Villa Park Redevelopment

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As there's nothing to say yet. Short of a few obsessives online, this doesn't really take up much thinking of the overall Villa populous.

Good luck to then building anything in the UK though and combating the ambition less twerps and NIMBYs that will no doubt try and halt the progression.

Maybe, but it also doesn't fit with Heck and his 200 unsold seats either.

I think it does. It looks like what it is; the quickest excuse to be found, the thinnest of masks. Its not plausible because it isn't. It doesn't need to be either.

He didn't need an excuse, he could simply have said we are going to review what had been previously announced to ensure that the decision is the right one.

"Why are you reviewing it?"

"As we don't sell 200 tickets on average per home game."

[aev]

As there's nothing to say yet. Short of a few obsessives online, this doesn't really take up much thinking of the overall Villa populous.

Good luck to then building anything in the UK though and combating the ambition less twerps and NIMBYs that will no doubt try and halt the progression.

Maybe, but it also doesn't fit with Heck and his 200 unsold seats either.

I think it does. It looks like what it is; the quickest excuse to be found, the thinnest of masks. Its not plausible because it isn't. It doesn't need to be either.

He didn't need an excuse, he could simply have said we are going to review what had been previously announced to ensure that the decision is the right one.

"Why are you reviewing it?"

"As we don't sell 200 tickets on average per home game."

A master of communication.

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You don't need to be. It's soon forgotten, as we bemoan not spending enough in January or something.

[aev]

You don't need to be. It's soon forgotten, as we bemoan not spending enough in January or something.

I think it helps, certainly from those at the "top".

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We're not employees and "alienation" bemoaned elsewhere is a fantasy. We're the most captive of all customer bases. We'll see what happens.

[aev]

I am sure there are plenty of people at the club who are fully aware of the plan.

It just seems odd to me that we don't, even if we are the most captive of all customer bases.

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I like my jam yesterday, but what am I going to about it? Keep buying tickets until I die? Probably.

[algy]

I like my jam yesterday, but what am I going to about it? Keep buying tickets until I die? Probably.

Well, that's the thing. Unlike most businesses, a football club's core "customers" don't really have a choice. I'm not going to suddenly start supporting West Brom because I don't like Steven Gerrard being manager or whatever.

[Brazilian Villain]

I like my jam yesterday, but what am I going to about it? Keep buying tickets until I die? Probably.

And if we don't expand, you'll probably still be "buying" tickets after you die.

[dorsetvillian]

We simply have to expand Villa Park or god forbid build a new stadium.

[TonyD]

There is a general whiff of falling behind about all this, too.

Spurs in a brilliant 60k stadium, Everton building a 55k one, West Ham pulling 60k a game, Newcastle already with 51k and looking for more. Then us, shoe-horning extra seats in on the cheap, which is exactly what Ellis would do in these circumstances.

It is all such a let down.

Doug rebuilt the two biggest stands we have.   

[Chris Smith]

Next season in what could be our first time playing in the top European competition for 40 years do people really to do it in a three sided stadium? I realise that there is no perfect time for this work but that would seem to me to be the worst possible time.

[VillaTim]

We simply have to expand Villa Park or god forbid build a new stadium.

why ? not so long back we had to close a part of the ground down due to lack of customers

[The Man With A Stick]

There is a general whiff of falling behind about all this, too.

Spurs in a brilliant 60k stadium, Everton building a 55k one, West Ham pulling 60k a game, Newcastle already with 51k and looking for more. Then us, shoe-horning extra seats in on the cheap, which is exactly what Ellis would do in these circumstances.

It is all such a let down.

Doug rebuilt the two biggest stands we have.   

And made a pig's ear of it.

[The Edge]

There is a general whiff of falling behind about all this, too.

Spurs in a brilliant 60k stadium, Everton building a 55k one, West Ham pulling 60k a game, Newcastle already with 51k and looking for more. Then us, shoe-horning extra seats in on the cheap, which is exactly what Ellis would do in these circumstances.

It is all such a let down.

Doug rebuilt the two biggest stands we have.   

And made a pig's ear of it.

Ear ear