Villa Park Redevelopment

[Drummond]

What's getting lost on what Fred is saying and he's right on is the price of these tickets in the Trinity and Witton Lane...£59 with no concessions is just pure greed on Villa's part for a game against the likes of Wolves. Why is there no concessions in the Trinity anyway, no-one has been able to give a credible reason why?

There are, just not in the better seats (central blocks in the Upper for example).

[eamonn]

Yeah, what prompted it? I thought football saturation had peaked some years ago.

Was 3 years outside the PL and Villa fans as captain and manager really enough for us to maintain this peak for the long-term?
Sorry, I'm becoming more like Freddie.

[paul_e]

What's getting lost on what Fred is saying and he's right on is the price of these tickets in the Trinity and Witton Lane...£59 with no concessions is just pure greed on Villa's part for a game against the likes of Wolves. Why is there no concessions in the Trinity anyway, no-one has been able to give a credible reason why?

I honestly don't think that has been lost on anyone, there have been plenty of comments about the poor pricing from people disagreeing with him and accepting it as ONE factor in why, for this specific game, we won't be above 97% capacity. It's the rest of his argument that the club are lying about the waiting list and we'll have 7000 empty seats every week once the new stand is built that people are arguing with.

[Lastfootstamper]

We need a bigger ground. We've never come close to operating at this percentage of capacity for a sustained period, ever. We've had three, just three, seasons where we've averaged bigger gates than we're seeing now; 1937/38, 48/49 & 49/50. And we had a much bigger ground then, housing occasional gates of 67-69k+.

[chrisw1]

there will be just under 2k unsold and I'd guess a fair number of ST non attenders.  I think it's probably the train strike that's done the most damage. 

As much as most of us like to say it's not a derby, there's definitely a lot of Black Country based Villa fans who keep a close eye on the Dingles.

[DeKuip]

I’d have been more disappointed if we had sold out. The only way our owners and Purslow will ever get the message that prices are ridiculously high is by fans not paying it.
This is not London.

[dave.woodhall]

I’d have been more disappointed if we had sold out. The only way our owners and Purslow will ever get the message that prices are ridiculously high is by fans not paying it.
This is not London.

I'd agree with that, but a chunk of our fanbase does think that the owners have shelled out enough and 'proper' supporters should be happy to put their whack in as well.

[AGRIPPA]

We need a bigger ground. We've never come close to operating at this percentage of capacity for a sustained period, ever. We've had three, just three, seasons where we've averaged bigger gates than we're seeing now; 1937/38, 48/49 & 49/50. And we had a much bigger ground then, housing occasional gates of 67-69k+.

lets not forget how many weren't counted (ie..cash walk-ins....)back in the day

[Pat Mustard]

It's a difficult one for the owners though isn't it - the way the rules are now they are not allowed to just keep funding everything from their own pockets.  The club has to maximise commercial and matchday revenue from somewhere if we are ever going to compete, and that will come at a cost to supporters at some point.

I'm in complete agreement that the ticket prices this year are over the top and the owners need to be very wary that they are not sustainable if we don't get some tangible success very soon but there's the rub - I'm not sure it's ever going to be possible to have a successful team and cheap tickets at the same time (at least, not if you're not backed by a repressive regime who cheat the system with false sponsorship deals).

[paul_e]

I’d have been more disappointed if we had sold out. The only way our owners and Purslow will ever get the message that prices are ridiculously high is by fans not paying it.
This is not London.

I'd agree with that, but a chunk of our fanbase does think that the owners have shelled out enough and 'proper' supporters should be happy to put their whack in as well.

Ticket prices aren't a fight that can be done club-by-club, there need to be blanket changes at a leagure or even FA level to bring them back in line.

[PaulMcGrathsNo5Shirt]

I looked at taking the lad tonight who is 16. Due to other footballing commitments we don't get to go to B6 very often. He wanted to sit near his mate in the Doug Ellis lower - £27.50 for him, for me £54

I'm not tight but I honestly can't justify that kind of money.

[rob_bridge]

We've sold more than 40,000 for every game back in the Premier League.

IIRC the last season under O Leary we didn't even sell out v Noses - it was Easter Sunday and I booked mine on Good Friday. There was a huge amount riding on it too.

[Pete3206]

I live about 3 miles from the ground. If I didn't have ST, there is no way I could pay 50+ To go tonight.

[Flin5tone]

Under 40,000 then in the end so we would have had 10,000 empty seats with new north

[dave.woodhall]

Under 40,000 then in the end so we would have had 10,000 empty seats with new north

Have the night off.