New Away Ticket Scheme

[QuintonVilla]

This was brought up at the fan consultation meeting this week, and the dropping from 15+ aways down to season ticket holders. There will be another category put in place, with 10+ aways mentioned.

We've got 5k for Blackburn, rising to 6800 if needed. £27.
2600 for Bristol City, £32.

Our allocation at Small Heath will remain at 2100, the same as last season. And vice versa.

Strong rumour that us and Albion will only give each other the 2100 allocation aswell, on police advice.

[cdbearsfan]

That's fucking stupid. There's never any trouble with us and Albion. And again, Celtic will have about 8,000 at Ibrox. Why are our police so much more pathetic than their Strathclyde equivalent?

The club should be taking our side and loudly condemning any such restriction.

[AlexAlexCropley]

That's fucking stupid. There's never any trouble with us and Albion. And again, Celtic will have about 8,000 at Ibrox. Why are our police so much more pathetic than their Strathclyde equivalent?

Haven't Celtic limited Rangers to 800 tickets at Celtic Park in a tit for tat move?

[cdbearsfan]

Apparently they have. First I heard of it. They still managed to have thousands of away fans attend Old Firm games for many decades so no reason why we shouldn't have more than 2,100 against Albion who there is never any trouble against.

[john e]

every time I go away I see a fella wearing a white woolen cricket jumper

is he known on here or even one of us ?

just curious as he must go to every game and seems a decent chap

[Ads]

Got ejected at Forest last season. He's pretty easy to spot with the cricket top and Villa emblem down into it.

[Holte L2]

I think the short notice of this compounded it because it didn't allow time for the regular away fans to get angry and then get over it.

Adding a £40 charge for fans who have always qualified on loyalty alone is definitely something they should be pissed off about, but I think if it'd been announced at the end of last season, with the same application date, more might have just reached the point where they resigned themselves to it and just bought in. It's sad that there seems to be a fair few that refused to pay it on principle, and will now be missing out on some big games.

The truth is, football has been ripping us off left right and centre for years, and this is just one more thing. It's annoying when a ticket for Liverpool away is over £50 - but these are fans that have always found that money for the other ways football rips us off, but then only had a short window to come to terms with this latest nonsense.

I bought in, and if it's any help - I wan't go to Blues.

Please can I have your Blues ticket?

[cdbearsfan]

every time I go away I see a fella wearing a white woolen cricket jumper

is he known on here or even one of us ?

just curious as he must go to every game and seems a decent chap

If it's a white cricket jumper with a Villa badge and trim, I see him regularly too. I don't know if we've ever chatted though.

[Clampy]

We always see the same bloke on our travels (not the cricket jumper wearer). We call him Barcadi Breezer man because he smuggled a bottle of Barcardi into Carrow Road a couple of season's back and had it taken off him when he was spotted swigging from it at half time. Nice enough chap though.

[Des Little]

We always see the same bloke on our travels (not the cricket jumper wearer). We call him Barcadi Breezer man because he smuggled a bottle of Barcardi into Carrow Road a couple of season's back and had it taken off him when he was spotted swigging from it at half time. Nice enough chap though.

Is he an asian chap?

[wittonwarrior]

His nickname is basil. Proper name Steve

[Clampy]

We always see the same bloke on our travels (not the cricket jumper wearer). We call him Barcadi Breezer man because he smuggled a bottle of Barcardi into Carrow Road a couple of season's back and had it taken off him when he was spotted swigging from it at half time. Nice enough chap though.

Is he an asian chap?

Yes.

[dave.woodhall]

That's fucking stupid. There's never any trouble with us and Albion. And again, Celtic will have about 8,000 at Ibrox. Why are our police so much more pathetic than their Strathclyde equivalent?

The club should be taking our side and loudly condemning any such restriction.

It's not the police. The clubs decide on allocations.

[Des Little]

We always see the same bloke on our travels (not the cricket jumper wearer). We call him Barcadi Breezer man because he smuggled a bottle of Barcardi into Carrow Road a couple of season's back and had it taken off him when he was spotted swigging from it at half time. Nice enough chap though.

Is he an asian chap?

Yes.

Ha brilliant! Saw him on a train from Hull back to Sheffield the morning after the game the other week. And guess what he was swigging from?

[Clampy]

We always see the same bloke on our travels (not the cricket jumper wearer). We call him Barcadi Breezer man because he smuggled a bottle of Barcardi into Carrow Road a couple of season's back and had it taken off him when he was spotted swigging from it at half time. Nice enough chap though.

Is he an asian chap?

Yes.

Ha brilliant! Saw him on a train from Hull back to Sheffield the morning after the game the other week. And guess what he was swigging from?

Haha. Strangley enough,  we've not seen him drink it since but we see him almost every away game. He was sat three seats behind us on the train on Saturday.