Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: Scully on July 04, 2015, 12:51:51 PM
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After 20 years in the wilderness I have decided to become a season ticket holder once more however, I have not yet discussed this with Mrs Scully.
She will naturally think this is a bad idea and will challenge my decision for sure.
I need some cast iron reasons that will convince her that this is money well spent rather than spending it on a new garden fence or decorating the lounge.
Can you help me to negotiate this difficult conversation?
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How regularly have you been going in recent seasons ?
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If the football is as awful as it has been over the last 3-4 seasons you'd be better off decorating the lounge then watching the paint dry. Hopefully it will be better this season under Sherwood and with the prospect of new owners. btw - we already have a season ticket thread
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It gives her 18 Saturdays / Sunday's when she can go shopping / see her friends / shag your neighbour....
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The only reason these days is to sit in same seat every game .....
You could buy tickets for every home game without one and still get a Cup Final ticket
Once purchased you are then forced in your own mind to go because the ticket is paid for ....and to be honest we have been dire at home for years inc the MON era
We will need tablets for depression this season because I am afraid I can't see anything other than a season of real struggle
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My wife basically ordered me to sort mine out this morning to stop me agonising in her company
"Just f*****g buy one!" were her exact words
Didn't have one last season (protest thing - it worked! No need to thank me) and went to all but one home match and Wembley twice but seldom got to sit with my mates so back in K3 we go...
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Quid pro quo perhaps. You get an ST and she gets rid of you/St for her as well/time for extra cleaning/cooking / car maintainence/overtime to help pay for your ST.
Endless reasons!
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Because I love football, I'm passionate about the Villa, enjoy spending time with friends and family having a laugh and on occasion*, copious amounts of beer will be consumed.
*These 'occasions' are most home games in all reality.
Then, there's this. It never gets old.
(http://www.footballticketpackages.com/imgs/Villaparkfromtopofholte.jpg)
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It gives her 18 Saturdays / Sunday's when she can go shopping / see her friends / shag your neighbour....
Not to mention a Friday night, when the shops are shut, and her friends are out....
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I have been doing about 6 or 7 home games a season.
I have to say that picture of a packed VP with the sun shining has done it for me. No negotiation needed, I am having it.
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When you are sat in your own piss, in a dusty armchair, being patronised by a dumb care assistant, you will probably regret not doing so.
That and not sleeping with the au pair.
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Fun, friends (new friends) banter, moaning, elation, depression, and beer !!! Go get it now !!!!!
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We will surely win more home games than the god awful last 5 seasons (it wasn't amazing under MON but at least we won more than 5 a season).
Sherwood has 3 wins out of 7 at home. I actually thought it was higher than that but counted the two Albion wins when one was in the cup.
In any case that's a slightly better ratio than what Lambert came up with so I'd fully expect 8-9 wins at home and considerably more goals so on that basis far better value than the last few seasons.
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Ive got a season ticket and have had one for some time, I cant justify it to myself so Im not going to try with you. All I can say is that we are Villa and if I can see them play I will, however much I might moan about it afterward, its like heroin without the guaranteed high.
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Why even tell her ?
Need to know basis
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I've lived over here for coming up 8 years now and during that time I've said a few times that I wouldn't get a season ticket nowadays if I were to move home for whatever reason. The football hasn't been good enough, we've got a young family, I'd probably be working shifts again if I came back, etc. It was a pretty easy argument to win against myself about a hypothetical situation.
However, we came back for a holiday at the beginning of last season and I managed to get to the Leyton Orient and Hull games at home. The atmosphere wasn't the same and the football was even worse than I was expecting. On the way home from both games I said that as poor as it was I'd have to have a season ticket if I was back because I just love our ground. It makes me so happy to be around it and reminds me exactly what Aston Villa means to me. The managers and players come and go but the things I love remain. The colours, the bovril and balti pies, the Holte End and the accents, moaning, blind optimism, irrational hatred of opposition players and general murmur of our supporters are enough for me to feel like I'd be missing out if were able to attend a game but didn't. I just look back to home games from my peak of attending games like Man United in 89/90 and on the opening day of 95/96, Arsenal just before New Year in 89/90 and on Boxing Day in 98, Ipswich and Sheffield Wednesday in 92/93 and QPR on the opening day of 94/95 and they were all worth the season ticket cost alone in my eyes because of the atmosphere and/or quality on display.
It's easy for me to say from over here knowing that I don't have to cough up the money for it but I don't think I'd be able to resist.
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I need some cast iron reasons that will convince her that this is money well spent rather than spending it on a new garden fence or decorating the lounge.
A new garden fence or decorating the lounge to a decent standard is going to cost a lot more than your season ticket...so you'd actually be doing her a favour by not investing in such poor quality products and bad workmanship.
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I'd be inclined to hang on for a few weeks. What happens next could be at either end of the optimism spectrum. We could get taken over, retain Delph and Benteke, buy other vg players and compete in the top ten. The other alternative doesn't bear thinking about but it wouldn't be pretty to watch.