Brigada Corner

[danlanza]

May be worth liaising with Steve Gough at Premier Travel.

Good shout that. Steve is well connected and has been with Villa for, well, forever. Good bloke with vast knowledge.

[Legion]

I also fully support safe standing. I prefer to sit (health issues) and would welcome designated safe standing areas and areas such as where I would choose to sit being seated. I do stand up when something exciting happens, though. In 2011-12 I think I stood up once.

[mrastonvilla]

Glad people are behind this as the current situation isn't ideal, and as others have pointed out standing in current seated areas is more hazardous than in rail seated area like those seen around europe.

Amfy, if you go the online survey monkey route to collect your data could I suggest adding the option for people to add their client reference number to the survey so you can validate they are a current villa supporter. This may also be helpful for the club who could use the number to investigate the responses in terms of peoples current preferred place to sit at the VP and other data they might hold.

[silhillvilla]

May be worth liaising with Steve Gough at Premier Travel.

Good shout that. Steve is well connected and has been with Villa for, well, forever. Good bloke with vast knowledge.

Agree. I meant in terms of getting questionnaires into his coaches.

[danlanza]

May be worth liaising with Steve Gough at Premier Travel.

Good shout that. Steve is well connected and has been with Villa for, well, forever. Good bloke with vast knowledge.

Agree. I meant in terms of getting questionnaires into his coaches.

Same as.

[not3bad]

Good work Amfy.  If I can help I will.

[villajk]

May be worth liaising with Steve Gough at Premier Travel.

Good shout that. Steve is well connected and has been with Villa for, well, forever. Good bloke with vast knowledge.

Agree. I meant in terms of getting questionnaires into his coaches.

There are several Lions Clubs that run coaches to away games.  It may be worth contacting Alan Perrins, who is the Chairman of all the Lions Clubs, to ask the individual Chairmen if they'd hand out questionnaires on their coaches.

[amfy]

Got a meeting with Villa next Wednesday so I should have the consultation on the go for the Newcastle game!

[itbrvilla]

Away sections are crying out for terraces really. Back in the day we'd get seat and terrace allocations which would be ideal now for people in Breezeblocks situation and mine to a lesser degree with my 11 years lad.

For these of you who are lucky enough not to be old enough to remember if you thought the celebrations for Lowtons goal at Stoke or the Gabby winners at blose was fun multiply that by 5 if standing on a terrace.

We do need them back. What's the Liverpool take on it? I guess they would be influential in the process.

The celebrations for the Lowton goal at Stoke is exactly why im against the return of standing. I was in row 3 and despite trying to hold my ground I ended up sat on the advertising boards only just managing to stay off the pitch.

I also had a scratched face and buckled glasses.

I don't see the attraction of dealing with that week in week out.

You wouldn't have to. You could still sit down.

Or there is also the 1.2-5 Meyer high rail between each row preventing any travel

[andrew08]

May be worth liaising with Steve Gough at Premier Travel.

Good shout that. Steve is well connected and has been with Villa for, well, forever. Good bloke with vast knowledge.

Agree. I meant in terms of getting questionnaires into his coaches.

There are several Lions Clubs that run coaches to away games.  It may be worth contacting Alan Perrins, who is the Chairman of all the Lions Clubs, to ask the individual Chairmen if they'd hand out questionnaires on their coaches.

As a good friend of Steve Gough I can confirm he has been around for years.

He saw Pongo you know.

[silhillvilla]

He must have been running coaches to away games for near on 30 years now ? I'm sure I went on a coach of his mid 80's to Forest.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

Got a meeting with Villa next Wednesday so I should have the consultation on the go for the Newcastle game!

Great stuff amfy.
Received email from Lee Preece today - Football Operations/Projects Manager - who says he will call me.

I won't pursue things separately from you as a single, co-ordinated approach would be much more effective.
PM me if I can help.
 

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

The suggestions from folk on here re: Lions Club and Steve Gough are really positive and a clear indication of the right way to go about things.
Looks like we could have the start of another great venture between the club and its supporters.

Agree entirely with Leeg's point about standing/sitting, but can't remember the exciting bit from 2011-12.
When they ran out of Balti pies?

[Legion]

Bolton at home. Not exciting as such, it just made me leap out of my seat.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

Bolton at home. Not exciting as such, it just made me leap out of my seat.

See what you mean.
About the same time that the thought of someone burying TSM up to his hairline brought considerable warmth to the cockles of my heart.