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Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: andyaston on April 24, 2015, 02:05:31 PM
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Its getting silly now. As a season ticket holder for the past God knows how many seasons my loyalty will be rewarded with an opportunity to get one ticket for the FA Cup Final.
However, now im getting flooded with requests from casual Villa fans who go once or twice a season asking for Cup Final tickets! Do they not understand that I only get one ticket for the final...my own. The system is fair, one each for the near 20,000 season ticket holders, then the rest go to those who have suffered alongside the rest of us by going to the majority of home games.
Therefore, these people who can't be arsed to go down, spend their money watching the game in the pub, use excuses of not having enough money etc cannot go, and that's only fair. I try and explain this but they don't seem to understand and I'd wished they would leave me alone.
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Any spares Guv?
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However, now im getting flooded with requests from casual Villa fans who go once or twice a season asking for Cup Final tickets! Do they not understand that I only get one ticket for the final...my own. The system is fair, one each for the near 20,000 season ticket holders, then the rest go to those who have suffered alongside the rest of us by going to the majority of home games.
Away games as well. Well done, Villa
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Now I've been asked because im allowed to get 6 tickets per transacation, so now im trying to explain that it means 6 tickets per transaction each ticket being on behalf of a fellow season ticket holder.
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Not worthy of a thread on it's own so this one will do. As demand for tickets will be high. How much would it take for you to depart with yours?
£1,000, £2,000 £5,000, upwards or, no amount of money but a night with Kate Beckinsale might do the trick.
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just for you andyaston....
UTV
the Doc
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I'm willing to pay as much as £100 for two tickets. I'm from Yorkshire.
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I think this one is more appropriate.
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I must get two new requests every sodding day. I wouldn't mind if any of them made it to two or three games a season, but they don't yet still sound disappointed when I tell them no chance.
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Not worthy of a thread on it's own so this one will do. As demand for tickets will be high. How much would it take for you to depart with yours?
£1,000, £2,000 £5,000, upwards or, no amount of money but a night with Kate Beckinsale might do the trick.
She's just told me she's going to the match so you're out of luck there
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I've had a request from a mate to 'sort a brother out' with a ticket for the final. His only appearance at VP in the last 2 years came when I got him a free ticket because I knew a season ticket holder who couldn't go to the Fulham game last season.
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Someone I know has counted his requests. 128 as of yesterday morning.
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Someone I know has counted his requests. 128 as of yesterday morning.
I bet you get a load yourself.
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It warms the heart to see loads of secondary sites with tickets on sale for upwards of £400.00 before either club has started selling them.
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I have had plenty of requests. And I don't know how big an offer it would take to part with my ticket but it would have to be substantial.
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Think I'd only consider selling mine for 5k upwards (so safe to say I won't get any offers that tempt me to).
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as I could not go to in 2000, it's priceless to me...
UTV
The Doc
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As Kate is going herself the sale of my seat will not be going ahead
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Turn it round - if the tickets were all auctioned what would you pay?
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Turn it round - if the tickets were all auctioned what would you pay?
You mean how much would I pay for a night with Kate?
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I'm working outside and two of the poor and needy of the parish who have been in the pub opposite since 11 this morning have just told me it's alright for me because I'm a ST holder and get my Final ticket automatically; in fact I've already got it and it was free.
Trying to work out which planet they've been beamed down from.
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Turn it round - if the tickets were all auctioned what would you pay?
You mean how much would I pay for a night with Kate?
Or to put it another way, which would you prefer - a day at Wembley or a night with Kate.
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Always amuses me how you always get some who can't be arsed turning up more than once in a blue moon but get pissed off that they can't get a ticket for a big game. And then get pissed at you for not getting them one either*
*This isn't a better fan type post, i'm talking the type we all know who just cannot be arsed going rather than has a legitimate reason like work/family/health/finances etc.
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Turn it round - if the tickets were all auctioned what would you pay?
You mean how much would I pay for a night with Kate?
Or to put it another way, which would you prefer - a day at Wembley or a night with Kate.
I'm going to have to give this some serious thought.
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I feel your pain but imagine if you are due to be an usher at a wedding on cup final day.
:'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
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Turn it round - if the tickets were all auctioned what would you pay?
You mean how much would I pay for a night with Kate?
Or to put it another way, which would you prefer - a day at Wembley or a night with Kate.
I'm going to have to give this some serious thought.
Presumably in the shower. Both isn't an option.
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I feel your pain but imagine if you are due to be an usher at a wedding on cup final day.
:'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
I was talking to someone today who goes to most of the games so qualify for a ticket but they booked their holiday when they thought the season would end when it normally does. Her plane is due to land back in the UK around 5pm on the 30th May. Bit of a bugger.
Before anyone asks, she's giving her ticket to her son.
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If I did have a ticket I wouldnt sell it for all the tea in china, once in a lifetime opportunity to see us lift the cup
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I've had a request from a mate to 'sort a brother out'
Hook me up a jawn too, homie.
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I feel your pain but imagine if you are due to be an usher at a wedding on cup final day.
:'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
My friend's son has a mate who's best man at a wedding on cup final day.
Season ticket holder for several years, too
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Turn it round - if the tickets were all auctioned what would you pay?
You mean how much would I pay for a night with Kate?
Or to put it another way, which would you prefer - a day at Wembley or a night with Kate.
I'm going to have to give this some serious thought.
It's a vexatious conundrum, and no mistake.
(http://celebmafia.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Kate-Beckinsale-2.jpg)
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I have had plenty of requests. And I don't know how big an offer it would take to part with my ticket but it would have to be substantial.
I can't think of any amount of money which would be enough. It would have to be an offer to build a new children's hospital or something like that. And even then I would probably refuse.
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I have had plenty of requests. And I don't know how big an offer it would take to part with my ticket but it would have to be substantial.
I can't think of any amount of money which would be enough. It would have to be an offer to build a new children's hospital or something like that. And even then I would probably refuse.
You've just practically murdered a load of poorly children. Up the Villa!
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I'd sell my ticket for the price it costs to buy Arsenal. Then I'd sack the manager, put Joey Essex in charge and sign the Blues team.
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I have had plenty of requests. And I don't know how big an offer it would take to part with my ticket but it would have to be substantial.
I can't think of any amount of money which would be enough. It would have to be an offer to build a new children's hospital or something like that. And even then I would probably refuse.
You've just practically murdered a load of poorly children. Up the Villa!
Mwhahahahaha, maniacal laugh...
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Not worthy of a thread on it's own so this one will do. As demand for tickets will be high. How much would it take for you to depart with yours?
£1,000, £2,000 £5,000, upwards or, no amount of money but a night with Kate Beckinsale might do the trick.
You could off me a night each with Rihanna, Beyoncé, Nicole Scherzinger, Cheryl Cole and Ashley Roberts and the answer would still be NO.
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Its possible that my dad will miss out on the cup final as like others he gave up his season ticket at the end of last season. He's in his mid-sixties and our appearance in FA Cup finals isn't exactly a regular occurrence. Should I give him my ticket for the final?
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Not worthy of a thread on it's own so this one will do. As demand for tickets will be high. How much would it take for you to depart with yours?
£1,000, £2,000 £5,000, upwards or, no amount of money but a night with Kate Beckinsale might do the trick.
You could off me a night each with Rihanna, Beyoncé, Nicole Scherzinger, Cheryl Cole and Ashley Roberts and the answer would still be NO.
Unless you tell us which team you bat for we can't judge whether that is a big sacrifice or not...
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Turn it round - if the tickets were all auctioned what would you pay?
You mean how much would I pay for a night with Kate?
Or to put it another way, which would you prefer - a day at Wembley or a night with Kate.
I'm going to have to give this some serious thought.
It's a vexatious conundrum, and no mistake.
(http://celebmafia.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Kate-Beckinsale-2.jpg)
Mmm...Kate....sorry what were we talking about???
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Its possible that my dad will miss out on the cup final as like others he gave up his season ticket at the end of last season. He's in his mid-sixties and our appearance in FA Cup finals isn't exactly a regular occurrence. Should I give him my ticket for the final?
An FA Cup final is something father and son have to go through together. In fact, you're better off giving the ticket to me and watching it in the pub together. ;)
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Not worthy of a thread on it's own so this one will do. As demand for tickets will be high. How much would it take for you to depart with yours?
£1,000, £2,000 £5,000, upwards or, no amount of money but a night with Kate Beckinsale might do the trick.
You could off me a night each with Rihanna, Beyoncé, Nicole Scherzinger, Cheryl Cole and Ashley Roberts and the answer would still be NO.
Unless you tell us which team you bat for we can't judge whether that is a big sacrifice or not...
Although if you were to promise make sure Olly Murs and any of the One Direction pricks were to never grace the tv screens ever again then you stand a chance lol
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Like many I gave up my ST this season in protest - however I have attended all but one home game - this allows me a fair chance of a ticket. I have only had two requests the best being the friend of my Baggie supporting uncle who he describes as a "hardened" Villa fan who has been twice this season - I'm still trying to work out exactly what "hardened" means?
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Like many I gave up my ST this season in protest - however I have attended all but one home game - this allows me a fair chance of a ticket. I have only had two requests the best being the friend of my Baggie supporting uncle who he describes as a "hardened" Villa fan who has been twice this season - I'm still trying to work out exactly what "hardened" means?
Its probably Albion-level literacy-speak for "ardent."
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I'd sell my ticket for the price it costs to buy Arsenal. Then I'd sack the manager, put Joey Essex in charge and sign the Blues team.
Poor thinking there Mr Little. Buy Arsenal if you choose, then give Villa all their allocation of tickets. After that you can implement your long term plan....
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I'm hardened...after looking at that photo of Kate Beckinsale.
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I don't want to be greedy, so the aforementioned £5000 seems reasonable. However it would have to be delivered in person by Kaley Cuoco
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I had a request and i don't even qualify myself. I'm just known to be a villa fan. I'll not be contacting anyone direct but i'll put a general plea out on twitter occasionally.
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My song vote..
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Its getting silly now. As a season ticket holder for the past God knows how many seasons my loyalty will be rewarded with an opportunity to get one ticket for the FA Cup Final.
However, now im getting flooded with requests from casual Villa fans who go once or twice a season asking for Cup Final tickets! Do they not understand that I only get one ticket for the final...my own. The system is fair, one each for the near 20,000 season ticket holders, then the rest go to those who have suffered alongside the rest of us by going to the majority of home games.
Therefore, these people who can't be arsed to go down, spend their money watching the game in the pub, use excuses of not having enough money etc cannot go, and that's only fair. I try and explain this but they don't seem to understand and I'd wished they would leave me alone.
Tell them then.
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I couldn't sell it. There's not any money in the world that would make me equally as happy.
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There was a period in my life when my little un was born when I was so skint that I would have taken the seemingly £500 market value of the ticket as it would have been unfair on him and my wife not to.
So if anyone is in that position now and you need to do that you have my complete sympathy and respect.
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I heard of one fair-weather Villa fan, an Ofsted inspector from the south coast who was in Milton Keynes on Monday, that thought he deserved a ticket, even though he'd only seen Villa play once this season!
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I'm willing to pay as much as £100 for two tickets. I'm from Yorkshire.
In that case I am surprised you are willing to pay!
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I think the criteria should be...were you at Villa Park on 22/12/1989 to see us beat Forest on a freezing night in the ZDS Cup?
Me and 6,529 others would be off to Wemberlee!
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I've been to one game this season, 2 last and about 4 the year before. I held a season ticket previously for about 10 years and travelled to a lot of away games.
Today I got offered a ticket for the final from my brother-in-law even though I had not once asked him.
Result.
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I'm willing to pay as much as £100 for two tickets. I'm from Yorkshire.
In that case I am surprised you are willing to pay!
I could buy a house up here for that.
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I don't want to be greedy, so the aforementioned £5000 seems reasonable. However it would have to be delivered in person by Kaley Cuoco
Even since she cut her hair?
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My song vote..
thats what I thought too when I saw the thread title!
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As a season ticket holder of the last 8 years, I gave up mine this season because I was bored of the same shit over and over again. I'd had enough.
To the games I've been to this season, I have not regretted it, because the large part of it has been shit (only been to one TS game, against Swansea, which was hardly inspiring).
Whilst I couldn't have been any more happier when we reached the FA Cup final, there was a little bit of me that thought "You fucking bastards!", but even that was with a smile on my face.
However, if not going to games means winning the FA Cup, then I'll take that (not that me being there has any influence over the result).
Fucking bastards...
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I'd only take the Kate deal if it meant she was my sex slave for a full year. I mean otherwise I'd be exchanging a ticket for what?... A maximum of around 90 seconds if I'm on form. Maybe 30 seconds ET if i can think of Miranda but that would spoil the experience.
Shit. I've not even got a ticket to make this happen.
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I think the criteria should be...were you at Villa Park on 22/12/1989 to see us beat Forest on a freezing night in the ZDS Cup?
Me and 6,529 others would be off to Wemberlee!
I was there on that sparse Holte End on a Friday night if memory serves me. At least we won and I did some xmas shopping in that hut of a shop near the Travellers Club.
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I was there.....had had far too much to drink, fell down the terrace at the top of the Holte, and sang, 'Gagey is back, Gagey is back' on my own, and got a wave from him!!!!
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I am expecting to pay quite a lot from a tout
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Would anyone willingly submit to Five More Years for a victory is what I'd like to know. Must admit it's a toughie.
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It would have to be a lot of money to tempt me to part.
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I've just been offered two by my barber - grand each and in the Arsenal end!!
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My song vote..
thats what I thought too when I saw the thread title!
Me three!
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Would anyone willingly submit to Five More Years for a victory is what I'd like to know. Must admit it's a toughie.
It was cold and it rained and I felt like an actor
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Would anyone willingly submit to Five More Years for a victory is what I'd like to know. Must admit it's a toughie.
Five more years of the coalition or five more years of utter shite football?
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Would anyone willingly submit to Five More Years for a victory is what I'd like to know. Must admit it's a toughie.
It was cold and it rained and I felt like an actor
My brain hurt a shit load watching Lambert.
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I think the criteria should be...were you at Villa Park on 22/12/1989 to see us beat Forest on a freezing night in the ZDS Cup?
Me and 6,529 others would be off to Wemberlee!
I was there on that sparse Holte End on a Friday night if memory serves me. At least we won and I did some xmas shopping in that hut of a shop near the Travellers Club.
I was on the Holte that night too. There was a great conga going on.
PS. Andy, can you get me a final ticket please?
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I think the criteria should be...were you at Villa Park on 22/12/1989 to see us beat Forest on a freezing night in the ZDS Cup?
Me and 6,529 others would be off to Wemberlee!
I was there on that sparse Holte End on a Friday night if memory serves me. At least we won and I did some xmas shopping in that hut of a shop near the Travellers Club.
I was on the Holte that night too. There was a great conga going on.
PS. Andy, can you get me a final ticket please?
I would have been just turned 5 and would have had reception in the morning. Don't think my mum would have allowed it.
I did make my debut that season though. My first game was 1-0 at home to Derby that season.
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Don't knock those non-attenders who insist they deserve a CF ticket.
I 'deserve' a ticket because, when I lived in Brum, I saw every home game when we were stuck in the third division. No one can impugn my loyalty.
Whether I 'deserve it more than the folk who go down every fortnight is more doubtful.
Of course, the real issue here is the standard shocking distribution of tickets to the two clubs involved.
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I don't think the f a think that the fans of the clubs involved deserve tickets.If fact the f a probably think that the 2 sets of fans actually hinder the f a's attempt to make even more money. One question for the f a though.. Where the fuck would you be without the supporters that attend games.
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What a self righteous post.
I think more than 25,000 Villa supporters 'deserve' to go the FA Cup final. I no longer have a season ticket and will be one of the unfortunates scrambling around for one of the remaining 5,000, but make no mistake, I'll be trying my luck at every opportunity and couldn'the give a flying one if it knocks a few noses out of joint.
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Well some cannot make it to every game.
....living now more than a couple hundred miles away from VP. I would like the chance of a ticket, and not have to "badger" and grovel on here for a spare.
It's that desperate I have asked the SFA for a ticket, as they wouldn't need it.
I even have tenuous links to TSM, and have reached out to him to see i I can get a ticket through him.
In advance I have even changed my work rota so I am off just in case.
P.S. any one got a spare
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Villa gets me high and low, and has done for many years. But I can't get a season ticket as every trip is more than 3 times the price of a season ticket. But I understand that this is the only way the club objectively can divide to few tickets to supporters.
FA are the real problem.
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I think it's right that the more you go to VP the higher the chance of getting a final ticket. I didn't qualify for one in 2010 as I had a lot of personal stuff going on in my life that year so only went to a couple of games, sod's law that comfortably the worst season of my life for attending games and we got to Wembley twice. But them's the breaks. So i've missed out in the past.
And put it another way, how happy would you be if you'd been to say 15 games a season but missed out on a ticket while someone who went twice got one?
When demand is higher than supply, how else are they meant to do it that remains fair?
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I don't qualify for a ticket under the club's criteria and have no problem with that whatsoever. I think it's fair. What isn't fair is releasing 25,000 tickets to each club, resulting in ticket searches that yield nothing less than several hundred quid a ticket. Money is no object for some, but certainly not for all. The FA are arseholes and the sooner Wembley is paid off, the better.
I've been lucky enough to see Villa at Wembley old and new a few times, but I'm still trying to get a ticket that's within my newborn-second-child and wife-on-maternity-leave means.
I also don't blame one single Villa fan who tries to get a ticket any which way they can. If you didn't qualify for one, what would you do?
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If you didn't qualify for one, what would you do?
See sig for details.
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The FA showed what they think of fans with the price increase between the semi and the final.
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I should get one ticket but my 16 year old son may just miss out. I've already decided that I won't go to the game without him so have desperately been looking for an alternative pair of tickets. I work for a lot of wealthy London folk and have without question phoned them all and asked if they can help get tickets. I also coach a youth team and the senior section of the club down here in deepest Dorset have two tickets every year. I phoned another local club and again they entered me in a raffle for two tickets. If you don't ask you don't get. Of course if I do get some then I will have have a spare!
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My Dad is a running coach in Southampton & they sometimes use Saints' physio. He has sent an email offering an extra £50 to the charity of his choice if he can find one or two tickets for us!
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I don't expect to see allocations change or prices reduce once Wembley's paid for. Even after the London Jaguars start playing, the FA will just continue to milk their cash cow.
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How would the FA be milking it by keeping ticket allocations to final teams low? Other than rewarding sponsors with X-amount of tickets as part of £X-sponsorship package, I'm not sure how that works...and they could just as easily increase the cost of corporate sponsorship packages and reduce corporate ticket allocations without even having to justify it (even if the simple economics of supply and demand would).
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Anyone got a spare, then?
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Even after the London Jaguars start playing
The what, what?
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Even after the London Jaguars start playing
The what, what?
Roid rage rugby.
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My wife has been briefed to listen in to conversations at the bar she works in full of city types and any mention of "Cup Final" ask for tickets. If Alan Brazil pops in she has been told to ask him about tickets as he owes me two bottles of champagne; he shares the same birthday as me and one of the bar staff and has said he will buy us one the last two years and failed to do so.
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Its getting silly now. As a season ticket holder for the past God knows how many seasons my loyalty will be rewarded with an opportunity to get one ticket for the FA Cup Final.
However, now im getting flooded with requests from casual Villa fans who go once or twice a season asking for Cup Final tickets! Do they not understand that I only get one ticket for the final...my own. The system is fair, one each for the near 20,000 season ticket holders, then the rest go to those who have suffered alongside the rest of us by going to the majority of home games.
Therefore, these people who can't be arsed to go down, spend their money watching the game in the pub, use excuses of not having enough money etc cannot go, and that's only fair. I try and explain this but they don't seem to understand and I'd wished they would leave me alone.
I already have a Cup Final ticket, but if you've got a spare I'll take it off your hands Andy
Only kidding
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Its getting silly now. As a season ticket holder for the past God knows how many seasons my loyalty will be rewarded with an opportunity to get one ticket for the FA Cup Final.
However, now im getting flooded with requests from casual Villa fans who go once or twice a season asking for Cup Final tickets! Do they not understand that I only get one ticket for the final...my own. The system is fair, one each for the near 20,000 season ticket holders, then the rest go to those who have suffered alongside the rest of us by going to the majority of home games.
Therefore, these people who can't be arsed to go down, spend their money watching the game in the pub, use excuses of not having enough money etc cannot go, and that's only fair. I try and explain this but they don't seem to understand and I'd wished they would leave me alone.
I already have a Cup Final ticket, but if you've got a spare I'll take it off your hands Andy
Only kidding
Yes no problems...