Villa Park Redevelopment

[Pat Mustard]

Seen this on Twitter.  Looks like Villa Live is off the table for now.

At least it looks like the new stand will be going ahead as planned from this - nothing in that letter suggests a delay in building that.

Some other points in there are interesting.  Creating a new sports bar in the North Stand, maybe Heck has seen that the Terrace View in the Holte has gone down like a bucket of cold sick and will be moving that facility to the sports bar in the new North Stand ASAP and leave the Terrace View to become a Holte Suite for the upper tier?  Also, redeveloping the Stumps building - is there any chance of giving The Holte pub a makeover as well and actually utilising the space in there a bit better.  If the intention for Villa Live is to build facilities that encourage people to hang around before and after the game then maybe it's a good idea to improve the facilities we already have first to test the water.

[jwarry]

Birmingham City Council’s budget is now fucked for this year so we ain’t getting any help,from them any time soon

[frank black]

Or that they want the bar/cafe type facility etc inside the ground rather than at Villa live. In order to take full advantage of the ticket holders before during and after the games?

[London Villan]

I wonder if there is a bigger conversation going on? If we can't improve the transport links (look at the farce around the University station and Camp Hill stations)  it sort of limits the size of the ground on the current site.

[Flin5tone]

What a mess.

All the talk about an exciting new future and we get a badge for one season whilst using the same shield 99% can't stand where it matters on TV, socials etc

Then it looks like the stadium plans are being tampered with

Starting to miss purslow already

[LeeB]

What a mess.

All the talk about an exciting new future and we get a badge for one season whilst using the same shield 99% can't stand where it matters on TV, socials etc

Then it looks like the stadium plans are being tampered with

Starting to miss purslow already

What you do in your spare time is up to you, but that's a niche look you're going for and watch out for J.K. Rowling and Graham Linehan

[London Villan]

Heck is really reviewing everything commerical. I think plenty of people mentioned the challenge of keeping Villa Live busy on non match days... interesting times.

[VillaBoy_23]

What a mess.

All the talk about an exciting new future and we get a badge for one season whilst using the same shield 99% can't stand where it matters on TV, socials etc

Then it looks like the stadium plans are being tampered with

Starting to miss purslow already

What a complete and utter insufferable bore you are.

[The Edge]

Seen this on Twitter.  Looks like Villa Live is off the table for now.

I got the impression it was never high on the list of priorities.

I'm starting to get concerned about all this. Why has everything got to happen at such a snails pace when it comes to redevelopment work at Villa Park? Even Wolves have built 2 new stands at the same end in the time we've had the North Stand. And has anyone been in stumps lately? It has an asbestos roof and stinks like hell. It needs flattening not wasting money on it. It all starting to seem very half arsed.

[Billy Walker]

Clear communication is required. I hope we'll be getting a big interview with Chris Heck very soon to explain what's going on regarding the badge and stadium expansion.

[Flin5tone]

It's the silence from the club that annoys me , we just get some terrible spin about looking at our past and to our future with some random badge..

[kippaxvilla2]

Apparently Ellmanton are one of the main bidders as well.

[Risso]

All seems a bit half arsed and watered down.

[Goldenballs]

What a mess.

All the talk about an exciting new future and we get a badge for one season whilst using the same shield 99% can't stand where it matters on TV, socials etc

Then it looks like the stadium plans are being tampered with

Starting to miss purslow already

What a complete and utter insufferable bore you are.

What's boring about that, I agree that it does seem a bit of a mess at the moment.

Just let the fans know what the craic is, if Heck has come in and wants to pause some stuff while he has a look at it, just let the fans know. The shite about the badge being for one season was a load of bollocks.

[dave.woodhall]

Maybe Gerrard wasn't hhe only vanity project to get binned.