Season tickets next season - what will they do?

[Lucky Eddie]

I sit in the Upper Trinity a lot as the club always puts cheapish tickets out on the Viagogo/SeatWave sites.

Let's be honest though it's a third full for many premier league games and aside from local derbies (Would imagine it will re-open for those games as demand will be much higher and it will be easy for our neighbours to mock) very few will be up there although I sympathize with the season ticket holders.

I think the problem is with the structure of the stand, it's three tiers and the top one is isolated whereas other clubs will just have two tiers so people can spread out around that.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think Leeds shut their upper tier for a fair few games a while ago.

I can see reasons for the club doing this although it just adds to the negativity. If by some miracle we'll well in with a promotion chance I'm sure it will be re opened if the demand is there.

I have had a season ticket in the Upper Trinity for 10 years but after receiving the letter about it closing and have to relocate, I doubt that I'll be back. Any company that goes out of it's way to upset its customers like that doesn't deserve to succeed and given the current situation, it won't.

They could fill the ground by lowering the prices and thus keeping supporters in the habit of attending matches.

this if the club made all season tickets 200 - 300 attendances would hold up

as for opening the top tier of the trinity for local derbies not a chance, our last couple of games against wolves were in the low 30's

It's wrong of you to say 'no chance'.

Our Derby attendances will fluctuate enormously - by 10,000+ depending on three factors; our form, TV and scheduling.

It's 'no chance' if we're playing mid table on a televised Friday night but every chance if we're both top six on a Saturday at three pm.

no way will wolves or blues be 3pm on a saturday

derby or forest above 38k? if they open the trinity upper for any game next season ill give you 20 quid

Thank you - is anyone else brave enough to match this bold offer?

Or are you all yellow?

[Villatillidie1982]

If we are top of the league and winning every week the fans will flood back. But I imagine we'll be upper mid table at best so to maximise income they need to lower prices to boost attendances and then I can have my seat in the Upper Trinity back.

[Des Little]

When are they publishing the prices? They must know them by now.

[aj2k77]

When are they publishing the prices? They must know them by now.

Probably waiting for another shambolic bad news day to bury the prices.

[garyfouroaks]

What depresses me is that we are planning for failure. A radical pricing structure could fill the ground. Will we close the Witton Upper tier when we get relegated again?

[PeterWithe]

They would be even more mad to release season tickets news amongst this sea of despair, do it when there is some good news, or failing that, some not quite so bad news.

[Ad@m]

They would be even more mad to release season tickets news amongst this sea of despair, do it when there is some good news, or failing that, some not quite so bad news.

They've backed themselves in to a corner as the letters sent to the Upper Trinity season ticket holders said they could renew next week so prices will have to be released by then.

[Des Little]

This sounds insane but I wish they'd hurry up. I just want to sort my seat out and pay up. They're losing interest earnings by the day the buffoons.

[PeterWithe]

A lot of people say they are not going to renew then weaken as the reality of Saturday's in Ikea form in the mind, after this season and all the goings on I reckon the longer they wait the better for sales.

[Des Little]

I'd rather get a ST at the Albion than spend Saturday's in IKEA.

And I'm not completely sure I'm joking either.

[adrenachrome]

If you build a decent shed in your back garden and have decent wifi in your house you can beat off to internet porn and tell your missus that you are watching the Villa.

[DaveD]

If you build a decent shed in your back garden and have decent wifi in your house you can beat off to internet porn and tell your missus that you are watching the Villa.

My  wife would be far more understanding of the porn.

[oswald funkletrumpet]

If you build a decent shed in your back garden and have decent wifi in your house you can beat off to internet porn and tell your missus that you are watching the Villa.

My  wife would be far more understanding of the porn.

think i would rather beat off in the house looking at the shed

[itbrvilla]

I'd rather get a ST at the Albion than spend Saturday's in IKEA.

And I'm not completely sure I'm joking either.

Well the club does see us as customers, perhaps a different provider will teach them.

[mrfuse]

While I welcome the move for more spaces for those with disabilities, it does seem like an odd choice of area. Being so close to the away fans its often an area with a good atmosphere and also an area where fans rightly or wrongly tend to stand when they can.

Is it because it has easy access all on the same level ?

given you can often see police/stewards filming supporters in the lower north for the duration of the game...

the cynic in me tells me that the club are doing deliberately, hence no consultation with supporters.

They have to do it by law and there's nowhere else they can.

I didn't realise how far behind we were with Villa Park only holding 74 disabled places in the ground for home fans, and eight for away.
We should have 214 wheelchair spaces - 182 home and 32 away - just to meet the bare minimum criteria according to Level Playing Field and the club are rightly now creating 50 more accessible options for fans this summer to slowly start bringing us into line.