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[Flin5tone]

As mentioned above there's plenty of room and parking if you're willing to walk 10/15 minutes . Plenty of land where the club could put on shuttle busses back to City Centre and encourage parking away from the stadium. The club should be doing all they can to resolve this problem. 

I'd encourage you all to email Andy Street and demand improvements to Public Transport offerings on a Match Day.

There's plenty of room at the back of the North Stand and Holte End to have multistorey Car Parks

I have been to a few Stadiums around Europe and the Transport to the stadium is first class at the elite German clubs and the likes of Ajax in the Netherlands. Frequent,fast and comfortable Trains/shuttles/Trams with little hassle or stress.

I feel as a Club we are really falling behind some other clubs in terms of facilities and experience.

Good idea, what response did you get?

Awaiting for a response. He's quite active in my local area with the councillors so hopefully he will respond. I know it's not a local issue to me but i'll also contact my very good local councillor.

I'm sure the Club will be well aware of the issue and hopefully a solution can be put in place.

I guess with losing many of the Pubs in the area it has not helped at all. A few thousand heading for the City Centre would have stayed back for a Drink in years gone by.

[luke95]

Ffs dont ask him to lay on a tram service for matchday at Villa Park .

[kippaxvilla2]

Er isn’t this a natural bi product of 40000 people leaving a football stadium at virtually the same time like?

[chrisw1]

Er isn’t this a natural bi product of 40000 people leaving a football stadium at virtually the same time like?

Well yes, but if you read the reports it sounds like the orgainisation is piss poor.  Trains shouldnn't be leaving half full when there's still huege queues waiting for them.

[pauliewalnuts]

As mentioned above there's plenty of room and parking if you're willing to walk 10/15 minutes . Plenty of land where the club could put on shuttle busses back to City Centre and encourage parking away from the stadium. The club should be doing all they can to resolve this problem. 

I'd encourage you all to email Andy Street and demand improvements to Public Transport offerings on a Match Day.

There's plenty of room at the back of the North Stand and Holte End to have multistorey Car Parks

I have been to a few Stadiums around Europe and the Transport to the stadium is first class at the elite German clubs and the likes of Ajax in the Netherlands. Frequent,fast and comfortable Trains/shuttles/Trams with little hassle or stress.

I feel as a Club we are really falling behind some other clubs in terms of facilities and experience.

Good idea, what response did you get?

That the other two stands would be open soo. KRO SOTV

Ha ha ha!

Excellent.

[pauliewalnuts]

The season before last, I tried a range of different ways of getting to the match.

The most enjoyable route involved train into town, drinking and eating somewhere nice for a few hours, then an Uber to the ground. Then on the way back, taking our chances getting a cab on the Trinity Rd, accepting the fact that sometimes it'd be a mini-cab and they'd rip you off on the price, but it seemed a reasonable expense to occur given there were a couple of us. Then a train home from Snow Hill.

I'd always driven before that season, but a couple of times I parked at Star City. Yeah, it's a long walk, but it's free and relatively easy to get out of and back onto the motorway. Also that side, the Power League is generally a decent place to park and a quick getaway normally doable.

I do think there's a difference, though, in that if you've been going there for years, you know these various options whereas in these days the influx of more people who don't go that regularly, combined with full houses week in week out (EXCEPT FOR MAN CITY!!11!! OMG!!!) make it tougher for those who don't know the ropes.

It'd all be much easier with decent public transport.

[Flin5tone]

Ticket Update

Email received informing me that Manchester City and the Leicester fixtures are on General Sale to those with a Booking History from 16/17 onwards.  Think the Club are probably regretting the Ticket pricing for the Man City match.

Plenty of availability for the Leicester clash..

[Ad@m]

When did this turn in to the ticket office update thread?

[The Edge]

There's a write up in Birmingham Live today about the shoddy and useless transport not being able to cope with the crowds on match days. People queuing at Aston and Witton for over two hours in the freezing cold. There's a deafening silence coming out of the club regarding the match day experience from rubbish catering to appalling crowd management post match. Are they aware? Is there anyone actually in control of the stadium and infrastructure?

[chrisw1]

Ticket Update

Email received informing me that Manchester City and the Leicester fixtures are on General Sale to those with a Booking History from 16/17 onwards.  Think the Club are probably regretting the Ticket pricing for the Man City match.

Plenty of availability for the Leicester clash..

There's 1,500 left for Man City, 8 days before the game for a Wednesday Evening kick off in a match we're likely to get thumped in.  It's also on TV (via Amazon Prime) and approx 4 weeks before Christmas.

I'm not panicing about poor attendances just yet.

[Clampy]

When did this turn in to the ticket office update thread?

This. Can Wilma at least put these posts in the ticket thread to save boring the rest of us?

[The Edge]

When did this turn in to the ticket office update thread?

This. Can Wilma at least put these posts in the ticket thread to save boring the rest of us?

Hahaha great. Now we know what to call him Willllmmmaaaaa!!

[pauliewalnuts]

Ticket Update

Email received informing me that Manchester City and the Leicester fixtures are on General Sale to those with a Booking History from 16/17 onwards.  Think the Club are probably regretting the Ticket pricing for the Man City match.

Plenty of availability for the Leicester clash..

There's 1,500 left for Man City, 8 days before the game for a Wednesday Evening kick off in a match we're likely to get thumped in.  It's also on TV (via Amazon Prime) and approx 4 weeks before Christmas.

I'm not panicing about poor attendances just yet.

I am not going.

I am picking and choosing this season (and thus far actually haven't chosen any) but that fixture would be even lower down my list of desirables than the Man United one.

Mostly because I really don't want to have to watch Grealish playing for the opposition. Abuse him all we want, but the fact is, he was a brilliant player for us and now he's doing it for someone else. I'll be fucked if I am watching that.

I wouldn't go if the club paid me £45 for the pleasure, let alone with me paying.

[chrisw1]

I'll go, but as with you if I was picking and chosing games this would be at the bottom of my list.

[Flin5tone]

You can't really blame anyone at £55 for upper Trinity absolute disgrace and just shows how out of touch the club are with so many games close together at Home and on Amazon the price is an absolute disgrace. Plus there's no Junior Prices in the central areas of Upper Trinity, strange.

Maybe they should have priced it fairly so that some of the apparent 20,000 desperate for a seat could come along.