Aston Villa vs Birmingham City Pre-Match Thread

[Des Little]

Why would you buy a season ticket there?  They're fucking shit.  End of.

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

Why would you buy a season ticket there?  They're fucking shit.  End of.

Succinct and to the point. Marvellous.

[andyh]

Has anyone in the cup scheme had their money taken out for this game yet?
I haven't, which is strange as they normally take the cash at the soonest opportunity after a home cup draw.

[AVH87]

http://madeinbrumfanzine.com/2015/09/08/blues-v-villa-ticket-allocation-proposal/?

And the hits just keep on coming.......

Amusing how their proposal suggests they have the North Stand Lower, which only houses 3k fans anyway. They really are thick.

[CJ]

Has anyone in the cup scheme had their money taken out for this game yet?
I haven't, which is strange as they normally take the cash at the soonest opportunity after a home cup draw.

Hasn't gone out of mine yet either - not really worried yet as still 2 weeks to go. May chase up if still not gone at end of this week.

[Villa in Denmark]

Was in North Stand top tier for the 2-2, when Stern John scored in injury time. There was at least 200 Blues fans dotted around the stand that Sunday. You could see little pockets of away fans leap to their feet and once the air, when that equaliser went in. Saw a couple get chucked out after we scored our first, as they'd been grassed up. Vilers did nothing, from what I saw, to make it an unpleasant or intimidating experience for Blues fans. The Hole Tenders might be less tolerant, and so they should be.


  Bless them.

Really hope the whole of VP is up for this one, Witton and Trinity included. All i've read from them is how they're going to come and take the piss and outsing us all game.

That's either really unfortunate typos or an invitation to be told to f¤¤k right off to the end of the sewer.

If the former apologies.

If the later  f¤¤k right off to the end of the sewer.

I think he's quoting a post from Blues site, just it's not immediately clear.

In which case apologies to QuintonVilla

[cheltenhamlion]

I got through finally on the phone at 12.

[oldhill_avfc]

http://madeinbrumfanzine.com/2015/09/08/blues-v-villa-ticket-allocation-proposal/?

And the hits just keep on coming.......

To be fair at least they came up with a solution that was a bit more thought out dan fousands of dem in da Holt.

I'm not entirely sure what the fence does.  Access to upper and lower tiers of the Witton Lane are in more or less the same spot.  Equally I can't really understand why they can't have the normal away allocation (although I quite enjoy their reaction!)

Doh! - just worked out they are having the upper and lower tiers and want lower North Stand - jeez that's a recipe for disaster!

[KRS]

Getting this message when trying to buy 2 tickets for myself and brother both with valid criteria (Villa Cash with 5+ games) client refs when proceeding to checkout:

Unfortunately, you are attempting to purchase more tickets for a match than you are allowed to. Please double check, and remove items from your basket to proceed.

Anyone else getting the same problem?

Just in case anyone else gets this problem...only way we could resolve this was by buying our tickets individually which suggests the online ticket office isn't working correctly. Oh well...both got tickets now and looking forward to the game.

[kippaxvilla2]

Seems I have upset one of them.

chris
September 8, 2015 at 12:29 pm
So as the Police are saying this is a villa decision then they are admitting they are a small club who can only cope with 2800 away fans, so will this 2800 apply to Man Utd, Liverpool, Man City, Chelsea, Spurs and WBA when they attend this season?
Must be one reason they lost the FA Cup semi-finals if they can’t segregate 2×20,000.
Villa couldn’t even control their own fans vs WBA last season and stop them running onto the pitch and now want to blame Blues for their own incompetence.
The Football League & FA are also inept as they let the biased villa decision to reduce the away attendance to give their own team a greater chance of winning, i call that cheating, when the home club dictates circumstances in a cup game and the Fooball League abandoned their duty to fairness and professionalism.
It shows villa, the Poilce and the City Council are small minded and not capable of hosting major football games, no wonder the media and football in general pass this city by when it is so poor at running football in the area.
Blues used to have the lower north stand in the eighties when violence was far worse than today, yet villa and the Police say they can’t cope, more like incompetence.

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kippaxvilla
September 8, 2015 at 12:39 pm
Whilst it may seem harsh that the ticket allocation is low, I think you are totally missing the point regarding the reasoning for it. It has barely anything to do with last seasons FA Cup Quarter Final although admittedly those scenes won’t have helped. This decision has been reached due to the ridiculous scenes at the end of the last Blues Villa game at The Sty in 2010. After that game, you yourselves reduced Villa’s allocation to 1,500 for the league game in the following January which obviously worked as there were no subsequent violent scenes.
In addition, reference your point about the allocation for Liverpool, Citeh, Spurs, Chelsea, yes the allocation will be 2,800 – that is the normal league allocation we give to all visiting supporters so those will be no different.

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ChrisG
September 8, 2015 at 1:11 pm
The sty? If you’re gonna make comments on a BCFC web site then have some respect.
We gave your lot 4000 tickets for the last cup game at St Andrews which is around 13% of our capacity, In the league game that followed we had no say in the amount of tickets you got as that was down to the police NOT us, so get your facts straight. The league rules state that 10% of capacity should be given to away supporters in a cup game, that is what this piece is about. KRO

kippaxvilla
September 8, 2015 at 12:41 pm
Oh and the reason we ‘lost’ the FA Cup Semi Final as you put it was down to the pure greed and needs of the FA who have a new stadium to pay for, again nothing to do with crowd control issues. But then I suspect you knew that.

kippaxvilla
September 8, 2015 at 1:41 pm
Chris G,
You have answered your own complaint. You said that you had no say in the 1500 allocation. It was a direct response to the trouble in the December game and agreed between the clubs and the police. This 2,800 allocation is exactly the same, a direct response to the trouble mainly retards caused including flares thrown in the last cup and also significantly, night game. If fans had behaved themselves and not been total nobs giving it the big one then this wouldn’t be happening. Otherwise why else do you think you are not being given 4,200 – which incidentally is not an automatic entitlement if there are fears over crowd safety – which let’s face it for a night game when loads are going to be pissed up looking for trouble, there are.

[PeterWithesShin]

Official coach travel is available for this fixture priced at:
Adult Season Ticket Holder/Blues Loyalty Member - £11
Senior/Student/Junior Season Ticket Holder/Blues Loyalty Member - £10
Adult non Season Ticket Holder - £12
Senior/Student/Junior Non Season Ticket Holder - £11

[Des Little]

Kippax, you absolutely nailed the point about why we had a dramatically reduced allocation for the league game there, and how the circumstances here are identical - apart from them getting nearly double what we had - yet they still don't get it. 

[Percy McCarthy]

Official coach travel is available for this fixture priced at:
Adult Season Ticket Holder/Blues Loyalty Member - £11
Senior/Student/Junior Season Ticket Holder/Blues Loyalty Member - £10
Adult non Season Ticket Holder - £12
Senior/Student/Junior Non Season Ticket Holder - £11

Daysaver - £4.20.

[LukeJames]

11 fucking pound!

[PeterWithesShin]

Ticket booked online in a minute in L5. Painless and easy enough for the first time i've booked a ticket online.