The General C. Krulak Thread XIV

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[Villafirst]

Hi General,

I'm a little bit surprised that the club are charging £3 to get into the F.A Youth Cup Semi Final against Newcastle. I know £3 is'nt much, but it if was free to ST ticket holders for example (which it should be really), it might encourage a few to get down there and get behind the future of the club.

Agree with this. I've been to other FA Youth Cup semis and Finals and got in on my season ticket free. I thought this was one of the perks of a ST, sadly I'm wrong. Won't be going now. The club have made a small fortune out of the cup runs this season. This is an own goal - the youth team won't have as many fans to cheer them on now.

[ckrulak]

General Krulak here:

1.  davevillan:  Again, this is a question that is very easily handled by the ticket office...please call Nicky Keye and she will give you chapter and verse on your question.

2.  Cost of semi-final youth cup:  At the end of the day, 3 quid might seem to be a rip off or, at minimum, something that should be free.  My answer is that it costs money to "open" Villa Park to these games.  We just don't throw open the doors and people stroll in for a match...it takes a good deal of infrastructure work, stewards, utilities, etc. etc.  We would LOVE to make these games free but we cannot make everything free.  This is not money grubbing...we are only asking 3 quid.

[Villafirst]

General Krulak here:

1.  davevillan:  Again, this is a question that is very easily handled by the ticket office...please call Nicky Keye and she will give you chapter and verse on your question.

2.  Cost of semi-final youth cup:  At the end of the day, 3 quid might seem to be a rip off or, at minimum, something that should be free.  My answer is that it costs money to "open" Villa Park to these games.  We just don't throw open the doors and people stroll in for a match...it takes a good deal of infrastructure work, stewards, utilities, etc. etc.  We would LOVE to make these games free but we cannot make everything free.  This is not money grubbing...we are only asking 3 quid.

Hi General,

I'm not saying everyone to be allowed in free - just ST holders - it used to be free perk years ago. Are you going to start charging ST holders to watch the reserves as it costs so much money to let us in!?

[dave.woodhall]

Youth Cup game used to cost. It's only in the last few years that they were free. Reserves have always been free to season ticket holders.

[lovejoy]

For christ sake its £3. If that is too much for you don't go.

General more of a comment than a question - the vast majority of Villa fans are extremely pleased with the progress since Randy (and yourself became involved). Inevitably on these forums you will have moaners mouthing off - I'm sure they have them on the Barcelona websites too - please continue to run the club as you have and don't start pandering to these people spouting off. Empty cans make the most noise

[BC54 VFC]

For christ sake its £3. If that is too much for you don't go.

General more of a comment than a question - the vast majority of Villa fans are extremely pleased with the progress since Randy (and yourself became involved). Inevitably on these forums you will have moaners mouthing off - I'm sure they have them on the Barcelona websites too - please continue to run the club as you have and don't start pandering to these people spouting off. Empty cans make the most noise

Seconded.

[Brazilian Villain]

General,
There are a lot of out of town supporters who travel to games as and when they can, a large number of these may well be eligible for semi-final tickets. But with only personal callers being allowed to purchase tickets next week due to posting the tickets out, a lot of loyal supporters will have to miss out due to not being able to get to Villa Park in the week.
Is there any way that supporters who cant get to Villa Park, pick up tickets from Wembley on the day, or if not, can this be taken into consideration in future, and maybe go on sale to non-season ticket holders earlier.
I appreciate that however the club do it, someone is always going to miss out.

Dave, thanks for raising this. Could you please post the ticket office response here as I'll be in Brasil tomorrow and may not be able to call as the General advised?

I'm flying back from the Carribbean for this as I did for Everton away and the CC Final this year. I had hoped to get a ticket in the Villa end but the personal callers restriction has put the kibosh on the that. Due to work I can only take 1 day off and will only be in the UK for 23 hours from Sat 10am. Obviously it's not feasible to get to the ticket office on Sat. from Heathrow.

[cdbearsfan]

General,

any idea if we are on course to sell our allocations for Bolton and Wembley?

[pauliewalnuts]

It is getting very frustrating now but can we please keep thus thread for questions ONLY or we'll have to start deleting posts.

[TimTheVillain]

General,

What is your 'take' on Tony 'ex Villa player' Cascarino's article ....

http://tinyurl.com/ykypaug

[pablopicasso_10]

edit... delete me...

[kipeye]

You have to be reading too much into this Pablo. He doesn't say anything of the sort and I don't see him as one who makes threats.
He is Irish, but he is a straight speaker nonetheless. Oops-forgot to add the question.
General, would you agree with me?

[Fasth56]

General

I am a season ticket holder and have been for more years than I care to remember. In these austere times we all may have to tighten our belts.
I am not naive enough to believe that you will come out and say how much MON might have to spend or whether he will need to sell in order to buy in the summer. However, if selling to buy is the order of the day, I can only see our better players being wanted or attract the best prices. In turn, I will then have to judge whether I intend to invest upwards of £1000 for a product that could be inferior to this.

[Stumpy-]

Thats the spirit Fasth56!