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Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: charleeco7 on May 13, 2025, 07:57:45 PM
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I’m not sure if it’s mentioned elsewhere but ten minutes ago I received an email offering me a GA+ season ticket for next year. The princely sum of £1954 would get me a terrace view seat upper Holte End.
I find it pretty disgusting they are offering these out before current GA and GA+ season ticket holders are given any details of cost etc. It also suggests those on the waiting list we wait even longer.
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Heck's parting gift to the fans .
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There's a splash screen that appears when you go to the offical site.
Lower Grounds - £2836 pp.
Terrace View - £1954 pp.
The Cell - £1638 pp.
Nice to be able to afford that.
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That lower grounds is a great deal if you can get through 15 pints on a matchday
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That lower grounds is a great deal if you can get through 15 pints on a matchday
Presumably that one comes with a job lot of weight-loss pills.
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The pricing is absolutely crazy but I begrudge no one who can afford it and does so.
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They emailed that offer to my 5 year old Grandson
His name and reference to my email address.
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Good to see the algorithms are working . I've worked out its 292.22 pints of Moretti for those lucky punters who take up this offer .
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The real question is '- how much is the price going up, compared to this season?
And will the same increase (if any) apply to regular STs?
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Why are they leaving it much later than every other year to announce pricing ?
It’s not like whichever European completion we are in is going to influence whether people renew or not
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Why are they leaving it much later than every other year to announce pricing ?
It’s not like whichever European completion we are in is going to influence whether people renew or not
No but it will on what they plan to charge.
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I'm guessing the renewal dates of the end of June won't change though.
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Why are they leaving it much later than every other year to announce pricing ?
It’s not like whichever European completion we are in is going to influence whether people renew or not
No, but I guess they will attempt even bigger increases if we get Champions League again. Apparently, new prices will be announced in the next 2 weeks.
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Someone on another site said that their GA+ season ticket price for next season is the same as this season
I don’t understand why folk are angry that the GA+ season ticket prices have been released and not the normal season ticket prices- the prices will be out next week, it is no big deal.
Hopefully the owners won’t be increasing our season ticket prices - but I doubt it!!
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To get my piece of utterly unfounded speculation in before anyone else I reckon similar to last season at about 5% increase.
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I went to see our U21s at Fleetwood Town in the EFL Trophy last September and bought my ticket online, direct from their ticket office
I've just had an email asking me I want a season ticket for 2025-26 offering access to all 23 home games and exclusive perks like discounts on travel, retail, food, and hospitality.
The price - £189.
How the other half survives!
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I went to see our U21s at Fleetwood Town in the EFL Trophy last September and bought my ticket online, direct from their ticket office
I've just had an email asking me I want a season ticket for 2025-26 offering access to all 23 home games and exclusive perks like discounts on travel, retail, food, and hospitality.
The price - £189.
How the other half survives!
£8.22 a game…bloody hell!! Admittedly it was a pay on the door price a few years ago but it was £12 to watch Coleshill Town play.
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Haven't Bradford had ridiculously cheap season tickets for 15 years now, they had 24k to see them promoted.
At Walsall walk up price on matchday is between 25-30 quid so it is filtering down to the lower leagues.
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I'm guessing the renewal dates of the end of June won't change though.
Cab anyone help me plan a bit?
I used the interest free credit last summer for the first time.
I may need to again but I’d prefer not to.
I’ve lost my old email address with all old emails.
When do we have to renew by /cough up by usually?
Just trying to think ahead sing credit card billing cycles etc.
ta.
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Last season: secured Champions League 14th May. Season ended 19th May. Received season ticket email 2nd June, on sale 3rd June, deadline to renew was 23rd June.
Season before: secured Conference League football and season ended 28th May. Received email 24th April, on sale same day, no mention of deadline in email and I get a 404 message when I try to click the link.
So, the answer is... could be any time! Sorry, that isn't much help. ☹️
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Cynical delay . We have a,ready secured European football .
They are waiting to see if its champions league so they can increase further .
Fans are zero on their agenda , they don't care at all just want our wallets .
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I think it's almost certain that they'll wait until we know what competition we are in, and potentially wait a bit longer if the season ends disappointingly in the hope people get over it a bit. Hopefully we get at least a few weeks to sort it, bearing in mind lots of people will be on holiday around this time of year.
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So, the answer is... could be any time! Sorry, that isn't much help. ☹️
No worries that’s the kind of info I was after. Need to somehow stop car insurance and loads of other stuff coming the same time, at least there is (was!) no penalty for spreading out the payments…
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Cynical delay . We have a,ready secured European football .
They are waiting to see if its champions league so they can increase further .
Fans are zero on their agenda , they don't care at all just want our wallets .
Already decided I'm not spending a penny at the club next season. The way fans have been treated this year has been appalling.
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Really can’t fathom why it makes a jot of difference what European competition we are in with regard to ST prices. They’ll fleece us either way so let’s just hear it.
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Already decided I'm not spending a penny at the club next season. The way fans have been treated this year has been appalling.
Me neither, those urinals are awful.
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Why should it matter what competition we’re in before setting the ST price
ST’s are for league games only, European matches are priced up individually
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Why should it matter what competition we’re in before setting the ST price
ST’s are for league games only, European matches are priced up individually
I agree. But I suppose qualifying for the Champions League creates a feel good factor around the club that they'll be looking to monetise.
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Because we're better if we're in the Champions League. So we sell for a higher price.
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Based on the GA+ prices already on sale, I am expecting a 5% increase this year.
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ST should be cheaper if we're in the CL compared to not being in it due to the massive financial difference. They'll fleece fans for every available penny either way.
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I went to see our U21s at Fleetwood Town in the EFL Trophy last September and bought my ticket online, direct from their ticket office
I've just had an email asking me I want a season ticket for 2025-26 offering access to all 23 home games and exclusive perks like discounts on travel, retail, food, and hospitality.
The price - £189.
How the other half survives!
£8.22 a game…bloody hell!! Admittedly it was a pay on the door price a few years ago but it was £12 to watch Coleshill Town play.
We've just got our at Preston North End - £294 £13 a game!
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How much were we playing in Championship? Much more than that I think? Did it go up at all in our three years down there?
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Sheffield United have released some today. Top price £644, lowest £514; Adults prices, kids tickets are £169-£179. That's regardless of which division they'll be in.
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2018/19
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Crikey. So if you're in the cheapest seats like me, they've doubled in seven seasons (six really as we couldn't attend for one).
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Mine was £495 in the upper Holte in 2009, it's now £818 I think.
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You were paying £495 in 2009? Did you sit on a throne made of diamonds and caviar?
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You were paying £495 in 2009? Did you sit on a throne made of diamonds and caviar?
Well, something felt hard and at the same time squishy. :-\
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ST should be cheaper if we're in the CL compared to not being in it due to the massive financial difference. They'll fleece fans for every available penny either way.
Whilst they wouldn't drop the prices, they might increase them more if we are NOT in CL to keep ensure revenue doesn't drop as much.
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Surely they wouldn't be charging us £75 a ticket for some mob from the Faroe Islands or Kazakhstan if we end up in the Conference?
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No they shouldn't be, so to make up for the shortfall they up ST and league attendance prices by more. Hence waiting to see what competition we are in next season before releasing the prices.
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They didn't announce the CL pricing with the renewals last time did they? Because we signed up for the CL scheme before we knew the prices.
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First thing I can find is an email about Bayern tickets on 2nd September. So, I think you are correct.
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I guess if we get CL football, then STs prices go up, as we shall want CL priority. There may be less desire for 'only' Europa League football priority.
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Wonder if anymore regular seats will be hived off again this summer for more corporate or GA+ areas or have they reached their limit. Think corporate / GA+ was quite empty for some games
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Haven't Bradford had ridiculously cheap season tickets for 15 years now, they had 24k to see them promoted.
At Walsall walk up price on matchday is between 25-30 quid so it is filtering down to the lower leagues.
Bradford City full price ST £299. Price goes up in a few weeks I think?
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With the increase in employers cost for National Insurance and increase in employees pay - I think they will increase our ST by at least 5%.
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Assume we will have news this week on prices.
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Fixtures out in just over 3 weeks so I'd imagine it will be this week.
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Wouldn’t be surprised with a 10% hike now we don’t have CL money next season.
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5% increase I've heard.
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5% increase I've heard.
That's inline with the GA+ increases already being advertised.
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I received this text from a friend this morning.
A PV members Just came back from the final FAB of this season!
Full announcement and info to come from club tmrw morning!
Key headlines -:
1. 5% increase in STH prices! (was hoping it would be be 3-4% think, not getting CL has made them go with 5%)
2. Price frozen for concessions under 21 / 18 / 14 (Good news to attract younger fans)
3. Europa pricing will be less than CL! (There will be 2 pricing points one for group stage and then one qtr finals onwards)
4. 2 Cat A/B for PL games will be split 9/10 - this will be announced closer to season starting!
5. Keeping cup prices as £25 adults and kids £10
6. New AVFC app being launched where you will be able to Ticket Use/ Sale and Resale
7. Under friends and family you will be able to select upto 8 and those have to be selected by 31st August!
8. further 3 names can be able to be added in Jan 26!
9. removal of resale ticket fee of 20% which was previously charged when you have the ticket back to the club! So you get 1/19th of the fee!
10. New season ticket list being created! Those who are on the list and have attended villa games will automatically go into this new list! Those not been to a game for the past 2 years will have to apply new to be in the STH waiting list! (£10 will be charged and then taken off when become a STH)
11. ST renewal will be open from 4th June to 4th July!
12. Away tickets no change at the moment so those with 1,180 pts which works out 1212 fans will be protected to get away tickets! So protecting loyality!
13. FAB new structure applications close in 2 days!
Expect to appoint an independent chair and fill the 10 roles by end of July, ready for 2025/26 season!
14. Maintaining 0% for paying for ST purchases over 8months!
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Yea Ive seen this. Seems authentic enough??
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It is.
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Seems entirely reasonable if taken at face value.
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https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2025/may/29/ticketing-details-2025-26-season/
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379 new seats! Budge up everyone.
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Europa League pricing still seems a bit too high but not extortionate and I think most of those changes seem sensible.
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Looks like some work has already started on the lower witton lane.
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Women's team attendance getting you points is good.
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Europa League pricing still seems a bit too high but not extortionate and I think most of those changes seem sensible.
Europa League pricing still well in excess of other clubs Champions League Pricing. And for watching inferior teams. Europa ticket prices still too high.
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As with everything, time will tell if they sell out.
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Women's team attendance getting you points is good.
No it's not. I can't afford to travel for all their games as well, especially considering I'm just not as interested in women's football.
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The away process will be interesting, my sons worked his socks off to get up the allocation, but was impossible for certain games Bournmouth etc so sits on 1150 so will potentially lose out, i'm not against more people getting a chance to go via a ballot, but its harsh on some folks and if the rumoured more than 60% will go to Ballot i think its wrong, for some people this is their life not just a day out every now and again.
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And does this mean your place on the list is on a fluctuating basis depending on attendance (i.e. Points for games attended?) I can see a scenario where I go to more games than my son (school nights for example), so I'll end up with more points, and he moves further down the list.... Despite us applying together.
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But if you are going to men's games, you don't need to do both.
But as a way of encouraging attendance, I think it is positive.
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How will the 14 out of 19 league attendance requirement in order to retain your ST work?
If you can't make a match and transfer to a mate/relative, does that count as a match attended.
And what if you can't make a game, but don't put your seat on resale - how does/doesn't thst count?
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I did note this.
Priority access to away and cup tickets (including Europa League)
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Think I'll give Europa league a miss this year and just attend the cup games. Not chancing missing out on Wembley again.
Season ticket, is what it is, I'll still renew.
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I did note this.
Priority access to away and cup tickets (including Europa League)
The current criteria puts season ticket holders before general sale, it's just they rarely get that far. So I suppose it's nothing more than this.
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How will the 14 out of 19 league attendance requirement in order to retain your ST work?
If you can't make a match and transfer to a mate/relative, does that count as a match attended.
And what if you can't make a game, but don't put your seat on resale - how does/doesn't thst count?
Yes if you transfer it, its classed as attendance
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If you list for exchange it still counts regardless of sale too.
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"These changes do mean that the seating configuration for the 2025/26 has been updated. As such, unfortunately some season ticket holders will be relocated from last season’s seat. All affected Season Ticket Holders will be notified via email, no later than 5:00pm on Friday, May 30, 2025, how they have been impacted by these developments, and what their options will be."
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So 24,300 now on waiting list and wonder how this rejig affects things. It was relatively easy to get a members ticket for Wembley on attending the three home games.
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Can we still get the physical season tickets rather than just the digital one?
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So 24,300 now on waiting list and wonder how this rejig affects things. It was relatively easy to get a members ticket for Wembley on attending the three home games.
How do you know that number? Have I missed something.
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Didn't see any mention of it. I'm guessing they aren't encouraging it.
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So 24,300 now on waiting list and wonder how this rejig affects things. It was relatively easy to get a members ticket for Wembley on attending the three home games.
How do you know that number? Have I missed something.
They say 46 per cent haven’t attended matches in the last two years and they are taking them off so that’s 54 per cent of 45,000.
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If they keep the same percentage of season ticket holders after the New New North Stand increase, that would be about 4k extra season tickets available.
I guess they are wanting to encourage everyone in that 24k waiting list to get to as many games as possible over the next two seasons in the hope of grabbing one of those.
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Well I guess there will be some natural churn of season ticket holders. Then the new £10 charge will mean some don’t want to stay in the list as they don’t really want a season ticket.
The two year cycle is convenient yes!
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So 24,300 now on waiting list and wonder how this rejig affects things. It was relatively easy to get a members ticket for Wembley on attending the three home games.
How do you know that number? Have I missed something.
They say 46 per cent haven’t attended matches in the last two years and they are taking them off so that’s 54 per cent of 45,000.
Sounds like half are time wasters. Probably a more realistic number. Interesting to see what that equates to in years mind?
28k season ticket holders with a 10% attrition per annum still means a 6 or 7 years to wait for those at the bottom assuming expansion of NS goes to plan.
Overall I think it isn't a bad result. The European games from last 2 seasons have been brilliant atmospheres overall. Last season more so for obvious reasons.
Make the most them we were starved of a serious approach to them for 25 years.
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I understood it to mean that new people joining the list pay £10?
I think the ones who remain after the cull are people who are genuinely buying tickets, so you can imagine they will have legitimate interest.
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Some people on the waiting list are nippers yet to be born or those not long since hatched.
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45,000 on the waiting list is insane.
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If you list for exchange it still counts regardless of sale too.
It states actually attend, so maybe resale or transfer don’t count
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Oh and some won’t be Claret members which is worth 100 points.
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If you list for exchange it still counts regardless of sale too.
It states actually attend, so maybe resale or transfer don’t count
It says "use" and one of the options for use is to exchange.
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So supporters who are on the list and have been to games this season don’t need to bung the club a tenner ?
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If you list for exchange it still counts regardless of sale too.
It states actually attend, so maybe resale or transfer don’t count
It says "use" and one of the options for use is to exchange.
It’s says Attend, Use or Exhange, so are the 3 the same, so I could buy a ST and sell everyone back to the club and it wouldn’t make any difference then?
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It states that ST holders are required to use their ST at least 14 times, I take that as you need to attend 14 games, and can exchange or sell back to the club 5 times.
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The blurb above talks about supporting ST holders to make use of their ticket when they can't attend. It also says "will need to log 14 of 19 ticket uses". I interpret this as any of the options listed.
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If you list for exchange it still counts regardless of sale too.
It states actually attend, so maybe resale or transfer don’t count
It says "use" and one of the options for use is to exchange.
It’s says Attend, Use or Exhange, so are the 3 the same, so I could buy a ST and sell everyone back to the club and it wouldn’t make any difference then?
Attend, share and exchange. If they meant attend, surely they would say that.
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So 24,300 now on waiting list and wonder how this rejig affects things. It was relatively easy to get a members ticket for Wembley on attending the three home games.
How do you know that number? Have I missed something.
They say 46 per cent haven’t attended matches in the last two years and they are taking them off so that’s 54 per cent of 45,000.
That'll see my kid taken off the list then. Not that young but still younger than when I first went. Every time I offer to get them a ticket (probably four or five times over the last two seasons) they say "not this time".
I'd like to think that maybe the club would offer an amnesty for those under a certain age on the list, you know, to maybe give the next generation an incentive, but I imagine that there's no way that would happen.
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I’m not sure if Heck has left yet, his influence is diminishing or he has been having lessons, the website article about ST’s, the processes and the guidelines, feels a little ‘softer / kinder / gentler’ than we have been used to ?
More user friendly, is probably the best way to describe it.
Or maybe I’m just becoming an old softie.
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What about programme vouchers?
Not mentioned at all ;)
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Women's team attendance getting you points is good.
You think?
I have a ST so am not directly impacted, but for someone who spends money travelling a long distance to most games will be penalised on the waiting list because they can't also go to women games?
It sounds ridiculous to me.
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So basically If you work shifts, with all the games moved for TV on Mondays and Fridays and then other midweek games thrown in you are screwed.
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"These changes do mean that the seating configuration for the 2025/26 has been updated. As such, unfortunately some season ticket holders will be relocated from last season’s seat. All affected Season Ticket Holders will be notified via email, no later than 5:00pm on Friday, May 30, 2025, how they have been impacted by these developments, and what their options will be."
Yes Im a bit paranoid about this after my experiences of last year. Im in zone 4 lower holte, so cheapest seats effectively. Last year they moved us, albeit not that far but still even further to the right edge of the holte as your facing the pitch. This was to make room for rail seating. Im just paranoid that the cheaper seat holders are primed to be moved again, simply because we pay less. Hopefully I am just being paranoid, will know by this time tomorrow.
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"These changes do mean that the seating configuration for the 2025/26 has been updated. As such, unfortunately some season ticket holders will be relocated from last season’s seat. All affected Season Ticket Holders will be notified via email, no later than 5:00pm on Friday, May 30, 2025, how they have been impacted by these developments, and what their options will be."
Yes Im a bit paranoid about this after my experiences of last year. Im in zone 4 lower holte, so cheapest seats effectively. Last year they moved us, albeit not that far but still even further to the right edge of the holte as your facing the pitch. This was to make room for rail seating. Im just paranoid that the cheaper seat holders are primed to be moved again, simply because we pay less. Hopefully I am just being paranoid, will know by this time tomorrow.
I'm upper witton and got a bad feeling we are prime for some reconfigurations.
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So basically If you work shifts, with all the games moved for TV on Mondays and Fridays and then other midweek games thrown in you are screwed.
Yep. I will be concentrating on EL games and using my holidays for them. I’ll be able to watch most of the league games on telly, but will attend a few at weekends.
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Some people on the waiting list are nippers yet to be born or those not long since hatched.
My five on the list are in that group.
They were down to 3,000 on the list and have waited patiently for the club to build the new stand.
Now they've been removed from the list.
It's unethical of the club to retrospectively change the rules for being on 'their' waiting list.
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It states that ST holders are required to use their ST at least 14 times, I take that as you need to attend 14 games, and can exchange or sell back to the club 5 times.
As with most communications that come out of Villa, there is some ambiguity about season ticket usage. My daughter who works in comms and her colleague who deals in football related comms specifically believes it reads as the seat needs to be used 14 out of 19 times either through the season ticket holder attending or through transfer or through re-sale. She doesn't think it's well written, but that it seems to match with other clubs' usage policies.
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Women's team attendance getting you points is good.
No it's not. I can't afford to travel for all their games as well, especially considering I'm just not as interested in women's football.
Same, I don’t live very far but have very little interest in the Women’s team. I generally like the points system idea though.
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And if you're on the list and want to stay up there z you'd best buy a membership and increase demand for that category of tickets for each game...
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The blurb above talks about supporting ST holders to make use of their ticket when they can't attend. It also says "will need to log 14 of 19 ticket uses". I interpret this as any of the options listed.
That's how I read it, They want the seat full every game. So using it by attending, selling it back to the club or transferring it to a friend, counts as use
I guess i'll find out quickly as I sold mine to the club the majority of games last year.
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Has the price of the women’s team season tickets been announced, and/or details of the points system?
Edit: just seen the club announcement on FB. I feel fairly confident of getting season tickets for me and my two youngest, maybe when the new North Stand opens.
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What would the capacity going up to with this 340 odd seats? 43,100 or something?
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"These changes do mean that the seating configuration for the 2025/26 has been updated. As such, unfortunately some season ticket holders will be relocated from last season’s seat. All affected Season Ticket Holders will be notified via email, no later than 5:00pm on Friday, May 30, 2025, how they have been impacted by these developments, and what their options will be."
Yes Im a bit paranoid about this after my experiences of last year. Im in zone 4 lower holte, so cheapest seats effectively. Last year they moved us, albeit not that far but still even further to the right edge of the holte as your facing the pitch. This was to make room for rail seating. Im just paranoid that the cheaper seat holders are primed to be moved again, simply because we pay less. Hopefully I am just being paranoid, will know by this time tomorrow.
I'm upper witton and got a bad feeling we are prime for some reconfigurations.
Me too
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Anyone been told they are moving yet?
Lots of reprofiling of seats in the Upper Holte and Witton Lane, maybe the Middle and Upper Trinity too, to match the Upper North and Lower Holte.
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Anyone been told they are moving yet?
Lots of reprofiling of seats in the Upper Holte and Witton Lane, maybe the Middle and Upper Trinity too, to match the Upper North and Lower Holte.
Where have you heard this mate?
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It's how they are eeking out the additional seats - not sure if it was Heck that mentioned it. There were pictures on social this week of work taking place at the front of the Witton, facing the pitch. But I haven't seen any more yet.
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It's how they are eeking out the additional seats - not sure if it was Heck that mentioned it. There were pictures on social this week of work taking place at the front of the Witton, facing the pitch. But I haven't seen any more yet.
Cheers, they said people will find out tomorrow. I doubt i'll be moved, but my seat will probably be bang in the middle of the row now...
Did people get an option to move when it happened in the holte last year?
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Amfy was able to move by contacting club but I'm not sure they advertised the possibility.
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Be interesting to see how they reprofile the upper witton - it feels unsafe enough as it is in the concourse at times, removing the alleyways at the top could become claustrophobic as fuck.
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Amfy was able to move by contacting club but I'm not sure they advertised the possibility.
We did it by contacting the Disabilty Section. They were really helpful, but if you don’t have a disability, & just like being near the end of a row, I’m not sure there are many options as relocation is limited with so many ST holders.
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I'm upper Witton , smack on H/L and not heard anything yet . Maybe we are getting the Dear John email ,
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It's how they are eeking out the additional seats - not sure if it was Heck that mentioned it. There were pictures on social this week of work taking place at the front of the Witton, facing the pitch. But I haven't seen any more yet.
Cheers, they said people will find out tomorrow. I doubt i'll be moved, but my seat will probably be bang in the middle of the row now...
Did people get an option to move when it happened in the holte last year?
No option last year, just received an email. I complained by email, got bog standard reply, but complained again. Second time around, nice bloke from the club phoned me and explained the metrics of me and the kids seats move, which was really unclear in other comms. Long and short we still had to move, but at least some fucker took the time to explain the move and why.
Ill be miffed if Im moved again though but will hold my cynicism till tomorrow pans out.
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It's how they are eeking out the additional seats - not sure if it was Heck that mentioned it. There were pictures on social this week of work taking place at the front of the Witton, facing the pitch. But I haven't seen any more yet.
Cheers, they said people will find out tomorrow. I doubt i'll be moved, but my seat will probably be bang in the middle of the row now...
Did people get an option to move when it happened in the holte last year?
No option last year, just received an email. I complained by email, got bog standard reply, but complained again. Second time around, nice bloke from the club phoned me and explained the metrics of me and the kids seats move, which was really unclear in other comms. Long and short we still had to move, but at least some fucker took the time to explain the move and why.
Ill be miffed if Im moved again though but will hold my cynicism till tomorrow pans out.
Fingers crossed you're all good mate. Can't see them needing to move you twice in two years, it's us in the witton that escaped the cut last time for the chop this year I think.
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It states that ST holders are required to use their ST at least 14 times, I take that as you need to attend 14 games, and can exchange or sell back to the club 5 times.
As with most communications that come out of Villa, there is some ambiguity about season ticket usage. My daughter who works in comms and her colleague who deals in football related comms specifically believes it reads as the seat needs to be used 14 out of 19 times either through the season ticket holder attending or through transfer or through re-sale. She doesn't think it's well written, but that it seems to match with other clubs' usage policies.
Whilst not disagreeing with what you colleague and her colleague say, the situation at Man City is different. One of my neighbours shares his ST with his grandson (Normally 10 v 9 per season). This is allowed by the ST being transferred to his grandson for the number of games that he attends. Next season, the primary ST holder has to attend 14 of the 19 PL games to maintain his ST. The only option he has after the club confirming the 14 actual attendance figure is for the ST not being transferred to his grandson for more than 5 PL games.
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What would the capacity going up to with this 340 odd seats? 43,100 or something?
They reckon it’s 42,900 at present, so 43,240.
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what I am not too keen on is the 14/19 usage. The club and the Prem League has a habit of moving and re-arranging fixtures to suit television/European competitions. Tottenham last month, and Liverpool were just two fixtures that got moved at short notice. We will get the fixtures come out in June and they will be a fiction. The reality is that what will be given is a Friday to Monday window, and I will be paying the privilege equal to my yearly electric bill to move my life around for. I then get penalised next season if i fall ill, have to work, cannot get to the game for some other reason on one of the four designated days.
it is of course designed by the club to push out legacy fans like me, dressed up in a bu**sh*t rabble rousing.
Perhaps the club can guarantee they will not move 14/19 games for whatever reason, or they will give us our 1/19th fee back for that game?
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It states that ST holders are required to use their ST at least 14 times, I take that as you need to attend 14 games, and can exchange or sell back to the club 5 times.
As with most communications that come out of Villa, there is some ambiguity about season ticket usage. My daughter who works in comms and her colleague who deals in football related comms specifically believes it reads as the seat needs to be used 14 out of 19 times either through the season ticket holder attending or through transfer or through re-sale. She doesn't think it's well written, but that it seems to match with other clubs' usage policies.
Whilst not disagreeing with what you colleague and her colleague say, the situation at Man City is different. One of my neighbours shares his ST with his grandson (Normally 10 v 9 per season). This is allowed by the ST being transferred to his grandson for the number of games that he attends. Next season, the primary ST holder has to attend 14 of the 19 PL games to maintain his ST. The only option he has after the club confirming the 14 actual attendance figure is for the ST not being transferred to his grandson for more than 5 PL games.
Norden, it's my daughter and her colleague, but I take your point.
The Villa haven't used the language in bold type. So either it's 14 games attended, transferred or resold.
Or their Comms department is poor at conveying meaning.
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Whilst not disagreeing with what you colleague and her colleague say, the situation at Man City is different. One of my neighbours shares his ST with his grandson (Normally 10 v 9 per season). This is allowed by the ST being transferred to his grandson for the number of games that he attends. Next season, the primary ST holder has to attend 14 of the 19 PL games to maintain his ST. The only option he has after the club confirming the 14 actual attendance figure is for the ST not being transferred to his grandson for more than 5 PL games.
I assume that both people are adults and they use electronic tickets the same as us, then the grandfather could trust the grandson with his logon details. Ticket shows for the GF even though GS is going. Obviously won't work if you are sharing with someone you don't trust.
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That section definitely says that it’s 14 uses, not attendances by the holder. Those uses are attending, a transfer, or a return for resale (even if it is not resold).
This is fine for everyone including those who fall ill, or travel from distance and can’t get to weird and wonderful KO times.
Interestingly though - they are encouraging you to declare exactly how you use your ticket. So I do wonder whether a more stringent approach might follow? Maybe once they’ve properly tested their waiting list perhaps?
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Interestingly though - they are encouraging you to declare exactly how you use your ticket.
What do you mean? Like 'is it shared?'
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Has any official comms / emails gone out yet on ST renewals ?
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nope
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The wording is absolutely clear - used 14 times, whether that is your own attendance, sharing the ticket or even listing it back on the ticket exchange. It may change in future years but the way it's worded there is clearly nothing to worry about this season.
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The Left picture is from the OS this morning, the right from the Premier league website.
You can clearly see the difference in the Trinity Upper layout. Looks like there will be a rejig of the blocks (from A1-A8 to A1-A9).
(https://i.ibb.co/KcfJhw4h/VP-Plans.png) (https://ibb.co/KcfJhw4h)
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Interesting. Thought they'd do more than just the upper Trinity.
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Is there any deadline for transferring your ticket? Like say you suddenly got ill the morning of the game, is that too late to put the ticket up for sale? My dad has sometimes decided he is too ill too go about two hours before kick off having given it until the last possible minute to see if he feels any better.
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Hopefully that means the doug Ellis is left alone. I do think it's possibly unsafe to cram more seats in there but time will tell.
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This season was 90 minutes before kick off I think.
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Is there any deadline for transferring your ticket? Like say you suddenly got ill the morning of the game, is that too late to put the ticket up for sale? My dad has sometimes decided he is too ill too go about two hours before kick off having given it until the last possible minute to see if he feels any better.
You could list it up to an hour before kick off this season. Of course, no guarantee it sells.
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ALso looks like more accessible seats in the corner of the Holte and the Witton.
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Is there any deadline for transferring your ticket? Like say you suddenly got ill the morning of the game, is that too late to put the ticket up for sale? My dad has sometimes decided he is too ill too go about two hours before kick off having given it until the last possible minute to see if he feels any better.
Hopefully, any new App might reinstate the print at home option so the ticket can be used by someone else
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Is there any deadline for transferring your ticket? Like say you suddenly got ill the morning of the game, is that too late to put the ticket up for sale? My dad has sometimes decided he is too ill too go about two hours before kick off having given it until the last possible minute to see if he feels any better.
You could list it up to an hour before kick off this season. Of course, no guarantee it sells.
Thanks. Yeah they have said it still counts as one of your 14/19 even if it remains unsold. I think he will be more worried about getting kicked off the season ticket list for non-attendance than he is about losing the money.
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It states that ST holders are required to use their ST at least 14 times, I take that as you need to attend 14 games, and can exchange or sell back to the club 5 times.
As with most communications that come out of Villa, there is some ambiguity about season ticket usage. My daughter who works in comms and her colleague who deals in football related comms specifically believes it reads as the seat needs to be used 14 out of 19 times either through the season ticket holder attending or through transfer or through re-sale. She doesn't think it's well written, but that it seems to match with other clubs' usage policies.
Whilst not disagreeing with what you colleague and her colleague say, the situation at Man City is different. One of my neighbours shares his ST with his grandson (Normally 10 v 9 per season). This is allowed by the ST being transferred to his grandson for the number of games that he attends. Next season, the primary ST holder has to attend 14 of the 19 PL games to maintain his ST. The only option he has after the club confirming the 14 actual attendance figure is for the ST not being transferred to his grandson for more than 5 PL games.
No- it's 16 uses (transfer/sell allowed) of which 10 games must be personally attended. The obvious way around this is to access your ticketing account on an old phone and let that become your ticket.
https://www.mancity.com/tickets/season-ticket-renewals-202526-season
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Is there any deadline for transferring your ticket? Like say you suddenly got ill the morning of the game, is that too late to put the ticket up for sale? My dad has sometimes decided he is too ill too go about two hours before kick off having given it until the last possible minute to see if he feels any better.
Hopefully, any new App might reinstate the print at home option so the ticket can be used by someone else
This would be good, though I doubt they would do it as would render the request for eight friends pointless. They would also, presumably, want to have a pre-approved list of attendees so they can keep out away fans.
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The Left picture is from the OS this morning, the right from the Premier league website.
You can clearly see the difference in the Trinity Upper layout. Looks like there will be a rejig of the blocks (from A1-A8 to A1-A9).
(https://i.ibb.co/KcfJhw4h/VP-Plans.png) (https://ibb.co/KcfJhw4h)
Any reason the left of the Trinity is price range 4 but similar seats on the right are price3? Is that because of the North Stand Roof?
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Does this mean you can download a season ticket onto more than one phone wallet? It would be useful if either mine or my dad's phone packs up to have both tickets on one phone.
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Does this mean you can download a season ticket onto more than one phone wallet? It would be useful if either mine or my dad's phone packs up to have both tickets on one phone.
Yup, I've done it.
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Interestingly though - they are encouraging you to declare exactly how you use your ticket.
What do you mean? Like 'is it shared?'
The fact that there’s an app to make it easier means that more people will us the app to share their ticket.
Currently, people might be sharing phones, passwords, printouts etc to share tickets, or maybe not passing them on because they don’t think there is a way - but the new app will make it easier to just do it officially.
There has previously been a widespread myth that sharing STs is not allowed, & this clears that up.
Overall, club will be able to gather more reliable data on how STs are used.
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I think rather than any nefarious motives, the club just want as many seats filled as possible, both for financial and supporting the team reasons. I think encouraging people to share non-used ST seats is a good thing really, and if anything, the 14 game cut-off is very generous as it includes sharing OR just putting it up for resale.
There was too many games with empty seats last season.
I am less keen on the changes to the waiting list, in fact I think moving the goalposts like that is very wrong when some will have been waiting patiently for 5 years. But one thing is for sure, it will increase ticket demand as people will feel obliged to attend as many games as possible to claw their way up the list.
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Does this mean you can download a season ticket onto more than one phone wallet? It would be useful if either mine or my dad's phone packs up to have both tickets on one phone.
Yup, I've done it.
Thanks
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The Left picture is from the OS this morning, the right from the Premier league website.
You can clearly see the difference in the Trinity Upper layout. Looks like there will be a rejig of the blocks (from A1-A8 to A1-A9).
(https://i.ibb.co/KcfJhw4h/VP-Plans.png) (https://ibb.co/KcfJhw4h)
Any reason the left of the Trinity is price range 4 but similar seats on the right are price3? Is that because of the North Stand Roof?
Im sure Im being dense, please tell me that I am, but does the two pictures reflect a change in pricing structure, e.g. L1 and L2 in the holte, does the left picture indicate a move out of prize zone 4 for these sections?
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Nope, I started it. The upper Holte shows 4, 3 and 2 zones colours and 1 is very claret as per upper Trinity. I wonder if the colours are wrong or more likely they are not selling ST's in those areas that appear closer to grey. I just noticed the family zone is now the area in the Trinity I mentioned (used to be Upper North).
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Nope, I started it. The upper Holte shows 4, 3 and 2 zones colours and 1 is very claret as per upper Trinity. I wonder if the colours are wrong or more likely they are not selling ST's in those areas that appear closer to grey. I just noticed the family zone is now the area in the Trinity I mentioned (used to be Upper North).
Ah ok thanks. Our season tickets were always L2 in the Holte, but got shunted to L1 for last season, both sections always price zone 4, just can’t (or at least I can’t) see they are clearly PZ 4 from the left hand picture.
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The picture originally posted is for GA+ options (https://tickets.avfc.co.uk/en-GB/subscriptions/2025-26%20season%20ticket%20-%20ga+?hallmap%3futm_source=Web&utm_campaign=GAPlus_Seasonal&utm_content=&utm_medium=Ticketing&hallmap). They don't see GA+ in those areas so you can't select them. But I suspect the zones are the same as they are greyish-pink.
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The picture originally posted is for GA+ options (https://tickets.avfc.co.uk/en-GB/subscriptions/2025-26%20season%20ticket%20-%20ga+?hallmap%3futm_source=Web&utm_campaign=GAPlus_Seasonal&utm_content=&utm_medium=Ticketing&hallmap). They don't see GA+ in those areas so you can't select them. But I suspect the zones are the same as they are greyish-pink.
Thank you
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Seems the lower witton has had seats moved so far. Upper is safe for now...
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£2k for Terrace View is ubelievably shit value for a seat at the back of the Holte. Surely, if / when more ST become available these people will fall away.
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Seems the lower witton has had seats moved so far. Upper is safe for now...
Are people starting to get the emails?
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Seems the lower witton has had seats moved so far. Upper is safe for now...
Are people starting to get the emails?
Seen a few on twitter confirm theyve had emails, yep.
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Got a reply to me asking whether selling it back to the club counts as use and they said it does.
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Two seats in Lower Witton have each been moved 4 seats to the right. Just hope that my sister's is likewise. Email states there's a dedicated 'phone number to discuss...but omits to quote the number!
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A friend of a friend got this.
(https://i.ibb.co/GQRtjg7T/Whats-App-Image-2025-05-30-at-13-17-57-87614261.jpg) (https://ibb.co/GQRtjg7T)
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I'm fully braced for a Dear John email
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The Left picture is from the OS this morning, the right from the Premier league website.
You can clearly see the difference in the Trinity Upper layout. Looks like there will be a rejig of the blocks (from A1-A8 to A1-A9).
(https://i.ibb.co/KcfJhw4h/VP-Plans.png) (https://ibb.co/KcfJhw4h)
Hmmm, my wife and I are in A5, right in line with where C5 changes to C6, looking at that picture, our seats might be A6 next season.
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I'm fully braced for a Dear John email
I don't know why you are constantly panicking Tim. They can't sell the hospitality they have already created during a Champions League season. They're not going to be taking back seats in the Upper Witton any time soon.
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And I doubt they could realign Upper Witton. It’s a strange arrangement as it is. Presumably because it was built at Jewson by the stadium manager without an architect,
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My fear is they make more GA+ seats up there
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My fear is they make more GA+ seats up there
That is my fear too but I don't think that's what's happening this time.
I think we are safe until they find a way to make the concourse bigger.
And I think the TV gantry could save us from realignment.
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My fear is they make more GA+ seats up there
but it would be trek to any fine dining , maybe just chuck rolls at them
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My fear is they make more GA+ seats up there
I think you'll be fine Tim
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I've been moved from M2 to M3 😕.
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I've been moved from M2 to M3 😕.
Did they give a reason?
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I've been moved from M2 to M3 😕.
Did they give a reason?
Driving to Hampshire rather than Kent ;) :)
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I've been moved from M2 to M3 😕.
You'll probably find you're still surrounded by the same people next season, they've just moved you all a bit to squeeze more in.
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I’m on the move apparently
M5 to M5 but different seats
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From that seat map posted earlier in the thread, it looks like M5 is being reconfigured for disabled seats at the front?
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I've got the same seat in the same position but I'm now in A5 not A4. Presumably means an extra gangway has been created somewhere to my right (as I look at the pitch) and the gangway I used to use may have gone. No drama for me thankfully.
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I've been moved from M2 to M3 😕.
Did they give a reason?
As part of our long-term vision for the Club, we are continuing with the Villa Park redevelopment project to deliver an exceptional matchday experience for every fan. This includes the realignment of gangways and the addition of new seats, including 15 new accessible seating positions.
Due to these ongoing improvements, unfortunately, there have been some slight changes to the exact location of your seat for the 2025/26 season. Aston Villa would not be the Club it is without its supporters, and altering the seats of loyal fans is not something we take lightly. We have made every effort to ensure your new allocation reflects the best, nearest available seat.
This was the waffle!
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Received the dreaded email of seat relocation, same block different row but over 20 seats to the right taking us away from half way line towards Holte End, Upper Trinity.
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At least it's moving towards the Holte which is better than the other way. I wonder what they are doing up there that requires people to shift 20 seats over?
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Just had the email to say it’s the same seats but now we are in A8 instead of A7 upper trinity
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At least it's moving towards the Holte which is better than the other way. I wonder what they are doing up there that requires people to shift 20 seats over?
Moving (and removing) gangways like they did last year in the Upper North and Lower Holte - squeezing more seats in.
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The Left picture is from the OS this morning, the right from the Premier league website.
You can clearly see the difference in the Trinity Upper layout. Looks like there will be a rejig of the blocks (from A1-A8 to A1-A9).
(https://i.ibb.co/KcfJhw4h/VP-Plans.png) (https://ibb.co/KcfJhw4h)
Hmmm, my wife and I are in A5, right in line with where C5 changes to C6, looking at that picture, our seats might be A6 next season.
had the email now A6 instead of A5 but no seat, row or location change, just block change but they say it is physically the same seat and location
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So supporters who are on the list and have been to games this season don’t need to bung the club a tenner ?
Can someone answer my friend Frank's question please? (not for me...honest)
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I read it as to join up after the cull costs you a tenner.
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At least it's moving towards the Holte which is better than the other way. I wonder what they are doing up there that requires people to shift 20 seats over?
Moving (and removing) gangways like they did last year in the Upper North and Lower Holte - squeezing more seats in.
20 seats seems an awful lot for a new gangway
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The Left picture is from the OS this morning, the right from the Premier league website.
You can clearly see the difference in the Trinity Upper layout. Looks like there will be a rejig of the blocks (from A1-A8 to A1-A9).
(https://i.ibb.co/KcfJhw4h/VP-Plans.png) (https://ibb.co/KcfJhw4h)
Hmmm, my wife and I are in A5, right in line with where C5 changes to C6, looking at that picture, our seats might be A6 next season.
had the email now A6 instead of A5 but no seat, row or location change, just block change but they say it is physically the same seat and location
Are there more seats in the new A4,5,6 than the old A4,5? They don't allow concessionary match tickets in those blocks so could be another money spinning attempt.
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At least it's moving towards the Holte which is better than the other way. I wonder what they are doing up there that requires people to shift 20 seats over?
Moving (and removing) gangways like they did last year in the Upper North and Lower Holte - squeezing more seats in.
20 seats seems an awful lot for a new gangway
It does because you’d think removing a gangway would offer 4 extra seats at most. So that would mean the removal of 5 gangways, & I can’t imagine that would be safe!
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Could we not make extra room by removing all the gangways from the upper tiers and introducing slides?
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My fear is they make more GA+ seats up there
but it would be trek to any fine dining , maybe just chuck rolls at them
If all you can eat nacho's and liquid cheese is fine dining then i think any seats are at risk of GA+
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Is it just me or does it look like they have removed away fans from Upper Witton on those pictures?
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Is it just me or does it look like they have removed away fans from Upper Witton on those pictures?
It's probably more that if they don't sell out that section is open to Villa fans, so it is technically part of our section.
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Villa provide Villa Park expansion update as season ticket holders relocated
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/aston-villa-provide-villa-park-31754229#ICID=Android_BMNewsApp_AppShare
Double speak.
Making things better, by shitting on the regulars.
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Chelsea's ST update is worse than ours.
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Villa provide Villa Park expansion update as season ticket holders relocated
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/aston-villa-provide-villa-park-31754229#ICID=Android_BMNewsApp_AppShare
Double speak.
Making things better, by shitting on the regulars.
As someone who was worried about being displaced earlier, I would have accepted it. We need higher capacity, and we need to to box smart. It's shit, but this time next summer most moved fans will be fine.
I was moved from the trinity upon relegation, I love my current seat even more.
I cant wait to see the stadium once it's plus 50K.
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I have sat with my mates for over a decade, we all travel a considerable distance to home games. As a reward for our loyalty when the upper Trinity was shut and we watched years of dross, not to mention the grim days following the Villa home and away in the third division they are now moving me over a dozen seats away to sit next to strangers.
While my love for the Villa will live on my presence at B6 will not.
Bad news for me but great news for the avaricious plans of the Villa as they will now be able to punt my seat on a match by match basis and coin the money in as they really intended.
I hope the good times go on for a number of years but when the Villa slip down the league in years to come they need not send me a begging letter asking if I wish to return. Like many once the habit of B6 is lost it will be difficult to rekindle it.
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Are you sure you're getting moved next to strangers? They moved me but I effectively stayed where I was because everybody around me got moved, too. Have you asked your mates what ticket numbers they have? Hope they haven't fucked you around.
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I have sat with my mates for over a decade, we all travel a considerable distance to home games. As a reward for our loyalty when the upper Trinity was shut and we watched years of dross, not to mention the grim days following the Villa home and away in the third division they are now moving me over a dozen seats away to sit next to strangers.
While my love for the Villa will live on my presence at B6 will not.
Bad news for me but great news for the avaricious plans of the Villa as they will now be able to punt my seat on a match by match basis and coin the money in as they really intended.
I hope the good times go on for a number of years but when the Villa slip down the league in years to come they need not send me a begging letter asking if I wish to return. Like many once the habit of B6 is lost it will be difficult to rekindle it.
Mate I get your're angry right now. But it's very likely your mates will be close by after the move.
I got moved stands after relegation and ended up with the same people round me!
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Villa provide Villa Park expansion update as season ticket holders relocated
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/aston-villa-provide-villa-park-31754229#ICID=Android_BMNewsApp_AppShare
Double speak.
Making things better, by shitting on the regulars.
As someone who was worried about being displaced earlier, I would have accepted it. We need higher capacity, and we need to to box smart. It's shit, but this time next summer most moved fans will be fine.
I was moved from the trinity upon relegation, I love my current seat even more.
I cant wait to see the stadium once it's plus 50K.
I have been a ST holder for 57 years and every time I have been forced relocated I have had an inferior seat. Was
on halfway line middle trinity and twice moved along until i was level with penalty area. (For expanding corporate areas) Moved to upper trinity in 2013 after my father passed away because no concessions in that area. Moved to seat upper trinity on halfway line, was then moved to Doug Ellis Upper when we were relegated in 2015 to an absolutely shit seat top corner of stand almost level with corner flag at Holte End. Got middle trinity halfway line seat back when we got promoted and now being moved to near the penalty area away from halfway line. So don't tell me I will love my new seat more, you patronising g*t. How many of the prawn sandwich brigade were there in Division 3 and in the championship and in the crowd of 12000 to play Charlton in Division 2 in 1968. They can't even be bothered to give a goodwill gesture of a discount or a store voucher for the inconvenience, because they know that if i do not renew my ticket then somebody will be waiting to grab it. Angry doesn't even get close. Europa League ticket prices are going to be sold at prices in excess of most clubs Champions League ticket prices. Screw the supporters for the sake of an extra few quid which barely makes a pin hole in the revenues. If normal businesses screwed their customers like football clubs do then they would leave and take their business elsewhere to a competitor. Being a football fan my options are BCFC, WBA, WW so in reality no option except take it or leave it. Rant over.
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I have sat with my mates for over a decade, we all travel a considerable distance to home games. As a reward for our loyalty when the upper Trinity was shut and we watched years of dross, not to mention the grim days following the Villa home and away in the third division they are now moving me over a dozen seats away to sit next to strangers.
While my love for the Villa will live on my presence at B6 will not.
Bad news for me but great news for the avaricious plans of the Villa as they will now be able to punt my seat on a match by match basis and coin the money in as they really intended.
I hope the good times go on for a number of years but when the Villa slip down the league in years to come they need not send me a begging letter asking if I wish to return. Like many once the habit of B6 is lost it will be difficult to rekindle it.
Mate I get your're angry right now. But it's very likely your mates will be close by after the move.
I got moved stands after relegation and ended up with the same people round me!
Cheers Max, it is a mixture of anger and sadness that made me write my diatribe. Hopefully I will move with my mates but otherwise it is over for me.
Unfortunately it is mainly sadness on my behalf at the manner in which OUR club is selling its commercial soul for fools gold which will disappear when the good times sadly slip away.
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Oh well that Stourbridge Season Ticket looks nailed on now.
As someone with Aspergers the continual change and process requirements around gaining tickets combined with the actual price means I won't go to Villa Park again.
Sad day
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Capacity next season is 43,254.
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Capacity next season is 43,254.
That's not bad for Stourbridge.
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Gutted for those that are displaced. I find it's not even just your friends that you'll miss, it's the familiar faces all around who you'd give an acknowledging nod to as they pass you in the concourse, or as they make their way up and down the steps.
I've dodged a bullet.... I've had 'that' email, but it looks like my seat in Upper Trinity A4 has survived unscathed. It's now the same seat but rebranded, as part of A4 is now A5.
[EDIT] Looking at that revised seating plan, looks like I've lost my quick full time exit. I used to be sat next to a gangway, but that gangway doesn't look to exist any longer. At least my seat is in the same spot I guess.
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Where can I find the revised seating plan please?
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Where can I find the revised seating plan please?
New one is on the left John.
(https://i.ibb.co/PzgqDHH7/VP-Plans.png) (https://ibb.co/PzgqDHH7)
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Where can I find the revised seating plan please?
New one is on the left John.
(https://i.ibb.co/PzgqDHH7/VP-Plans.png) (https://ibb.co/PzgqDHH7)
Ok thanks
I was more meaning the new seat numbers, I’m trying to work out if it’s just my seat number that’s changed or if I’ve been moved
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It should have specified in the email from the club (*if you had an email from the club?)....
Your Seat
As part of our long-term vision for the Club, we are continuing with the Villa Park redevelopment project to deliver an exceptional matchday experience for every fan. This includes the realignment of gangways and the addition of new seats, including 15 new accessible seating positions.
The physical location of your seat is not impacted by these changes. However, due to changes in other parts of the stand, there has been a slight change to either the block or seat number of your seat for the 2025/26 season.
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It should have specified in the email from the club (*if you had an email from the club?)....
Your Seat
As part of our long-term vision for the Club, we are continuing with the Villa Park redevelopment project to deliver an exceptional matchday experience for every fan. This includes the realignment of gangways and the addition of new seats, including 15 new accessible seating positions.
The physical location of your seat is not impacted by these changes. However, due to changes in other parts of the stand, there has been a slight change to either the block or seat number of your seat for the 2025/26 season.
Looks like I’m on the move then
Only a few seats up but I would like to see the seating plan to work out exactly where I am now
Edit - maybe it’s not out yet
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This I like:
As part of this new scheme, the Club has confirmed that the 20% charge on ticket resale has been removed, and all supporters will receive 1/19th of the cost of their season ticket should it be sold on the exchange.
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So supporters who are on the list and have been to games this season don’t need to bung the club a tenner ?
Can someone answer my friend Frank's question please? (not for me...honest)
My understanding is that members who have been to a game this season don’t pay the £10fee.
I’m on the waiting list for a ST and like the cull and the idea of prioritising those who have actually been to games over the past 2 years. But why oh why do they allocate 1 point for league game attendance and 2 points for cup games? Spending circa £70 for the Man City / Manyoo / Wolves league games last season for example gets me 1 point each, whereas attending the 3 home FA cup games for £75 combined gets you 6 points. I don’t get that logic.
Attending midweek games from London without a car is really difficult but I can just about do it with planning, which the European games allow as dates are fixed for all games when the draw is made. Domestic cup games are a poxy lottery to anticipate.
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At a guess because we don't know if we will get any home cup games or all of them. And we don't know if a home cup game will be against Tottenham and a sell-out, or Gravesend and not.
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So supporters who are on the list and have been to games this season don’t need to bung the club a tenner ?
Can someone answer my friend Frank's question please? (not for me...honest)
My understanding is that members who have been to a game this season don’t pay the £10fee.
I’m on the waiting list for a ST and like the cull and the idea of prioritising those who have actually been to games over the past 2 years. But why oh why do they allocate 1 point for league game attendance and 2 points for cup games? Spending circa £70 for the Man City / Manyoo / Wolves league games last season for example gets me 1 point each, whereas attending the 3 home FA cup games for £75 combined gets you 6 points. I don’t get that logic.
Attending midweek games from London without a car is really difficult but I can just about do it with planning, which the European games allow as dates are fixed for all games when the draw is made. Domestic cup games are a poxy lottery to anticipate.
Because it’s really about incentivising cup games not loyalty and follows on from similar approach to allocation for Preston and Palace tickets.
Currently cup games are the main games they need to incentivise.
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Yeah, from what they said about the number of new people at cup games, it sounds like a lot of season ticket holders have given them a miss. So it makes sense they want to encourage people to come.
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Season ticket holders who don’t go to the cup games should be penalised by being forced to watch us at Wembley.
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Season ticket holders who don’t go to the cup games should be penalised by being forced to watch us at Wembley.
Richard, are you sure, that’s worse than capitol punishment!!
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Season ticket holders who don’t go to the cup games should be penalised by being forced to watch us at Wembley.
Richard, are you sure, that’s worse than capitol punishment!!
Does that mean having to go and visit Trump?
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They’re perfectly happy when season ticket holders don’t attend. My lad sold his ticket back to the club for £33. They promptly sold it to a Japanese vlogger for £80, he spent a fortune at the club shop and promoted the club abroad via his videos of the experience (no doubt).
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I still haven't received an email about renewing, should I have done?
(Apologies if this has been clarified earlier in the thread).
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I haven't had one yet, so nothing to worry about. I think they will be soon from what the sales dates suggested.
I don't think they will let any of us easily forget we could be giving them money! ;D
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I still haven't received an email about renewing, should I have done?
(Apologies if this has been clarified earlier in the thread).
I've had nothing either , only emails about the new away kit .
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They are probably giving some time for the ones who have to move to decide where they are going before then opening up for normal renewals / potential voluntary move requests.
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Villa provide Villa Park expansion update as season ticket holders relocated
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/aston-villa-provide-villa-park-31754229#ICID=Android_BMNewsApp_AppShare
Double speak.
Making things better, by shitting on the regulars.
As someone who was worried about being displaced earlier, I would have accepted it. We need higher capacity, and we need to to box smart. It's shit, but this time next summer most moved fans will be fine.
I was moved from the trinity upon relegation, I love my current seat even more.
I cant wait to see the stadium once it's plus 50K.
I have been a ST holder for 57 years and every time I have been forced relocated I have had an inferior seat. Was
on halfway line middle trinity and twice moved along until i was level with penalty area. (For expanding corporate areas) Moved to upper trinity in 2013 after my father passed away because no concessions in that area. Moved to seat upper trinity on halfway line, was then moved to Doug Ellis Upper when we were relegated in 2015 to an absolutely shit seat top corner of stand almost level with corner flag at Holte End. Got middle trinity halfway line seat back when we got promoted and now being moved to near the penalty area away from halfway line. So don't tell me I will love my new seat more, you patronising g*t. How many of the prawn sandwich brigade were there in Division 3 and in the championship and in the crowd of 12000 to play Charlton in Division 2 in 1968. They can't even be bothered to give a goodwill gesture of a discount or a store voucher for the inconvenience, because they know that if i do not renew my ticket then somebody will be waiting to grab it. Angry doesn't even get close. Europa League ticket prices are going to be sold at prices in excess of most clubs Champions League ticket prices. Screw the supporters for the sake of an extra few quid which barely makes a pin hole in the revenues. If normal businesses screwed their customers like football clubs do then they would leave and take their business elsewhere to a competitor. Being a football fan my options are BCFC, WBA, WW so in reality no option except take it or leave it. Rant over.
I wasn't trying to be patronising, I have been moved before too, was just trying to provide some hope that it's not always bad. Apologies if it came across that way.
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I haven't had one yet, so nothing to worry about. I think they will be soon from what the sales dates suggested.
I don't think they will let any of us easily forget we could be giving them money! ;D
I'm not so sure they want us all to renew.
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I haven't had one yet, so nothing to worry about. I think they will be soon from what the sales dates suggested.
I don't think they will let any of us easily forget we could be giving them money! ;D
I'm not so sure they want us all to renew.
I'm not sure I want some people to renew, either. ;D
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Am i right in hearing our waiting list is 45000 now ?
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Am i right in hearing our waiting list is 45000 now ?
I’ve been posting this for ages. A bloke at work is number 45,111. Me and the kids are at the 37,000 mark, having had to drop 8,000 places when my daughter joined me and my son on the list.
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I was about 2,000 on the list two years ago. Surely 2,000 of you have had enough now?
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Am i right in hearing our waiting list is 45000 now ?
I’ve been posting this for ages. A bloke at work is number 45,111. Me and the kids are at the 37,000 mark, having had to drop 8,000 places when my daughter joined me and my son on the list.
sorry i missed that , was looking at films on summer transfers
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Am i right in hearing our waiting list is 45000 now ?
I’ve been posting this for ages. A bloke at work is number 45,111. Me and the kids are at the 37,000 mark, having had to drop 8,000 places when my daughter joined me and my son on the list.
When you have taken your girls have you used their own references? Will they survive the waiting list cull and move up?
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Sent you a message Percy..
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Have no idea what number I am or how to check, but joined 3 years ago, so guessing I'm absolutely no where. I'm probably one of the fake numbers as not sure I'd take it up now. Few games a season will do me. See how I feel in 10 years when my number comes up.
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Am i right in hearing our waiting list is 45000 now ?
That's the figure they were discussing on TalkShite this morning. Apparently come from one of the owners but I only caught the tail end.
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Am i right in hearing our waiting list is 45000 now ?
I’ve been posting this for ages. A bloke at work is number 45,111. Me and the kids are at the 37,000 mark, having had to drop 8,000 places when my daughter joined me and my son on the list.
sorry i missed that , was looking at films on summer transfers
Haha! And now Mafia job titles.
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Am i right in hearing our waiting list is 45000 now ?
I’ve been posting this for ages. A bloke at work is number 45,111. Me and the kids are at the 37,000 mark, having had to drop 8,000 places when my daughter joined me and my son on the list.
When you have taken your girls have you used their own references? Will they survive the waiting list cull and move up?
Boy/girl, one of each Amfy. Yes, they have their own memberships and accounts etc.
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Am i right in hearing our waiting list is 45000 now ?
I’ve been posting this for ages. A bloke at work is number 45,111. Me and the kids are at the 37,000 mark, having had to drop 8,000 places when my daughter joined me and my son on the list.
sorry i missed that , was looking at films on summer transfers
The noses are convinced our waiting list doesn’t exist….
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They are probably giving some time for the ones who have to move to decide where they are going before then opening up for normal renewals / potential voluntary move requests.
I had a email telling me due to seating changes my seat was being relocated to exactly the same block row and number it is now. Very strange.
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The noses are convinced our waiting list doesn’t exist….
They're also convinced by magic, Narnia and that a 60,000 seater stadium will be built in Bordesley.
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Am i right in hearing our waiting list is 45000 now ?
It got to 45,000 and now they have reorganised and removed 46 per cent for not buying any tickets in the last two years.
So currently it is 23,000 and based on a points system related to membership and ticket purchases in the last two years.
They say they will let everyone know their position before any spare season tickets go on sale,
New people can join the waiting list but there will be a ten pounds charge.
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It's in the ST info from the club
To reward loyalty and commitment from our active fans, we have reviewed and subsequently changed the Season Ticket Waiting List system.
At the end of the 2024/25 season, there were approximately 45,000 people on the waiting list: 46% of those have not bought a ticket in over two years (2023/24 and 2024/25).
The Club identified that there was a need to create a genuine list which prioritises dedicated supporters through a transparent points-based system, particularly in light of the ongoing stadium expansion and the significant number of season tickets that will be available in 2-years’ time.
This requirement has resulted in the following changes to the waiting list criteria:
(https://img.gc.avfcservices.co.uk/fit-in/1400x1400/4eb00e90-3c70-11f0-b175-cb44e7e3fd33.jpg)
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1 point for attending a home game how generous . So basically unless you pay to be a member you're f*****d
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To be honest, it’s pretty difficult to get any decent ticket without a membership anyway.
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They are probably giving some time for the ones who have to move to decide where they are going before then opening up for normal renewals / potential voluntary move requests.
I had a email telling me due to seating changes my seat was being relocated to exactly the same block row and number it is now. Very strange.
Same block and row, but probably moved in actual location you are used to. I think after last year, when they did North and Holte and had some complaints from people who had moved / no longer close to an aisle / no longer had an aisle behind them, they are letting those people also know in advance.
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1 point for attending a home game how generous . So basically unless you pay to be a member you're f*****d
As they're giving 2 points for each Domestic or European game, how many points do you suggest they award then for a PL game ? Strikes me you're never happier on this site unless you're moaning. You must have loved it last season when we drew the 2 games v Ipswich and lost the FAC SF v Palace.
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They are probably giving some time for the ones who have to move to decide where they are going before then opening up for normal renewals / potential voluntary move requests.
I had a email telling me due to seating changes my seat was being relocated to exactly the same block row and number it is now. Very strange.
Same block and row, but probably moved in actual location you are used to. I think after last year, when they did North and Holte and had some complaints from people who had moved / no longer close to an aisle / no longer had an aisle behind them, they are letting those people also know in advance.
Difficult to imagine they could take out the aisle in the lower Witton / Holte corner without creating a difficult egress in an emergency but who knows. Is there a new seating plan that we can check?
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As you have had a letter, ping the club and they might give you a specific one. The lower witton / holte is having disabled access areas being put in at the front edges of the corners according to the stand overview pics grabbed from the GA+ and posted earlier. So that might change seat numbers for certain rows.
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Well I suppose no news is good news .
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Premier League clubs have "unanimously" agreed to keep the £30 cap on away ticket prices for the 2025-26 season.
It will be the 10th campaign the cap has been in place and, since its introduction, attendances at away games have risen from 82% to 91%.
A total of 953,420 people were at the 380 top-flight matches during the 2024-25 season.
A Premier League statement said "its clubs recognise the additional costs associated with fans following their team during the season, and the incredible atmospheres they create at matches".
Nineteen of the Premier League's 20 clubs raised their ticket prices before the 2024-25 season and the Football Supporters' Association (FSA) launched a campaign called 'Stop Exploiting Loyalty'.
A number of protests took place in support of the campaign, while the FSA wrote to the Premier League urging the organisation to support a division-wide ticket price freeze for the next season.
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Renewals open;
https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2025/june/04/season-tickets-2025-26--renewals-now-open/ (https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2025/june/04/season-tickets-2025-26--renewals-now-open/)
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All renewed for our upcoming glory season.
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£859. It ain't cheap.
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£1127 for me and the lad. I dread to think how much the season, with a cup final in Constantinople will cost! Ah well, I'd only spend more time in furniture shops and garden centres buying pagodas and shit if I didn't do this.
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Yeah, fck pagodas. What's the point of them anyway?
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I've just renewed. It will be my 36th consecutive season at the age of 41!
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Yeah, fck pagodas. What's the point of them anyway?
I'm going to get one for my top patio I think with the turnable roof, so the slats open up. Bit of outside dining. This is what I'm reduced to when the Villa aren't playing.
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I've just renewed. It will be my 36th consecutive season at the age of 41!
Blimey! How have you managed to remain 41 for so many years?
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£859. It ain't cheap.
It ain't easy.
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Anyone seen a seating plan with seat numbers yet - specifically for Upper Trinity ? I don't want to renew until next week to max credit card period and can't seem to access a plan from the website.
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Renewed. Sorry, everyone.
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Anyone seen a seating plan with seat numbers yet - specifically for Upper Trinity ? I don't want to renew until next week to max credit card period and can't seem to access a plan from the website.
I am also Upper Trinity and been moved from A5 to A6 although they say my seat is in exactly the same place, searched all over for a seating plan and cant find one.
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Anyone seen a seating plan with seat numbers yet - specifically for Upper Trinity ? I don't want to renew until next week to max credit card period and can't seem to access a plan from the website.
I am also Upper Trinity and been moved from A5 to A6 although they say my seat is in exactly the same place, searched all over for a seating plan and cant find one.
Yeah we've moved from A4 to A5 but again same seat. Just wanted to see whether the aisle was staying as close as it was.
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I wonder when we will find out everyone's new positions in the waiting list? I've renewed my ST today, but for those of us with family members on the waiting list it would be great to know if/when they might be able to buy a season ticket whilst there is still an opportunity to relocate and sit together.
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I have just renewed for myself and my son. Surely this will be the year he remembers to give me the money for his ticket.
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Anyone seen a seating plan with seat numbers yet - specifically for Upper Trinity ? I don't want to renew until next week to max credit card period and can't seem to access a plan from the website.
I am also Upper Trinity and been moved from A5 to A6 although they say my seat is in exactly the same place, searched all over for a seating plan and cant find one.
Same here. Free transfer from A5 to A6
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Anyone seen a seating plan with seat numbers yet - specifically for Upper Trinity ? I don't want to renew until next week to max credit card period and can't seem to access a plan from the website.
I am also Upper Trinity and been moved from A5 to A6 although they say my seat is in exactly the same place, searched all over for a seating plan and cant find one.
Same here. Free transfer from A5 to A6
Bloody shrinkflation!
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Did you sign a three-year deal?
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I have just renewed for myself and my son. Surely this will be the year he remembers to give me the money for his ticket.
Got my fingers crossed too, not optimistic...
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Well.....that was remarkably straight forward.
However, the new 'Friends & Family' linking thing only shows one of the two people I previously had set up.
Also, I couldn't seen any option for cup schemes.
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I have just renewed for myself and my son. Surely this will be the year he remembers to give me the money for his ticket.
Got my fingers crossed too, not optimistic...
I can jump on that band wagon, sadly.
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I wonder when we will find out everyone's new positions in the waiting list? I've renewed my ST today, but for those of us with family members on the waiting list it would be great to know if/when they might be able to buy a season ticket whilst there is still an opportunity to relocate and sit together.
“All supporters on the waiting list will be informed of their updated position before any new season tickets are offered for sale.”
Last year this was 19 July.
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I have just renewed for myself and my son. Surely this will be the year he remembers to give me the money for his ticket.
Got my fingers crossed too, not optimistic...
me to
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On the club site's FAQs page re season tickets and upgrades, it also mentions away ticket availability, but this seems no different from the current situation, ie by the time it gets down to ST holders with no history (mine lapsed for a couple of years), all the away tickets have gone. Does anyone have any information that I may have missed?
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Renewed. Sorry, everyone.
Money talks :o
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I can't seem to find the ST price table anywhere on the Villa site, can someone clever guide me please?
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About two thirds down on this page...
https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2025/june/04/season-tickets-2025-26--renewals-now-open/
(https://i.ibb.co/WN7Mhnpg/stadium.jpg) (https://ibb.co/WN7Mhnpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/BVGsr6QP/prices.jpg) (https://ibb.co/BVGsr6QP)
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The deed is done.
Well, what else am I going to do on a Sunday or Monday?
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I am now entitled to OAP rates, do you got to provide proof of age documents to qualify?
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I am now entitled to OAP rates, do you got to provide proof of age documents to qualify?
Did mine earlier; I had to remind them that I was entitled. ( don’t look my age ).
They didn’t ask for proof👍👍
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I am now entitled to OAP rates, do you got to provide proof of age documents to qualify?
Did mine earlier; I had to remind them that I was entitled. ( don’t look my age ).
They didn’t ask for proof👍👍
Thanks
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ours are up to £955 ,think it was £895 last year . 6.70% increase if my maths is correct
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Thanks FrankyH.
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There don’t seem to be many giving up their season tickets on principle?
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There don’t seem to be many giving up their season tickets on principle?
with Emery/Monchi at the helm and the backing of NSWE why would they
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There don’t seem to be many giving up their season tickets on principle?
with Emery/Monchi at the helm and the backing of NSWE why would they
There was a fair bit of chatter but I was sceptical! Suspect more cup tickets will be sold to STs as well now!
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There don’t seem to be many giving up their season tickets on principle?
Yep, I’m one giving mine up. The Club took the piss with the CL prices and, if Villa start dropping more towards middle to bottom half of the PL, plenty of season tickets will become available. Club can make hay for now!!
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Will renew ours tomorrow, as our block changed from A7 to A8 same seats and row as last season according to the email we got, was hoping would get the cheaper price but they have made another block A9 and spilt half of A8 with A9 and where we sit is the same price as before with the 5% added
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There don’t seem to be many giving up their season tickets on principle?
with Emery/Monchi at the helm and the backing of NSWE why would they
There was a fair bit of chatter but I was sceptical! Suspect more cup tickets will be sold to STs as well now!
Possibly forced those who didn't attend the FA cup games to purchase tickets due to the requirements for the FA semi final last season, sadly denying those can't afford normal ticket prices to attend the odd game at Villa Park especially the younger generation
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::)There don’t seem to be many giving up their season tickets on principle?
Yep, I’m one giving mine up. The Club took the piss with the CL prices and, if Villa start dropping more towards middle to bottom half of the PL, plenty of season tickets will become available. Club can make hay for now!!
Me too, & Jane, & our friend Sarah who has an ST separately to us.
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Few people near us aren't renewing .
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Few people near us aren't renewing .
That's probably not that surprising.
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Few people near us aren't renewing .
Must. Resist.
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Ffs, too slow.
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Will be £943 for me and my lad, will renew in next few days. Might be the end of the line for my daughter, 18 now, so under 21 price of £480, she only went to a handful of games last season because of part time bar work/social life and might be off to uni depending on results. Will be end of an era and a bit sad, but will also ease the pain of rising prices. May get her a membership.
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We'll do ours but wait til July 3rd . And take the V8 option too . I know the interest is already baked in but why wouldn't you .
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Renewed..... Probably be my last one now blues are about to over take us .
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I thought the CL ticket prices were scandalous and I was apoplectic when they sold my ticket for one of the games before I had chance to buy it. I also think we fans have been treated like shite this year. So I've renewed. That will show them.
And if you don't like my principles, I have others.
£1300. Ouch,
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I thought the CL ticket prices were scandalous and I was apoplectic when they sold my ticket for one of the games before I had chance to buy it. I also think we fans have been treated like shite this year. So I've renewed. That will show them.
And if you don't like my principles, I have others.
£1300. Ouch,
Sounds like a GA+ option , hook line and sinker.
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We'll do ours but wait til July 3rd . And take the V8 option too . I know the interest is already baked in but why wouldn't you .
Will that delay when first payment is taken doing it that way. Does anyone know if the dates are fixed whenever you renew? Likely to go V8 again as unlikely can do it out right, but have learned to delay to the next credit card cycle before.
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I thought the CL ticket prices were scandalous and I was apoplectic when they sold my ticket for one of the games before I had chance to buy it. I also think we fans have been treated like shite this year. So I've renewed. That will show them.
And if you don't like my principles, I have others.
£1300. Ouch,
Are you a STH ? In which case, why didn't you buy during the STH window or be part of the Cup scheme ?
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Everytime I try to add people to my list on the season ticket page it it keeps saying "client already exists in another group of clients" Can you not be added to 2 or more lists?
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Everytime I try to add people to my list on the season ticket page it it keeps saying "client already exists in another group of clients" Can you not be added to 2 or more lists?
Each person can only be in one group. It’s annoying because obviously friend groups overlap.I’m not sure why they can’t change this.
However, you can pass tickets on to people not in your group by the old system of phoning up.
If you want to buy a ticket for someone who isn’t in your group, you can do, but their name won’t come up on the drop down, you need to have their reference and type them in manually.
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Everytime I try to add people to my list on the season ticket page it it keeps saying "client already exists in another group of clients" Can you not be added to 2 or more lists?
Each person can only be in one group. It’s annoying because obviously friend groups overlap.I’m not sure why they can’t change this.
However, you can pass tickets on to people not in your group by the old system of phoning up.
If you want to buy a ticket for someone who isn’t in your group, you can do, but their name won’t come up on the drop down, you need to have their reference and type them in manually.
thanks @amfy, bit of a ridiculous restriction, why cant they make things easier for all? That would be too easy wouldnt it.
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Everytime I try to add people to my list on the season ticket page it it keeps saying "client already exists in another group of clients" Can you not be added to 2 or more lists?
I had this, I changed the option of ‘strong relationship’ from yes to no and it then worked.
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I thought the CL ticket prices were scandalous and I was apoplectic when they sold my ticket for one of the games before I had chance to buy it. I also think we fans have been treated like shite this year. So I've renewed. That will show them.
And if you don't like my principles, I have others.
£1300. Ouch,
Are you a STH ? In which case, why didn't you buy during the STH window or be part of the Cup scheme ?
Yes. Because the window was fucking miles before the game and there was no notification of the deadline date on the initial email saying they were on sale.
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I thought the CL ticket prices were scandalous and I was apoplectic when they sold my ticket for one of the games before I had chance to buy it. I also think we fans have been treated like shite this year. So I've renewed. That will show them.
And if you don't like my principles, I have others.
£1300. Ouch,
Sounds like a GA+ option , hook line and sinker.
Mine and my kid.
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We'll do ours but wait til July 3rd . And take the V8 option too . I know the interest is already baked in but why wouldn't you .
Will that delay when first payment is taken doing it that way. Does anyone know if the dates are fixed whenever you renew? Likely to go V8 again as unlikely can do it out right, but have learned to delay to the next credit card cycle before.
You can move the date of the payment in the online portal. So in theory, sign up on Jul 1st then move the first payment to 28th and you have eeked out another month.
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Is there a new seat plan we can view anywhere?
Before I agree to the £250 increase I'd like to know where I will be sitting now as I've been told I'm being moved. I'm at the end of an isle currently in upper trinity seat 129 right on the half way line, but apparently I'm now in seat 110. Is that still an end of isle seat and I'm assuming no longer half way is it closer to the holte or north?
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I still don't agree with 'Armed Forces' getting a discount when Blue Light Services do not.
Also, if active Armed Services personnel are able to attend the required number of games to meet the new criteria, they're not being deployed often enough :) :)
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Is there a new seat plan we can view anywhere?
Before I agree to the £250 increase I'd like to know where I will be sitting now as I've been told I'm being moved. I'm at the end of an isle currently in upper trinity seat 129 right on the half way line, but apparently I'm now in seat 110. Is that still an end of isle seat and I'm assuming no longer half way is it closer to the holte or north?
Exactly the same situation for me
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Is £250 because you have changed price zones or for more than one ticket?
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Is there a new seat plan we can view anywhere?
Before I agree to the £250 increase I'd like to know where I will be sitting now as I've been told I'm being moved. I'm at the end of an isle currently in upper trinity seat 129 right on the half way line, but apparently I'm now in seat 110. Is that still an end of isle seat and I'm assuming no longer half way is it closer to the holte or north?
Exactly the same situation for me
And me! my seats now 107 instead of 125. I phoned ticket office on monday to check I will still be sitting with my mates and whilst I am , she couldn't really explain how far I would be moved along towards the Holte and kept talking about the seats being realigned and that I would now be 6 seats from the aisle (which is about the same as I have been where I was sitting. So I am none the wiser - she didnt have a new seat plan to look at. Felt a bit sorry for her as I dont think she had all the info herself.
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Is there a new seat plan we can view anywhere?
I think there are just generic seating areas. I have been checking old plans against the latest one on the ticketing site and the gangways / aisles look unchanged despite there being conversations about them being altered / replaced / removed.
In my relocation email it said there was a dedicated telephone number for those affected by relocation but they seem to have neglected communicating it either directly or on any web page I’ve looked at. It could be a selection from the main T O number I suppose. I’ll try tomorrow.
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Is £250 because you have changed price zones or for more than one ticket?
I was wondering that as if it has gone up 5% and his has gone up by £250, then it must have been close to £5k he is spending.
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Is £250 because you have changed price zones or for more than one ticket?
I was wondering that as if it has gone up 5% and his has gone up by £250, then it must have been close to £5k he is spending.
That’s got to be a Price Zone change from 2 up to 1 hasn’t it?
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All renewed for another year. Like I was ever not going to.
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Is there a new seat plan we can view anywhere?
Before I agree to the £250 increase I'd like to know where I will be sitting now as I've been told I'm being moved. I'm at the end of an isle currently in upper trinity seat 129 right on the half way line, but apparently I'm now in seat 110. Is that still an end of isle seat and I'm assuming no longer half way is it closer to the holte or north?
Exactly the same situation for me
And me! my seats now 107 instead of 125. I phoned ticket office on monday to check I will still be sitting with my mates and whilst I am , she couldn't really explain how far I would be moved along towards the Holte and kept talking about the seats being realigned and that I would now be 6 seats from the aisle (which is about the same as I have been where I was sitting. So I am none the wiser - she didnt have a new seat plan to look at. Felt a bit sorry for her as I dont think she had all the info herself.
Had the same issue when they installed the disabled seats in the Holte End, different seat numbers but still in the same seat position
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Doing ours July 3rd and adding on the V8 instalments . No point paying them too soon .
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We'll do ours but wait til July 3rd . And take the V8 option too . I know the interest is already baked in but why wouldn't you .
Will that delay when first payment is taken doing it that way. Does anyone know if the dates are fixed whenever you renew? Likely to go V8 again as unlikely can do it out right, but have learned to delay to the next credit card cycle before.
You can move the date of the payment in the online portal. So in theory, sign up on Jul 1st then move the first payment to 28th and you have eeked out another month.
This is incredibly helpful. Thank you.
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I'm going for the finance this year too, is there any fee added (I think I read they added one last year)
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I was considering the payment plan on the basis I’ll be 66 come end of August so, could I get most of the ticket at the over 66 rate? Does anybody know?
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I was considering the payment plan on the basis I’ll be 66 come end of August so, could I get most of the ticket at the over 66 rate? Does anybody know?
I think as long as you're 66 before 1st September you should qualify for it. That's how it worked for my old man the other year anyway.
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No fee from what was mentioned in the previous releases.
Eight-month interest-free payment option, subject to acceptance
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Ive done finance for past couple of seasons and there is no fee, the total season ticket is broken down equally over 8 months.
My daughter turned 18 last xmas, didn’t impact on me paying under 18 price for her season ticket as that is the financial agreement signed, but I couldn’t purchase under 18 CL games for her post her birthday.
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Ive done finance for past couple of seasons and there is no fee, the total season ticket is broken down equally over 8 months.
My daughter turned 18 last xmas, didn’t impact on me paying under 18 price for her season ticket as that is the financial agreement signed, but I couldn’t purchase under 18 CL games for her post her birthday.
I heard about this and it was one of those quiet things the club quietly changed to make more money and haven't had much publicity about but I am not a fan. Concession rate used to be based on age at start of season and they've seen a chance to make a few extra quid
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Maybe, but also maybe now systems are more accurate with DOB info that it's just doing what they would have done before anyway.
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Ive done finance for past couple of seasons and there is no fee, the total season ticket is broken down equally over 8 months.
My daughter turned 18 last xmas, didn’t impact on me paying under 18 price for her season ticket as that is the financial agreement signed, but I couldn’t purchase under 18 CL games for her post her birthday.
I heard about this and it was one of those quiet things the club quietly changed to make more money and haven't had much publicity about but I am not a fan. Concession rate used to be based on age at start of season and they've seen a chance to make a few extra quid
I get you, but am not going to hold this against them.
Conversely hitting the over 66 bracket should you have to wait to the following season or be aloud to buy cheaper when you are the correct age?
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Maybe, but also maybe now systems are more accurate with DOB info that it's just doing what they would have done before anyway.
was going to say this too, i imagined systems are improving with new resale tech etc etc
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Viz a Viz any ST's released to the Waiting List after the STH's have had their opportunity to renew by 4th July, then any moving, Max Stokes on Villa on Tour said on a video yesterday that he was present at a recent FAB meeting with the club. They were told that c. 250 ST's were released to those on the Waiting List at the start of the season just finished, but that they had to go down to c. 2500 on the list before all the ST's were sold. So the club aren't talking rubbish about the numbers on the list that have little to no interest in supporting the team regularly. I know that some on the list will be kids put on by a parent who are not yet attending, but that won't account for the apparent 45% on the list that haven't bought a ticket in the last 2 seasons. My 2 sons and I have our fingers crossed awaiting our postion on the Waiting List.
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Fingers crossed for you, nordenvillain.
Especially as you have mentioned Viz. 8)
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Fingers crossed for you, nordenvillain.
Especially as you have mentioned Viz. 8)
Thanks Dogtanian. We're 3 consecutive numbers on the waiting list, so should hopefully get offered STH's about the same time, but probably not sat together.
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Fingers crossed for you, nordenvillain.
Especially as you have mentioned Viz. 8)
Thanks Dogtanian. We're 3 consecutive numbers on the waiting list, so should hopefully get offered STH's about the same time, but probably not sat together.
You’ll be able to choose where you sit surely?
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Fingers crossed for you, nordenvillain.
Especially as you have mentioned Viz. 8)
Thanks Dogtanian. We're 3 consecutive numbers on the waiting list, so should hopefully get offered STH's about the same time, but probably not sat together.
You’ll be able to choose where you sit surely?
Hi AV82EC, not sure if it was you and your Dad or son that we met at Hilton Park Services after a night game ? The 3 of us live in Rochdale and Manchester.
My understanding is that you get offered the seats that are available and I would have thought it unlikely that there will be 3 seats together or near to each other. My sons are in their 30's so not a case of needing seats together or near each other, just preferable.
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You can choose from any available, although possibly not the Holte End as they hold them back for Terrace View.
Obviously, 3 together will probably mean you'd be looking at the back of one of the other stands, but it's certainly possible.
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Yes, there will definitely be three seats together. Just not maybe where you would choose if you had free reign.
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I was considering the payment plan on the basis I’ll be 66 come end of August so, could I get most of the ticket at the over 66 rate? Does anybody know?
When’s your birthday Bren? Mine’s the 28th.
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For the life of me I can’t locate the T’s & C’s and deadlines etc for this 8 person friendship group malarkey. Can anyone post or share it here please?
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I was considering the payment plan on the basis I’ll be 66 come end of August so, could I get most of the ticket at the over 66 rate? Does anybody know?
When’s your birthday Bren? Mine’s the 28th.
24th. 28th is my Anniversary.
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I was considering the payment plan on the basis I’ll be 66 come end of August so, could I get most of the ticket at the over 66 rate? Does anybody know?
I think as long as you're 66 before 1st September you should qualify for it. That's how it worked for my old man the other year anyway.
Thanks, I’ll give that a try..
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I was considering the payment plan on the basis I’ll be 66 come end of August so, could I get most of the ticket at the over 66 rate? Does anybody know?
I think as long as you're 66 before 1st September you should qualify for it. That's how it worked for my old man the other year anyway.
Thanks, I’ll give that a try..
Bren, I was 66 last July and got the discount for the season.
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Can anybody help out with the link to apply for a physical card season ticket please? My Dad got one last year as he doesn't have a smart phone but I'm not sure if I have to apply for one every year.
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Can anybody help out with the link to apply for a physical card season ticket please? My Dad got one last year as he doesn't have a smart phone but I'm not sure if I have to apply for one every year.
I asked last week and the reply Villa gave me was "Physical cards will be available for supporters as medical exceptions. More information on how to apply will be available soon."
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I was considering the payment plan on the basis I’ll be 66 come end of August so, could I get most of the ticket at the over 66 rate? Does anybody know?
I think as long as you're 66 before 1st September you should qualify for it. That's how it worked for my old man the other year anyway.
Thanks, I’ll give that a try..
Bren, I was 66 last July and got the discount for the season.
Thanks Chris, i guess you purchased the ticket before then when you were 65, my situation is slightly different as I will be buying aged 65 and the season starts when I’m 65, maybe 2 home games pass until my 66th. We’ll see.
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Can anybody help out with the link to apply for a physical card season ticket please? My Dad got one last year as he doesn't have a smart phone but I'm not sure if I have to apply for one every year.
I asked last week and the reply Villa gave me was "Physical cards will be available for supporters as medical exceptions. More information on how to apply will be available soon."
Thank you.
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Not all parts of the ground are given concession rates. Where I sit, in the Trinity, it’s full price even if you’re over 66 years old.
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Just renewed.
I must be mad/glutton for punishment/any other tired cliche.
It might be our year!
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Sorry if its already been discussed but last year we had the option when renewing ST of opting in to automatically buy UCL tickets. Is there something similar this year?
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Chris, you can't be 66! You post so young.
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Memberships up £10 a year because of "enhanced benefits"
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Memberships up £10 a year because of "enhanced benefits"
What are these enhanced benefits?
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🟣 Full access to Villa TV content (including all 2025/26 pre-season matches, subject to region/territory)
🟣 100 points towards your position on the Season Ticket waiting list (if applicable)
🟣 Four £5 match ticket discounts for Aston Villa Women’s Team WSL matches
🟣 Full access to exclusive club events
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Underwhelming
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Underwhelming
To say the least!
Well I was going to renew my membership anyway so I’ll look forward to some kind of drink receptacle.
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There had better be. I could use a new key ring as well.
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£40 for the chance to buy a ticket is a bit steep to start with, but an extra £10 for Villa TV doesn’t seem unreasonable.
How much is the junior membership ?
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Also up. £10 to £30
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As I read it, annual membership will no longer come with a little bag (or box) of goodies. Shame, some of the goodies were pretty good.
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Try using BIRTHDAY15 for 15% off member ship.
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if you don’t agree with the new price, just don’t buy a membership
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Posted here as I don’t know where would be better.
But season ticket percentages across Birmingham between us and them
https://x.com/2tone_avfc/status/1935010798759194888?s=46&t=jo4adbG13BgBUR97pIGxUA
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I requested a Season card as per last season, they originally said medical requests only, so I asked if I could request a PDF ticket every game, they have now emailed me and said......
"We can confirm that a further update will be provided in due course regarding physical season ticket card requests .
Kind regards,
Ticket Sales"
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Yep, A45 corridor and that's it.
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I thought Brum had more B postcodes than that?
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BRUM itself has that amount assigned to the postal city. But we are also surrounded by other B numbers but postal wise, a different town or city is applied. (Sutton Coldfield, Redditch, Tamworth, etc).
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I suspect they will concentrate on the three areas where they exceed 80% as we don't at all.
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Yep, A45 corridor and that's it.
They're basically Blackburn or Burnley. Shit house nobodies.
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Posted here as I don’t know where would be better.
But season ticket percentages across Birmingham between us and them
https://x.com/2tone_avfc/status/1935010798759194888?s=46&t=jo4adbG13BgBUR97pIGxUA
“Freedom of Information request”.
File under “nonsense”.
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I requested a Season card as per last season, they originally said medical requests only, so I asked if I could request a PDF ticket every game, they have now emailed me and said......
"We can confirm that a further update will be provided in due course regarding physical season ticket card requests .
Kind regards,
Ticket Sales"
I asked if my hard copy season card would carry forward to this year. The answer was I would be contacted directly in the next few weeks when they knew the new premier league sustainability guidance and added that it would be based on medical requirement. Sounds like BS but that’s what I was told.
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Sustainability vs equality.
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BRUM itself has that amount assigned to the postal city. But we are also surrounded by other B numbers but postal wise, a different town or city is applied. (Sutton Coldfield, Redditch, Tamworth, etc).
So we’re 2/3 to 1/3 split in postal Brum but what about if you include all the other B postcodes?
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Sutton Coldfield is in Birmingham.
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Sutton Coldfield is in Birmingham.
Yes, our Royal Town was lumped together with the riff raff in 1974.
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Castle Brom is 100% Villa. It’s a shame that those classless twats from so called Smiths Wood are contained in B36.
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Sutton Coldfield is in Birmingham.
For the local authority maybe but for the PO it is still classed as it's own postal town and that is what the sections are broken down into.
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👍🏼
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£40 for the chance to buy a ticket is a bit steep to start with, but an extra £10 for Villa TV doesn’t seem unreasonable.
How much is the junior membership ?
As an old fart, i.e. Over 66, I asked for confirmation of the new rate for my membership - Their reply was as follows :
"Unfortunately we have no update if discount for over 66 members will be kept. Please keep an eye on our page after 1st of July as this information should be included in terms and conditions of new membership."
My reply, for which I shall be interested to see their answer :
"Thanks for your reply. However, it seems barely credible that 13 days in advance of the 1st July changeover date, nobody in your department knows the prices for over 66 members. Are you able to ask this question of someone who does know the answer ? My membership is due to renew in July, am I and my 2 sons able to renew by 30th June at the present Over 66 and Adult membership rates ?"
You couldn't make it up - Announce an increase and then not be able to confirm the new rates.
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BRUM itself has that amount assigned to the postal city. But we are also surrounded by other B numbers but postal wise, a different town or city is applied. (Sutton Coldfield, Redditch, Tamworth, etc).
So we’re 2/3 to 1/3 split in postal Brum but what about if you include all the other B postcodes?
It's the sort of thing 'they' care about, but in all honesty why should we give a shit?
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BRUM itself has that amount assigned to the postal city. But we are also surrounded by other B numbers but postal wise, a different town or city is applied. (Sutton Coldfield, Redditch, Tamworth, etc).
So we’re 2/3 to 1/3 split in postal Brum but what about if you include all the other B postcodes?
It's the sort of thing 'they' care about, but in all honesty why should we give a shit?
I don’t but I do love stats so <shrugs shoulders>
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BRUM itself has that amount assigned to the postal city. But we are also surrounded by other B numbers but postal wise, a different town or city is applied. (Sutton Coldfield, Redditch, Tamworth, etc).
So we’re 2/3 to 1/3 split in postal Brum but what about if you include all the other B postcodes?
It's the sort of thing 'they' care about, but in all honesty why should we give a shit?
I don’t but I do love stats so <shrugs shoulders>
He does Solihull and Sutton in separate posts on the original tweet. Although I am with Paulie in how a FOI request got the data from two private companies.
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BRUM itself has that amount assigned to the postal city. But we are also surrounded by other B numbers but postal wise, a different town or city is applied. (Sutton Coldfield, Redditch, Tamworth, etc).
So we’re 2/3 to 1/3 split in postal Brum but what about if you include all the other B postcodes?
It's the sort of thing 'they' care about, but in all honesty why should we give a shit?
I don’t but I do love stats so <shrugs shoulders>
He does Solihull and Sutton in separate posts on the original tweet.
I’m not on Twatter so can’t see anything other than the tweet linked to.
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Yes its only really worthy of a nod and 'sounds about right' but interesting all the same.
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Yes its only really worthy of a nod and 'sounds about right' but interesting all the same.
Summarised perfectly PW.
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Yes its only really worthy of a nod and 'sounds about right' but interesting all the same.
Summarised perfectly PW.
Yep and I always think it’s a source of pride that we are the Club of the midlands rather than an inner city side (or in small Heath case a portion of the inner city).
It’s the reason so many other midlands clubs confect a rivalry with us because we have supporters in their catchment areas.
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£40 for the chance to buy a ticket is a bit steep to start with, but an extra £10 for Villa TV doesn’t seem unreasonable.
How much is the junior membership ?
As an old fart, i.e. Over 66, I asked for confirmation of the new rate for my membership - Their reply was as follows :
"Unfortunately we have no update if discount for over 66 members will be kept. Please keep an eye on our page after 1st of July as this information should be included in terms and conditions of new membership."
My reply, for which I shall be interested to see their answer :
"Thanks for your reply. However, it seems barely credible that 13 days in advance of the 1st July changeover date, nobody in your department knows the prices for over 66 members. Are you able to ask this question of someone who does know the answer ? My membership is due to renew in July, am I and my 2 sons able to renew by 30th June at the present Over 66 and Adult membership rates ?"
You couldn't make it up - Announce an increase and then not be able to confirm the new rates.
Latest reply from AVFC Mmembership :
"Hi Mike,
As far as we know now, unfortunately there's no plans for over 65 discount.
Kind regards
Mike
AVFC membership team"
I've requested details of a person to whom I might make my feelings / thoughts on this known. A 66.67& increase on membership rates for Over 66's - Why ?
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Just pay it out of £500 WFA.....
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£40 for the chance to buy a ticket is a bit steep to start with, but an extra £10 for Villa TV doesn’t seem unreasonable.
How much is the junior membership ?
As an old fart, i.e. Over 66, I asked for confirmation of the new rate for my membership - Their reply was as follows :
"Unfortunately we have no update if discount for over 66 members will be kept. Please keep an eye on our page after 1st of July as this information should be included in terms and conditions of new membership."
My reply, for which I shall be interested to see their answer :
"Thanks for your reply. However, it seems barely credible that 13 days in advance of the 1st July changeover date, nobody in your department knows the prices for over 66 members. Are you able to ask this question of someone who does know the answer ? My membership is due to renew in July, am I and my 2 sons able to renew by 30th June at the present Over 66 and Adult membership rates ?"
You couldn't make it up - Announce an increase and then not be able to confirm the new rates.
You've saved me a 'phone call/email on behalf of my wife. Thank you. Please post further if you become aware of any developments re: Over 66's.
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I have been demoted on the waiting list??????????
Your current status is:
Points: 100
Previous position on the waiting list: 6299
Current position on the waiting list: 18245
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Ouch. I've been promoted from 19,000 odd to 831.
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Ouch. I've been promoted from 19,000 odd to 831.
who have you slept with to get there ?🤔😃
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I thought I was about 30,000 when I joined it, but the email has just said that I was 38,744
I have jumped up to 895 with 151 points
Problem I have is I put my boy on the list at the same time, while he has been to plenty of games not as much as me, so would guess he would be further down the line, I can't even log in to the email address I set up for him to check
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My son had an email today saying he wasn’t on the list as he had no points despite being a member and attending about 30 odd games over the last two seasons. Sounds like a glitch.
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Ouch. I've been promoted from 19,000 odd to 831.
who have you slept with to get there ?🤔😃
Dunno but they've been busy if I'm 831!!!
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I wonder how many will come up for sale?
I’ve moved from 32844 to 1206 with 147 points.
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I have dropped from 9200 to 19456, all because i am not a member. If it was a level playing field and I had known 100 points rested on it, I would have parted with the money.
I am fortunate that I have a mate with season tickets who spends half of the year in NZ and have first dibs, even if i "am him" for some games, but this feels like changing the rules in a despicable and devious way. My dream of getting my own seat when the North Stand is expanded are dashed. I will have to carry on bending the rules until they introduce face recognition to get in! Pissed off!
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Doesn't impact me, but I do think this moving of goalposts is remarkably unfair.
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I've moved up to position 65.
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Wow Daz - did you attend every home game?
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Wow Daz - did you attend every home game?
I only missed one home game all season.
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Excellent. Well there's no doubt that you deserve your ticket, I'm just a bit uncomfortable with them unilaterally shifting the goalposts.
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I've gone from 12,340 in 2023, 11,457 in 2024 to 3,979 in the waiting list currently, and I'm assuming/hoping my youngest lad is next to me in the queue but we've had no email about his.
I can't see nearly 4K not renewing so looks like we will still be waiting for a while yet.
However after just working out I spent just shy of £2K on Villa Park tickets last season for me and my 2 lads, I'm starting to feel a bit relieved we didn't qualify for the European Cup again, expensive game this football lark isn't it ?
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I have dropped from 9200 to 19456, all because i am not a member. If it was a level playing field and I had known 100 points rested on it, I would have parted with the money.
I am fortunate that I have a mate with season tickets who spends half of the year in NZ and have first dibs, even if i "am him" for some games, but this feels like changing the rules in a despicable and devious way. My dream of getting my own seat when the North Stand is expanded are dashed. I will have to carry on bending the rules until they introduce face recognition to get in! Pissed off!
I think this is probably the worst part. Hypotheticaly, a non member who had attended every single home game for 2 seasons would be behind a member who hasn't attended a single game. When it was never stated that being a member was a condition of being on the waiting list, which it now effectively is.
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I've gone from 12,340 in 2023, 11,457 in 2024 to 3,979 in the waiting list currently, and I'm assuming/hoping my youngest lad is next to me in the queue but we've had no email about his.
I can't see nearly 4K not renewing so looks like we will still be waiting for a while yet.
However after just working out I spent just shy of £2K on Villa Park tickets last season for me and my 2 lads, I'm starting to feel a bit relieved we didn't qualify for the European Cup again, expensive game this football lark isn't it ?
I had a look earlier this month and spent £2.7k direct to the club, this included tickets, club shop and any food in the ground
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Me and the kids have gone up from 36,000-odd and all next to each other in the list, to somewhere in the 2,000s but spread out hundreds apart. If the joyful event of being able to buy season tickets happens, how will we be together?
I’m off to tweet this to @AVFCSupport.
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So it doesn't matter where you were on the waiting list previously, as long as you've bought a ticket in the last 2 years.
And then it all depends on how many tickets you purchased in the 2 years, I guess they've got to draw a line somewhere, but I do think an allowance should be made for what position you were in the queue 2 years ago to start with.
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Last two years Bosco
100 points for current members of the AVFC Membership Scheme
+1 point for attending each Premier League home match in the past two seasons
+2 points for attending each domestic or European Cup home match in the past two seasons
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The truth is it seems like it doesn't matter where you are on this list this season (outside those who actually get a ticket) as it will be reshuffled again next season. So being 2,000 now will be pretty meaningless unless you go to every game next season.
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Last two years Bosco
100 points for current members of the AVFC Membership Scheme
+1 point for attending each Premier League home match in the past two seasons
+2 points for attending each domestic or European Cup home match in the past two seasons
Thanks Chris, I amended my post after I bothered to read the email properly.
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The truth is it seems like it doesn't matter where you are on this list this season (outside those who actually get a ticket) as it will be reshuffled again next season. So being 2,000 now will be pretty meaningless unless you go to every game next season.
Surely membership will be the biggest factor?
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The truth is it seems like it doesn't matter where you are on this list this season (outside those who actually get a ticket) as it will be reshuffled again next season. So being 2,000 now will be pretty meaningless unless you go to every game next season.
Yes, it's not a waiting list any more is it by the looks of it, it all depends on how many games you've been to.
Good fortune to those that only bothered getting tickets once we got in the European Cup.
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The truth is it seems like it doesn't matter where you are on this list this season (outside those who actually get a ticket) as it will be reshuffled again next season. So being 2,000 now will be pretty meaningless unless you go to every game next season.
Surely membership will be the biggest factor?
Without it you have no chance.
With it, now that people know the criteria, you're still going to have to go to every game to get in the top 500-1,000.
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My lad is at 5324
I'm at 4748
One Bayern game at home makes me the leader in our house.......so i'm a better Villa fan than him ha.
If i was offered a season ticket i don't think i would take it.
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My lad is at 5324
I'm at 4748
One Bayern game at home makes me the leader in our house.......so i'm a better Villa fan than him ha.
If i was offered a season ticket i don't think i would take it.
I'm thinking the same, if I took the ST, but my lad can't get one at the same time, where would I pick the seat and could I swap it game to game to sit with him, he's only 7 so couldn't be on his own
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So now there will be more members, and matchday tickets will be harder to come by..
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I'm. 1900 and odd and my son. 3700 odd because I went to some evening games that I couldn't justify a 1am finish for him going to school... He was one place above me before..
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I have dropped from 9200 to 19456, all because i am not a member. If it was a level playing field and I had known 100 points rested on it, I would have parted with the money.
I am fortunate that I have a mate with season tickets who spends half of the year in NZ and have first dibs, even if i "am him" for some games, but this feels like changing the rules in a despicable and devious way. My dream of getting my own seat when the North Stand is expanded are dashed. I will have to carry on bending the rules until they introduce face recognition to get in! Pissed off!
I think this is probably the worst part. Hypotheticaly, a non member who had attended every single home game for 2 seasons would be behind a member who hasn't attended a single game. When it was never stated that being a member was a condition of being on the waiting list, which it now effectively is.
This is a difficult one, as I agree that membership was never part of the criteria before so it has enabled some people to jump the queue ahead of others who have been to less games. In our case though, we have pretty much had to use the membership system as a de facto ST for the last 4 seasons. Up until this last season (ironically given this was the CL year, which I would term the Chris Heck effect) it would have been nigh on impossible for us to get tickets together as a family for most games without the memberships. If you just want single tickets each time then I can see why a membership was not worth the money, but if you want to go with friends/family they have been pretty much essential for years.
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It's not a waiting list now is it........it's a competition where by basically, who ever spends the most money wins.
I will happily now be a part-time supporter as long as i'm sitting next to my kids at the games......non league sides will get some of my cash next season.......at 3pm
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It's not a waiting list now is it........it's a competition where by basically, who ever spends the most money wins.
I will happily now be a part-time supporter as long as i'm sitting next to my kids at the games......non league sides will get some of my cash next season.......at 3pm
How do you do it otherwise? It's always been the case when selling tickets to give priority to previous attendance, so by definition ticket allocation has always been based on who spends the most money because they're the people who have bought tickets and gone to games.
There is a problem at Villa on the consistency of rules (FA Cup semi-final being a particularly bad example where people who had been to 3 games potentially jumped ahead of those who had been to 15+), but in principle they have done the right thing. If it were me, and thankfully it's not, I would have reduced the number of points awarded for a membership by a factor of 10 so it didn't penalise regular attendees without memberships so heavily, but I think it is right that those who have consistently gone to matches in the last two years are ahead of people who just put their names down on a list 5 years ago.
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Do we think that your points will go up and down over a rolling 2 year period or do we think they have drawn a line in the sand from 2 years ago and any points earned will carry on moving forward??
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I'm giving up my ST but was going to go straight on the waiting list in case my/the club's circumstances change in future and I want one again by the time I get to the top.
So I wonder whether I get any member/game attendance points for the time I had a ST?
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Do we think that your points will go up and down over a rolling 2 year period or do we think they have drawn a line in the sand from 2 years ago and any points earned will carry on moving forward??
Good question......Villa should have an answer ready for that
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I have dropped from 9200 to 19456, all because i am not a member. If it was a level playing field and I had known 100 points rested on it, I would have parted with the money.
I am fortunate that I have a mate with season tickets who spends half of the year in NZ and have first dibs, even if i "am him" for some games, but this feels like changing the rules in a despicable and devious way. My dream of getting my own seat when the North Stand is expanded are dashed. I will have to carry on bending the rules until they introduce face recognition to get in! Pissed off!
I think this is probably the worst part. Hypotheticaly, a non member who had attended every single home game for 2 seasons would be behind a member who hasn't attended a single game. When it was never stated that being a member was a condition of being on the waiting list, which it now effectively is.
Why would someone purchase a membership and then not attend a game in last 2 season ? Waste of the membership fee. I am fully in agreement with removing people on the list that haven't attended a game in last 2 seasons. The only exception might be parents putting kids on the list that are not yet old enough to attend games. Having, along with my 2 adult sons and living 100 miles away, attended approximately 36 of the 76 PL and Cup games over the last 2 seasons, I don't feel any advantage by being given 100 points for our Claret Memberships. What do people think the club should have done to filter the list so as to reward people who've actually attended games ? I've gone from 11989 to 855 on the list.
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I have dropped from 9200 to 19456, all because i am not a member. If it was a level playing field and I had known 100 points rested on it, I would have parted with the money.
I am fortunate that I have a mate with season tickets who spends half of the year in NZ and have first dibs, even if i "am him" for some games, but this feels like changing the rules in a despicable and devious way. My dream of getting my own seat when the North Stand is expanded are dashed. I will have to carry on bending the rules until they introduce face recognition to get in! Pissed off!
I think this is probably the worst part. Hypotheticaly, a non member who had attended every single home game for 2 seasons would be behind a member who hasn't attended a single game. When it was never stated that being a member was a condition of being on the waiting list, which it now effectively is.
Why would someone purchase a membership and then not attend a game in last 2 season ? Waste of the membership fee. I am fully in agreement with removing people on the list that haven't attended a game in last 2 seasons. The only exception might be parents putting kids on the list that are not yet old enough to attend games. Having, along with my 2 adult sons and living 100 miles away, attended approximately 36 of the 76 PL and Cup games over the last 2 seasons, I don't feel any advantage by being given 100 points for our Claret Memberships. What do people think the club should have done to filter the list so as to reward people who've actually attended games ? I've gone from 11989 to 855 on the list.
Oh FFS, it was just an extreme example to make the point.
Of course you've been given an advantage over non members who may have, hypothetically, attended a similar number of games as you. You've been given 100 league games worth of advantage. Without any prior notification that membership was now a pre-condition of being on the waiting list.
And to answer your question, I don't think they should have done anything. But if they were going to, then there should have been a season's notice and it should have been calculated without the membership points.
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And if 850 doesn't make the cut this year, let's see how you feel next season when you are overtaken by people who now know the criteria and are gunning for a ST. And no complaining that you live too far away to attend womens games and you've been on the list for 5 years etc etc
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I've gone from well over 8000 to just over 3000 as a Memeber and matches attended, so once the North Stand is sorted, I should get a ST...in theory.
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I've gone from well over 8000 to just over 3000 as a Memeber and matches attended, so once the North Stand is sorted, I should get a ST...in theory.
I assume they'll reshuffle the list each year.
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I've gone from well over 8000 to just over 3000 as a Memeber and matches attended, so once the North Stand is sorted, I should get a ST...in theory.
I assume they'll reshuffle the list each year.
Yes it was a good question earlier whether it will be a rolling two year list or will just update from now on.
I didn’t think I’ll attend women’s matches for the sake of it even if it would help my position in the queue .
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I've gone from well over 8000 to just over 3000 as a Memeber and matches attended, so once the North Stand is sorted, I should get a ST...in theory.
I assume they'll reshuffle the list each year.
In which case what would be the point of any of the qualifying criteria they have put in place?
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I've gone from well over 8000 to just over 3000 as a Memeber and matches attended, so once the North Stand is sorted, I should get a ST...in theory.
I assume they'll reshuffle the list each year.
In which case what would be the point of any of the qualifying criteria they have put in place?
For me it’s still a huge jump as so far only advanced a few hundred or so each year.
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Delaying renewal as long as possible . And Taking V12 too when it happens.
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I’ve gone from 21383 to 585 (156 points)!!!. Unbelievable Jeff!!!
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I've gone from well over 8000 to just over 3000 as a Memeber and matches attended, so once the North Stand is sorted, I should get a ST...in theory.
I assume they'll reshuffle the list each year.
In which case what would be the point of any of the qualifying criteria they have put in place?
To generate ticket sales.
They've already said that from next season womens games will count towards points. There's no point counting points if the list isn't reshuffled every season.
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I've gone from well over 8000 to just over 3000 as a Memeber and matches attended, so once the North Stand is sorted, I should get a ST...in theory.
And 'in theory' four members of my family were guaranteed a season ticket as soon as we added 3,000 seats but today they've all been wiped off the list and no longer exist until they become members of a club that didn't exist when they waited patiently for six years picking up tickets whetever they could from our very wide circle of season ticket holding friends.
There was a time that this would have been the end of the world to me, I leaves me almost no chance of taking my Grandkids through formal routes.
There's no way I'm paying them into membership clubs to see the rules changed again.
The club have strengthened the resolve of the long standing to look after their own.
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I’ve not received any email notifying me of my position on the members / waiting list.
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Fair enough earning points based off attending home mens fixtures, but I think it's almost blackmail saying you pretty much HAVE to watch the womens team to earn a season ticket.
Me personally, I hope the womens team do well, but like the male youth teams/under 21s, I barely have enough time in my life to support the mens team, so don't really pay that much interest to any of the others.
I've grown old supporting those core 11 players whoever they may have been over the years. I class all other offshoots as separate teams - The womens team especially. To shoehorn womens team ticket history into criteria for getting a mens team season ticket is a bit shit imo... and almost derogatory towards the womens team. ie. "I'm only here because I've been forced to, so that I get a chance to watch the mens team".
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I would think now any points earned in the season would then be added to your current score.
So to keep a reasonable place in the “waiting list” you would still need to keep buying tickets at the rate you’ve been buying them in the last 2 years.
How a ticket for Villa Ladies v Brighton Ladies this upcoming season gets you as many points as Luton at home from 23/24 is anyone’s guess.
What I’m really keen to find out is how many season tickets get offered to the waiting list in the next couple of weeks.
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I’ve not received any email notifying me of my position on the members / waiting list.
Have you got an I-phone BNS?
I didn’t see mine until I clicked on ‘promotions’ in the new-fangled (and unwanted) way Apple have organised my e-mails.
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Although I think it’s basically wrong, I’m willing to buy WSL season tickets for a year or two to jump further up the list. How much are they?
I’ll probably sack it if and when I get my men’s team season tickets as with the babby playing on Sundays I probably won’t have time to go to so many games.
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Can't find anything for the upcoming season, though they don't usually start until September so that may be why.
Last season:
Adult £100
U18 £75
U14 £50
Adult/U14 Package £140
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^^ Cheers cd.
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I think you'll have to actually attend though, won't you? Don't they track it via the NFC thingy?
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Are you allowed to move seats for the odd games during a season?
For example if you have an ST, but want to go to a match with your kid who is too young to go on their own, could you re-locate so you can sit with them?
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Are you allowed to move seats for the odd games during a season?
For example if you have an ST, but want to go to a match with your kid who is too young to go on their own, could you re-locate so you can sit with them?
Yes, this is no problem, but you need to phone the ticket office at the same time as buying your kids seat, so if it's a sell out during the online sale only window then you will struggle.
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I’ve not received any email notifying me of my position on the members / waiting list.
Have you got an I-phone BNS?
I didn’t see mine until I clicked on ‘promotions’ in the new-fangled (and unwanted) way Apple have organised my e-mails.
I have but I think that might be down to the email account you have as my work google address does that but my personal Hotmail account, which is what I use for the Villa, just has the regular folders.
I’ve just checked my account on the Villa site to see when my renewal is and it’s not till August so maybe that’s it?
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Are you allowed to move seats for the odd games during a season?
For example if you have an ST, but want to go to a match with your kid who is too young to go on their own, could you re-locate so you can sit with them?
Thanks, just need to hope that new ST's make it down to me
Yes, this is no problem, but you need to phone the ticket office at the same time as buying your kids seat, so if it's a sell out during the online sale only window then you will struggle.
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I've gone from well over 8000 to just over 3000 as a Memeber and matches attended, so once the North Stand is sorted, I should get a ST...in theory.
And 'in theory' four members of my family were guaranteed a season ticket as soon as we added 3,000 seats but today they've all been wiped off the list and no longer exist until they become members of a club that didn't exist when they waited patiently for six years picking up tickets whetever they could from our very wide circle of season ticket holding friends.
There was a time that this would have been the end of the world to me, I leaves me almost no chance of taking my Grandkids through formal routes.
There's no way I'm paying them into membership clubs to see the rules changed again.
The club have strengthened the resolve of the long standing to look after their own.
I'm not sure the club have done it to look after their own. I suspect it was suggested by someone on FAB who would benefit personally from the change and the club saw it as a way of driving ticket demand. Win-win for the club.
As a ST holder it doesn't impact on me, but I do think it's a kick in the balls for someone who has been on the list for 5 years and has the goalposts moved without warning at the last minute.
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I've gone from well over 8000 to just over 3000 as a Memeber and matches attended, so once the North Stand is sorted, I should get a ST...in theory.
And 'in theory' four members of my family were guaranteed a season ticket as soon as we added 3,000 seats but today they've all been wiped off the list and no longer exist until they become members of a club that didn't exist when they waited patiently for six years picking up tickets whetever they could from our very wide circle of season ticket holding friends.
There was a time that this would have been the end of the world to me, I leaves me almost no chance of taking my Grandkids through formal routes.
There's no way I'm paying them into membership clubs to see the rules changed again.
The club have strengthened the resolve of the long standing to look after their own.
I'm not sure the club have done it to look after their own. I suspect it was suggested by someone on FAB who would benefit personally from the change and the club saw it as a way of driving ticket demand. Win-win for the club.
As a ST holder it doesn't impact on me, but I do think it's a kick in the balls for someone who has been on the list for 5 years and has the goalposts moved without warning at the last minute.
I absolutely agree that it doesn't seem great to just change the rules without any warning or a chance to potentially earn points prior to it being implemented
I don't agree with using the women's team to earn points, if you live outside Birmingham, I can't see many people being that bothered to travel too far to watch it
What does surprise me is how many it seems don't have a membership, this seems a no brainer to me if you are wanting to go to games, first dibs on the tickets and the gifts are not too bad, especially for the kids package
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I've gone from well over 8000 to just over 3000 as a Memeber and matches attended, so once the North Stand is sorted, I should get a ST...in theory.
And 'in theory' four members of my family were guaranteed a season ticket as soon as we added 3,000 seats but today they've all been wiped off the list and no longer exist until they become members of a club that didn't exist when they waited patiently for six years picking up tickets whetever they could from our very wide circle of season ticket holding friends.
There was a time that this would have been the end of the world to me, I leaves me almost no chance of taking my Grandkids through formal routes.
There's no way I'm paying them into membership clubs to see the rules changed again.
The club have strengthened the resolve of the long standing to look after their own.
I'm not sure the club have done it to look after their own. I suspect it was suggested by someone on FAB who would benefit personally from the change and the club saw it as a way of driving ticket demand. Win-win for the club.
As a ST holder it doesn't impact on me, but I do think it's a kick in the balls for someone who has been on the list for 5 years and has the goalposts moved without warning at the last minute.
I absolutely agree that it doesn't seem great to just change the rules without any warning or a chance to potentially earn points prior to it being implemented
I don't agree with using the women's team to earn points, if you live outside Birmingham, I can't see many people being that bothered to travel too far to watch it
What does surprise me is how many it seems don't have a membership, this seems a no brainer to me if you are wanting to go to games, first dibs on the tickets and the gifts are not too bad, especially for the kids package
I didn't mean that the club were looking after their own.
What I meant by that was that I'm far more likely to get tickets through 'my own' friends and family than through the club unless I completely start from scratch which is almost impossible for children as it means moving my season ticket which is a lot more difficult than it sounds for people of a certain age.
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Fair play to everyone who's recent loyalty has been rewarded with a major climb up the waiting list too. No bitterness on my part I'm just disappointed but not at all surprised that a patient six year wait has come to nothing.
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The ticket sales page is going to be a car crash for even more games now. They are whipping up demand.
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Yes, and in that respect I have to agree it's a good idea.
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The ticket sales page is going to be a car crash for even more games now. They are whipping up demand.
I'm doubtful the demand this year will be as much as last year, when everyone was giddy from the European Cup.
You can guarantee the tickets page will crash even if we get Harrogate at home in the League Cup.
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As ever on all these things the club has rather cack-handedly changed the rules with no prior warning. Ultimately though you now know where you stand when it comes to getting a season ticket in a few years when the new North Stand comes on line.
1. Be a member
2. Go to as many home mens games as you can.
3. Go to some women’s games if you want to really get to the top of the queue.
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I think you'll have to actually attend though, won't you? Don't they track it via the NFC thingy?
Yes probably. I’m prepared to make the effort in the short-to-medium term.
I do quite enjoy watching them anyway.
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As ever on all these things the club has rather cack-handedly changed the rules with no prior warning. Ultimately though you now know where you stand when it comes to getting a season ticket in a few years when the new North Stand comes on line.
1. Be a member
2. Go to as many home mens games as you can.
3. Go to some women’s games if you want to really get to the top of the queue.
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To be confirmed in six years time. 😉
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The ticket sales page is going to be a car crash for even more games now. They are whipping up demand.
I'm doubtful the demand this year will be as much as last year, when everyone was giddy from the European Cup.
You can guarantee the tickets page will crash even if we get Harrogate at home in the League Cup.
I felt the demand last season was noticeably lower than any of the previous 4 or 5 seasons - other than the Champions League games, you could buy tickets for most matches up until a day or two beforehand which hasn't been the case even when we were fighting relegation or had Stevie Me in charge. And that is aside from the hundreds of GA+ seats that were clearly empty at a lot of games.
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The ticket sales page is going to be a car crash for even more games now. They are whipping up demand.
I'm doubtful the demand this year will be as much as last year, when everyone was giddy from the European Cup.
You can guarantee the tickets page will crash even if we get Harrogate at home in the League Cup.
I felt the demand last season was noticeably lower than any of the previous 4 or 5 seasons - other than the Champions League games, you could buy tickets for most matches up until a day or two beforehand which hasn't been the case even when we were fighting relegation or had Stevie Me in charge. And that is aside from the hundreds of GA+ seats that were clearly empty at a lot of games.
I have a feeling that was more to do with our mid season flirting with the mid table teams form. Turning wins into draws on a regular basis I think stifled a bit of demand. At the end of the season it seemed things were starting to pick up again, but take the point about demand in general.
I think plenty of people on here have said the way the club sells tickets to Members and beyond doesn’t help to fill Villa Park, for most games we always seem to end up with single seats spread everywhere which means looking for two or god forbid three together is virtually impossible not great for families or people who want to sit together. The trouble is without blocking out blocks of seats and moving more people invariably season ticket holders to accommodate this it’s going to be difficult. Heck of course was so infatuated with his Hospitality/GA+ offerings he seems to forget about the 25-30k of us who were worried about how things were progressing for us and the 5-10k members who were constantly scrabbling for tickets.
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The ticket sales page is going to be a car crash for even more games now. They are whipping up demand.
I'm doubtful the demand this year will be as much as last year, when everyone was giddy from the European Cup.
You can guarantee the tickets page will crash even if we get Harrogate at home in the League Cup.
I felt the demand last season was noticeably lower than any of the previous 4 or 5 seasons - other than the Champions League games, you could buy tickets for most matches up until a day or two beforehand which hasn't been the case even when we were fighting relegation or had Stevie Me in charge. And that is aside from the hundreds of GA+ seats that were clearly empty at a lot of games.
I have a feeling that was more to do with our mid season flirting with the mid table teams form. Turning wins into draws on a regular basis I think stifled a bit of demand. At the end of the season it seemed things were starting to pick up again, but take the point about demand in general.
I think plenty of people on here have said the way the club sells tickets to Members and beyond doesn’t help to fill Villa Park, for most games we always seem to end up with single seats spread everywhere which means looking for two or god forbid three together is virtually impossible not great for families or people who want to sit together. The trouble is without blocking out blocks of seats and moving more people invariably season ticket holders to accommodate this it’s going to be difficult. Heck of course was so infatuated with his Hospitality/GA+ offerings he seems to forget about the 25-30k of us who were worried about how things were progressing for us and the 5-10k members who were constantly scrabbling for tickets.
We also can't underestimate just how much it cost to try to go to all of the games last season. With the extortionate Champions League tickets and a run to the FA Cup semi-final a lot of us had to pick and choose in a way we hadn't before.
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And it's not just the cost, the time commitment to follow us home and away over the last two seasons has been off the Scale.
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I think I may have asked this before, but is it known how many members there currently are? I know I'm one, and have been for a few years now, but I would have no interest in having a season ticket, and suspect this may well be the case for the large majority of current members.
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The ticket sales page is going to be a car crash for even more games now. They are whipping up demand.
I'm doubtful the demand this year will be as much as last year, when everyone was giddy from the European Cup.
You can guarantee the tickets page will crash even if we get Harrogate at home in the League Cup.
I felt the demand last season was noticeably lower than any of the previous 4 or 5 seasons - other than the Champions League games, you could buy tickets for most matches up until a day or two beforehand which hasn't been the case even when we were fighting relegation or had Stevie Me in charge. And that is aside from the hundreds of GA+ seats that were clearly empty at a lot of games.
I have a feeling that was more to do with our mid season flirting with the mid table teams form. Turning wins into draws on a regular basis I think stifled a bit of demand. At the end of the season it seemed things were starting to pick up again, but take the point about demand in general.
I think plenty of people on here have said the way the club sells tickets to Members and beyond doesn’t help to fill Villa Park, for most games we always seem to end up with single seats spread everywhere which means looking for two or god forbid three together is virtually impossible not great for families or people who want to sit together. The trouble is without blocking out blocks of seats and moving more people invariably season ticket holders to accommodate this it’s going to be difficult. Heck of course was so infatuated with his Hospitality/GA+ offerings he seems to forget about the 25-30k of us who were worried about how things were progressing for us and the 5-10k members who were constantly scrabbling for tickets.
We also can't underestimate just how much it cost to try to go to all of the games last season. With the extortionate Champions League tickets and a run to the FA Cup semi-final a lot of us had to pick and choose in a way we hadn't before.
Good point Pat, I sometimes forget that being in a position to afford all of this from a cost perspective doesn’t mean everyone is. The perils of following a succesfulish football club.
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I think I may have asked this before, but is it known how many members there currently are? I know I'm one, and have been for a few years now, but I would have no interest in having a season ticket, and suspect this may well be the case for the large majority of current members.
At least 18245 but I wonder if membership dates has a knock-on to the the locations people are as every member who didn't go to a game last season would have 100 points.
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The ticket sales page is going to be a car crash for even more games now. They are whipping up demand.
43000 for Villa v Harrogate in the League Cup round 3.
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Am i wrong in thinking that the rise in prominence of membership is the first signs that the club are looking to move away from STs in the not-too-distant future? If not completely, I can see a day when they'll actively manage down ST numbers for the higher matchday spend generated by members.
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Possibly, or they will introduce tiers of membership.
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The ticket sales page is going to be a car crash for even more games now. They are whipping up demand.
43000 for Villa v Harrogate in the League Cup round 3.
I'd definitely go to that.
But they won't make it to Round 3.
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The ticket sales page is going to be a car crash for even more games now. They are whipping up demand.
I'm doubtful the demand this year will be as much as last year, when everyone was giddy from the European Cup.
You can guarantee the tickets page will crash even if we get Harrogate at home in the League Cup.
I felt the demand last season was noticeably lower than any of the previous 4 or 5 seasons - other than the Champions League games, you could buy tickets for most matches up until a day or two beforehand which hasn't been the case even when we were fighting relegation or had Stevie Me in charge. And that is aside from the hundreds of GA+ seats that were clearly empty at a lot of games.
I have a feeling that was more to do with our mid season flirting with the mid table teams form. Turning wins into draws on a regular basis I think stifled a bit of demand. At the end of the season it seemed things were starting to pick up again, but take the point about demand in general.
I think plenty of people on here have said the way the club sells tickets to Members and beyond doesn’t help to fill Villa Park, for most games we always seem to end up with single seats spread everywhere which means looking for two or god forbid three together is virtually impossible not great for families or people who want to sit together. The trouble is without blocking out blocks of seats and moving more people invariably season ticket holders to accommodate this it’s going to be difficult. Heck of course was so infatuated with his Hospitality/GA+ offerings he seems to forget about the 25-30k of us who were worried about how things were progressing for us and the 5-10k members who were constantly scrabbling for tickets.
We also can't underestimate just how much it cost to try to go to all of the games last season. With the extortionate Champions League tickets and a run to the FA Cup semi-final a lot of us had to pick and choose in a way we hadn't before.
Good point Pat, I sometimes forget that being in a position to afford all of this from a cost perspective doesn’t mean everyone is. The perils of following a succesfulish football club.
I told the kids at the start of last season that we’d go to all the CL games but couldn’t afford the league as well. We ended up going to a few league and domestic cup games but not as many as usual.
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My lad is 18493 with over 100 points... down from the 16000s as he uses other people's tickets
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I'm renewing my ssn tkt next week and have a couple of spares on my Friends/family list up to the maximum of 8.
If you're interested in being added to my list DM me.
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Awaiting plastic card confirmation
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As many have said previously, yes there were plenty of tickets for a lot of matches, but they were all singles dotted here and there.
The club seem to make it as hard as possible to buy tickets at times. Myself (member) and my brother (not member) attempted to get tickets a few times, but the number of times we were left looking at sitting seperately, we fucked it off. Who wants to go and sit on their own?
Conversely, and this is another thing that others have said, i am MUCH more likely to buy a season ticket than I am a handful of individual tickets for matches because with a season ticket, i bake it into my routine for the next nine months in advance.
It becomes part of what I "do". Whereas an individual ticket is more of a one-off 'inconvenience' almost.
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Oh and there are a lot of clubs who do not let you choose which seat you have when you buy a match ticket, you choose the block and they assign you a seat.
They do this precisely because of the 'single empty seats' problem, it makes it much easier for them to flog them all.
My prediction is, inside the next couple of seasons, we'll have that (and it'll go down like a lead balloon).
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I emailed the club just to see where I stood on the membership points/ waiting list front and this was part of the response -
Season Ticket Waiting List:
The season ticket waiting list is currently under review as part of a planned restructure. Currently, we are unable to confirm individual positions. However, each supporter currently on the waiting list will receive an email with full details once the update has been finalised.
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The ticket sales page is going to be a car crash for even more games now. They are whipping up demand.
Imagine the points we could have accumulated from attending games next season if we won the champions league and got relegated to the championship at the same time……..
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As many have said previously, yes there were plenty of tickets for a lot of matches, but they were all singles dotted here and there.
The club seem to make it as hard as possible to buy tickets at times. Myself (member) and my brother (not member) attempted to get tickets a few times, but the number of times we were left looking at sitting seperately, we fucked it off. Who wants to go and sit on their own?
Conversely, and this is another thing that others have said, i am MUCH more likely to buy a season ticket than I am a handful of individual tickets for matches because with a season ticket, i bake it into my routine for the next nine months in advance.
It becomes part of what I "do". Whereas an individual ticket is more of a one-off 'inconvenience' almost.
I think it was still possible to get tickets together but you needed to be on the ball on the first day of availability. A mate of mine bought tickets for him and his teenage grandson together for about two thirds of games last season and consequently jumped 37,000 places in the queue for season tickets.
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My lad started going with me to matches a couple of years ago. He is a member and is on the waiting list. I am too, but much higher up...so very little chance of both of us 1 day sitting together as ST holders.
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Quick question for those with a Season Ticket using NFC. Did/can you load it on to a smartwatch rather than a phone?
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Who wants to go and sit on their own?
Me.
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Who wants to go and sit on their own?
Me.
Me too. I quite like watching a match and not having to chat to someone.
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I quite like sitting next to different people as well......i got stuck next to some right turdblossoms last time i had a season ticket
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Quick question for those with a Season Ticket using NFC. Did/can you load it on to a smartwatch rather than a phone?
I don’t recall ever seeing anyone do it and just looked at the Wallet on my Apple Watch and my old season ticket doesn’t show even though it’s still on my phone.
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Who wants to go and sit on their own?
Me.
Me too. I quite like watching a match and not having to chat to someone.
It's ok now and again but it's white on a regular basis.
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Who wants to go and sit on their own?
Me.
Me too. I quite like watching a match and not having to chat to someone.
Me too. I'm there to watch the match- the social can come before and after.
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And me. I only get to the occasional game as in Yorkshire but usually go on my own.
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If all you Billy no mates meet up you could all go together
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Renewing tomorrow, plastic card . V12 finance package over 8 months.
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I wish I'd known before I renewed mine. 😢
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You won't be sat anywhere near me thankfully
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Quick question for those with a Season Ticket using NFC. Did/can you load it on to a smartwatch rather than a phone?
I don’t recall ever seeing anyone do it and just looked at the Wallet on my Apple Watch and my old season ticket doesn’t show even though it’s still on my phone.
Thanks Chris, just seemed like an easy and straightforward way of doing it.
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I'm sure CD is very thankful of that. Although the amount of time you were posting on home match threads last season makes me think CD just being in the ground would be certain of sitting nowhere near you no matter what stand he is in.
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5G is incredible
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I'm renewing my ssn tkt next week and have a couple of spares on my Friends/family list up to the maximum of 8.
If you're interested in being added to my list DM me.
Could anyone let me know how to update the friends and family list?
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NorthYvillan, re the app, ensure you're logged in.
Click "Manage"
Click "Manage Account"
Go to your friends/family list
Click "Manage my Relationships"
Click "Add"
Then determine Relationship Type and follow instructions.
This worked for me the other day without renewing yet.
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NorthYvillan, re the app, ensure you're logged in.
Click "Manage"
Click "Manage Account"
Go to your friends/family list
Click "Manage my Relationships"
Click "Add"
Then determine Relationship Type and follow instructions.
This worked for me the other day without renewing yet.
Thanks :)
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I wish I'd known before I renewed mine. 😢
I thought it was common knowledge that there was a finance package available.
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Just pressed the button, so in for another season.
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NorthYvillan, re the app, ensure you're logged in.
Click "Manage"
Click "Manage Account"
Go to your friends/family list
Click "Manage my Relationships"
Click "Add"
Then determine Relationship Type and follow instructions.
This worked for me the other day without renewing yet.
Why didn't we have this button when I struggled to hang on to girlfriends in the dim and distant past??
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All done. Did a few days early in case i forgot.
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Been waiting for this update, cheers Coops.
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I feel really sorry for the genuine people on the ever increasing waiting list as my brother and I, after more years than I care to remember, are giving our season tickets up. Mainly due to the club taking the piss last season with the CL prices, which we couldn’t afford. After that the total fiasco with the FA Cup semi final tickets. When our turn came, the best we were offered were tier 5 (closer to God than the actual pitch) and virtually the top row of the tier. Lo and behold, the very next day, they decide to release hundreds of tickets in tier 2. Who the hell was running this shit show? On the other hand, Crystal Palace managed to get all their regulars together.
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Sorry to read this, Skerra. I can’t help but feel that we’re all being tested now to see how long we can possibly hang on to our season tickets. It seems now as if every season the rules of the game change, as if the club are shaking the tree and see how many fall out. It’s not a pleasant means by which to cleanse your fanbase, that’s for sure. All my opinion, of course.
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Thy seem to be doing a very good job of signaling that they don’t give a toss about the supporters.
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Each year I say to myself at ST renewal that ‘this year will probably be my last’, but I genuinely think that this time. Whilst there’s been some incredible high moments over these last few years, I feel like I’m falling out of love with it all.
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Obviously everyone's situation is different, but only ill health would stop me from going to Villa park. No doubt the club will continue to abuse this.
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Obviously everyone's situation is different, but only Ill health would stop me from going to Villa park. No doubt the club will continue to abuse this.
Me too John. And I’ve just paid for a plaque on the legacy wall as well, with the wife and kids names on it. Then again, we did meet there and the kids wouldn’t exist if we hadn’t, so it’s nice to have a physical artefact of a lovely moment.
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Percy, what a lovely story! Good luck to you and your
Family
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Percy, what a lovely story! Good luck to you and your
Family
Cheers Skerra, same to you.
Thinking about it now, The Villa is and has been such a huge part of my life. I could easily have been one of Peter Morris’s little kids running about looking for Brian Little, as the ground was our adventure playground around that time on weekdays and in summer holidays, and we did manage to get into some corridors on our adventures. Things only intensified in my teenage years, when I made hundreds of friends there and got into many scrapes going home and away. I then worked there for over twenty years, and as I say, met my future wife there while selling the fanzine on Trinity Road. Two of my books are heavily Villa-centric. Like The Beat, I just can’t stop it.
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To paraphrase someone or other “ you can tear my season ticket from my cold dead hand.”
I don’t get the negativity myself, this is the best we have been in my 35 years supporting barring the mid 90s and the Lerner/MoN flirtation. More please….
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I can't think of anything I'd rather do on a Saturday and its summers spent walking around shops on a Saturday that make me realise its well worth the cost of avoiding it for 9 months.
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Fair point, however next season you’ll still be able to stroll those arcades on more Saturdays than not…
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Nah be prepping for Sunday or coming back from Europe.
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Meanwhile, it’ll allow me time to go and watch my old team, Rushden & Diamonds, on Saturdays and then watch the Villa on the box on Sunday’s. Win, win!!
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Why on earth would anybody want to watch another side? Weird.
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Meanwhile, it’ll allow me time to go and watch my old team, Rushden & Diamonds, on Saturdays and then watch the Villa on the box on Sunday’s. Win, win!!
I didn’t realise they still existed! Rushden and Diamonds, not Villa.
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Meanwhile, it’ll allow me time to go and watch my old team, Rushden & Diamonds, on Saturdays and then watch the Villa on the box on Sunday’s. Win, win!!
I didn’t realise they still existed! Rushden and Diamonds, not Villa.
They're a phoenix club now I think. The original merged club went bust.
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Meanwhile, it’ll allow me time to go and watch my old team, Rushden & Diamonds, on Saturdays and then watch the Villa on the box on Sunday’s. Win, win!!
I didn’t realise they still existed! Rushden and Diamonds, not Villa.
They're a phoenix club now I think. The original merged club went bust.
Quite right, they got as far as league 1 and then went into rapid decline after Max Griggs the owner of Doc Martens left the club and the money dried up. They eventually went out of business but, some supporters got together and got them going again. Have come up through the ranks and now playing in the Northern Premier League Midlands Division, so plenty of matches around Brum area.
Ads, you can only have 1 top club but, most people also have a non league club that they follow the fortunes of.
It’s not that I’ve gone off the actual Villa team as, I will always be Villa but, the cost is just getting too great for me. All I know is that when we were relegated to the Championship and the Club had to shut part of the Trinity stand through lack of enough supporters, they were ringing me to ask if I was renewing my season ticket and, of course I was. You don’t stop supporting a team, no matter what division they are playing in. UTV and I shall still be there in spirit.
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Percy, what a lovely story! Good luck to you and your
Family
Cheers Skerra, same to you.
Thinking about it now, The Villa is and has been such a huge part of my life. I could easily have been one of Peter Morris’s little kids running about looking for Brian Little, as the ground was our adventure playground around that time on weekdays and in summer holidays, and we did manage to get into some corridors on our adventures. Things only intensified in my teenage years, when I made hundreds of friends there and got into many scrapes going home and away. I then worked there for over twenty years, and as I say, met my future wife there while selling the fanzine on Trinity Road. Two of my books are heavily Villa-centric. Like The Beat, I just can’t stop it.
Which books have you written Percy?
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Percy, what a lovely story! Good luck to you and your
Family
Cheers Skerra, same to you.
Thinking about it now, The Villa is and has been such a huge part of my life. I could easily have been one of Peter Morris’s little kids running about looking for Brian Little, as the ground was our adventure playground around that time on weekdays and in summer holidays, and we did manage to get into some corridors on our adventures. Things only intensified in my teenage years, when I made hundreds of friends there and got into many scrapes going home and away. I then worked there for over twenty years, and as I say, met my future wife there while selling the fanzine on Trinity Road. Two of my books are heavily Villa-centric. Like The Beat, I just can’t stop it.
Which books have you written Percy?
Here’s one mate, dm me if you’re interested:
https://www.indiependent.co.uk/book-review-gangsters-geezers-mods-stephen-pennell/
The others are King City and Star-spangled Villans.
If anyone else is interested dm me so Bezos doesn’t get to keep most of the money.
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I’d have thought Percy would have a biography on Diego Carlos in the works.
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I’d have thought Percy would have a biography on Diego Carlos in the works.
I’ll give it a go based on what I’ve posted about him.
Chapter One
“While Mings was out injured, Carlos was part of Villa’s best performing defence”.
The End.
I posted a lot about him because some people who couldn’t count or remember Aston Villa football results denied this basic truth and argued until they were blue in the face the equivalent of 2+2=5.
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Chapter 7: "Get tighter to Delap you daft twat"
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Chapter 7: "Get tighter to Delap you daft twat"
Doesn’t trump Chapter 1.
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"King City" is a great title. No idea what its about like, but I like the title.
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"King City" is a great title. No idea what its about like, but I like the title.
Thanks! The Birmingham music scene. Named after the Swim Deep song.
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"King City" is a great title. No idea what its about like, but I like the title.
Thanks! The Birmingham music scene. Named after the Swim Deep song.
Ah great, will send you a DM.
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"King City" is a great title. No idea what its about like, but I like the title.
Thanks! The Birmingham music scene. Named after the Swim Deep song.
Ah great, will send you a DM.
There's some great characters in it, especially the twat who turns up at the wrong pub.
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"King City" is a great title. No idea what its about like, but I like the title.
Thanks! The Birmingham music scene. Named after the Swim Deep song.
Ah great, will send you a DM.
There's some great characters in it, especially the twat who turns up at the wrong pub.
Haha! Leeds 1 Villa 1.
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"King City" is a great title. No idea what its about like, but I like the title.
Thanks! The Birmingham music scene. Named after the Swim Deep song.
Ah great, will send you a DM.
There's some great characters in it, especially the twat who turns up at the wrong pub.
My mate Martin is seriously big into his music, has played in bands since he was 14, is the man to know if you need a music Sherpa at a festival or to secure tickets for something.
Reckon it’ll be the perfect gift to thank him for putting up with my curmudgeonly shite for 25+ years. 😂.
He’s done that little stage at Villa a few times but was more excited afterwards about his chat with Mark Draper who is apparently a big led zeppelin fan.
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Renewed, in case anyone else doing the same, 1st V12 payment date defaulted to 26/7, moved in a second to 27/7, options 1-28/7 available.
I was also reminded by/to do this thank you
NorthYvillan, re the app, ensure you're logged in.
Click "Manage"
Click "Manage Account"
Go to your friends/family list
Click "Manage my Relationships"
Click "Add"
Then determine Relationship Type and follow instructions.
This worked for me the other day without renewing yet.
Mine are already on there, but I couldn’t see a way to specify the 6 particularly for the ST reallocation, can anyone help?
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Renewed today. A little tip if you use V12. You can login and change the payment date.
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Percy, what a lovely story! Good luck to you and your
Family
Cheers Skerra, same to you.
Thinking about it now, The Villa is and has been such a huge part of my life. I could easily have been one of Peter Morris’s little kids running about looking for Brian Little, as the ground was our adventure playground around that time on weekdays and in summer holidays, and we did manage to get into some corridors on our adventures. Things only intensified in my teenage years, when I made hundreds of friends there and got into many scrapes going home and away. I then worked there for over twenty years, and as I say, met my future wife there while selling the fanzine on Trinity Road. Two of my books are heavily Villa-centric. Like The Beat, I just can’t stop it.
Which books have you written Percy?
Here’s one mate, dm me if you’re interested:
https://www.indiependent.co.uk/book-review-gangsters-geezers-mods-stephen-pennell/
The others are King City and Star-spangled Villans.
If anyone else is interested dm me so Bezos doesn’t get to keep most of the money.
I bought / read Gangsters, Geezers and Mods a few years back when it came out. Loved it!!!
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Renewed today. A little tip if you use V12. You can login and change the payment date.
Thanks a lot,I just done it,most helpful
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Percy, what a lovely story! Good luck to you and your
Family
Cheers Skerra, same to you.
Thinking about it now, The Villa is and has been such a huge part of my life. I could easily have been one of Peter Morris’s little kids running about looking for Brian Little, as the ground was our adventure playground around that time on weekdays and in summer holidays, and we did manage to get into some corridors on our adventures. Things only intensified in my teenage years, when I made hundreds of friends there and got into many scrapes going home and away. I then worked there for over twenty years, and as I say, met my future wife there while selling the fanzine on Trinity Road. Two of my books are heavily Villa-centric. Like The Beat, I just can’t stop it.
Which books have you written Percy?
Here’s one mate, dm me if you’re interested:
https://www.indiependent.co.uk/book-review-gangsters-geezers-mods-stephen-pennell/
The others are King City and Star-spangled Villans.
If anyone else is interested dm me so Bezos doesn’t get to keep most of the money.
I bought / read Gangsters, Geezers and Mods a few years back when it came out. Loved it!!!
Thanks Andy!
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Probably the most hectic* book I have read.
* in a good way.
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Probably the most hectic* book I have read.
* in a good way.
Nice one CL!
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Thoroughly enjoyable read - read it twice on different holidays
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Thoroughly enjoyable read - read it twice on different holidays
Cheers Hookey!
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Do we think that there is still a substantial amount of people who haven't renewed yet with all the reminders that keep getting sent out?
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It's probably standard procedure in case people have forgotten. It happens every year.
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Had a reply today from an email I sent last week….
We can confirm that you are on the waiting list.
Your position is now 2393, your previous position was 14586 and you have a total of 136 points.
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I’ve just messaged a customer to see how many points he has as he told me last week he was 383rd on the waiting list.
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An old acquaintance has text me saying ‘season tickets for sale if you’re interested’. He can’t sell me his can he?
Edit: just phoned him. It’s a case of keeping the ticket ‘live’ for somebody doing their final year in prison. The bloke who’s had it the last three years can’t afford it this year.
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An old acquaintance has text me saying ‘season tickets for sale if you’re interested’. He can’t sell me his can he?
I believe it would have to remain in your friends name, essentially you’d be posing as them.
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An old acquaintance has text me saying ‘season tickets for sale if you’re interested’. He can’t sell me his can he?
I believe it would have to remain in your friends name, essentially you’d be posing as them.
Cheers mate. Thought so.
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Had a reply today from an email I sent last week….
We can confirm that you are on the waiting list.
Your position is now 2393, your previous position was 14586 and you have a total of 136 points.
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I’ve just messaged a customer to see how many points he has as he told me last week he was 383rd on the waiting list.
Had a reply from my customer and he’s in fact 330th on the list with 163 points.
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Sad to say, I've finally given my ST up. I may well regret it, but I'll continue to value the opinions here as well as getting tickets as a AV member when I can.
End of an era for me.
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End of an era for Villa Park.
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End of an era for Villa Park.
😁😲😁
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Renewed again for another go on the rollercoaster.
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Renewed again for another go on the rollercoaster.
At the very least, let's hope there's some decent concerts at VP next summer. ;)
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I renewed yesterday.......about 4 hours later I got an email saying my ST will be released on Friday 4th July for others to purchase! I've got an email confirmation saying thank you for renewing! Confusing.
Has anyone enquired about physical ST cards? It looks like they're making this more difficult by going all digital. I still prefer the card as it's simpler on entry.
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I renewed yesterday.......about 4 hours later I got an email saying my ST will be released on Friday 4th July for others to purchase! I've got an email confirmation saying thank you for renewing! Confusing.
Has anyone enquired about physical ST cards? It looks like they're making this more difficult by going all digital. I still prefer the card as it's simpler on entry.
I also got an email yesterday saying my ST will be released on Friday 4th July for others to purchase, it made me spring into action and I renewed straight away in case I forgot on Friday
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An old acquaintance has text me saying ‘season tickets for sale if you’re interested’. He can’t sell me his can he?
I believe it would have to remain in your friends name, essentially you’d be posing as them.
I've heard a story, not sure how true, that they have installed cameras everywhere and can zoom in on any face in the crowd, specifically looking out for season ticket misuse. Seems like a lot of effort & resource to me.
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I renewed yesterday.......about 4 hours later I got an email saying my ST will be released on Friday 4th July for others to purchase! I've got an email confirmation saying thank you for renewing! Confusing.
Has anyone enquired about physical ST cards? It looks like thHas anyone enquired about physical ST cards?ey're making this more difficult by going all digital. I still prefer the card as it's simpler on entry.
For the 2025/26 Aston Villa season, physical season tickets are primarily available to fans with medical exemptions. Aston Villa has transitioned to digital season tickets as the default method, with physical cards reserved for those who require them due to documented medical reasons.
To obtain a physical season ticket with a medical exemption, you'll need to contact the Aston Villa ticket office directly and provide necessary documentation to support your claim. The club will assess each case individually to determine eligibility.
Here's a breakdown:
• Digital Default:
The standard method for season tickets is digital, via the club's app or online platform.
• Medical Exemption:
Physical cards are issued to supporters with valid medical exemptions.
• Application Process:
You'll need to contact the ticket office and provide documentation to support your exemption request.
• Personal Assistant:
If a disabled supporter needs a personal assistant to attend matches, the club will admit the assistant free of charge, provided they meet the criteria for providing support.
• Other Considerations:
There may be other circumstances where a physical card is necessary, such as for those with limited access to technology, but the primary focus is on digital tickets.
When I contacted the Villa tkt office, they gave me an email address to send a request for a physical season card to.
accessibility@avfc.co.uk
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I am sure this is discriminatory. Hardly inclusive.
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Renewed today after an email giving me the nudge with tomorrows deadline. Randomly had another email saying ive been taken off the waiting list as I don't have any qualifying points !!
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if it helps and I’m not sure it will be the same this season
But I downloaded my 3 season tickets onto numerous devices and they all worked every time
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A reminder that the deadline for renewal is 5pm today. https://x.com/AVFCOfficial/status/1941082332846555218
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I haven’t received any notice about my season ticket renewal. Maybe they’ve been reading H&V to see that I wasn’t renewing!! End of an era for me too but it’s just got too expensive. I certainly won’t miss the long walk to the ground and the security search to get into the ground. Good news for those on the million waiting list as I think many more will give up their season tickets for the season after next,
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Does anyone know when relocation day is please?
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Does anyone know when relocation day is please?
Early next week I think.
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Does it give any indication when anyone is re-locating as to how many seats will be available for new ST's??
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You could only relocate via phone, so no hallmap to view to gauge numbers of seats free. I eventually got through after three hours of trying, moved just across the aisle from L3 to L2 and saved myself £187 in the process.
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I've just had an email offering the chance to buy an ST from tomorrow, I was 895 on the new list, so looks like quite a few are on offer
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Yes, I think that, like myself and my brother have given ours up after approx 25/30 years, a lot of others have too. My thoughts are that it’s partially the cost plus, a certain amount of disconnect from the club, especially their handling of the CL prices and the shambles surrounding the FA Cup semi final.
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Yes, I think that, like myself and my brother have given ours up after approx 25/30 years, a lot of others have too. My thoughts are that it’s partially the cost plus, a certain amount of disconnect from the club, especially their handling of the CL prices and the shambles surrounding the FA Cup semi final.
900 would equate to less than 4% of season ticket holders, which I'd assume would be considered normal.
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Yes, law of large numbers applies here. It’s normal.
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Yes, I think that, like myself and my brother have given ours up after approx 25/30 years, a lot of others have too. My thoughts are that it’s partially the cost plus, a certain amount of disconnect from the club, especially their handling of the CL prices and the shambles surrounding the FA Cup semi final.
Hearing more and more anecdotal evidence of a fair few not renewing .
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Everyone I know with a season ticket is renewing.
How many cows have you got?
Well I’ve got…104 friends.
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I've just had an email offering the chance to buy an ST from tomorrow, I was 895 on the new list, so looks like quite a few are on offer
I didn't and I'm 1949, so all things being equal I'll qualify in the next year or two.
Which is frustrating, because my son won't and we want to go together.
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I've just had an email offering the chance to buy an ST from tomorrow, I was 895 on the new list, so looks like quite a few are on offer
I didn't and I'm 1949, so all things being equal I'll qualify in the next year or two.
Which is frustrating, because my son won't and we want to go together.
I wonder if you did get offered one next season could you turn it down and wait for the North Stand to be finished and keep your place in the list? If so then with memberships and attendance over the next couple of seasons you might be okay to get two together, as there could be another 2-3k STs released from 2027.
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Would you not be better getting one on your own and then relocating next to him once he is allowed to get one? Maybe they'll let you keep your place in the queue if you contact them to explain.
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Yeah, I reckon if you get offered one and turn it down, that will be it, to the back of the queue you go!
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I've just had an email offering the chance to buy an ST from tomorrow, I was 895 on the new list, so looks like quite a few are on offer
I didn't and I'm 1949, so all things being equal I'll qualify in the next year or two.
Which is frustrating, because my son won't and we want to go together.
My dilemma too. Me and my two youngest went to very few different games over the last two seasons, yet have ended up quite far apart on the waiting list. I’m highest, but if I get one and my son doesn’t there will be many occasions where my son’s games will clash with Villa’s. I think I’ll have to sort out that friends and family list and my wife and cousin will end up going to quite a few games on our behalf.
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Yeah, I reckon if you get offered one and turn it down, that will be it, to the back of the queue you go!
Yes I believe those are the current rules.
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All sorted, tickets available in the Lower Holte
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I got one on half way line in Witton Lane - I was surprised how many were available. This will be very handy for where I park. I’ve been very lucky with the way the Waiting List was reconfigured.
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I got one on half way line in Witton Lane - I was surprised how many were available. This will be very handy for where I park. I’ve been very lucky with the way the Waiting List was reconfigured.
Was that Upper or Lower? I am glad you used the right name for the stand as well ;o)
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I got one on half way line in Witton Lane - I was surprised how many were available. This will be very handy for where I park. I’ve been very lucky with the way the Waiting List was reconfigured.
Was that Upper or Lower? I am glad you used the right name for the stand as well ;o)
Upper. Its pretty much where I usually sit anyway!
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Would you not be better getting one on your own and then relocating next to him once he is allowed to get one? Maybe they'll let you keep your place in the queue if you contact them to explain.
It's a possibility, but we go to pretty much all the games together (our points total is different because he missed an evening KO or two over the season), he's only 10 so can't sit on his own, and I'd have to relocate every game to sit next to him.
Yeah, I reckon if you get offered one and turn it down, that will be it, to the back of the queue you go!
That's the worry!
I've just had an email offering the chance to buy an ST from tomorrow, I was 895 on the new list, so looks like quite a few are on offer
I didn't and I'm 1949, so all things being equal I'll qualify in the next year or two.
Which is frustrating, because my son won't and we want to go together.
I wonder if you did get offered one next season could you turn it down and wait for the North Stand to be finished and keep your place in the list? If so then with memberships and attendance over the next couple of seasons you might be okay to get two together, as there could be another 2-3k STs released from 2027.
Well yes, we were consecutive numbers on the waiting list before, I applied together deliberately so that we'd get one at the same time.
They've not said how dynamic this list is, and whether it updates match by match, season by season or that's it for a bit. I'll just have to ask the question I suppose, though I'm not sure they'll have an answer.
Choices, choices! Oh and the bun fight when tickets are released will be something else. I wonder how many memberships there now are? For example, if a thousand more people have purchased membership is there a chance I'll get further away from the top rather than closer?
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Don't worry Drummond, if all the doom and gloom around the club currently turns into reality, they'll be plenty of season tickets for those that want them next year, we might be relegated to the Conference North but you can sit where you want !!
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Don't worry Drummond, if all the doom and gloom around the club currently turns into reality, they'll be plenty of season tickets for those that want them next year,
The doom and gloom is warranted, it's the 10th of July and we've only signed TWO players.
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Don't worry Drummond, if all the doom and gloom around the club currently turns into reality, they'll be plenty of season tickets for those that want them next year,
The doom and gloom is warranted, it's the 10th of July and we've only signed TWO players.
But can either of them play in goal against Newcastle ?
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Don't worry Drummond, if all the doom and gloom around the club currently turns into reality, they'll be plenty of season tickets for those that want them next year,
The doom and gloom is warranted, it's the 10th of July and we've only signed TWO players.
But can either of them play in goal against Newcastle ?
Emery Jr can do that.
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I've just had an email offering the chance to buy an ST from tomorrow, I was 895 on the new list, so looks like quite a few are on offer
I didn't and I'm 1949, so all things being equal I'll qualify in the next year or two.
Which is frustrating, because my son won't and we want to go together.
I assume the list is reshuffled every season given that there is an ongoing points system. Now that people know the system all things will not be equal, the list will look very different next season.
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On the one hand I should feel a bit lucky that I got boosted up to the top of the list and was able to buy a season ticket this morning...
... on the other hand I feel a bit miffed that the club won't refund the now redundant membership I'd already bought for the new season.
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According to the club 20% not renewed. 5000-6000. Will they all go on general sale??
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I've nicked some figures from Villa Talk. Someone has collated what points got to which position on the waiting list. The examples they had were:
167 - 191
167 - 192
152 - 901
144 - 1,418
142 - 1,606
135 - 2,590
131 - 3,288
119 - 6,759
119 - 6,879
114 - 8,843
111 - 10,288
110 - 11,227
103 - 15,657
As a membership gives you 100 points, people at 15k on the waiting list must have been to less than 3-4 games in the last two years.
I'd say our realistic waiting list is actually about 10k? Even at that position you're talking about people who have been to a handful of games at most.
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According to the club 20% not renewed. 5000-6000. Will they all go on general sale??
When you say according to the Club, was this verbally or online somewhere?
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According to the club 20% not renewed. 5000-6000. Will they all go on general sale??
I'd be absolutely shocked if that was true.
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I think the 20% thing is apparently the club have said 80% of those on the list invited to buy a new season ticket have done so today. There's probably still a short window for the rest
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My fairly educated guess is approx 1300 were invited to buy a season ticket. And it was claimed on X club has said there is a season ticket for all invited. So a small number left.
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Still approx 20% not renewed - not sure if i am surprised or not.
I’m still feeling down about how the season ended and the knock on implications. Ive renewed though.
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Do you think they mean those offered on the waiting list? Makes a bit more sense!
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Do you think they mean those offered on the waiting list? Makes a bit more sense!
Yes. As I say about 1300 offered so i reckon about 260 left until this window closes.
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Still approx 20% not renewed - not sure if i am surprised or not.
I’m still feeling down about how the season ended and the knock on implications. Ive renewed though.
I think you have completely got the wrong end of the stick here. The offered NEW season tickets to about 1,000 people. 80% of that 1,000 bought the new ticket today. The rest still have time.
This is nothing to do with season ticket renewals.
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Still approx 20% not renewed - not sure if i am surprised or not.
I’m still feeling down about how the season ended and the knock on implications. Ive renewed though.
I think you have completely got the wrong end of the stick here. The offered NEW season tickets to about 1,000 people. 80% of that 1,000 bought the new ticket today. The rest still have time.
This is nothing to do with season ticket renewals.
I agree.
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That will teach me to read things properly!
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Think my son has just missed out as he had 144 pts and hasn’t had an email.
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Think my son has just missed out as he had 144 pts and hasn’t had an email.
I guess he might be in prime position this time next season, assuming he keeps going as much as he has done the last 2 seasons.
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Think my son has just missed out as he had 144 pts and hasn’t had an email.
I guess he might be in prime position this time next season, assuming he keeps going as much as he has done the last 2 seasons.
Funnily enough he probably wouldn’t have taken the option for the coming season due to various bits going on but he’ll need to be on it to maintain his position. I’d say you need to go to every European home game as a bare minimum and with the new criteria even that won’t be enough.
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There weren't any new ST's offered last season either so some of the number for "on offer" could be over two years instead of one.
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If anyone has got a ST in North stand upper T4 - please could you drop me a PM. I am after a favour please.
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Maybe I’ll be totally wrong but, if Villa don’t win anything again next season and we don’t finish in any of the European places, people may well find a season ticket much easier to come by for the following season. Anyway, good luck to all of you hoping to getting a season ticket.
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Think my son has just missed out as he had 144 pts and hasn’t had an email.
I have 143 points and got an email on 23 June saying I was 1506 in the queue. I’ve heard nothing since which fits the logic of 1300 season tickets being made available
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Think my son has just missed out as he had 144 pts and hasn’t had an email.
I have 143 points and got an email on 23 June saying I was 1506 in the queue. I’ve heard nothing since which fits the logic of 1300 season tickets being made available
It must be quite tight as you’ve ’only’ got 7 more points than me but almost 900 places higher.
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I’m think that as it’s one point a game that there must actually be a lot of people with the same number of points.
They haven’t said how they put those in order, but I am guessing they revert back to time on the list?
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Think my son has just missed out as he had 144 pts and hasn’t had an email.
I have 143 points and got an email on 23 June saying I was 1506 in the queue. I’ve heard nothing since which fits the logic of 1300 season tickets being made available
I’m fairly sure the cut off this time was 147 points and a number between 1200 and 1300.
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It's an interesting exercise. I think in the short term they will have increased ticket demand as around 5k people scramble to make the ST cut in the next year or so.
But at the same time they have identified that the 'realistic' list is about only about 10k (ie people who have been to more than a handful of matches in the last 2 years.
Whilst they have rewarded loyalty, they have also given STs to people who were going to every game anyway but, from an income perspective alone, they would have made more money from someone who was going to 25-50% of games buying a ST than someone already going to every game.
I'm pleased for the people who have put in the hard yards and have their ticket. I'm a bit uncomfortable about people who have been on the list for 5+ years being pipped at the post by people who may well not have been to many more games - you can see how tight it is around the 145 points mark.
My own view is they should not have reshuffled. Most people going to less than a handful of games would probably have turned down the opportunity anyway and the majority of new tickets would have gone to worthy enough fans who had waited their turn.
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Just had an email from the Villa saying GA+ tickets for all games are going on sale on 17th
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Think my son has just missed out as he had 144 pts and hasn’t had an email.
I have 143 points and got an email on 23 June saying I was 1506 in the queue. I’ve heard nothing since which fits the logic of 1300 season tickets being made available
I’m fairly sure the cut off this time was 147 points and a number between 1200 and 1300.
Cheers for that. As you say, it’s really tight.
I travel a fair bit for work and so miss a number of games per season, plus not having a car makes midweek games really hard, which is why I haven’t had a season ticket for years. Until a couple of years ago it wasn’t a big deal as you could get a ticket for most games.
It will be hard for me to get to more games than I have in the last couple of seasons and build my points at a faster rate. I vaguely recall that domestic cup games will earn more points than league games in our new cock eyed world. Does anybody recall if that is right?
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Think my son has just missed out as he had 144 pts and hasn’t had an email.
I have 143 points and got an email on 23 June saying I was 1506 in the queue. I’ve heard nothing since which fits the logic of 1300 season tickets being made available
I’m fairly sure the cut off this time was 147 points and a number between 1200 and 1300.
Cheers for that. As you say, it’s really tight.
I travel a fair bit for work and so miss a number of games per season, plus not having a car makes midweek games really hard, which is why I haven’t had a season ticket for years. Until a couple of years ago it wasn’t a big deal as you could get a ticket for most games.
It will be hard for me to get to more games than I have in the last couple of seasons and build my points at a faster rate. I vaguely recall that domestic cup games will earn more points than league games in our new cock eyed world. Does anybody recall if that is right?
It’s up to you but if you carry on at the same rate I think you will get one next time given the take up percentage is so high. It’s two points for cup games and I do wonder how many will want to go to Europa League games - it will depend on the price and our form.
I think they were right to reconstitute the waiting list. Apparently they offered a few hundred tickets last year and had to go to 10000 on the waiting list until they could sell them. That’s a waste of club employees time and now they are actually rewarding loyalty!
If only they’d included those in home ends at away Champions League matches!
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Ha, you’re right about home end tickets. I’ve clocked up Legia Warsaw, Zrjinski, Lille, Bruges, Leipzig and Monaco in the past 2 seasons 😊 I’m running out of fake accents….
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I'm not sure if this is the right place but my points total has gone from 1210 to 1000 today. Does anyone know why and has it happened to anyone else?
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I'm not sure if this is the right place but my points total has gone from 1210 to 1000 today. Does anyone know why and has it happened to anyone else?
No idea why but mine is 1000 too.
Perhaps the TO techies starting to get ready for the new season totals?
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Where have you found this information?
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My ticket page on the OS.
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Yes it's on your digital account
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Does anyone know when memberships renewed, or if indeed they have. I seem to still be a member but haven’t had a notification.
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Does anyone know when memberships renewed, or if indeed they have. I seem to still be a member but haven’t had a notification.
I’m not certain but I think it’s a 12 month agreement from the date you took it out.
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Does anyone know when memberships renewed, or if indeed they have. I seem to still be a member but haven’t had a notification.
I’m not certain but I think it’s a 12 month agreement from the date you took it out.
Cheers mate. I renewed around this time last year so I could get the pre-season games on Villa TV, which is what inspired me to check today. I’ve still got Villa TV so I’m okay so far.
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My membership expires in a few days time, and I've no idea whether it's meant to auto renew or not. Last year it was meant to auto renew, but didn't.
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My membership expires in a few days time, and I've no idea whether it's meant to auto renew or not. Last year it was meant to auto renew, but didn't.
Same (last season). My two kids’ memberships did, and I suspect I might not have had enough money for all of us in the account it comes out of. I’m always skint towards the end of the month.
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Does anyone know when memberships renewed, or if indeed they have. I seem to still be a member but haven’t had a notification.
I’m not certain but I think it’s a 12 month agreement from the date you took it out.
That’s what I’m taking it as. I looked last night and clicked the auto renew tab but it came up with a message along the lines of, it’s not working or they’re no longer doing it.
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An email went out saying that they won’t auto-renew, but you have to buy a new one through the ticketing portal, or something like that. May have dreamt it though.
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From now on membership’s are purchased through the ticket section and no longer the membership section.
So the auto renews won’t work this year as it migrates.
I know this because I wanted to cancel my auto renew with getting a season ticket but they told me I don’t need to.
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From now on membership’s are purchased through the ticket section and no longer the membership section.
So the auto renews won’t work this year as it migrates.
I know this because I wanted to cancel my auto renew with getting a season ticket but they told me I don’t need to.
Thanks. That sounds definitive.
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And they now charge £2.95 on top of the renewal price, presumably a booking fee or similar. Twats
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And they now charge £2.95 on top of the renewal price, presumably a booking fee or similar. Twats
Of course they will charge extra if people keep paying whatever they ask. Expect that to be at least £5 next time round!
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My mate had a GA+ ST last year but, having decided not to renew due to the price, was told that his attendance history wouldn't count towards his waiting list place. Anyway, the club ended up ringing him yesterday and told him that after discussions over the last few weeks, they've decided to allow the GA+ history to count and so he managed to buy a ST yesterday.
Not sure how many people this would have affected.
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My mate had a GA+ ST last year but, having decided not to renew due to the price, was told that his attendance history wouldn't count towards his waiting list place. Anyway, the club ended up ringing him yesterday and told him that after discussions over the last few weeks, they've decided to allow the GA+ history to count and so he managed to buy a ST yesterday.
Not sure how many people this would have affected.
That's good that they have relented and allowed it to count
I do vaguely remember when the GA+ ST's were introduced they did say that anyone getting one would lose their posistion on the waiting list, might not be 100% on that though
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That's shit for the people who would have bought one but didn't because they'd been told they'd lose their place. I'd have considered it for a season to get on the list.
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Have the Villa unveiled the women’s season ticket blag yet?
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Nothing on the club website. Fixtures announced on Friday so maybe something will happen then.
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Prices for the Newcastle game
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What category is this game? Pretty steep that.
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The prices are obscene.
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I used to say 50 quid was my limit. Those days are gone.
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Those prices are far too much. Ridiculous.
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My seat on a match by match basis is now £82 !
It is pretty scandalous how much football costs, but we all know why.
Rashford for £330k per week anyone ?
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Prices for the Newcastle game
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Blimey....even Dick Turpin wore a mask
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If I didn't have a season ticket I think I'd be throwing the towel at those prices...
Feel for people having to pay them.
There's even less chance I'd have paid that at 22.
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That's shit for the people who would have bought one but didn't because they'd been told they'd lose their place. I'd have considered it for a season to get on the list.
And I guess they have changed the rule now to ensure GA+ STs are still kept in the net through buying normal ST. Good business.
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I feel we are approaching a tipping point, for all the good times recently we still haven't won anything and in the two big games last season we came up short. This is not meant as a criticism of the team but will surely influence the more casual fan, who, let's face it is the market the club want to attract. I could possible understand these prices had we won the Cup or qualified for the CL but it seems out of step with where we are.
I've long believed that there just isn't the market to attract at these prices, certainly in the long term anyway and we could be seeing more empty seats than we have in the last few seasons.
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That’s finished article prices for a work in progress, IMO.
I certainly wouldn’t bother if I didn’t have a season ticket.
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Jesus wept. Those prices are beyond scandalous. Looks like I'll be dropping back down the Season Ticket waiting list again.
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Chris Heck eh? What a twat. Lynch hi... oh.
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Disgusting prices, absolutely scandalous.
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rip off
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It amazes me that the North Stand is the only one I can regularly get tickets in.
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Almost like Heck was following the orders of our billionaire owners. Not doing it against their will or without their knowledge, as some were trying to make out.
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It amazes me that the North Stand is the only one I can regularly get tickets in.
Were you a Claret member last season ? My 2 sons and I were and were able to get 3 seats together for most games in L5 or L6. We've now got ST's, but these crazy prices are going to result in most of the next generations of supporters not being able to attend games. 1 adult & 1 U18 will cost £107 and 1 adult & 2 U18's will cost £137 for Category A games. Not sure that many families will be able to afford regular attendance, ergo not qualifying to go up the ST waiting list. I remember with fondness going to games in the late 60's and early 70's when going to the game plus a couple of pints didn't take up a huge percentage of my weekly spends. Of course, it was the working man's game back then. If prices were say £20 per game cheaper, the reduction in revenue on home games over a season would be £15.96M - Peanuts compared to TV money or PL prize money.
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Nice comparison by Central News just now. £58 on the Holte to watch Aston Villa v Newcastle compared to £27.50 to watch B’lose v Stoke in the cheapest seats.
So that’s last seasons Champions league Quarter Finalists v The League Cup holders who got CL this season with the same points as us. Or B’lose v Stoke.
I think I know who is actually being ripped off !
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Also, to sit and watch Blose v Stoke AND run the risk of capturing some sort of medieval strain of disease because you're in close proximity to not one but TWO of the scummiest fanbases in the world.
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The majority of match going fans throughout the top 7 or 8 tiers of the pyramid are being fleeced.
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Do we know whether the games v ManU/Liverpool/Chelsea/Arsenal will be more than this ?
I think the club would rather have members going to 6/7 league games a season at £71 a pop, and hope we spend a few quid in the shop.
£50 used to be my limit, but after last season’s Champions League prices all bets seem to be off, and there is obviously going to be a price that’s too much for everyone at some point.
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I haven't checked but i'd imagine we only have 2 tiers now for PL games. Newcastle will be in the top one. As will be Wolves, the Sky 6, possibly even West Ham, Leeds, Forest and Everton.
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It's "Category 3", which is the higher of the two Premier League categories. Categories 1 and 2 are for the Europa League and are, confusingly, both lower than Category 3.
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I think they have 10 higher category and 9 lower category. Lower category tickets will be about £25 cheaper in the Trinity, based on last season.
At a guess, lower category will be Bournemouth, Brentford, Brighton, Burnley, Palace, Fulham, Leeds, Sunderland and one of Everton or West Ham. West Ham at home will be inexplicably televised of course, as is tradition.
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If I hadn’t got a season ticket there’s not a hope in hell I’d be paying these match day prices. One average/underperforming season and Mr Shit will be meeting Mr Fan.
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Only managed one game last season. No chance this season with all the Sunday games. May save the membership fee unless the free gift looks good. Cheap games is all I will do now. Mind you I wouldn't pay for the expensive ones when they were relatively cheap in 2019 and 2022.