kits etc. In marketing speak-pick the low hanging fruit first.

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Re: Villa launch Tickets for Schools scheme
« Reply #28 on: January 25, 2012, 09:06:46 AM »
I think people are misunderstanding this. All that happened yesterday was they had a PR event to launch the scheme. It doesn't mean one school has been given first go, I'm guessing they did it there as it was relatively close to training ground.

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Re: Villa launch Tickets for Schools scheme
« Reply #29 on: January 25, 2012, 09:18:46 AM »
I think people are misunderstanding this. All that happened yesterday was they had a PR event to launch the scheme. It doesn't mean one school has been given first go, I'm guessing they did it there as it was relatively close to training ground.

Encouraging kids from the Sutton Coldfield area is not a bad place to start.  They're more likely to receive pocket money to spend on merchandise than kids from inner city schools.  Bringing an instant return.

 


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