Send a message, Season Ticket - will you renew?

[Damo70]

I will renew mainly because I enjoy spending the time with my son and he loves going. He is the eternal optimist when it comes to Villa.

[andyh]

I already have - last Friday.

I know times are hard at the club, but did they have to put the transaction through twice ?
Maybe they thought I wouldn't notice.

[pauliewalnuts]

I didn't renew after the McLeish season.

For a number of reasons I missed loads of matches that season. When we reached the end of the season, I realised I wasn't bothered about having missed so many matches because they were invariably crap. So, I thought I'd give it a miss for the next season (ie the Lambert first one) and see how it went.

Once again, I realised that I'd avoided shelling out 600 quid for the "privelege" of a handful of watchable efforts all season, so didn't regret it.

This season, there's no way I could have afforded it either in terms of time or cash, so it wasn't even an option.

I do think, though, that once you stop treating it as something you'll do regardless and opt not to renew, returning to being a ST holder becomes something you find you'd really, really, really have to want to do - it's a big cash commitment all round (ticket, travel, all the other stuff) and, though I can't speak for anyone else, but in hard times it'd take a return of ambition for me to even think about doing it again.

The almost certain future of another season bobbing around pointlessly at the bottom because the chairman isn't interested any more makes me wonder how they expect anyone else to remain interested.

I have nothing but respect for those who have continued with a ST through this season. I have truly immense respect for those who have also gone to the away matches. You must be nuts ;-)

If you think about it, our ST holders are in the odd position of shelling out a large amount of money in advance for something which, invariably, they can't wait to see end for the last few months.

[MoetVillan]

Id love to, but family commitments and finance mean I cant.  Im a Villa supporter, not a RL, Lambert or whoever owns or manages the club.  I love going to Villa Park.  I love watching football and I love most of all my team turning out and playing.  Granted it is a labour of love on many occasions, but i didnt fall in love with football as a glory hunter/plastic fan.  If I had the money and the time I would be going

[Clampy]

I have nothing but respect for those who have continued with a ST through this season. I have truly immense respect for those who have also gone to the away matches. You must be nuts ;-)

We've been to 12 away games this season (it'll be 13 after Spurs, unlucky for some eh?) and to be honest the 90 minutes on the pitch has often ruined what is normally a cracking day. We go away with a supporters club and they're a cracking bunch and they make the day more bearable but you're right, the away support is phenomenal. The fact that Swansea, Palace and Spurs sold out so far in advance says it all.

[Des Little]

I renewed yesterday.

[Walmley_Villa]

Due to do mine today - feel as though I am endorsing the current regime however.

[saunders_heroes]

The only way I'll renew is if there's a complete clean sweep of the owner and manager in the summer. If things stay the same they can kiss goodbye to my ST. I'm not putting up with this shit anymore, and not renewing is the only real protest I can do.

[sid1964]

i will wait to see what Lerner says at the end of the season before I decide!

[CJ]

I was hovering about renewing as the prospect of putting up with the same shit for yet another season isn't very attractive, and going down the Villa has been a bit of a chore lately. BUT I think whatever happens there will be big changes in the summer. If we survive, Lerner looks like selling up and we'll get a new manager; if we go down, selling may be a trickier option for Lerner but Lambert would have to walk. I'm going to renew today to get the 10% cash back deal - but if I'm honest I'm renewing because supporting the Villa is just what I do, and I can't imagine sitting at home when there's a game on at Villa Park.

[Witton Warrior]

Just received a text.

"Season Tickets 14/15: pay in full by 30 April for 10% Villa Cash bonus (issued 1st August 2014,T+Cs apply.) Call 0800 612 0970 for more. Txt stop to 60070."

Maybe I sound a bit Meldrew but I am sick to death of all these nuisance scammer companies trying to contact me and rip me off. I mean, does anybody ever respond to these charlatans ? I suppose some must fall for it or they wouldn't keep doing it.
Its about time the phone companies and the government did something to stop them making peoples lives a misery. But I suppose if the numbers they are using are closed off they just set up other numbers as they have the attitude of WE GO AGAIN !

Have responded by texting STOP. Lambert OUT!

[Dr Butler]

renewed last Friday......UTV

[cheltenhamlion]

I am certainly not renewing by the deadline for tomorrow but not sure how things will pan out in the summer. Let's see what league we are in and what is going to change would be the sensible thing I suppose.

I think the first thing I ever wrote for H&V was in August 2009 about my agonising over renewing and it is no different now.

Let's put it this way, going to games at the moment leaves me cold in the same way that it did in TSM's season. Where it is a real chore to leave the house and know it is just to put up with another ration of the inevitable shit.

Where I have to be half cut just to contemplate making my way through the turnstiles to endure another game.

Where it ruins countless chances to catch up with people I wouldn't otherwise see as I am so miserable after the match that I make for terrible company and so nervous before that being rational is very difficult.

And I am paying a fair few quid for the privilege of this. I am sure the wife could come up with 1001 ways we could better spend the money. If all I want to do is catch up with my mates then it would be much cheaper to just pop to the pub surely?

But there is still that pull. The fact that it can be a really enjoyable day even if the football is pap. The fact that I know plety of people who I only see at football from all over the country and would therefore rarely get chance to meet up with without it.

And what would would I do with my time instead? Spending more time with my lad sounds great, particualrly with him having school on the horizon and he won't stay wanting to spend time with me for too much longer. But it wouldn't feel right being at a Wacky Warehouse when the Villa are at home and I would inevitably spend all afternoon checking my phone for the score.

What worries most is actually doing it and not renewing. Because I fear that the day I break the cycle I won't ever come back. That the baton won't get passed on down the family.

It is the same bloody quandry every summer and the worse we are, the more SKY's despicable influence sucks every last ounce of enjoyment and competition out of it, the more expensive it gets with no hope of ever being more than an also ran, then the more I am pushed towards deffing it off and making a clean break. Finding a hobby that is actually enjoyable.

And I am not the only one. When you have people like Frank having a long hard think about the time and money they invest in Villa then you know we have serious problems.

Sod it. Let's get over the safety line and I can worry about it in a few weeks time.

[martin o`who??]

Just received a text.

"Season Tickets 14/15: pay in full by 30 April for 10% Villa Cash bonus (issued 1st August 2014,T+Cs apply.) Call 0800 612 0970 for more. Txt stop to 60070."

Maybe I sound a bit Meldrew but I am sick to death of all these nuisance scammer companies trying to contact me and rip me off. I mean, does anybody ever respond to these charlatans ? I suppose some must fall for it or they wouldn't keep doing it.
Its about time the phone companies and the government did something to stop them making peoples lives a misery. But I suppose if the numbers they are using are closed off they just set up other numbers as they have the attitude of WE GO AGAIN !

Have responded by texting STOP. Lambert OUT!

Never respond to these type of texts by doing that, the way the system operates has now been alerted that yours is a "Live" number and you may get bombarded with loads from all sorts of businesses, just delete them mate - it`s safer.

[andyh]

Super post CheltV.

The feelings of most fans summed up there.