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Aston Villa fans: This won't surprise you but it will please you
This makes good reading for AVFC supporters
12:01, 12 APR 2017Updated13:19, 12 APR 2017
We all know that Aston Villa fans have done the club proud on the road this season.
The claret and blue faithful have filled away ends up and down the country, snapping up ticket allocations in no time.
And now it's official - Villa have been the best supported side away from home this season.
According to the Football League Zone, Villa have the best average number of away fans at matches this term with 3413.
They have pipped nearest challengers Leeds United to first place by just over 100 with five games of the season remaining.
Next up is Newcastle United with 3140 who, like Villa, were relegated from the Premier League in 2015/16.
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SHA astonishingly finished 8th with somethjng like 1500.
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Best supported away side in the country. Not bad.
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C9Hdny6WAAA6Q8D.jpg:large)
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I'm wondering how we're so far ahead of Newcastle. We've failed to sell out a few, and had a reduced allocation at the Sty unlike Newcastle. I'm pretty sure they've sold out pretty much every game. Our support is superb no doubt about it, just wondering though.
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Wonder how it compares to the premier league?
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I'm wondering how we're so far ahead of Newcastle. We've failed to sell out a few, and had a reduced allocation at the Sty unlike Newcastle. I'm pretty sure they've sold out pretty much every game. Our support is superb no doubt about it, just wondering though.
Geordies on Twitter re ion is because even though they sell out their away ends the home supporters demand mean they get lower allocations. In true Twitter style I was suitably outraged.
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I know Brighton fans are outraged cos they've not been given half our ground for a promotion party and because they gave us extra away tickets at their place.
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I'm wondering how we're so far ahead of Newcastle. We've failed to sell out a few, and had a reduced allocation at the Sty unlike Newcastle. I'm pretty sure they've sold out pretty much every game. Our support is superb no doubt about it, just wondering though.
This thought did cross my mind. By way of example, we took 3,700 out of 5,000 to Barnsley (still great on a Tuesday night) but they sold out the 5,000 on a Saturday.
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Will be interesting to see if we maintain these numbers next season.
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I know Brighton fans are outraged cos they've not been given half our ground for a promotion party and because they gave us extra away tickets at their place.
I have a feeling we will be much more accommodating as the fixture approaches.
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I know Brighton fans are outraged cos they've not been given half our ground for a promotion party and because they gave us extra away tickets at their place.
I have a feeling we will be much more accommodating as the fixture approaches.
I don't think we will. We'll have already sold tickets in the Witton upper and lower next to them so can't extend the away section and we won't put them anywhere else. Besides, according to that table they won't need them as we'll be giving them 3x their average!
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Will be interesting to see if we maintain these numbers next season.
I think we'll sell more if we continue where we left off...
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Will be interesting to see if we maintain these numbers next season.
We will if we're in the top 3 or 4 all season.
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There's no way this is correct, it looks like it's been knocked up by a fan to me. It should and will be much closer between us, Newcastle and Leeds. I don't like Newcastle but no chance is our average 300 more than theirs.
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I know Brighton fans are outraged cos they've not been given half our ground for a promotion party and because they gave us extra away tickets at their place.
I have a feeling we will be much more accommodating as the fixture approaches.
I don't think we will. We'll have already sold tickets in the Witton upper and lower next to them so can't extend the away section and we won't put them anywhere else. Besides, according to that table they won't need them as we'll be giving them 3x their average!
I take your point PWS, but I think a lot of seatwave tickets will be available, and when we played that ghastly game against Liverpool, I was in the P6 block and there were 4 Yourpeen Liverpool fans sitting directly in front of me who did a fair old of dance of delight when the first goal went in.
I know of 6 season ticket holders who will be at Edgbaston on Saturday to watch Warwickshire.
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I know Brighton fans are outraged cos they've not been given half our ground for a promotion party and because they gave us extra away tickets at their place.
I have a feeling we will be much more accommodating as the fixture approaches.
I don't think we will. We'll have already sold tickets in the Witton upper and lower next to them so can't extend the away section and we won't put them anywhere else. Besides, according to that table they won't need them as we'll be giving them 3x their average!
All i hear is them moaning that they might as well have more seats as we supposedly won't fill them otherwise cos our ground is never full. Upper trinity will be open i reckon as last game of season.
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We're higher than Newcastle because we take more.
1000 extra given to us at Cardiff
1100 officially extra at Fulham
1500 extra at Wednesday
400 extra at Reading
All adds up.
Brighton have no chance of getting any more tickets.
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The only thing I will say is the original article was from the Meaning Evil and we all know their recent record on accuracy.
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We're higher than Newcastle because we take more.
1000 extra given to us at Cardiff
1100 officially extra at Fulham
1500 extra at Wednesday
400 extra at Reading
All adds up.
Brighton have no chance of getting any more tickets.
They had more at Barnsley, Small Heath, Norwich, and brought more to us than we took to them.
Not saying we're not ahead of them but I think it' should be closer than by 300.
Oh and Newcastle have got 6000 for Cardiff away.
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I think a lot has gone in our favour regarding our away games this season. Apart from Newcastle, Brighton and Norwich (okay and a push Barnsley) all have been within 100 miles or thereabouts. Newcastle and Leeds have additional miles to travel. An away game in London is only half the hassle as travelling from Leeds or Newcastle. Both of whom like it or not have traditionally had bigger away supports than the Villa during the time I have been going to football since the early 70's.
Okay Leeds have a national support and Newcastle I would put only after Manchester United as having the biggest away following over my lifetime on average.
I still think Villa have a tremendous away following but you can manipulate any table anyway you like.
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We're higher than Newcastle because we take more.
1000 extra given to us at Cardiff
1100 officially extra at Fulham
1500 extra at Wednesday
400 extra at Reading
All adds up.
Brighton have no chance of getting any more tickets.
Those are all cancelled out by them taking 1300 more to Barnsley, 1000 more to VP than we took to SJP, taking more to Norwich, 1500 more to the Sty.
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I remember Newcastle not even filling two sections of the old away end at Villa back in the days of standing. Mirandinha was playing for them at the time.
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We're higher than Newcastle because we take more.
1000 extra given to us at Cardiff
1100 officially extra at Fulham
1500 extra at Wednesday
400 extra at Reading
All adds up.
Brighton have no chance of getting any more tickets.
Those are all cancelled out by them taking 1300 more to Barnsley, 1000 more to VP than we took to SJP, taking more to Norwich, 1500 more to the Sty.
Correct. We had 3300 for Cardiff, they've got 6000 so that will boost their average massively.
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http://www.11v11.com/matches/aston-villa-v-newcastle-united-14-january-1989-89177/
This very game in fact.
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They've also had 7K at Blackburn, where we obv haven't played yet. I'm not knocking our support at all, i'm just not convinced we average more than they do.
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On a similar note, total combined attendances for away games puts us on top aswell.
So its not just our fans turning up in numbers - you're only here to see the Villa!
http://www.worldfootball.net/attendance/eng-championship-2016-2017/2/ (http://www.worldfootball.net/attendance/eng-championship-2016-2017/2/)
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To counter defending their away support, there is the time they brought the grand sum of 12 to VP in the 70s. According to those that were there.
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Leeds' number is impressive as always. Granted they're having a good season but they've been down here for years and their numbers haven't tailed off. If we stay down here for the same amount of time as them our support would dwindle and we wouldn't take the numbers we have this season.
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On a similar note, total combined attendances for away games puts us on top aswell.
So its not just our fans turning up in numbers - you're only here to see the Villa!
http://www.worldfootball.net/attendance/eng-championship-2016-2017/2/ (http://www.worldfootball.net/attendance/eng-championship-2016-2017/2/)
Take out the games between us meaning we are comparing the other 22 away games we both play and they'd be above us.
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I know Brighton fans are outraged cos they've not been given half our ground for a promotion party and because they gave us extra away tickets at their place.
I have a feeling we will be much more accommodating as the fixture approaches.
We wont, they will have the usual 2800 or whatever it is
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SHA astonishingly finished 8th with somethjng like 1500.
It's not so surprising when you think for the first two thirds of the season they have been in and around the play offs under Rowett until they started their descent under Zola
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SHA astonishingly finished 8th with somethjng like 1500.
This is a mistake no ?
They carry the cities name & the city has a population of almost 1.25 million people .
There's a zero missing from those figures surely ?
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We are, of course, at something of an advantage due to our geographical location. It all gets a bit silly when it's broken down to specifics, safe to say we have a very strong away support along with Leeds and Newcastle.
Next season will be interesting, one would expect the novelty to wear off somewhat but I haven't been to as many aways as I would like due to the way the fixtures fell so hoping for something kinder next year.
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http://www.11v11.com/matches/aston-villa-v-newcastle-united-14-january-1989-89177/
This very game in fact.
Spinksy, Cowans, Platt, Daley, McInally...
Happy days.
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Indeed so.
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Our away support has been brilliant this year. Let's not dissect it, lets just agree we are the best fans (which of course we know we are).
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I know very little about the extent of Newcastle's away support for this season but having seen snippets of their game recently V Sheff Wed van say that the lower tier of their stand appeared to be quite a lot less than full, maybe half full. Okay, it was a Friday night and televised but they are looking to win the league.
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I've just seen some posts from Brighton fans,it seems the reason we won't give them a larger allocation is because of Barry & Calderwood! I think they maybe slightly deluded, if ever there was a team that no one cares about it's Brighton.
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I know very little about the extent of Newcastle's away support for this season but having seen snippets of their game recently V Sheff Wed van say that the lower tier of their stand appeared to be quite a lot less than full, maybe half full. Okay, it was a Friday night and televised but they are looking to win the league.
They were Sheffield Wednesday fans in the lower tier. Newcastle requested the full end but Wednesday only gave them the upper tier.
If we're in or above the play offs for all/most of next season then our away support will be as good or better than this season. If we have another season like this one then our away support will drop slightly, we won't sell out everywhere or virtually everywhere like Leeds do if we're doing poorly on the pitch.
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Will be interesting to see if we maintain these numbers next season.
The prospect of more away wins and much bigger margins of victory should swell the proverbial coffers
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I know very little about the extent of Newcastle's away support for this season but having seen snippets of their game recently V Sheff Wed van say that the lower tier of their stand appeared to be quite a lot less than full, maybe half full. Okay, it was a Friday night and televised but they are looking to win the league.
They were Sheffield Wednesday fans in the lower tier. Newcastle requested the full end but Wednesday only gave them the upper tier.
If we're in or above the play offs for all/most of next season then our away support will be as good or better than this season. If we have another season like this one then our away support will drop slightly, we won't sell out everywhere or virtually everywhere like Leeds do if we're doing poorly on the pitch.
I'm impressed with your knowledge about the future habits of our lot but also the comings and goings of people of this country following other teams up and down the country.
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Don't forget to wave at the Brighton fans on the way down as we pass them on the way up end of next season (please God)
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I know very little about the extent of Newcastle's away support for this season but having seen snippets of their game recently V Sheff Wed van say that the lower tier of their stand appeared to be quite a lot less than full, maybe half full. Okay, it was a Friday night and televised but they are looking to win the league.
Newcastle requested the full end but Wednesday only gave them the upper tier.
How on Earth do you know that?!
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I know very little about the extent of Newcastle's away support for this season but having seen snippets of their game recently V Sheff Wed van say that the lower tier of their stand appeared to be quite a lot less than full, maybe half full. Okay, it was a Friday night and televised but they are looking to win the league.
Newcastle requested the full end but Wednesday only gave them the upper tier.
How on Earth do you know that?!
You mean you don't examine the away allocations of other non Villa clubs in minute detail?
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I know very little about the extent of Newcastle's away support for this season but having seen snippets of their game recently V Sheff Wed van say that the lower tier of their stand appeared to be quite a lot less than full, maybe half full. Okay, it was a Friday night and televised but they are looking to win the league.
Newcastle requested the full end but Wednesday only gave them the upper tier.
How on Earth do you know that?!
You mean you don't examine the away allocations of other non Villa clubs in minute detail?
Why would you question this poster?
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I know very little about the extent of Newcastle's away support for this season but having seen snippets of their game recently V Sheff Wed van say that the lower tier of their stand appeared to be quite a lot less than full, maybe half full. Okay, it was a Friday night and televised but they are looking to win the league.
Newcastle requested the full end but Wednesday only gave them the upper tier.
How on Earth do you know that?!
I spend way too much time on Twitter when I'm meant to be working!
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Ultimately, whether you believe the figures or not, Villa, Leeds and Newcastle have the most away fans hardly the most surprising stat of the season, we're the three biggest clubs in the division. When you consider we've seen only 4 wins in our 21away games so far I'd have to say the novelty factor has kept us interested for far longer than I'd have thought possible. If it holds up next season then I think we can pat ourselves on the back.
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I remember back in the mid eighties it was announced over the tannoy at Villa Park that we had the second highest away following in the land (After Manure of course)
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I know Brighton fans are outraged cos they've not been given half our ground for a promotion party and because they gave us extra away tickets at their place.
maybe they'd be happy with the upper trinity aswell as their normal allocation. If they want to undertake a nightmare journey and then pay through the nose for overpriced beer, then bring it on- take their money Tone.
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I remember back in the mid eighties it was announced over the tannoy at Villa Park that we had the second highest away following in the land (After Manure of course)
I doubt it. In the mid-eighties our away support was embarrassing.
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Table looks a bit dodgy to me.....SHA really taken on average 200 more away fans to games than Norwich this season. Norwich have great away support for the distances they cover.
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Indeed. I remember being one of what felt like about six on a lonely miserable open terrace at a crumbling Stamford Bridge on a rearranged midweek night.
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I love those games when the away attendance is shite but you're one of the few whos made the effort. A couple that stick in my mind were Leeds away in BFRs first season 91/92. It was early March 92 we were in the midst of the not scoring run from recollection and managed a creditable 0-0 against soon to be Champions Leeds and they missed a last minute penalty. If there were 500 of us there I'd be amazed.
The other one was Boro the week after the bloody Stern John game where we pissed all over them wth Matthieu Berson starring and lost 3-0. There can't have been more than 750 there.
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I'd even go so far as to say that up until Randy and MON rode into town, our away support was by and large proportional to the proximity of the fixture. We'd have "set piece" games where we'd all go to the moon if we had to (new manager, season openers & closers, in desperate need of a result), but outside of Midlands games, we were no better than on a par with our contemporaries.
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I remember back in the mid eighties it was announced over the tannoy at Villa Park that we had the second highest away following in the land (After Manure of course)
I doubt it. In the mid-eighties our away support was embarrassing.
maybe it was counted by the guy that did the numbers on trump's inaugaral
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I aint so sure,remember going to Anfield/Old Trafford et al and remember the away terraces like sardines in 83-84.Loads of clubs didnt fill our away end at the bottom of the North Stand back then,including local clubs like Coventry and Leicester.As I only went to a handful of away games in the mid eighties I cannot comment further,however I do remember that being read over the tannoy.Best guess would be 83-84 season.
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I aint so sure,remember going to Anfield/Old Trafford et al and remember the away terraces like sardines in 83-84.Loads of clubs didnt fill our away end at the bottom of the North Stand back then,including local clubs like Coventry and Leicester.As I only went to a handful of away games in the mid eighties I cannot comment further,however I do remember that being read over the tannoy.Best guess would be 83-84 season.
Old Trafford in 1983-84 we took about 800 (won 2-1) and Liverpool maybe a thousand (lost 2-1). From then until 1986-87 we were down to a couple of hundred at some grounds.
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I was at that Old Trafford game. I think it was bonfire night. Seemed a lot more than 800.
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To be fair football supporting across the board saw numbers cut when compared to eras before and after of more people watching games live. There were many factors; cost, unemployment, threat of violence, poor facilties, policing and so on.
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Old Trafford Nov 5th, think it was 1988 if memory serves. There was at least 5000. Don't know why so many went. It was just a run of the mill game. Ended 1-1. Sid Cowans got the equaliser.
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In think guestimates at the time put the crowd at twice that.
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That's my point. No one really knows why we took so many. It was just a run of the mill match.
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The figures in that chart aren't correct (for a start the Leeds average stated is 250 more than their own programme says). Newcastle will be highest without doubt, followed by us and then Leeds.
The Football League tend to release their own 'official' stats for the previous season around January each year and looking at last season's Leeds were top with an average of 2,829 and have been in each of the last five seasons. Interestingly their figure of 3,045 in 13/14 was the only time a club has passed the 3,000 mark in the last five years and this season we're going to see three clubs with 3,000+.
Irrelevant but Small Heath's averages from 2011/12 to 15/16 were 1,489, 1,161, 1,293, 1,526 & 1,841.
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I'm wondering how we're so far ahead of Newcastle. We've failed to sell out a few, and had a reduced allocation at the Sty unlike Newcastle. I'm pretty sure they've sold out pretty much every game. Our support is superb no doubt about it, just wondering though.
One obvious explanation might be geography. Being based in the middle of the country gives us a lot of easier/shorter journeys than teams like Newcastle.
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Brighton fans are apparently buying tickets off our own website to sit in the home areas as the allocated away tickets sold out really quickly and they are unhappy with what they were given. I know at least two who have definitely got them and according to them there are many more doing this.
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Brighton fans are apparently buying tickets off our own website to sit in the home areas as the allocated away tickets sold out really quickly and they are unhappy with what they were given. I know at least two who have definitely got them and according to them there are many more doing this.
Good luck to them.
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Yeah right.
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Brighton fans are apparently buying tickets off our own website to sit in the home areas as the allocated away tickets sold out really quickly and they are unhappy with what they were given. I know at least two who have definitely got them and according to them there are many more doing this.
Do all these Brighton Fans have an AVFC Booking history................
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We bought ours today for the Brighton game and they're not on general sale yet so they'd have to have a booking history
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We bought ours today for the Brighton game and they're not on general sale yet so they'd have to have a booking history
Its not going to general sale either
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I dunno. They must be on a wind up or something but I know two who are adamant they've got them.
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Fair play to any of them in the home end. If we were going up and had a chance of winning the league I'd go in the home end if I could.
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In reality "loads" will be a few who will keep their mouths shut.
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Apparently tickets are being sold quite openly on Seatwave. That's where they've got theirs.
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Apparently tickets are being sold quite openly on Seatwave. That's where they've got theirs.
The club will check their details if they have bought them via Seatwave.........No booking history no ticket
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I was asked by a mate to advise on how Brighton fans he knows could get tickets. Told him it's not possible through Villa. Heard later that they have already got North Stand tickets through seatwave.
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Do they have their tickets in their hands or have they bought them via Seatwave and not had them yet
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Doubt he had received them, just ordered. I've put my ticket on seatwave a few times this year but never used it to buy one. I assume it's made very clear it's for home supporters only but fans will just ignore that.
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I was asked by a mate to advise on how Brighton fans he knows could get tickets. Told him it's not possible through Villa. Heard later that they have already got North Stand tickets through seatwave.
yep same with the 2 I know
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They may well have completed the transaction via Seatwave and thought they had got a ticket
Seatwave then send the purchaser's details to Villa who will check to see if the purchaser has the required Booking history
If they dont then the purchaser will get an e-mail and a refund
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There's probably about 50 that actually want tickets in the Villa ends, or as it's more commonly called, their entire 80s away support.
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They could get about 5,000 if they asked the Small Heath supporters with booking history to get tickets for them.
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They may well have completed the transaction via Seatwave and thought they had got a ticket
Seatwave then send the purchaser's details to Villa who will check to see if the purchaser has the required Booking history
If they dont then the purchaser will get an e-mail and a refund
Seatwave will sell to anyone & everyone regardless of booking history .
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They may well have completed the transaction via Seatwave and thought they had got a ticket
Seatwave then send the purchaser's details to Villa who will check to see if the purchaser has the required Booking history
If they dont then the purchaser will get an e-mail and a refund
Seatwave will sell to anyone & everyone regardless of booking history .
this is what I've heard a million times over the last 2-3 weeks.
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Aston Villa Tickets
Tickets are for Aston Villa supporters only and are sold in home areas of the ground. Aston Villa retain the right to refuse to sanction any sale should they suspect the purchaser to be an away supporter and will share data with other Championship clubs in order to verify all transactions.
IMPORTANT NOTICE – TICKETS FOR THE BIRMINGHAM CITY AND BRIGHTON AND HOVE ALBION GAMES CAN ONLY BE PURCHASED BY ASTON VILLA FANS WHO MEET THE CLUBS BOOKING CRITERIA OF HAVING PREVIOUS BOOKING HISTORY, IDENTIFIABLE ON THEIR DATABASE.
IF YOU BUY BIRMINGHAM CITY OR BRIGHTON AND HOVE ALBION TICKETS AND DO NOT MEET THIS CRITERIA YOUR TICKETS WILL BE CANCELLED AND YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE A REFUND.
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If a Brighton fan wants my ticket for their "Promotion Extravaganza" they can have it.
£500 should do it ;)
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Aston Villa Tickets
Tickets are for Aston Villa supporters only and are sold in home areas of the ground. Aston Villa retain the right to refuse to sanction any sale should they suspect the purchaser to be an away supporter and will share data with other Championship clubs in order to verify all transactions.
IMPORTANT NOTICE – TICKETS FOR THE BIRMINGHAM CITY AND BRIGHTON AND HOVE ALBION GAMES CAN ONLY BE PURCHASED BY ASTON VILLA FANS WHO MEET THE CLUBS BOOKING CRITERIA OF HAVING PREVIOUS BOOKING HISTORY, IDENTIFIABLE ON THEIR DATABASE.
IF YOU BUY BIRMINGHAM CITY OR BRIGHTON AND HOVE ALBION TICKETS AND DO NOT MEET THIS CRITERIA YOUR TICKETS WILL BE CANCELLED AND YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE A REFUND.
then theyve made an exemption for those games then.
I've brought countless tickets through seatwave & never once been asked of any criteria,same name address & card but been given 3 different client codes . Go figure .
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They won't ask you for proof of meeting the criteria. They already have the proof, or not. In your own words you've bought countless Villa tickets all through the same name, card and address. There's your booking history for Villa tickets.
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They won't ask you for proof of meeting the criteria. They already have the proof, or not. In your own words you've bought countless Villa tickets all through the same name, card and address. There's your booking history for Villa tickets.
As I said they've made a exemption for those last 2 games by stating that.
I don't believe their policy of who they sell to will be any different regardless of what they say .
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They won't ask you for proof of meeting the criteria. They already have the proof, or not. In your own words you've bought countless Villa tickets all through the same name, card and address. There's your booking history for Villa tickets.
As I said they've made a exemption for those last 2 games by stating that.
I don't believe their policy of who they sell to will be any different regardless of what they say .
Despite the fact they've expressly said they won't?
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They won't ask you for proof of meeting the criteria. They already have the proof, or not. In your own words you've bought countless Villa tickets all through the same name, card and address. There's your booking history for Villa tickets.
As I said they've made a exemption for those last 2 games by stating that.
I don't believe their policy of who they sell to will be any different regardless of what they say .
Despite the fact they've expressly said they won't?
Yeah .
I've just looked on seatwave & gone as far as I can without actually buying , where does it state about cancelling & refunding to those without the proper criteria....? Genuinely can't see it .
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I remember back in the mid eighties it was announced over the tannoy at Villa Park that we had the second highest away following in the land (After Manure of course)
I doubt it. In the mid-eighties our away support was embarrassing.
Oi!
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I remember back in the mid eighties it was announced over the tannoy at Villa Park that we had the second highest away following in the land (After Manure of course)
I doubt it. In the mid-eighties our away support was embarrassing.
Oi!
Quantity, not quality.
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More on this topic of Seatwave and the apparent hundreds of Brighton fans buying tickets in our stands. The two I know about have had their tickets refunded. Had a very charming message telling me this along with the amazing statement that we will never get out of this division with such an outmoded structure of running things. Us, Weds, Leeds and Norwich etc etc are all stuck in the 90s still and had we given Albion more tickets we wouldn't end up with a half empty stadium on the final day. Spiteful or what? I hope we destroy them. Better still I hope next season they are annihilated.
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More on this topic of Seatwave and the apparent hundreds of Brighton fans buying tickets in our stands. The two I know about have had their tickets refunded. Had a very charming message telling me this along with the amazing statement that we will never get out of this division with such an outmoded structure of running things. Us, Weds, Leeds and Norwich etc etc are all stuck in the 90s still and had we given Albion more tickets we wouldn't end up with a half empty stadium on the final day. Spiteful or what? I hope we destroy them. Better still I hope next season they are annihilated.
Outmoded structure of running things? What ensuring proper segregation and comfort for both home and away fans? It'll never catch on.
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More on this topic of Seatwave and the apparent hundreds of Brighton fans buying tickets in our stands. The two I know about have had their tickets refunded. Had a very charming message telling me this along with the amazing statement that we will never get out of this division with such an outmoded structure of running things. Us, Weds, Leeds and Norwich etc etc are all stuck in the 90s still and had we given Albion more tickets we wouldn't end up with a half empty stadium on the final day. Spiteful or what? I hope we destroy them. Better still I hope next season they are annihilated.
Outmoded structure of running things? What ensuring proper segregation and comfort for both home and away fans? It'll never catch on.
I think he was more trying to imply that if we let more away fans in we'd get more revenue and not so many empty seats. Poor old Brighton, why cant we give them 5,000 more seats and let them just take over the place? Tossers!
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Look at them, getting all snotty because suddenly they've found some fans down the back of the sofa and can fill more than 1 minibus for away trips now.
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More on this topic of Seatwave and the apparent hundreds of Brighton fans buying tickets in our stands. The two I know about have had their tickets refunded. Had a very charming message telling me this along with the amazing statement that we will never get out of this division with such an outmoded structure of running things. Us, Weds, Leeds and Norwich etc etc are all stuck in the 90s still and had we given Albion more tickets we wouldn't end up with a half empty stadium on the final day. Spiteful or what? I hope we destroy them. Better still I hope next season they are annihilated.
Outmoded structure of running things? What ensuring proper segregation and comfort for both home and away fans? It'll never catch on.
I think he was more trying to imply that if we let more away fans in we'd get more revenue and not so many empty seats. Poor old Brighton, why cant we give them 5,000 more seats and let them just take over the place? Tossers!
Whilst it would be nice to give them some extra seats for their big celebration (let's be honest we've got enough to give them a few extra) the big song and dance they've made about it just shows what a bunch of small time tinpot wankers they are and I'm glad we're having no truck with it.
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So a few hundred Brighton that have never done an away game before and wouldn't ave gone near the home ground when they were in division 4 won't be able to glory hunt. My heart bleeds for them. For those that stuck with them through the Goldstone Ground crap, Withdean etc i'm happy for them to finally be rewarded for all that shite they went through, the 10K+ that suddenly decided they were life long Brighton fans can suck my balls.
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Newcastle have sold 4000 of their 6000 for Cardiff away tonight. So much for them requesting 10,000 tickets.
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Newcastle have sold 4000 of their 6000 for Cardiff away tonight. So much for them requesting 10,000 tickets.
Are you in some sort of gang that swaps details of how many away tickets have been sold?
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Newcastle have sold 4000 of their 6000 for Cardiff away tonight. So much for them requesting 10,000 tickets.
Are you in some sort of gang that swaps details of how many away tickets have been sold?
Yeah, it's a secret gang called Twitter.
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Newcastle have sold 4000 of their 6000 for Cardiff away tonight. So much for them requesting 10,000 tickets.
Are you in some sort of gang that swaps details of how many away tickets have been sold?
Grass
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Look at them, getting all snotty because suddenly they've found some fans down the back of the sofa and can fill more than 1 minibus for away trips now.
I wonder if they would have been so keen on tickets if their last away game was at Millwall (I know different league and all that - but you know what I mean)
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Newcastle have sold 4000 of their 6000 for Cardiff away tonight. So much for them requesting 10,000 tickets.
Are you in some sort of gang that swaps details of how many away tickets have been sold?
Yeah, it's a secret gang called Twitter.
You've broken the first rule of Twitter club
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A Villa mate of mine from Brighton cant make the game so he has used his reference to order a few tickets for his mates. Based on my experience of Brighton fans - i spent a fair amount of time for work there from 1998-2007 - they will be fine.
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It's not like the Brighton fans weren't warned. This is on our Seatwave page.
IMPORTANT NOTICE – TICKETS FOR THE BIRMINGHAM CITY AND BRIGHTON AND HOVE ALBION GAMES CAN ONLY BE PURCHASED BY ASTON VILLA FANS WHO MEET THE CLUBS BOOKING CRITERIA OF HAVING PREVIOUS BOOKING HISTORY, IDENTIFIABLE ON THEIR DATABASE.
IF YOU BUY BIRMINGHAM CITY OR BRIGHTON AND HOVE ALBION TICKETS AND DO NOT MEET THIS CRITERIA YOUR TICKETS WILL BE CANCELLED AND YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE A REFUND.
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Newcastle have sold 4000 of their 6000 for Cardiff away tonight. So much for them requesting 10,000 tickets.
Are you in some sort of gang that swaps details of how many away tickets have been sold?
Yeah, it's a secret gang called Twitter.
You've broken the first rule of Twitter club
That reminds me of the time I went to my first Fight Club. Nice place but I struggled to find it and missed all the registration stuff. Anyway, Fight club is magic.
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If we're not opening the upper trinity for the Brighton game I don't know why we don't just let them have that & take the money. It's not like it's a big grudge match or anything.
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If we're not opening the upper trinity for the Brighton game I don't know why we don't just let them have that & take the money. It's not like it's a big grudge match or anything.
We could put the season ticket holders in the North Stand Lower in the Upper trinity and let have Brighton have the lower North. We would have kicked off if the boot was on the other foot.
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The Brighton fans I know have been moaning about the ticket allocation for weeks,it's painful, they won't be so kind in giving us so many tickets next time as we are being so mean & ruining their little party. They have got slightly carried away & think they are now in the top 10 biggest clubs in the country,I really hope this time next year we are swapping places!
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The Brighton fans I know have been moaning about the ticket allocation for weeks,it's painful, they won't be so kind in giving us so many tickets next time as we are being so mean & ruining their little party. They have got slightly carried away & think they are now in the top 10 biggest clubs in the country,I really hope this time next year we are swapping places!
Nothing is quite so irritating as a small club who have a bit of success and suddenly think they're Barcelona. See also Norwich and Southampton.
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As someone else has already said the allocation they've been given far exceeds their average away support this season so why are they moaning.
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It's not so much that for me it's their sense of entitlement. I'm more than content to let every (most) dog have their day, but it's the attitude of 'we're really good at the moment so you must bow to us' that irks.
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Surely we will be close to selling out anyway last game and all that.
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Have we only given 2800 tickets to Brighton ? If so we seem to be keeping big' no mans land' gaps between home / away support that aren't required in certain games. I thought we used to give away teams 3500 tickets max ? seems a waste of 700 ticket sales if so. Whilst I hear all the billy big time jibes being sent Brighton's way I thought they dealt with us fairly earlier in the season on the same issue so why not let them have the max possible ?
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Same allocation as we give everyone else this season (apart from sha).
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The Brighton fans I know have been moaning about the ticket allocation for weeks,it's painful, they won't be so kind in giving us so many tickets next time as we are being so mean & ruining their little party. They have got slightly carried away & think they are now in the top 10 biggest clubs in the country,I really hope this time next year we are swapping places!
Nothing is quite so irritating as a small club who have a bit of success and suddenly think they're Barcelona. See also Norwich and Southampton.
Too fucking right.
Especially Norwich, whose fans genuinely seem to think they're a bigger club than us.
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More on this topic of Seatwave and the apparent hundreds of Brighton fans buying tickets in our stands. The two I know about have had their tickets refunded. Had a very charming message telling me this along with the amazing statement that we will never get out of this division with such an outmoded structure of running things. Us, Weds, Leeds and Norwich etc etc are all stuck in the 90s still and had we given Albion more tickets we wouldn't end up with a half empty stadium on the final day. Spiteful or what? I hope we destroy them. Better still I hope next season they are annihilated.
Outmoded structure of running things? What ensuring proper segregation and comfort for both home and away fans? It'll never catch on.
I think he was more trying to imply that if we let more away fans in we'd get more revenue and not so many empty seats. Poor old Brighton, why cant we give them 5,000 more seats and let them just take over the place? Tossers!
Whilst it would be nice to give them some extra seats for their big celebration (let's be honest we've got enough to give them a few extra) the big song and dance they've made about it just shows what a bunch of small time tinpot wankers they are and I'm glad we're having no truck with it.
I thought Brighton could win the league today so surely their big celebration would be at the Amex? I assume they get to lift the league trophy today if they get the win?
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Have we only given 2800 tickets to Brighton ? If so we seem to be keeping big' no mans land' gaps between home / away support that aren't required in certain games. I thought we used to give away teams 3500 tickets max ? seems a waste of 700 ticket sales if so. Whilst I hear all the billy big time jibes being sent Brighton's way I thought they dealt with us fairly earlier in the season on the same issue so why not let them have the max possible ?
2.8k was always the standard allocation in the prem.
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It was just over 3K in the PL. It has to be at least 3K if your capacity is 30K+, or 10% of capacity if lower than 30K. We have a bigger segregation area between away fans and R1 this season which is why it's lower.
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The Brighton fans I know have been moaning about the ticket allocation for weeks,it's painful, they won't be so kind in giving us so many tickets next time as we are being so mean & ruining their little party. They have got slightly carried away & think they are now in the top 10 biggest clubs in the country,I really hope this time next year we are swapping places!
Nothing is quite so irritating as a small club who have a bit of success and suddenly think they're Barcelona. See also Norwich and Southampton.
Reading also.
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The Brighton fans I know have been moaning about the ticket allocation for weeks,it's painful, they won't be so kind in giving us so many tickets next time as we are being so mean & ruining their little party. They have got slightly carried away & think they are now in the top 10 biggest clubs in the country,I really hope this time next year we are swapping places!
Nothing is quite so irritating as a small club who have a bit of success and suddenly think they're Barcelona. See also Norwich and Southampton.
Too fucking right.
Especially Norwich, whose fans genuinely seem to think they're a bigger club than us.
It did amuse me when Derby visited the other month and sang "We get more on a Tuesday" when their attendances are smaller than ours - including the actual attendance for the match we played them in.