Gaps & Spaces = the sign of apathy

[richardhubbard]

I had season tickets for last 5 years but end of last season gave them up. I took myself and 3 boys to the Wigan game which was OK and got 4 tickets for 60 quid which again was ok. But after lunch and adding fuel costs etc, it over 120 quid for one game.

I earn a decent wage but cannot afford that every home game. I was half tempted thro to renew for 3 season tickets for half season tickets at £350 quid, 35 pound a game which was decent .

But come the WBA game , after speaking to Joe C and seeing how shit it was, I cannot be bothered.

Times are tough and extra income to spend on villa has gone, 350 quid on villa game or something else to buy , I going for something else .

[D.boy]

We're shit
McLeish is clueless
It's too expensive (up to £47 for that? laughable)
The football is diabolical

Simple really.

Is there anything about our club that you actually like?

The pies.

I think the pies are shite

I was saying that BCV probably likes the pies, as he is negative about everything else. I havn't tried the pies for yonks.

[villa `cross the mersey]

I had season tickets for last 5 years but end of last season gave them up. I took myself and 3 boys to the Wigan game which was OK and got 4 tickets for 60 quid which again was ok. But after lunch and adding fuel costs etc, it over 120 quid for one game.

I earn a decent wage but cannot afford that every home game. I was half tempted thro to renew for 3 season tickets for half season tickets at £350 quid, 35 pound a game which was decent .

But come the WBA game , after speaking to Joe C and seeing how shit it was, I cannot be bothered.

Times are tough and extra income to spend on villa has gone, 350 quid on villa game or something else to buy , I going for something else .

Believe me Richard, you ARE doing the right thing, plus the M6 seems to get worse each time I use it - They should just permanently close junctions 14 and 15 and build a new link road around them !.

[UsualSuspect]

We're shit
McLeish is clueless
It's too expensive (up to £47 for that? laughable)
The football is diabolical

Simple really.

This.

I've just looked at the OS and the cheapest Norwich ticket is 24 quid for an adult. I expect a sub 30K attendance unless it's knocked down to 15.

[Legion]

£10 if you attended the training session.

[TimTheVillain]

We're shit
McLeish is clueless
It's too expensive (up to £47 for that? laughable)
The football is diabolical

Simple really.

This.

I've just looked at the OS and the cheapest Norwich ticket is 24 quid for an adult. I expect a sub 30K attendance unless it's knocked down to 15.

Norwich will sell out.

That may save it from being sub 30k.

May not of course.

[dave.woodhall]

We're shit
McLeish is clueless
It's too expensive (up to £47 for that? laughable)
The football is diabolical

Simple really.

This.

I've just looked at the OS and the cheapest Norwich ticket is 24 quid for an adult. I expect a sub 30K attendance unless it's knocked down to 15.

And then it should be £10. And so on.

[Villanation]

We have Sunderland away next followed by Norwich, after that the real hard games come thick and fast as we head up to Christmas, the next 2 games are vital in terms of results to take forward some momentum and try to make sure we get a decent home gate.

[Dan England]

Unless we "win the lottery" like Man city or Chelsea it will become increasingly pointless as time goes on, as the targets and expectations of the club get squeezed each year.

We cant compete financially, and if we try to compete by developing youth players they will be off
as soon as they become half decent - so for a club in our position what is the point?

I would agree.

Hope has continued to keep me attending "maybe it will be our year for the...."

But as time goes on the more it becomes apparent that it will never be our year for anything!

Football in the PL really needs to look at itself and realise that without us the fans, the football will slowly die

The scary thing is it will probably happen very quickly when it does. The whole league needs competition to be successful otherwise people soon find better things to do with their time/money. At the end of the day all supporters go for the winning feeling , the fewer teams that do the winning the less interested fans get. When money wasn't the be all of success a bad season would be countered with maybe next year, that I'm sad to say is no longer the case. We will not win the league next year neither will Spurs, Everton, Newcastle, Arsenal or Liverpool. How sad is it when you can say that 18 months before the season finishes. The question that then follows is why bother?

[dorsetvilla]

After 30 years of travelling up to the Villa from the South Coast, I decided at the end of last season that I just wasn't enjoying it any more, so didn't renew my lads or my season ticket. I intended to have a year off from watching the villa and then see how I felt. Most of my friends and family didn't believe that I wouldn't get a season ticket, or attend any games for a whole season.

Nine matches in and I must say how easy it has been. I've recently moved house, so the extra time and money comes in useful. I had forgotten what a two day weekend was like! I still watch the games on the net and still get p****d off when we loose, but I'm really not sure if I will return.

My son's birthday was last weekend and I thought maybe a surprise trip to Villa to see the Albion game would be good, but come Saturday morning I just couldn't be bothered.

I'm not sure if it's me, or football that's changed, but watching the Villa was something I previouusly could never consider not doing. Nine games in to this season  I'm now not so sure.

Dorset Villa

 

[PeterWithesShin]

We're shit
McLeish is clueless
It's too expensive (up to £47 for that? laughable)
The football is diabolical

Simple really.

This.

I've just looked at the OS and the cheapest Norwich ticket is 24 quid for an adult. I expect a sub 30K attendance unless it's knocked down to 15.

So you want us to charge less than Kiddy do?

[richardhubbard]

£10 if you attended the training session.

Legion that's fine if you live in bham

[adrenachrome]

My son's birthday was last weekend and I thought maybe a surprise trip to Villa to see the Albion game would be good, but come Saturday morning I just couldn't be bothered.

Good call to miss that clusterfuck.

[Barca 2011]

After 30 years of travelling up to the Villa from the South Coast, I decided at the end of last season that I just wasn't enjoying it any more, so didn't renew my lads or my season ticket. I intended to have a year off from watching the villa and then see how I felt. Most of my friends and family didn't believe that I wouldn't get a season ticket, or attend any games for a whole season.

Nine matches in and I must say how easy it has been. I've recently moved house, so the extra time and money comes in useful. I had forgotten what a two day weekend was like! I still watch the games on the net and still get p****d off when we loose, but I'm really not sure if I will return.

My son's birthday was last weekend and I thought maybe a surprise trip to Villa to see the Albion game would be good, but come Saturday morning I just couldn't be bothered.

I'm not sure if it's me, or football that's changed, but watching the Villa was something I previouusly could never consider not doing. Nine games in to this season  I'm now not so sure.

Dorset Villa

 

football has changed, not for the better. Unless you are one of the 'Sky' 5 or is it 6
you cannot attract the better  players. For the last 4 years we have lost our best players because of it.
Everyone is now thinking Who Next? Bent?

Also its so easy to watch games on the net these days, I watch every Villa game live in Spain every week.However every defeat hurts just as much to me, but I don't get the stick I would get back in the UK, WHICH HELPS!!

[pauliewalnuts]

Why do people throw in lunch costs when they're showing how much it costs to go to the game? What happens if you dont go? Do you go without food?

I agree, though, the whole shebang is way, way too expensive.