Tony's Tweets

[Jimbo]

The Dr has posted photographic evidence of himself giving a speech at the World Robot Conference. Looks like there's one bloke in the audience. Or it may be a robot. They're so lifelike these days it's hard to tell.

[Toronto Villa]

The thing is natural skepticism aside he's come through on literally every single thing he's talked about or said he'd commit too. What he's proven so far is that the lack of information about him is precisely that, just a lack of information. And he's convinced a number of people to join him and almost every one of them have commented positively and talked about his plans being staggering, most recently Bruce. He's been positive since he arrived, defended the club and fans even if in doing so he stepped on or slightly over the line a couple of times.

[Richard E]

Interesting tweet overnight saying he has set up a working group to plan the redevelopment of Villa Park.

[QuintonVilla]

Then we'll have about 20,000 empty seats instead of 10,000.

[cdbearsfan]

Not if we get a team to be proud of. Mickey Mouse clubs like West Ham can get 50,000+. Okay, there's the London Factor, and the novelty of the new ground, but I've always thought we could attract bigger crowds given sizeable investment and World-class marketing. Even more so with HS2 on the horizon to make Birmingham more accessible.

[The Edge]

Not if we get a team to be proud of. Mickey Mouse clubs like West Ham can get 50,000+. Okay, there's the London Factor, and the novelty of the new ground, but I've always thought we could attract bigger crowds given sizeable investment and World-class marketing. Even more so with HS2 on the horizon to make Birmingham more accessible.

I'm with you. Time to think positive not negative. Dr Tony's enthusiasm for the Villa should be embraced and enjoyed. He is ten times better than the previous leadership.

[The Edge]

Then we'll have about 20,000 empty seats instead of 10,000.

That's the spirit mate.

[Ads]

Better to have 50,000 three or four times a season than not.

Improving the infrastructure will be in conjunction with improving the on the pitch quality.

[spangley1812]

The team needs to improve drastically and prices need to be reduced to about £25.00 per game for us to get near 50.000

[Clampy]

Then we'll have about 20,000 empty seats instead of 10,000.

How many have we sold for the Holte tomorrow and will they be loud enough?

[robbo1874]

Then we'll have about 20,000 empty seats instead of 10,000.

How many have we sold for the Holte tomorrow and will they be loud enough?

i know there's more to it than pricing- competition from other clubs and other
Leisure pursuits, but I'd be interested to know how our pricing compares with Newcastle. Does pricing have any difference beyond a certain point? I'm not so sure it does for us.

You get the impression with Villa, some weeks they could barely manage 36,000 and other weeks could sell 50-60k.

[SashasGrandad]

Much better we have a chairman that will do this for us - rather than the unwashed in Bordesley Green who want the city council to rebuild their tip as part of the Commonwealth Games bid. We have all seen what one of their previous owners has done in East London which has wasted millions of pounds. And she is still claiming she wants more.

I'm hoping Tony will be able to use his urban regeneration experience to expand not just Villa Park - but the local area as well. We have got to go this way as all the other "so called big clubs" are doing it.

Needs big thinking for a big club. Better transport links - and other local infrastructure. Where do they put the new tram? Where do they put hotels, extra parking etc? (Which idiot sold the Serpentine car park?)

Even small clubs like Preston, Reading, have more parking adjacent to the ground than we do.

[Chico Hamilton III]

Interesting tweet overnight saying he has set up a working group to plan the redevelopment of Villa Park.

Thinking out of the box here, but they could always open the top tier of the Trinity....

[QuintonVilla]

Then we'll have about 20,000 empty seats instead of 10,000.

How many have we sold for the Holte tomorrow and will they be loud enough?

Yawn.

[dave.woodhall]

Then we'll have about 20,000 empty seats instead of 10,000.

How many have we sold for the Holte tomorrow and will they be loud enough?

i know there's more to it than pricing- competition from other clubs and other
Leisure pursuits, but I'd be interested to know how our pricing compares with Newcastle. Does pricing have any difference beyond a certain point? I'm not so sure it does for us.

You get the impression with Villa, some weeks they could barely manage 36,000 and other weeks could sell 50-60k.

It's always been the same. Back in the poost-war boom period we'd get 50,000 against Wolves or Spurs then lose half of them a fortnight later for Middlesbrough.