Villa Park Redevelopment

[maidstonevillain]

Ticket prices for Wolves - and Leicester- are a piss take.

And Stevenage.

[Percy McCarthy]

Ticket prices for Wolves - and Leicester- are a piss take.

And Stevenage.

I’m content with me and the babby for £30.

[paul_e]

there’s a lot of factors and legitimate excuses why people aren’t buying the remaining tickets
all the same we should be selling out this game I’m actually surprised if we don’t

I think once you get down to the last 1000 or so they're often hard to sell because it tends to be single seats which are a tough sell for families, etc.

[Clampy]

And they're possibly the most expensive ones left

[maidstonevillain]

Ticket prices for Wolves - and Leicester- are a piss take.

And Stevenage.

I’m content with me and the babby for £30.

I agree. That is good. No complaints with that.

When I earlier clicked on the ticket site, it was showing "normal prices".

[Percy McCarthy]

Ticket prices for Wolves - and Leicester- are a piss take.

And Stevenage.

I’m content with me and the babby for £30.

I agree. That is good. No complaints with that.

When I earlier clicked on the ticket site, it was showing "normal prices".

Fair enough. Just in case it helps, me and the lad are upstairs in the Holte, £20 for me, £10 for him. K5 I think.

[Pete3206]

I certainly wouldn't be parting with 54 sheets if I didn't have a season ticket. Barmy prices.

[Rory]

Loads of availability for wolves , you do wonder if we can't sell out for a local derby will we often end up with 7000 empty seats

Wolves isn't a local derby. Except to them.

100%. I give them about as much thought as I give Stoke.

[Rory]

there’s a lot of factors and legitimate excuses why people aren’t buying the remaining tickets
all the same we should be selling out this game I’m actually surprised if we don’t

I think once you get down to the last 1000 or so they're often hard to sell because it tends to be single seats which are a tough sell for families, etc.

Yeah, as someone who goes to 5-10 games a season based on whether I can afford paying the equivalent of the ticket in public transport costs (I live in the Shires, naturally) it can be tough to find seats together.

Plus, you need to factor in the opposition. Wolves aren't a 'glamour' fixture, aren't a derby, aren't a cuddly Blackburn, but judging from how much their fans seem to think about us, I still risk being ambushed and beaten up with a frozen faggot or platform shoe.

And if we win? We get the thrill of beating... oh yeah, Wolves. The highlight of my hour.

Risk/reward.

[Flin5tone]

I understand all the above and I certainly would not be paying tonight's prices if I didn't have a season ticket but if we are extending the capacity and many games being on a sunday/midweek we can expect 7,000 empty seats and this is when things are looking rosey at the football club.

If the inflated waiting list aren't interested now then will they and current season care holders be that fussed when there's a bigger capacity/no need to have a season ticket as you'll be able to walk up and pay on the day for 90% of matches?

We can use all the excuses in the world but facts are fact and it's something the club need to have a think about

[JD]

Surely when we increase the capacity we will also increase the number of season tickets available, so whereas there may be more tickets available our season ticket numbers will also increase. That will negate the issue of having a bigger capacity.

[oldtimernow]

Ticket prices for Wolves - and Leicester- are a piss take.

And Stevenage.

I’m content with me and the babby for £30.

I agree. That is good. No complaints with that.

When I earlier clicked on the ticket site, it was showing "normal prices".

Fair enough. Just in case it helps, me and the lad are upstairs in the Holte, £20 for me, £10 for him. K5 I think.

Does that mean that when the lad who says £5 to look after the car for you mister you can say ok but only if you come to the match with me 🤔

[amfy]

I understand all the above and I certainly would not be paying tonight's prices if I didn't have a season ticket but if we are extending the capacity and many games being on a sunday/midweek we can expect 7,000 empty seats and this is when things are looking rosey at the football club.

If the inflated waiting list aren't interested now then will they and current season care holders be that fussed when there's a bigger capacity/no need to have a season ticket as you'll be able to walk up and pay on the day for 90% of matches?

We can use all the excuses in the world but facts are fact and it's something the club need to have a think about

I have a season ticket and won’t be there tonight because it’s just not practical for me to be taking time off work to attend so soon after Christmas, especially as I’ll also need to take time off to get to the Leeds game next Friday. These evening kick offs are harder for fans who live further away - whether you have a season ticket or not.

There is a clear impact of evening kick offs on ‘walk up’ sales, but it doesn’t necessarily knock on to the season ticket waiting list to the same extent. People will get a season ticket knowing they won’t get to all the games. I do…..but obviously match by match sales are only of those who can actually get there. The two things aren’t the same.

The waiting list definitely has some people on it who won’t take up the place when it comes, but I know enough ‘actual people’ on it to know that it exists and is substantial.

That said - again annoying that The Holte is fully sold out and our 2 Lower Holte tickets won’t be put on sale because there are seats in other areas. I think they should re-sell on a stand by stand basis because there are people who will go if there are tickets in the same stand as friends or family, that might not buy otherwise.

[pauliewalnuts]

There is a clear impact of evening kick offs on ‘walk up’ sales, but it doesn’t necessarily knock on to the season ticket waiting list to the same extent. People will get a season ticket knowing they won’t get to all the games. I do…..but obviously match by match sales are only of those who can actually get there. The two things aren’t the same.

Absolutely this, and this is the bit Flint5tone constantly misses.

Failing to sell 42,000 every single week does not have anything to do with how many people are on the ST waiting list. There are always people who can't go to matches despite having a season ticket - in my last season with one, i missed more games than i went to, due to work commitments plus some family stuff.

If you're a ST holder and you're not at a match, you are still counted in the attendance figure. If you're not a ST holder but are on the list, you're in a position where you don't have to go to matches which are awkward / too expensive / whatever for you.

It's really not as simple as "that means 7,000 empty seats", it doesn't survive the briefest of examinations.

On top of that - they're pouring £100m into stadium improvements and enlargement - why would they bother doing that if they weren't sure we could fill a bigger ground on a regular basis? It's all very well to bang on about wanting the money from the expanded corporates etc but that's going to take decades to earn back the money they'd save by not spending the £100m in the first place.

It's a simplistic argument which doesn't survive the briefest application of logic, which is why there's only one person making it - in a fractious, argumentative, non consensual place like this, where if we won the Champions League, within weeks there'd be identifiable factions squabbling about how we did it, you've managed to unite the entire site against your argument.

Genuine question - has that ever happened before? Other than that neo nazi teenager 10 years ago?

[ChicagoLion]

Well done Paulie.