Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air on March 21, 2011, 05:14:56 PM
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Whatever happens, I think the club has to budget for reduced season ticket sales.
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I can't renew next season due to work commitments so will just buy tickets when possible
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So long as Houllier and his mute friend have gone, I will go whatever division we're in
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I will renew as long as I am still in work and can afford it, if I was a glory hunter I'd follow a different club.
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I am waiting to see what kind of package Spurs can offer.
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i will be there, i support aston villa!
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I am waiting to see what kind of package Spurs can offer.
Getting to watch Gareth Bale every other week, you simply can't put a price on that!
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Get rid of GH, and i'll be there come rain or shite football
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It makes no odds either way to me
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I'll renew. I support Villa.
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i will be there, i support aston villa!
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Moving to University, three years of probably 3 or 4 games a season coming up.
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Moving to University, three years of probably 3 or 4 games a season coming up.
Might not be such a bad thing
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Moving to University, three years of probably 3 or 4 games a season coming up.
Might not be such a bad thing
That's what I've been thinking, and there are a few championship teams within reach of Sheffield.
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One way or another I think it's going to be very interesting next season and I'll be renewing regardless of where we are or who's in charge, same as I do every year. I like being miserable.
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Looking unlikely whatever happens. I will try to go to as many as possible but the ST looks out of reach.
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Moving to University, three years of probably 3 or 4 games a season coming up.
Might not be such a bad thing
That's what I've been thinking, and there are a few championship teams within reach of Sheffield.
Like Villa :o
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This season was a struggle to find the money, but was still enthusiastic enough to do it. Next year they can whistle - I can't give my money to 1) modern football that treats us like customers, and 2) a club that has turned into a shambles. Might still go to the odd game but they've driven all the enthusiasm out of me, with their choice - and continued back - of a manager who's just not got what it takes.
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I'll be there, will renew and not bothered if Houllier is there or not, he isn't why I go.
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Though I do know someone who refuses to go while Houllier is in charge, though he has hated him since the start.
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Always have and always will VTID the only thing to stop me will be a box
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For as long as i can afford it, i'll keep going home and away.
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I'll get down there 2-3 times, money permitting. Shocking state of affairs this is though! Just hoping that we can stay up and see what happens over the summer. Some players have made the dressing room a nasty, cliquey place and they need to be got rid of sharpish.
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Moving to University, three years of probably 3 or 4 games a season coming up.
Yes, you won't be out of bed in time for a 3pm kick-off
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Will always be there whoever is in charge!
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Finance dictates, and it is unlikely that I will afford it next season, so will go from game to game whatever devision. The offers they put on over the season make a season ticket useful only to get the seat you like these days anyway.
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I said won't renew if we go down but that's not because I won't go - but will very much depend on price .Have had a season ticket for the last 7 seasons now and have never felt so "meh" about renewing. Think we are more likely to buy game by game in the championship as I sometimes miss games because of work commitments so the value starts to look less. I have really resented the prices we have paid this year when seeing some of the "can't be arsed" performances. We have the second highest season ticket price and although I like our seats and the folks round us I'm not sure we've had value for money this season.
I also felt really ripped off when I sold our Newcastle tickets through the site - they take £36 each ticket and we get £22.50 per ticket. Now I understand the admin cost and the fact it is a proportion of the ST price but even so........
Saying that - whether we renew at all depends on how they fix the prices. May renew in a different area or may just buy tickets on a game by game basis specially with all the offers there have been this year
Hmmmm - I needed a haven't really decided button but that is not really to do with either relegation or Houllier
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I used to believe that I would buy a season ticket even if Tevor Francis was the manager
but the current guy in the hot seat is testing my loyalty -
Followed the lads in the Third Division days but watching Houllier slouched in the dugout
at Vicarage Road would test my committment to the absolute limit -
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I'll renew as long as I can afford it. I don't yet know if my contract is going to be renewed for next academic year.
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I'll renew. It's too big of a part in my life to just walk away from.
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I can't afford a season ticket but regardless what division we are in I will go when I can
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My renewal depends on the guys I go with renewing. If they don't then I most likely won't. I go as much for the love of having a laugh with them as anything else. Although we weren't happy about losing to Wolves we still had a bloody good laugh, especially at the wolves full back Elokobi who early doors got the name 'the unit'.
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If we were in the Blue Square Premier I'd renew. No matter what misery the club throw at me, I always come back for more.
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I can't renew next season due to work commitments so will just buy tickets when possible
Same here but GH has made that a dead cert, the useless *¥!?€$#
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Doubt i'll be able to afford a ST again next season, but will still go as often as I can afford regardless of whether Mourinho is in charge and we're top of the league or we've been relegated and GH is in charge and we're bottom of Div 2.
So technically I can't vote as there is no vote option for finances dictating the decision.
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At the moment I won't be coming back after 18 years or so, regardless of what manager we have / what division we're in.
But ask me again around renewal date.
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My son's 1st season ticket next season but he must be gone ASAP
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If we were in the Blue Square Premier I'd renew. No matter what misery the club throw at me, I always come back for more.
Sounds like the sort of thing me and my school mates used to say in the 1960s. "I'd follow Villa down to division 3". "Well I would follow us if we went down to division 4". "And I'd still go if we were in the southern league". "I'd still follow us in the midland combination". "etc etc...usually finishing with something like "I would still go every week even if we had gone out of existence".
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Renew whatever, it's in the blood.
Hopefully some of the muppets around in the Lower Holte will refrain from doing so, they vent their spleens win, lose or draw!!
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Definitely renew, and hope the Stewart Downing Hate Foundation behind me doesn't. He's had a better season than most of them, for fucks sake stop moaning!
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Definitely renew, and hope the Stewart Downing Hate Foundation behind me doesn't. He's had a better season than most of them, for fucks sake stop moaning!
Lower Holte by any chance??
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I will go whenever i'm home and whatever division we are in.
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No. Don't care about the Manager or the Players they come and go me and the Villa are forever.
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Renew whatever, it's in the blood.
Hopefully some of the muppets around in the Lower Holte will refrain from doing so, they vent their spleens win, lose or draw!!
Chap.
Tell those moaning mofo's to stop venting their spleens and start cupping their splendours.
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It's a life sentence. With no parole.
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I cant get ticket due to work , but If Jose turns up as manager , I will get one and pay all my staff £30 a hour to make sure I get down VP.
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After 10 years of standing on the Holte, I bought my first season ticket the year we were relegated to the third division.
I was a supporter. Now I'm on parole, a sometime spectator, having seen the best, the rest is just not good enough.
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I have little choice but to renew.
Towards the end of every season I get bullish and say
'I won't be renewing next season'
But I know i'm just lying to myself, the club is ingrained in my DNA, the pull of the old place affects me on so many levels and it's a 36 year love affair that won't die.
Oh sure, if my head ruled my heart, i'd call it a day.
Like picking a better supermarket, i'd wonder off to support a better club, or merely find something better to do with my time.
It just isn't that simple.
Like any marriage you have to stay the course, there are good times and bad times, the eternal hope of good times is the thing that keeps you going, it still shines in the back of your ever growing cynical mind, the idealism didn't completely die when you passed the age of 16.
We stand together, we fall together.
I still love this pain in the arse club.
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I'll renew because whatever happens it will be part of Villa's history which I like to witness. In summary - I'll be back out of morbid curiosity. I see some bad years ahead of us - this season has been terrible but I think it is only a foretaste of what's to come.
Ah, takes me back to the late 1960's.
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I feel bad about my vote. I am not renewing as I wont be able to with a new arrival imminent to our household. It is a good hour for me to travel either way, so time and cost force my hand. I would have liked an option that says "Not renewing but with a heavy heart". Times are tough on the pitch, but I have bloodly loved going to VP every home game over the last two years, and in the future will, when im in a position to do so, renew a ST, and honestly, be it in the Blue Square Premiership or Champions League, I will be there cheering on my team. I am very proud of being a Villa fan. Proud of my ground, and most of all a football fan. If I want to see football live, where better than the true theatre of dreams
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I like being miserable too, so I'll be renewing whaever happends.
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Not renewing. Dad bought me my first season ticket in 1980. Seen the good times and bad times. I now just hate what football has become. Nothing to do with Houllier, I actually think some of the football under him has been quite good. I've seen relegation before, seen us sign players like Steve Sims and David Norton and still look back at those times with great affection. I can honestly say standing on the terrace at Swindon celebrating promotion stands up against any of the Wembley wins i've been too.
I hate the fact i'm contributing to make average players who couldn't lace the boots of players like Cowans and Little multi millionaires.
I hate the fact finishing mid table in the Premier League is more beneficial to a club than winning the FA Cup.
I hate the atmopshere at the Villa these days, I sit in upper holte K block. There's no passion anymore, no getting behind the team no matter what. Its just f*ck off back to France Pires/Houllier (delete as appropriate), f*ck off to Liverpool Young, and thats from the first minute.
Last Saturday morning I actually said to the wife if i wasn't for the fact i had a season ticket i would rather stay at home and do the garden than go to the match.
So no, I am not getting a season ticket next season. I hope to a season off will renew my love but i just don't think it will.
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1969 to the present
Div 3 to Champions of league and Europe.
Aston Villa football club for me all the way, every day !!
UTV
The Doc
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I'll be there, what else is there to do on Saturday afternoons (Saturday mornings, Sunday, Monday nights, Friday night etc...)
It is the away games I'll give a miss like I have this season.
Saying that though might be a lot of fun going to a load of new places, taking a decent following and winning!
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Moving to University, three years of probably 3 or 4 games a season coming up.
Might not be such a bad thing
That's what I've been thinking, and there are a few championship teams within reach of Sheffield.
3-4 games and you'll be in Sheffield on a 6-9k loan, with no obligations?
Part time indeed.
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I won't be. I just don't enjoy anything about going anymore. The game on Saturday was awful: awful atmosphere from the fans, awful performance from the players and an awful manager who i get the impression isn't really bothered about this football club.
Where's the passion? We are all in the stands going through a range of emotions, dreading the thought of relegation and Houiller is just sitting there looking non-plusssed. It's our football club that you are strangling to death mate, we built this up and you seem hell-bent on knocking it down.
I just can't take it anymore. Say what you like about the football we played under MON. But i liked him as a manager, he cared, you could tell from his re-actions to numerous late goals for and against us that he cared the way we do. I liked his team, they were resiliant, they gave their all, they put their bodies on the line for the cause and they scored some wonderful goals. Against Wolves the team was unrecognisable to me, there was no heart, no belief, no passion.
So for now, I won't be renwing.
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Don't know yet as Royal Mail is introducing unpopular changes in August and we might work from 7 to 3 on Saturdays so it is not good idea to think about it for now.
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I like being miserable too, so I'll be renewing whaever happends.
Well if you don't like being miserable don't sit next to your Dad!!! <winky thing>
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Don't know yet as Royal Mail is introducing unpopular changes in August and we might work from 7 to 3 on Saturdays so it is not good idea to think about it for now.
I noticed jobs are going as well , hope your job is alright mate..
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Based on this poll, ST sales will be at least 20% ish down regardless
That has to be a concern for RL / PF
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Based on this poll, ST sales will be at least 20% ish down regardless
That has to be a concern for RL / PF
If they base their business model on a few internet malcontents rather than the vast majority of fans who don't whinge on forums and will no doubt renew and continue their support of Aston Villa then good luck to them.
If we go down then obviously sales will be hit, that would go for most clubs, but if we survive I doubt we'll lose more than 5% or so even if Hotlips is still the manager.
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I am truly sorry to say that I shall not be renewing my season ticket. It's nothing to do with any dissatisfaction with the Club or the manager or anything other than infirmity of age. I felt lousy on Sunday and I can't face a whole season like that. I'll probably just buy the occasional ticket for old times sake.
I'll still be a Villa supporter though.
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Based on this poll, ST sales will be at least 20% ish down regardless
That has to be a concern for RL / PF
If they base their business model on a few internet malcontents rather than the vast majority of fans who don't whinge on forums
Sadly, past history shows us that they do avidly listen to the tiny majority on the Internet.
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I think if we get relegated our crowds would average somwhere around the 30,000 mark, maybe slightly higher if one or two of our local rivals joins us in the Championship.
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Thre's more chance of my renewing if we go down, in a My Club Needs Me-type way.
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Voted to renew but money will tell the tale
But saying that my wife wants to get one now so will probably renew mine my sons and a new one for the wife.
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I will renew regardless of who is the Manager is, the players we have or league we are in.
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I'm gonna renew providing I can afford it (which I will be able to).
I'd definitely renew if we went down, but I'd probably not go to every game as I wouldn't be able to afford the extra train fair for each game.
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VCTM jnr will be playing on Saturdays - watching son or Villa? What do you think?
His mom can take him !!
Only joking - tickets only for me when we can make it down or away days.
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Said I wasn't going to renew this season, but did. I'm probably going to have to wait for the fixtures to come out for next season before deciding this time, as I have to work every other weekend and can't afford to use up all my ad hoc holiday time for games, or I need to rely on shift swaps with other people. I usually miss three or four homes a season including cups due to work and holidays and would feel extremely disloyal if I was sat at home watching Sky Soccer Saturday / Special waiting for updates on our games.
Having said that though, my main reason for renewing is to keep my access for away tickets. I've worked out that I could see us at seven new grounds if we get relegated!
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I've worked out that I could see us at seven new grounds if we get relegated!
Out of curiosity, i just looked as well, and worked out i'd be seeing us at 8 new grounds. The fact that one of them would be Millwall has convinced me even more than we should sack GH.
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Whatever happens I would find it hard not to renew but one thing would make me sever my connection of 57 years - the appointment of Sam Allardyce as manager.
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Would probably buy in any division if I can afford it.
If someone horrible like Allardyce became our manager, it would be hard to stomach though.
At least there'd be more games for your money and some new grounds to go to - Millwall, Doncaster, Leeds, Leicester.
On second thoughts....
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I've worked out that I could see us at seven new grounds if we get relegated!
Out of curiosity, i just looked as well, and worked out i'd be seeing us at 8 new grounds. The fact that one of them would be Millwall has convinced me even more than we should sack GH.
I've counted Brighton and Huddersfield or Bournemouth in my seven. Cardiff and Swansea if they don't go up won't be a picnic either.
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I feel a bit brassed off with football as a whole and have done for a year or so. Therefore, it's not current form that's making me think is it worth £500. I'm sure I will as I have since 97 but can't say it's been enjoyable. Just seems pointless, we buy players, try to get better, flirt with success but ultimately fail then lose our best players and the cycle starts again. Seen it too many times to be optimistic about the future.
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That's the Villa way.
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Isn't it just
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Lots of clubs announced their prices already...when do we? Are we likely to wait right till end of season to find out wher we finish?
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Still having a job or not will be the decider as ever.
I'd just miss match day to much, though I'm sure the football big wigs will continue down the path of making match day less of what I actually enjoy (Stupid kick off times for Telly, ridiculously short notice of rearrangements for Telly etc etc).
It will be the greed in football that stops me going not relegation or Houllier (That's not to say I'm not sick of him right now, because I am).
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I didn't renew this season as I was finding it harder to get to games because of work commitments. I have still made it to a few games but can honestly say I have not missed having a season ticket and we never sell out so as long as you are organised you can get a decent seat.
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Regardless of what happens expect I'll renew, for social/family reasons as much as anything.
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its in the blood .... your teams your team come rain shine or shit football,,,,,, villa till i die
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I will re-new because I love the club, and as it has been said it is in the blood.
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I think if you're organised it's cheaper to do it match by match ? Ie we got great seats for ci£y at home for £15 !