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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #1980 on: March 19, 2023, 12:10:04 PM »
I wonder what they will do about the reduced capacity.

Was thinking the same. I assume the away end being snipped would be part of it, but then the away end itself will be effected by the construction.

We still need to offer away allocation 10% of the working capacity, surely.

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #1981 on: March 19, 2023, 12:16:49 PM »
The north stand only holds 7000, so season tickets will be capped at 30000 as it is today, then they’ll have 4000-5000 tickets for hospitality, pay per match and away fans.

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #1982 on: March 19, 2023, 12:29:08 PM »
Did I read it right that the assurance of upgrading Witton station just needs to be there before the Club can start on the redevelopment of the ground? I.e. not the actual completion of the of the station.

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #1983 on: March 19, 2023, 12:31:53 PM »
Will the family section be moved into the new stand?

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #1984 on: March 19, 2023, 12:39:34 PM »
The lower tier northern end of the trinity us being reconfigured, so it stands a chance the family section will be moved/changed.

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #1985 on: March 19, 2023, 12:55:45 PM »
Those upper away end seats were on sale a few days before and only by phone. The club also made no attempt to publicise it either. There were people on here last night pointing out they wanted to go but there were no tickets online.

I wonder how the away allocation will work while the North stand is out of operation.

We'll be down to about 35-36k for six months so perhaps could be allowed just to give the lower tier of Witton up to halfway line for away fans which might be 2k and then the Upper can go to some of the displaced fans.

Not ideal and not sure if prem rules will allow anymore (I'm sure years back when Newcastle were extending they only used to give 500 tickets to away fans).

I was sitting right in the corner of the Holte Upper (lovely view of the half time rainbows over the Expressway) so have no idea how populated the upper part was but if attendance is given as 41k still it suggests there was a very good take up at short notice.

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #1986 on: March 19, 2023, 12:57:28 PM »
I wonder what they will do about the reduced capacity.

Was thinking the same. I assume the away end being snipped would be part of it, but then the away end itself will be effected by the construction.

We still need to offer away allocation 10% of the working capacity, surely.

That's just the rule for FA cup.

Working capacity would be 3.5k so that's about 700-800 seats more than do in a 42k ground!

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #1987 on: March 19, 2023, 01:01:45 PM »
I am assuming the Lower terrace of the North Stand will be kept open subject to timing.

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #1988 on: March 19, 2023, 01:05:40 PM »
I wouldnt have thought so looking at the plans.

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #1989 on: March 19, 2023, 01:06:48 PM »
I am assuming the Lower terrace of the North Stand will be kept open subject to timing.

Not sure. If we're knocking down the whole of NS in one go that surely becomes safety concern given lack of access points.

Hopefully that part will be open again within six months just to have some fans behind the goal. Lower Trinity was open early the next season although I appreciate that was over 20 years ago and a completely different build.

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #1990 on: March 19, 2023, 01:07:47 PM »
There were about 800 empty seat in the upper witton.


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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #1991 on: March 19, 2023, 01:16:58 PM »
There were about 800 empty seat in the upper witton.


Very disappointing.

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #1992 on: March 19, 2023, 01:17:48 PM »
There were about 800 empty seat in the upper witton.



I assume Fulham midweek in late April will probably only sell out bottom tier so we need to be publicising extra blocks much earlier as a couple more wins and that could be a big one for 6th-7th when we play them and think we could get 40k Villa fans in the ground for that.

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #1993 on: March 19, 2023, 01:18:24 PM »
I wonder if the front rows weren't put on sale for 'safety' reasons.

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #1994 on: March 19, 2023, 01:26:23 PM »
Looks that way as they were covered up.

 


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