Quote from: chrisw1 on June 20, 2022, 10:19:17 AMI don't think for a minute we'd sell out 60k regulalrly, but the transport infastructure cannot be the limiting factor in our growth. There has to be solutions and the club needs to work with BCC to find them.I find it very hard to believe that it's impossible to find a solution to get 60,000 people to & from a football stadium that's right next to the M6 & A38, is 5 minutes walk from a railway line 2 stops away from the centre of Birmingham, and maybe 15 minutes walk away from a second railway station.
I don't think for a minute we'd sell out 60k regulalrly, but the transport infastructure cannot be the limiting factor in our growth. There has to be solutions and the club needs to work with BCC to find them.
We wouldn't sell out 60,000 if we went from 42,000 and added 18,000 on.We're far more likely to sell out 60,000 if we go through a period of selling out every week by adding 10,000 additional seats on and reducing supply to create additional demand for a Phase II. There's been a lot of elasticity in supply at Villa Park for most of my supporting life. Folks until 2019 didn't need a season ticket per se, as you could guarantee a match ticket.Purslow has been very successful in driving that demand up and reducing supply.
Quote from: Ads on June 20, 2022, 05:31:10 PMWe wouldn't sell out 60,000 if we went from 42,000 and added 18,000 on.We're far more likely to sell out 60,000 if we go through a period of selling out every week by adding 10,000 additional seats on and reducing supply to create additional demand for a Phase II. There's been a lot of elasticity in supply at Villa Park for most of my supporting life. Folks until 2019 didn't need a season ticket per se, as you could guarantee a match ticket.Purslow has been very successful in driving that demand up and reducing supply.... and improving the quality on the pitch and winning something.\EDIT not even necessarily winning something. Getting into the Champions League a couple of times would probably influence attendances more than, say, winning the Carabou Cup (yes, I know, i too would choose silverware over Europe but that's just the way football is).
Quote from: pauliewalnuts on June 21, 2022, 09:20:46 AMQuote from: Ads on June 20, 2022, 05:31:10 PMWe wouldn't sell out 60,000 if we went from 42,000 and added 18,000 on.We're far more likely to sell out 60,000 if we go through a period of selling out every week by adding 10,000 additional seats on and reducing supply to create additional demand for a Phase II. There's been a lot of elasticity in supply at Villa Park for most of my supporting life. Folks until 2019 didn't need a season ticket per se, as you could guarantee a match ticket.Purslow has been very successful in driving that demand up and reducing supply.... and improving the quality on the pitch and winning something.\EDIT not even necessarily winning something. Getting into the Champions League a couple of times would probably influence attendances more than, say, winning the Carabou Cup (yes, I know, i too would choose silverware over Europe but that's just the way football is).Absolutely it would help. But we had our 4th highest average attendance and highest in 72 years having a pretty mediocre at best season down in 14th.
I wonder what has happened to cause the 20,000 waiting listYears ago when I was asked if I had a season ticket my stock answer was no I don’t need oneYou could go to any game you wanted as a normal memberWe were always one of the lowest of the bigger clubs for season ticket uptake as I’ve always assumed because of the walk up by The fact we are locally supported mainly by people living in the MidlandsSo what’s changed to have such a massive waiting listwe haven’t finished in the top half of the Premier League for 10 years ffs so you can’t say there is Thousands of glory hunters jumping on the bandwagonI’m glad we’re here and selling out every week but I don’t know why it’s happened so quicklyI became a season ticket holder three seasons ago when we came up because of Kid pressureBest thing they ever made me do
those bloody lower mid table glory hunters grrrrrrr
For most of the period between 1995-2018 we were poorly run and governed - there is no doubt that the new owners, Smith, and a Purslow put us back on the map not just in terms PL football but also PL mentality. That’s driving interest, revenue, and fan renewal. And long may it continue.