Questions to Season Ticket Holders.

[VillaAlways]

We might play better football too. If god forbid we go down then a large reduction maybe 10-20% may be needed to get good crowds. we would ofcourse have a new manager if we were relegated which may improve the gates. Unless it was Chris Houghton ofcourse!! Or Steve Bruce!!!

What's wrong with Chris Hughton ? I'd be more than happy with him

[Legion]

A reference to his current employers, perhaps?

[VillaAlways]

A reference to his current employers, perhaps?

All the better.They' be livid if we nicked him.Unfortunately I don't think the board would dare even though the majority of Villa supporters would be thrilled to have him because they just don't get it

[Chris Harte]

It is meant to be fun.

If you meet up with your mates before and after the match and go boozing, maybe that bit still us fun.

The football bit in the middle hasn't been fun for a while, though, and is becoming less and less fun.

This is how it is for me these days. A good craic before or after (sometimes before and after), but the middle bit not being enjoyable.

[TimTheVillain]

It is becoming very tedious being a Villa fan at the moment and going to VP is far from being fun - it is a chore.

I probably will renew, but only if they keep the prices the same.

If they increase by literally 1p it would be the end for me next season after a decade of being a ST holder.



 

[cheltenhamlion]

I have long since realised that meeting up with friends was the most enjoyable part of going to the football. 

[TheSandman]

A reference to his current employers, perhaps?

All the better.They' be livid if we nicked him.Unfortunately I don't think the board would dare even though the majority of Villa supporters would be thrilled to have him because they just don't get it

Absolutely. They probably believe the oft-repeated shit in the press that we don't want McLeish as he came from City.

I'd be delighted if we brought in Hughton if we sacked McLeish. I'd not have been disappointed in the summer had he came in. Instead we made the most bizarre, divisive, unimaginative and downright terrible appointment imaginable.

[VillaAlways]

I have long since realised that meeting up with friends was the most enjoyable part of going to the football. 

My sister,brother in law and nephew don't even have that.For 3 seasons they have been driving all the way over from Shropshire all the home games and driving straight back.My nephew has gone from being a fanatical Villa supporter to now barely bring interested.Suffice it to say those 3 season tickets will not be renewed next season

[cheltenhamlion]

If it wasn't for meeting up with my variety of acquaintances in The Bartons I would have given up some time ago.

[coda]

we would ofcourse have a new manager if we were relegated which may improve the gates.

I'm not convinced we would. I can envisage Faulkner saying McLeish is the perfect manager with his experience of the Championship. I think we'll be fine this season although I am worried about next season.

[nick harper]

Having been a season ticket holder pretty much for the last 30 years, I'm disappointed they haven't called me up to get some feedback. I would like the opportunity to tell them how painful it is at the moment and that the club are alienating a lot of loyal fans as a result.

I very rarely miss a home game but I've missed the last two, the second being simply because I knew how McLeish would play against Man City and can't stand to watch it.

As things stand me and my family will not be renewing, so that's another three.

[Boz]

I'm not an ST holder and only get to see a few games in a season, but to me the Board seem to have lost sight of the fact AV are primarily a football club and what happens on the pitch dictates almost everything else that goes on at the club.

All the fluff and other marketing ploys are secondary, as until there's a successful team on the pitch, the fans will not be happy or contemplate spending hard to come by money at the club. Under the existing manager, it's difficult to envisage any real success or an acceptable style of football, so the donward spiral will continue.

[VillaAlways]

I'm not an ST holder and only get to see a few games in a season, but to me the Board seem to have lost sight of the fact AV are primarily a football club and what happens on the pitch dictates almost everything else that goes on at the club.

All the fluff and other marketing ploys are secondary, as until there's a successful team on the pitch, the fans will not be happy or contemplate spending hard to come by money at the club. Under the existing manager, it's difficult to envisage any real success or an acceptable style of football, so the donward spiral will continue.

This in a nutshell.I get the feeling from the present board that it is the football that is secondary to everything else

[Clampy]

I've not had a call yet but i'll always get a ST for as long as i can afford it. I'd also tell them that I can see a lot of people not renewing if Eck is stlll there, which i don't think he will be.

[CJ]

I haven't missed a home game for over 20 years and I've got a great ST seat (near front & centre Upper Holte). But I'm finding it hard to muster much enthusiasm these days - with top flight football(ers) in general and McLeish's brand of football in particular. I've stopped going to away games, and if my mates don't renew I probably won't either. It'll be a wrench as I've been going to the Villa on and off since I moved to Birmingham in the '70's, but other than the banter with my mates it's just no fun any more.