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Offline Hillbilly

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4755 on: June 01, 2020, 11:20:00 AM »
I see the championship is gearing up to restart. This makes it more important that we stay up because being replaced by Dirty Leeds and that other mob is unthinkable.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4756 on: June 01, 2020, 01:34:31 PM »
I still haven't had an email yet about a refund or the other options on my season ticket.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4757 on: June 01, 2020, 01:43:45 PM »
I still haven't had an email yet about a refund or the other options on my season ticket.


Nor me. I have had an email telling me I'll be getting an email, though.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4758 on: June 01, 2020, 02:03:43 PM »
I still haven't had an email yet about a refund or the other options on my season ticket.


Nor me. I have had an email telling me I'll be getting an email, though.

Nor me. I have asked them via Twitter and they said a FAQ email would be coming soon with links available for whichever choice you want to make.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4759 on: June 01, 2020, 02:17:02 PM »
I finally got mine, and to be fair to the club, the actual refund arrived very shortly after.  To be less fair to them, they calculated it as if the first two cup games which my contract clearly states are "free" and "at no extra cost" as if they were paid for, which is a bit cheeky.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4760 on: June 01, 2020, 02:43:54 PM »
I finally got mine, and to be fair to the club, the actual refund arrived very shortly after.  To be less fair to them, they calculated it as if the first two cup games which my contract clearly states are "free" and "at no extra cost" as if they were paid for, which is a bit cheeky.


To even that out, I don't suppose there's any chance they compensated for 4 of the remaining 6 games being Category A?

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4761 on: June 01, 2020, 03:26:29 PM »
I always remember it as a St Johns ambulance.

Sorry, yeah, that's who I meant.


When a player was down injured back in the day the chant was "Your going home in a St John's ambulance". I do recall being on the Holte during an ambulance strike and hearing the chant changed to "Your going home in an army ambulance".

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4762 on: June 01, 2020, 08:49:50 PM »
Hungarian football with social distancing fans.


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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4763 on: June 01, 2020, 09:14:03 PM »
Do you reckon they'll let me snd the squirt sit in our seats in the Upper Holte? We'll be quiet, you won't notice us.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4764 on: June 01, 2020, 09:52:27 PM »
I always remember it as a St Johns ambulance.

Sorry, yeah, that's who I meant.


When a player was down injured back in the day the chant was "Your going home in a St John's ambulance". I do recall being on the Holte during an ambulance strike and hearing the chant changed to "Your going home in an army ambulance".
"You're going home in a fucking ambulance" was the chant, back in the (rather messy) day.

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4765 on: June 01, 2020, 10:29:50 PM »
It was mainly St Johns ambulance as they were at the games.

And to the same tune "you're gonna get your fucking heads kicked in"

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4766 on: June 02, 2020, 12:10:50 AM »
Didn't the ambulance workers go on strike in the 80's or 90's and it was changed briefly to "you're going home in an army ambulance"?   I actually thought that one rolled of the tongue better.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4767 on: June 02, 2020, 11:27:44 AM »
I finally got mine, and to be fair to the club, the actual refund arrived very shortly after.  To be less fair to them, they calculated it as if the first two cup games which my contract clearly states are "free" and "at no extra cost" as if they were paid for, which is a bit cheeky.
Was it just a straight refund or credit for the same amount?  No incentive to take the credit like enhanced value, future discount etc?

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4768 on: June 02, 2020, 02:01:34 PM »
Didn't the ambulance workers go on strike in the 80's or 90's and it was changed briefly to "you're going home in an army ambulance"?   I actually thought that one rolled of the tongue better.



Regarding injured opposition players I actually remember The Holte singing three versions of the song to the same tune.

"Your going home in a St' John's ambulance" was the standard one.

"Your going home in an army ambulance" (sung during the ambulance strike).

Also the classic song during the heyday of Crossroads "Your going home like Sandy Richardson".*

*For those who don't know Sandy Richardson was a disabled character on Crossroads and not as one of my mates thought an old time Villa player who had once been badly injured.
« Last Edit: June 02, 2020, 02:03:30 PM by Damo70 »

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #4769 on: June 02, 2020, 02:19:48 PM »
So many great memories.

 


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