Free coaches and subsidised tickets

[Holte L2]

The subserdised coaches are a great gesture. Frustrating for me though. I live In Manchester City Centre, and travel to 90% of aways, all by train. Therefore I'm penalised for living in Manchester as obviously I wouldn't to travel to Villa Park to jump on a free coach.
Would be nice if somehow they recognised supporters like me.

why don't you support your local team instead of chasing Villa around the country? you f'king glory hunter

Haha! I did what they call 'relocate for work purposes.
That, and Manchester's a bloody great City.

[dave.woodhall]

The subserdised coaches are a great gesture. Frustrating for me though. I live In Manchester City Centre, and travel to 90% of aways, all by train. Therefore I'm penalised for living in Manchester as obviously I wouldn't to travel to Villa Park to jump on a free coach.
Would be nice if somehow they recognised supporters like me.

why don't you support your local team instead of chasing Villa around the country? you f'king glory hunter

Haha! I did what they call 'relocate for work purposes.
That, and Manchester's a bloody great City.

Oh dear.

[SoccerHQ]

If everyone stopped going to PL matches, prices would have to go down, but not enough people would be willing to do that. A bit like voting, if nobody voted, we may get rid of the useless tosh that always end up running the country.

"Each time you vote, you support the process...". Just substitute vote for buying tickets.

Trouble is nowadays if the proper fans stopped going they'd still be a decent amount of tourists, coporates and one off trip fans who'd turned up to keep the gravy train ticking over.

[Gregorys Boy]

Saw the Chelsea prices the other day and am currently deciding weather to order one of £18 tickets and hoping that I don't get caught out

[Rudy Can't Fail]

To bump this up, excellent news, I do like the reciprocal agreement initiative.

I don't do away games (rarely do home games!) but it must help those that do when the club do things like this.

The club used to have a reciprocal agreement with Blackburn, think it was £25 for adults and £5 for kids.  I remember one season taking my nephew to Blackburn and it costing £30, then going to Bolton a few weeks later and it being £60.  The reciprocal arrangements are nice, a rare modern football thing of clubs not acting like a cartel to fleece the fans. God bless you, Mister Lerner!

Amen.

[dave.woodhall]

To bump this up, excellent news, I do like the reciprocal agreement initiative.

I don't do away games (rarely do home games!) but it must help those that do when the club do things like this.

The club used to have a reciprocal agreement with Blackburn, think it was £25 for adults and £5 for kids.  I remember one season taking my nephew to Blackburn and it costing £30, then going to Bolton a few weeks later and it being £60.  The reciprocal arrangements are nice, a rare modern football thing of clubs not acting like a cartel to fleece the fans.

On a slight tangent, Charlton supporters once complained that we didn't offer concessions for kids and they did. It was pointed out that it cost more for an adult and a child at the Valley than two full price at Villa Park. 

[Risso]

To bump this up, excellent news, I do like the reciprocal agreement initiative.

I don't do away games (rarely do home games!) but it must help those that do when the club do things like this.

The club used to have a reciprocal agreement with Blackburn, think it was £25 for adults and £5 for kids.  I remember one season taking my nephew to Blackburn and it costing £30, then going to Bolton a few weeks later and it being £60.  The reciprocal arrangements are nice, a rare modern football thing of clubs not acting like a cartel to fleece the fans. God bless you, Mister Lerner!

Amen.

You cheeky young scamp.

[silhillvilla]

"That, and Manchester's a bloody great City."

It really isn't.

[Holte L2]

"That, and Manchester's a bloody great City."

It really isn't.

It really is. I've had seven fantastic years here. I'm really into my music, and the amount of different live music venues we have is unreal, Manchester's got all of good bits of London, without the hassle.

[aj2k77]

I don't find personally that Manchester is anything like London, it's shit. Bless them whenever they try to mention themselves in the same vain though.

[amfy]

"That, and Manchester's a bloody great City."

It really isn't.

It really is. I've had seven fantastic years here. I'm really into my music, and the amount of different live music venues we have is unreal, Manchester's got all of good bits of London, without the hassle.

You do know we have music venues in Birmingham don't you? I'm wondering how old you are, because it's my guess that you are of an age where you could have 7 great years in lots of places.

[Holte L2]

"That, and Manchester's a bloody great City."

It really isn't.

It really is. I've had seven fantastic years here. I'm really into my music, and the amount of different live music venues we have is unreal, Manchester's got all of good bits of London, without the hassle.

You do know we have music venues in Birmingham don't you? I'm wondering how old you are, because it's my guess that you are of an age where you could have 7 great years in lots of places.

30.  We do have lots of music venues in Birmingham, but we don't get the variety that Manchester does, especially the smaller venues.

Each to their own.

[Jimbo]

Manchester isn't shit. Manchester's a good city. What it isn't is the number one city in the universe, which invented the number one, cities and the universe. If it gets its act together, it might be as good as Liverpool.

[Ads]

Manchester is a smaller and rougher version of Brum. The Dippers are friendlier and have less of a chip on their shoulder.

[Chico Hamilton III]

"That, and Manchester's a bloody great City."

It really isn't.

It really is. I've had seven fantastic years here. I'm really into my music, and the amount of different live music venues we have is unreal, Manchester's got all of good bits of London, without the hassle.

I did 10 years in Manchester and loved it - moved there in 1989, just as it was going mental up there. I'm into my 15th year in London and it's another world compared to any other UK city. Manchester doesn't come close.