Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: PeterWithesShin on August 13, 2014, 06:07:09 PM
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The Club is pleased to announce that we will be offering supporters subsidised tickets to a minimum of five away games in the 2014-15 season.
As part of the Barclays Premier League initiative, there will also be free away coach travel for midweek games.
Five free coaches will take fans to our most long-distance fixtures, including those challenging midweek trips.
The five away games to be covered by free coach travel will be: Crystal Palace (December 2); Hull City (February 10); Newcastle (February 28); Sunderland (March 14); Southampton (May 16).
The Club will also be offering reciprocal pricing agreements with other Premier League clubs, including our home game against Hull City on August 31 as well as our midweek evening kick-off at the KC Stadium on February 10.
The reciprocal agreement means ticket prices of £25 for adults and £10 for juniors for these games.
The Club will actively engage with other clubs throughout the season in an effort to secure further reciprocal away pricing agreements and details will be announced in advance of such games.
Further to this, existing away scheme fans will again be rewarded, with each member receiving £15 Villa Cash for their away support of the team, which is money that fans will be able to spend on home tickets, merchandise and events.
For Lions Clubs, there will be a separate incentive, with those who take one coach to each of the five away games identified above to receive a total subsidy of £500.
"In recognising that some fixtures are more difficult than others for our supporters to attend, we're delighted to announce these details," said Nicola Keye, Villa's head of consumer sales.
"We're particularly pleased to have reached out to Hull City and to have agreed a reciprocal agreement, which we hope to do with other clubs.
"We understand that midweek travel is especially difficult for supporters and this initiative will help to make those trips a more enjoyable experience which our fans can all look forward to."
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To bump this up, excellent news, I do like the reciprocal agreement initiative.
I don't do away games (rarely do home games!) but it must help those that do when the club do things like this.
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Chelsea is the first one with subsidised tickets. Now £47 (rather than £52) for the lower tier and £50 (rather than £55) for the upper. Bargain!
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Chelsea is the first one with subsidised tickets. Now £47 (rather than £52) for the lower tier and £50 (rather than £55) for the upper. Bargain!
Those prices are just mental.
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If Villa were charging those prices i'd never go. Just out of principal. Those prices are a disgrace.
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To bump this up, excellent news, I do like the reciprocal agreement initiative.
I don't do away games (rarely do home games!) but it must help those that do when the club do things like this.
The club used to have a reciprocal agreement with Blackburn, think it was £25 for adults and £5 for kids. I remember one season taking my nephew to Blackburn and it costing £30, then going to Bolton a few weeks later and it being £60. The reciprocal arrangements are nice, a rare modern football thing of clubs not acting like a cartel to fleece the fans.
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Good news. The prices of the top clubs are a disgrace.
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Was lucky enough to take advantage of most of the free coaches last season - a great incentive - and the reciprocal arrangements with some clubs is an excellent idea. I think only Swansea did it last season.
The "big" clubs won't do that though because it won't let them fleece their own fans and away fans for every penny they can get out of us. Bastards!
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If Villa were charging those prices i'd never go. Just out of principal. Those prices are a disgrace.
It's not as if PL clubs need to charge those prices now with the TV money. Especially chavski. Absolute piss take of the highest order.
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If everyone stopped going to PL matches, prices would have to go down, but not enough people would be willing to do that. A bit like voting, if nobody voted, we may get rid of the useless tosh that always end up running the country.
"Each time you vote, you support the process...". Just substitute vote for buying tickets.
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Leeg should take note of the free coach offer since a ban from Redsox Tours is under consideration.
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Chelsea is the first one with subsidised tickets. Now £47 (rather than £52) for the lower tier and £50 (rather than £55) for the upper. Bargain!
For another £52 quid, you could have a season ticket at Bayern Munich.
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Leeg should take note of the free coach offer since a ban from Redsox Tours is under consideration.
Was he waving his wrinkly pink scarf out of the window again?
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The subserdised coaches are a great gesture. Frustrating for me though. I live In Manchester City Centre, and travel to 90% of aways, all by train. Therefore I'm penalised for living in Manchester as obviously I wouldn't to travel to Villa Park to jump on a free coach.
Would be nice if somehow they recognised supporters like me.
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The subserdised coaches are a great gesture. Frustrating for me though. I live In Manchester City Centre, and travel to 90% of aways, all by train. Therefore I'm penalised for living in Manchester as obviously I wouldn't to travel to Villa Park to jump on a free coach.
Would be nice if somehow they recognised supporters like me.
why don't you support your local team instead of chasing Villa around the country? you f'king glory hunter
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The subserdised coaches are a great gesture. Frustrating for me though. I live In Manchester City Centre, and travel to 90% of aways, all by train. Therefore I'm penalised for living in Manchester as obviously I wouldn't to travel to Villa Park to jump on a free coach.
Would be nice if somehow they recognised supporters like me.
why don't you support your local team instead of chasing Villa around the country? you f'king glory hunter
Haha! I did what they call 'relocate for work purposes.
That, and Manchester's a bloody great City.
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The subserdised coaches are a great gesture. Frustrating for me though. I live In Manchester City Centre, and travel to 90% of aways, all by train. Therefore I'm penalised for living in Manchester as obviously I wouldn't to travel to Villa Park to jump on a free coach.
Would be nice if somehow they recognised supporters like me.
why don't you support your local team instead of chasing Villa around the country? you f'king glory hunter
Haha! I did what they call 'relocate for work purposes.
That, and Manchester's a bloody great City.
Oh dear.
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If everyone stopped going to PL matches, prices would have to go down, but not enough people would be willing to do that. A bit like voting, if nobody voted, we may get rid of the useless tosh that always end up running the country.
"Each time you vote, you support the process...". Just substitute vote for buying tickets.
Trouble is nowadays if the proper fans stopped going they'd still be a decent amount of tourists, coporates and one off trip fans who'd turned up to keep the gravy train ticking over.
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Saw the Chelsea prices the other day and am currently deciding weather to order one of £18 tickets and hoping that I don't get caught out ::)
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To bump this up, excellent news, I do like the reciprocal agreement initiative.
I don't do away games (rarely do home games!) but it must help those that do when the club do things like this.
The club used to have a reciprocal agreement with Blackburn, think it was £25 for adults and £5 for kids. I remember one season taking my nephew to Blackburn and it costing £30, then going to Bolton a few weeks later and it being £60. The reciprocal arrangements are nice, a rare modern football thing of clubs not acting like a cartel to fleece the fans. God bless you, Mister Lerner!
Amen.
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To bump this up, excellent news, I do like the reciprocal agreement initiative.
I don't do away games (rarely do home games!) but it must help those that do when the club do things like this.
The club used to have a reciprocal agreement with Blackburn, think it was £25 for adults and £5 for kids. I remember one season taking my nephew to Blackburn and it costing £30, then going to Bolton a few weeks later and it being £60. The reciprocal arrangements are nice, a rare modern football thing of clubs not acting like a cartel to fleece the fans.
On a slight tangent, Charlton supporters once complained that we didn't offer concessions for kids and they did. It was pointed out that it cost more for an adult and a child at the Valley than two full price at Villa Park.
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To bump this up, excellent news, I do like the reciprocal agreement initiative.
I don't do away games (rarely do home games!) but it must help those that do when the club do things like this.
The club used to have a reciprocal agreement with Blackburn, think it was £25 for adults and £5 for kids. I remember one season taking my nephew to Blackburn and it costing £30, then going to Bolton a few weeks later and it being £60. The reciprocal arrangements are nice, a rare modern football thing of clubs not acting like a cartel to fleece the fans. God bless you, Mister Lerner!
Amen.
You cheeky young scamp.
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"That, and Manchester's a bloody great City."
It really isn't.
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"That, and Manchester's a bloody great City."
It really isn't.
It really is. I've had seven fantastic years here. I'm really into my music, and the amount of different live music venues we have is unreal, Manchester's got all of good bits of London, without the hassle.
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I don't find personally that Manchester is anything like London, it's shit. Bless them whenever they try to mention themselves in the same vain though.
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"That, and Manchester's a bloody great City."
It really isn't.
It really is. I've had seven fantastic years here. I'm really into my music, and the amount of different live music venues we have is unreal, Manchester's got all of good bits of London, without the hassle.
You do know we have music venues in Birmingham don't you? I'm wondering how old you are, because it's my guess that you are of an age where you could have 7 great years in lots of places.
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"That, and Manchester's a bloody great City."
It really isn't.
It really is. I've had seven fantastic years here. I'm really into my music, and the amount of different live music venues we have is unreal, Manchester's got all of good bits of London, without the hassle.
You do know we have music venues in Birmingham don't you? I'm wondering how old you are, because it's my guess that you are of an age where you could have 7 great years in lots of places.
30. We do have lots of music venues in Birmingham, but we don't get the variety that Manchester does, especially the smaller venues.
Each to their own.
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Manchester isn't shit. Manchester's a good city. What it isn't is the number one city in the universe, which invented the number one, cities and the universe. If it gets its act together, it might be as good as Liverpool.
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Manchester is a smaller and rougher version of Brum. The Dippers are friendlier and have less of a chip on their shoulder.
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"That, and Manchester's a bloody great City."
It really isn't.
It really is. I've had seven fantastic years here. I'm really into my music, and the amount of different live music venues we have is unreal, Manchester's got all of good bits of London, without the hassle.
I did 10 years in Manchester and loved it - moved there in 1989, just as it was going mental up there. I'm into my 15th year in London and it's another world compared to any other UK city. Manchester doesn't come close.
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Manchester is a smaller and rougher version of Brum. The Dippers are friendlier and have less of a chip on their shoulder.
I like Manchester and Liverpool. I've always found that people are pretty much the same wherever you go.
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Ever visited Walsall?
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Ever visited Walsall?
:-X :-[ :o >:( :-\
just a few of the natives of Warsaw
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I don't find personally that Manchester is anything like London, it's shit. Bless them whenever they try to mention themselves in the same vain though.
In what way is Manchester as you eloquently put it 'shit'?
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I don't find personally that Manchester is anything like London, it's shit. Bless them whenever they try to mention themselves in the same vain though.
In what way is Manchester as you eloquently put it 'shit'?
Birthplace of Terry Christian.
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30. We do have lots of music venues in Birmingham, but we don't get the variety that Manchester does, especially the smaller venues.
Each to their own.
What sort of music do you listen to?
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30. We do have lots of music venues in Birmingham, but we don't get the variety that Manchester does, especially the smaller venues.
Each to their own.
What sort of music do you listen to?
I'm into Blues, Indie, Folk, Funk, House - trying not to be genre specific. Tend to get to a gig every 2-3 weeks depending on what's on.
And yes, before you start Birmingham does have venues that cater for those genre's, but not in the way Manchester does.
I know, because I've lived in both cities.
You do get lots of artisits that announce a lot of last minute under-ground gigs in Manchester - and you dont get that in Birmingham. That opinion also comes from a lot of friends that live in Birmingham currently.
Plus the council supports with lots of live events, IE we get Manchester International Festival every two years. You dont get anything like that in Birmingham.
Anyway, this is going way off-topic. And stems from my original post, whereby I said it's a shame supports who travel the distance don't get subserdised transport deals.