woeful attendance

[PeterWithesShin]

My personal feeling is he's wanted us to be more attacking all along, but only know are the players starting to play how he wants. It's not as though we've been starting with negative lineups all season.

[mozza]

The 'take your mates for a fiver' promotion didn't stir up any takers from my circle of friends who have stopped
going down to B6 -

This morning my local newsagent told me he watched the game live at his golf club, no need to queue for a drink, food
or the washroom..........it's not just the McLeish factor that is affecting attendances -   

[Chris Smith]

The Holte corners were fuller than recently so people did take advantage but it might just have been people who were going to go anyway buying cheaper seats.

[kippaxvilla2]

The Holte corners were fuller than recently so people did take advantage but it might just have been people who were going to go anyway buying cheaper seats.

Was it just me or did the lower Holte look like there were lots of empty seats?

[PeterWithesShin]

The Holte corners were fuller than recently so people did take advantage but it might just have been people who were going to go anyway buying cheaper seats.

Was it just me or did the lower Holte look like there were lots of empty seats?

The middle bits looked emptier than usual.

Weird thing is, it seemed quite busy outside the ground, probably the busiest i've seen it so far this season. I even said to Legion it looked like we might have a half decent crowd.

In hindsight, everyone was probably just hanging about outside enjoying the sun.

[Des Little]

Football's going to hell in handcart I tells ya!

[radiorental]

The Website ticket pricing is all over the place and confusing for many and needs sorting out. 

If they are going to offer ticket deals they ought to stop fleecing families. Both Blackburn and Wigan tickets were priced Holte lower wings Junior/Adult combo £36 or 2 adult combo for £30?

On both occasions have gone for the 2 for £30 with my 8 year old son but website does not make this particularly clear and people are feeling ripped off (like the bloke with his son sat next to me yesterday who had paid the extra £6 for same seats).

Things are very tight and having to pick and choose games carefully. Have told my son he can go to most of the low priced home games (also against poorer teams we might stand a chance of winning - is a good option with an 8 year old and has worked well so far this season Blackburn, Hereford and Wigan!) 

Also what is so special about Norwich? Cheapest I can find for two of us is £42 when expecting another £30 or £36 deal again so might as well take my son up the baggies game instead for £45, better atmosphere and all that, and I'm not going to be on my own here am I, so more empty seats for the Norwich game I guess.   

[Fuse]

I think the biggest problem is the fact yoni can watch the game in the pub for half what you would spend at the game and people are quite happy staying local to home.

[dave.woodhall]

I think the biggest problem is the fact yoni can watch the game in the pub for half what you would spend at the game and people are quite happy staying local to home.

That's certainly part of the biggest problem. Since 1992 football has become increasingly a TV sport.

[kippaxvilla2]

I think the biggest problem is the fact yoni can watch the game in the pub for half what you would spend at the game and people are quite happy staying local to home.

That's certainly part of the biggest problem. Since 1992 football has become increasingly a TV sport.

Not forgetting the streams happily supplied by H&V.

[KRS]

Once ppl stop going to football matches so regularly they tend to find other things to do with their time and/or find other ways of watching the match or keeping tabs on the result. Over the course of time, it then actually becomes an inconvenience to go to the game regardless of the price especially when the atmosphere and football being served up doesnt provide a worthwhile experience in money or time.

Personally, I simply cant afford to go to as many games as I would like to anymore, and I hate to admit it, but I've recently started to think that on the occasions that I've been down over the last few seasons, that time and money could possibly have been better spent else where. I used to be a season ticket holder, I grew up on the Holte and have followed the Villa up and down the country, so it really is a horrible feeling.

[Whiney MacWhineface]

It's clearly not just us. I got a begging letter last week from Danny Murphy urging me to go to tthe Fulham-QPR game. Despite being a very local derby they got about 2,000 under capacity (23.766 turned up).

[Matt Collins]

I've never understood how bars are able to so openly show games at 3pm on saturdays. I thought it was illegal?

[nick harper]

I've never understood how bars are able to so openly show games at 3pm on saturdays. I thought it was illegal?

There is a European Court Judgment this week that may well do that. A landlady in Portsmouth has gone to court to retain the right to show PL 3 pm Saturday games via a Greek satellite, the argument being that she should be freely able to purchase the rights anywhere in the European Union.

[radiorental]

Like KRS I used to go home and away but just can't afford it these days and miss the away matches dearly.  To be honest I'm only going down for the sake of my son. Players excessive wages and no hope of the likes of us, Newcastle etc. having a pop at the title every now and then as used to be the case has just ruined it for me.

Back to my original point re Website ticket purchasing, forgot to mention that for the exact same seats if purchased via select a seat would be even more (£24 adult and £19 junior I think - whatever happened to half price under 16's and OAP's). The website can easily trick people in to paying much more than necessary. If people get ripped off once they probably won't come back and the OS e ticketing section could do with pop ups stating that cheaper options for same seats are available.

Enough of moaning on here I think an email to the club is in order.