Why 3 seasons? Why not 5? 2? 10?Last season there was 16,000 match day tickets available for home support per game and as has been the case in every season before, no fundamental need for a season ticket, as supply exists in good quantities.Now there are 8,000, including players tickets, Lion Clubs, competition winners and the like. Less than 150,000 available match tickets over the season as opposed to 304,000.That hugely increases the need for a season ticket, increases demand that for the first time perhaps ever, Villa Park will not meet.What would any big company do with their product? Twiddle their thumbs and see how it goes apparently, while making sure there's only 2 children in the shop at any given time.
I do enjoy all this optimism and I thank God we're in a position to talk like so.However, is anyone else struggling to read this narrative of "let's go for it and spend X on this new stand" and then in transfer thread read "we should never spend X on a league Y player" ?Hopefully things will progress in the right way on both fronts.
Quote from: f1sav on June 25, 2019, 07:28:51 PMI do enjoy all this optimism and I thank God we're in a position to talk like so.However, is anyone else struggling to read this narrative of "let's go for it and spend X on this new stand" and then in transfer thread read "we should never spend X on a league Y player" ?Hopefully things will progress in the right way on both fronts. I believe that we should have a modern ground befitting of our historical standing, and spend the going rate for players of quality. Isn't it a Villa invention, such profligacy in the name of football?
I thought it was just me who hated the North Stand.I would like to think that the planning is going on now so at least we are Prepared.
I thought they were only adding about 5k to the capacity, most of the cost is putting a roof on. At least I think that's what was in the article I read a few weeks back.
The smart thing to have done would have been to arrange some kind of deal with the future rebuilt Alexander Stadium so we move in there for a year starting 2022 while Villa Park gets 2 new stands built and everything in and around the stadium is sorted properly rather than a rush job or just bits and pieces at a time.
Quote from: Kimaster1976 on June 26, 2019, 07:26:50 AMThe smart thing to have done would have been to arrange some kind of deal with the future rebuilt Alexander Stadium so we move in there for a year starting 2022 while Villa Park gets 2 new stands built and everything in and around the stadium is sorted properly rather than a rush job or just bits and pieces at a time.I dislike the Witton stand as much as anyone and the concourses are an absolute joke. But I'm not sure how we can rebuild it any bigger when we are restricted by the road and houses behind it?For me the long term vision should to be a horse shoe Trinity, North, Witton facing the mighty Holte (yes a larger single tier would be nice, but it's not a priority given the rest of the ground). I know some don't like corners filled in but if we want capacity maximised I don't see how we can avoid it. As for air flow for the pitch, whilst it would restrict it the majority of modern stadia around the world have the corners filled in and seem to manage.