Pre-Season Matches 2013

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Just in case you're wondering, its 6 quid to get to Wycombe from Moor Street on Saturday arriving there at 14 16

Don't forget it a good walk from the station to the ground, which is situated on the edge of town. 

[Alan Rock]

Just in case you're wondering, its 6 quid to get to Wycombe from Moor Street on Saturday arriving there at 14 16

Don't forget it a good walk from the station to the ground, which is situated on the edge of town.

You are not wrong there.!! I've been to Wycombe
twice and the station is nowhere near the ground.

[TheTimVilla]

Walk down the high street to the bus station, then get a bus to the top of the hill. It's too far to walk.

[Dave Clark Five]

Ordered my ticket for the Malaga game last week. For anyone who usually parks at King Edwards the school car park will be open for that game (I emailed Helen at the PA to confirm).

As an aside - great that Villa are live streaming the pre-season games, but where can I get 'legal'/pay for live streaming of away games during the season? I usually watch on First Row Sports but in the news last week there was an item about trying to get the free streaming sites shut down so may have to start paying. Scandalous!

I'm fairly sure there aren't any.  Its a case of go to the game, or pay shitloads of money for a Sky/BT subscription (where you'll get half a dozen away games a season if your lucky).

Kinda sucks for those of us who can't make it to many away games because its so hard to get onto the away scheme if you aren't a season ticket holder....

Is it possible to get into the away scheme at all without being a Season Ticket Holder?
Considering it was / is limited to 1000 people, surely it is only right that Season Ticket Holders get the first pick?

[PeterWithesShin]

Boldmere St Michaels 1-3 Villa - 55 mins: A flurry of changes for Villa - Brad Watkins, Tomas Zazrivec, Daniel O'Brien, Khalid Abdo and Thomas Strain on for Benji Siegrist, Henry Cowans, Jerell Sellars, Callum Robinson and Jack Grealish.

[PeterWithesShin]

Boldmere 2-6 Villa - GOAL - 84 mins: It finished 6-2 to Villa here last season and we could have a repeat on our hands. Thomas Strain has bagged his second and perhaps the pick of the bunch - a stunning 25-yard volley.

[The Left Side]

Finished 3-6 to the Villa babbies.

[dekko]

^^^^Is that Henry Cowans any relation to Sid?

Is it possible to get into the away scheme at all without being a Season Ticket Holder?
Considering it was / is limited to 1000 people, surely it is only right that Season Ticket Holders get the first pick?

S/T holders get first priority, followed by people who have attended x-number of away fixtures, then x-number of home etc etc, but what it means in practice is that only season ticket holders really get to away games.

It is without a doubt the fairest way to allocate tickets and I'm not complaining about the system.  I just don't like how now that the streaming sites are getting shut down those of us who for work and/or financial reasons cannot go to many games have to make do with just the highlights.

Although I suppose back in the mists of time before the internet thats how it was.  I guess I'll have to lump it.


EDIT: Not away scheme, just getting away tickets in general

[Dave Clark Five]

^^^^Is that Henry Cowans any relation to Sid?

Is it possible to get into the away scheme at all without being a Season Ticket Holder?
Considering it was / is limited to 1000 people, surely it is only right that Season Ticket Holders get the first pick?

EDIT: Not away scheme, just getting away tickets in general

Subtle difference.

[dekko]

^^^^Is that Henry Cowans any relation to Sid?

Is it possible to get into the away scheme at all without being a Season Ticket Holder?
Considering it was / is limited to 1000 people, surely it is only right that Season Ticket Holders get the first pick?

EDIT: Not away scheme, just getting away tickets in general

Subtle difference.

Yeah I just re-read what I posted and it turns out I'm talking out of my backside. DISREGARD

[Dave Cooper please]

^^^^Is that Henry Cowans any relation to Sid?

His son.

[peter w]

How is son of Sid progressing? I like the name Henry Cowans. Not only because of his dad but it also resonantes of 1890's players and success.

[Hillbilly]

I like his name because it sounds like Henry Cow, Fred Frith's band.

[PeterWithe]

How is son of Sid progressing? I like the name Henry Cowans. Not only because of his dad but it also resonantes of 1890's players and success.

He seems to be highly rated but I didn't think he shone, that could be as he was playing next to the pick of our players, Johnson and Grealish. A little lightweight and his control let him down a few times.

[PeterWithe]

Thomas Strain has bagged his second and perhaps the pick of the bunch - a stunning 25-yard volley.

I was chatting to his Dad, he was as proud as punch and rightly so, he scored to very good goals.