Parma Attendance

[saunders_heroes]

Whilst i think they could have made the prices a little cheaper (especially for ST holders), i wouldn't say friendlies are fleecing the fans at all. I chose not to go because i'd paid for my Stoke and Liverpool ticket, so therefore i haven't been fleeced of anything.

They should have just made it a fiver in and be done with it. They'd have probably got a far bigger attendance then.

Let's be totally honest, you're talking about £5 rather than £10.

It is such a small difference, to an already low price, I don't really see how one is fleecing (which is a pretty strong term) and the other is fair?

What else can you buy for 10 quid these days?

£10 for a friendly isn't cheap, paulie. I think because we're so over charges for PL matches we're then fooled into thinking a tenner is actually reasonable. It would certainly be cheap for a league or cup game, but a friendly? No, not in my opinion. It would have been decent of the club of ST holders were given free tickets as well, perhaps as a thank you for what we've had to put up with over the last few years. It would have been good PR.

Not so much that a tenner is cheap (what is in football these days?) just that if you reckon a fiver would have been fair, ten quid is not that much of a difference.

I agree, though, it'd be nice to have put something on to thank supporters. Although, then again, having seen the Parma match, maybe not.

I'd say there's a lot of people who'd believe a fiver is more reasonable than a tenner and would actually go to the game because of it. Not everyone is as well off as others and it would make a big difference especially if you have kids.
Anyway I wish we'd stick to playing our pre season games away from home. That's what we used to do.

[dave.woodhall]

And if anyone would really like my opinion; ten quid was fine given the opposition, fifteen is stretching it. Ticket sales aren't as dependent on prices as we think, though and another five pounds either way wouldn't have made much difference. In comparison, £10 is about Northern Premier prices, £15 is Conference.   

We used to play home friendlies at odd times, then we stopped. When Randy first arrived a lot of people wanted them back, which is I suppose why we began them again. Maybe the manager wants the new players to get the feel of the ground on matchday.

[andrew08]

I didn't go, the reason being that if I watched Villa for entertainment purposes only I would have stopped going probably just after we beat Norwich away in the league cup a couple of seasons ago.

Match day now is about getting together with mates and having a few beers, enduring the 90 mins, then spending 24 - 48 hours trying to forget about the game, then spending the time to the next game either defending them endlessly to non Villa fans or slagging them with fellow fans.

I would have gone had it been away.

Where has the summer gone btw? I was so happy for a couple of months and now back to misery....Happy New Season!

[Goldie.7]

Pricing tickets at £5 for an adult and £1 or £2 for a child might have made a difference.

Agreed. I probably would of went and took my friends son as well.

[cheltenhamlion]

Changing the price by the sums mentioned would have made little difference to the attendance.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

So, has anybody found out what the official attendance was ? Will we ever know ?

[silhillvilla]

The ticket pricing isn't the reason for the sub 10k attendance. It's the absolute dross that's being served up that's the issue. It's the middle of summer and a Saturday afternoon. People have better, more enjoyable things to do with their money and more importantly time.

[atomicjam]

The ticket pricing isn't the reason for the sub 10k attendance. It's the absolute dross that's being served up that's the issue. It's the middle of summer and a Saturday afternoon. People have better, more enjoyable things to do with their money and more importantly time.

For me it was the ticket price. Had it been cheaper I would have gone but it was a bit steep for a glorified training session.  I might be mad but I am actually looking forward to going back this season, so stick that in your misery sack and smoke it! *winky thing to avoid seeming moody or rude*

[PeterWithesShin]

It was a tenner for the Lower North. What price would have got you to go out of interest?

[usav]

So, has anybody found out what the official attendance was ? Will we ever know ?

Does it matter?

[atomicjam]

It was a tenner for the L
ower North. What price would have got you to go out of interest?

I sit in the Doug Ellis and really do not fancy the lower north. Tenner or less might have tempted me into the Doug Ellis - that said I still might not have bothered. Money is tight and the first thing to cross off my football list is friendlies.

[Dave Cooper please]

Don't know why we bother staging home friendly games anyway, it's a relatively new thing at Villa as I don't remember many home freindlies over the last 30+ years. Our pre season fixtures should be staged away from Villa Park and save the pitch for the real games.

And ruin the pitch for all the "smaller clubs"?

[berneboy]

So, has anybody found out what the official attendance was ? Will we ever know ?

Does it matter?

I can't remember Villa not revealing an attendance before. I was there and it seemed very low and likely under 10k. Maybe the powers are a little embarrassed.

[SoccerHQ]

This is a sign of things to come, they'll be quite a few sub 30k crowds in the league this season I reckon.

Even if we're starting to make a few decent signings the air or negativity around VP won't go away unless we get a takeover or actually win a few home games. Neither look likely really.

[Goldie.7]

It was a tenner for the L
ower North. What price would have got you to go out of interest?

I sit in the Doug Ellis and really do not fancy the lower north. Tenner or less might have tempted me into the Doug Ellis - that said I still might not have bothered. Money is tight and the first thing to cross off my football list is friendlies.

Perfectly put.