Leave me alone

[Broughty-Villian]

Well some cannot make it to every game.

....living now more than a couple hundred miles away from VP. I would like the chance of a ticket, and not have to "badger" and grovel on here for a spare.

It's that desperate I have asked the SFA for a ticket, as they wouldn't need it.

I even have tenuous links to TSM, and have reached out to him to see i I can get a ticket through him.

In advance I have even changed my work rota so I am off just in case.


P.S. any one got a spare

[Edvard Remberg]

Villa gets me high and low, and has done for many years. But I can't get a season ticket as every trip is more than 3 times the price of a season ticket. But I understand that this is the only way the club objectively can divide to few tickets to supporters.

FA are the real problem.

[PeterWithesShin]

I think it's right that the more you go to VP the higher the chance of getting a final ticket. I didn't qualify for one in 2010 as I had a lot of personal stuff going on in my life that year so only went to a couple of games, sod's law that comfortably the worst season of my life for attending games and we got to Wembley twice. But them's the breaks. So i've missed out in the past.

And put it another way, how happy would you be if you'd been to say 15 games a season but missed out on a ticket while someone who went twice got one?

When demand is higher than supply, how else are they meant to do it that remains fair?

[IAmTheOneIanOlney]

I don't qualify for a ticket under the club's criteria and have no problem with that whatsoever. I think it's fair. What isn't fair is releasing 25,000 tickets to each club, resulting in ticket searches that yield nothing less than several hundred quid a ticket. Money is no object for some, but certainly not for all. The FA are arseholes and the sooner Wembley is paid off, the better.

I've been lucky enough to see Villa at Wembley old and new a few times, but I'm still trying to get a ticket that's within my newborn-second-child and wife-on-maternity-leave means.
I also don't blame one single Villa fan who tries to get a ticket any which way they can. If you didn't qualify for one, what would you do?

[dave.woodhall]

If you didn't qualify for one, what would you do?

See sig for details.

[PeterWithesShin]

The FA showed what they think of fans with the price increase between the semi and the final.

[dorsetvillian]

I should get one ticket but my 16 year old son may just miss out. I've already decided that I won't go to the game without him so have desperately been looking for an alternative pair of tickets. I work for a lot of wealthy London folk and have without question phoned them all and asked if they can help get tickets. I also coach a youth team and the senior section of the club down here in deepest Dorset have two tickets every year.  I phoned another local club and again they entered me in a raffle for two tickets.  If you don't ask you don't get. Of course if I do get some then I will have have a spare!

[amfy]

My Dad is a running coach in Southampton & they sometimes use Saints' physio. He has sent an email offering an extra £50 to the charity of his choice if he can find one or two tickets for us!

[UK Redsox]

I don't expect to see allocations change or prices reduce once Wembley's paid for. Even after the London Jaguars start playing, the FA will just continue to milk their cash cow.

[KRS]

How would the FA be milking it by keeping ticket allocations to final teams low? Other than rewarding sponsors with X-amount of tickets as part of £X-sponsorship package, I'm not sure how that works...and they could just as easily increase the cost of corporate sponsorship packages and reduce corporate ticket allocations without even having to justify it (even if the simple economics of supply and demand would).

[Jimbo]

Anyone got a spare, then?

[Chris Jameson]

Even after the London Jaguars start playing

The what, what?

[dave.woodhall]

Even after the London Jaguars start playing

The what, what?

Roid rage rugby.

[Small Rodent]

My wife has been briefed to listen in to conversations at the bar she works in full of city types and any mention of "Cup Final" ask for tickets. If Alan Brazil pops in she has been told to ask him about tickets as he owes me two bottles of champagne; he shares the same birthday as me and one of the bar staff and has said he will buy us one the last two years and failed to do so.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Its getting silly now. As a season ticket holder for the past God knows how many seasons my loyalty will be rewarded with an opportunity to get one ticket for the FA Cup Final.

However, now im getting flooded with requests from casual Villa fans who go once or twice a season asking for Cup Final tickets! Do they not understand that I only get one ticket for the final...my own. The system is fair, one each for the near 20,000 season ticket holders, then the rest go to those who have suffered alongside the rest of us by going to the majority of home games.

Therefore, these people who can't be arsed to go down, spend their money watching the game in the pub, use excuses of not having enough money etc cannot go, and that's only fair. I try and explain this but they don't seem to understand and I'd wished they would leave me alone.

I already have a Cup Final ticket, but if you've got a spare I'll take it off your hands Andy

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