Season Tickets 2014/15

[olaftab]

I just realized we did the double over Norwich, our first of the season I think.

And two more to come v manciti and Southampton.

[bertlambshank]

I'm not throwing the towel in, I'm simply not renewing. I will still go to every home game via a combination of cheap seats, viagogo and deals offered by the club. All in all I will still get to see every game but will be a lot better off.

What you said.

[AVH87]

I'm not throwing the towel in, I'm simply not renewing. I will still go to every home game via a combination of cheap seats, viagogo and deals offered by the club. All in all I will still get to see every game but will be a lot better off.

I think this is a bit of a myth with some of our fans. Yes, there are several games where the club do cheap tickets and viagogo also comes in handy.

But just think how much you'll spend getting tickets for Utd, Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal alone. That's easily £100+ for 4 adult tickets for those games. To be cheaper than our cheapest ST you would then need to get the other 15 games for less than £235, that's a maximum of just over £15 per game, viagogo will really have to come up trumps as the club won't be doing the majority of the 15 games left at that price.

[Legion]

The current run of games has been 4 for £40. That's £10 a ticket. viagogo have plenty of £10 tickets on offer with their booking/handling fee on top.

[AVH87]

The current run of games has been 4 for £40. That's £10 a ticket. viagogo have plenty of £10 tickets on offer with their booking/handling fee on top.

That including Chelsea?

I can't make it on Saturday so I put my ticket on viagogo and it was snapped up for £28.

Our current run includes Norwich and Stoke which are live on TV so I'd say that makes them cheaper than normal.

[Legion]

Don't think so.

[peter w]

Probably not.

Oooooh. You're wavering...

[Legion]

So if I bought a season ticket for £510 before the 30/04/14 (paid in full), would I get £51 that I could take off it, using my Villa cash?

Or can you not use your Villa cash on that?

'Probably not' was referring to this, mate.

[peter w]

Yeah, I just read the thread and didn't realise I missed about 4 pages. I was hoping my reply was 4 pages ago too...

[SoccerHQ]

I tend to average about 15 home games a season now, I usually get to 3-4 away games a season (Arsenal, Stoke and two others) so I always miss a home game around that period to compensate for the cost of the away ticket.

The average price I pay on Viagogo for home games is between 15-20 quid so that's 300 quid over the season more or less so I'll stick to that.

[bertlambshank]

The current run of games has been 4 for £40. That's £10 a ticket. viagogo have plenty of £10 tickets on offer with their booking/handling fee on top.

That including Chelsea?

I can't make it on Saturday so I put my ticket on viagogo and it was snapped up for £28.

Our current run includes Norwich and Stoke which are live on TV so I'd say that makes them cheaper than normal.

£22 half way line Witton Lane lower.Its funny the Trinity upper wings normally go on Thursday morning for £17 tops.

[paul_e]

Pretty much every season we have at least one crap attendance. It's when it becomes the norm is the time to worry.

Exactly, If the Norwich attendance becomes the norm then it's a problem, as is there are a whole bunch of mitigating circumstances.

As for 'I know people aren't happy because they've told me' - how much of that is projection because you're fed up yourself?  How much is that you tend to spend more time with people with a similar attitude to yourself?  I'm not trying to belittle your opinion here but I just don't think 'loads of people have told me they're not happy so it must be common' is as clear as you're making it.  Of course people are fed up, our home record has been poor for years, but I just don't buy that it will see a massive drop in season ticket sales as people are suggesting.

Kindly point me in the direction of throngs of people who are clamouring for a season ticket next year. I will get one. In the meantime, I'll go and get a shirt with 'don't talk to me about the Villa because I'm a miserable bastard' on it.

Same response as every pessimist ever on the internet, I don't have to prove anything, you suggested people are ready to throw the towel in, I disputed it because I don't think your sample of opinions is either extensive enough or provable as unbiased.  I'm not having a go I'm just pointing out that to take those things, pick the lowest attendance of the season, and say that should be the benchmark for next year is making a pretty big leap based on very little evidence.

I understand you've had enough of watching poor football and I understand you're going to want to vent over it, that's fair enough but the last line of the response above is just petulant and I ignored the barb about caring more about what people at matches say but that was a bit childish as well.  There's no need for you to get defensive or try scoring cheap points when I disagree with you, I wasn't even disputing that people are pissed off, just that I don't think it will have a massive effect on attendances, they might see a small drop in season tickets, around 1-2% but the average attendance won't change by much, in my opinion, as a club we always seem to float around 35000 and I don't see next year being any different.

[caster troy]

Assuming Lambert is still in charge my answer will be a big fat no. Not even for £5 per game. That will be my tiny and no doubt insignificant protest in the direction of Lerner/Faulkner for subjecting me to another gut-wrenchingly awful season at Villa Park.

[bertlambshank]

Pretty much every season we have at least one crap attendance. It's when it becomes the norm is the time to worry.

Exactly, If the Norwich attendance becomes the norm then it's a problem, as is there are a whole bunch of mitigating circumstances.

As for 'I know people aren't happy because they've told me' - how much of that is projection because you're fed up yourself?  How much is that you tend to spend more time with people with a similar attitude to yourself?  I'm not trying to belittle your opinion here but I just don't think 'loads of people have told me they're not happy so it must be common' is as clear as you're making it.  Of course people are fed up, our home record has been poor for years, but I just don't buy that it will see a massive drop in season ticket sales as people are suggesting.

Kindly point me in the direction of throngs of people who are clamouring for a season ticket next year. I will get one. In the meantime, I'll go and get a shirt with 'don't talk to me about the Villa because I'm a miserable bastard' on it.

Same response as every pessimist ever on the internet, I don't have to prove anything, you suggested people are ready to throw the towel in, I disputed it because I don't think your sample of opinions is either extensive enough or provable as unbiased.  I'm not having a go I'm just pointing out that to take those things, pick the lowest attendance of the season, and say that should be the benchmark for next year is making a pretty big leap based on very little evidence.

I understand you've had enough of watching poor football and I understand you're going to want to vent over it, that's fair enough but the last line of the response above is just petulant and I ignored the barb about caring more about what people at matches say but that was a bit childish as well.  There's no need for you to get defensive or try scoring cheap points when I disagree with you, I wasn't even disputing that people are pissed off, just that I don't think it will have a massive effect on attendances, they might see a small drop in season tickets, around 1-2% but the average attendance won't change by much, in my opinion, as a club we always seem to float around 35000 and I don't see next year being any different.

You seem to of missed a zero after your percentages,it is more likely to be 10-20% that don't renew,I would guess 2-3000 down on this year.

[joe_c]

My nephew appears to have ceased being a Young Adult and become an Under 18 and if that's the case, I'll be saving £250. Assuming he wants to renew of course. If he doesn't, I'll be saving even more. Yay.

The Young Adult pricing bracket is really strange again, it's cheaper to sit in the Yellow  and Claret areas than in the Blue and Orange bits. Clicky