Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: Legion on February 05, 2014, 07:05:40 PM
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By polite request from Nick Cornwell:
I'm in my final year at uni and I'm doing my dissertation on Aston Villa and the match-day experience.
I’m looking into other aspects of the match day experience that effect the value that fans feel when they attend, other than what happens on the pitch.
I want to see the specific differences in how the fans rate different features such as food, drink etc. when the team plays well compared to when they don’t.
I assume that in general the experience will be rated lower across the board on a bad performance, but it might be that when the performance has been really poor certain features are rated much lower than others which means I could recommend that if the team is playing poorly then people could be given vouchers or maybe they find the seats more uncomfortable during a poor match, or they would prefer if there was some decent half-time entertainment!
All in all this is to try and make recommendations to improve the match-day experience in response to the fact that most of the clubs earn money through tv rights etc. so they could be forgetting to make sure their fans are happy (I don’t believe villa are doing this necessarily but I wanted to focus on them because they are my club).
Link to survey (https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BKKM6Q5)
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Kids with pop bottle crates, AV floodlights, H&V on sale, jumpers for goalposts.
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H&V that USED to be on sale. I'm still bitter.
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Where is he, at UniCYCLE, UniSEX hairdresser's, UniLEVER ? I don't understand.
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If we are, say, losing 0-2 at home, maybe Randy could give Lambert a voucher for a left-back or a midfield box-to-box enforcer.
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V.E.R.S.I.T.Y. Or he could be uni-lateral like most students.
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Anyway, done.
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I want 1976-77 back!
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Going back to when I first went, I always enjoyed the kids relay races round the pitch they used to do.
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when I was 20 and I got in the under 16's for a fiver . I want those days back .
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Completed.
While the value in terms of price compared to other team's prices is very good, the value in terms of 'what you get for your money' is often poor. Saying that, every now and again there's a match that really gets the blood flowing. (Man City, Sunderland 6-1, Albion)
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when I was 20 and I got in the under 16's for a fiver . I want those days back .
I'm 18 soon to be 19 and still go with under 16 ;)
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I've mentioned this before on other threads. It might have been the 1989-90 season game when Player-manager-sub Beelzebub and QPR spanked us 1-3 or maybe another game, but at HT they had a troupe of Majorettes twirling their batons round the pitch. The girls must only have been 12 but the Holte End treated them to a rousing chorus of "Get yer tits out for the laaaaads!"
That was a match-day experience for them.
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If I were your Director of Studies I would fail you for using the word "experience" as though it was a finite phenomenon - First I experience the journey, then I experience the chips, then I experience the over priced weak beer, then I experience the hoofball, then I experience the booing, then I experience going home.
Each Villa game and being there to witness it is a totally different thing. Bad choice of dissertation subject IMHO.
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My match day experience used to involve standing with my dad in the Trinity and drinking Bovril at half time with added pepper which you put in yourself. And the decor was brown. And most of all the wooden scoreboards..I miss them.
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when I was 20 and I got in the under 16's for a fiver . I want those days back .
I'm 18 soon to be 19 and still go with under 16 ;)
;) how much is it now
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Done. Good luck with it. Don't do what I did and leave writing it up until two days before the deadline.
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The experience? Setting out about an hour before kick off. Getting to Lichfield road in fifteen minutes. Always wasting 15 mins in the queue at Park Circus. Spending the next 20 minutes looking for a parking place in Bevington Road or road off there. Finally parking with 5 mins to kick off. Sometimes finding Legion selling H&V under the tree. Highlight of the day. Making it to my seat with 5 minutes gone. Looking at clock with fifteen gone and thinking it's a good day we haven't conceded. Hoping for a goal from a lucky bounce before HT. At half time trying to remember what I did the last time at HT that resulted in us scoring in the second half but giving up after 10 mins as I can't recall a good result. Trying to avoid looking at away fans when they score. Last ten minutes trying to think about positives of another home defeat that I can drill in to my nephew so he doesn't feel too despondent. Not listening to WM when I finally get into the car. Hoping I can get indoors and disappear before wife asks me how did the Villa do and telling me "I knew they won't win" even before I open my mouth. Avoiding all football for the rest of the weekend.
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Done. :)
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when I was 20 and I got in the under 16's for a fiver . I want those days back .
I'm 18 soon to be 19 and still go with under 16 ;)
;) how much is it now
My ticket in the Holte for the West Ham game was 15, as it was for the Albion game. As far as I can remember that seems to be the usual price. FA cup games are a fiver though and I feel like an old timer back in the 60's wearing a flat cap.
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Done. Good luck.
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"Bovril with added pepper which you put in yourself." God, that brought back memories. Thanks for the smile.
Oh, I still can't smell a cigar without thinking of the Trinity in the sixties.
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when I was 20 and I got in the under 16's for a fiver . I want those days back .
I'm 18 soon to be 19 and still go with under 16 ;)
;) how much is it now
My ticket in the Holte for the West Ham game was 15, as it was for the Albion game. As far as I can remember that seems to be the usual price. FA cup games are a fiver though and I feel like an old timer back in the 60's wearing a flat cap.
Old Timer? Sixties? wearing a flat cap? The sixties. the decade of The Beatles and The Stones, Woodstock et al. I think you mean the thirties
dont you.
We saw ourselves as The Children of The Revolution. You missed out on a lot I think.
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Done!
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Just like to say a thanks to everyone who has done the survey and posted their thoughts on here, I appreciate it a lot and it's all been really helpful stuff!
- Nick
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done