Villa Park Redevelopment

[PeterWithesShin]

2919. Surely you remember Everton Friday.

Have we won the FA Cup by then?

[Gareth]

I did the top corporate at Villa, which was very memorable as it was a) free and b) Everton Friday.

1989? H&V was still in its relative infancy, you must have been being courted.

2019. Surely you remember Everton Friday.

Who could forget Wesley under lights ;-)

[Toronto Villa]

We're going to copy Chelsea and put beds in the stadium, and charge premium prices for them.

Then we can have these hideous types of fans joining the club

https://x.com/hltco/status/1750486626210390381?s=46

[London Villan]

Thats a real mish-mash of stands.

[eamonn]

God, and we thought posh-ing up the middle of the Holte was bad!

[Brazilian Villain]

Then we can have these hideous types of fans joining the club

Bit Harsh.

[eamonn]

I did the top corporate at Villa, which was very memorable as it was a) free and b) Everton Friday.

1989? H&V was still in its relative infancy, you must have been being courted.

2019. Surely you remember Everton Friday.

Who could forget Wesley under lights ;-)

Ah yes, was on holiday but remember trying to find a bar showing it somewhere.

[pauliewalnuts]

Thats a real mish-mash of stands.

I was just thinking, I hope Heck's idea of getting another 3,000 seats doesn't give us something that looks like that, what a dog's dinner.

[FatSam]

Thats a real mish-mash of stands.

I was just thinking, I hope Heck's idea of getting another 3,000 seats doesn't give us something that looks like that, what a dog's dinner.

I’d be surprised if there was a way to make the corner between the Holte and the Witton Lane more of a dog’s dinner than Ellis already has…

[VillaTim]

I did the top corporate at Villa, which was very memorable as it was a) free and b) Everton Friday.

1989? H&V was still in its relative infancy, you must have been being courted.

2019. Surely you remember Everton Friday.

got in at 4am via Broad Street

[Nev]

I did the top corporate at Villa, which was very memorable as it was a) free and b) Everton Friday.

Same.
We were in that thing twixt the Trinity Road Stand and the Holte. The view was incredible, food so so. Morley and Mountfield were the speakers, the latter giving us no chance and showing his true colours which is fair do's.

Post match our mate went looking for Mountfield to give him some stick but fortunately couldn't find him.

The same bloke tried to have a pop at McCoist at the Cheltenham Festival for "not giving the Villa enough credit " on ITV. We persuaded him not to on account of the Glasgow heavies looning around.

[Chris Harte]

I did the top corporate at Villa, which was very memorable as it was a) free and b) Everton Friday.

Same.
We were in that thing twixt the Trinity Road Stand and the Holte. The view was incredible, food so so. Morley and Mountfield were the speakers, the latter giving us no chance and showing his true colours which is fair do's.

Post match our mate went looking for Mountfield to give him some stick but fortunately couldn't find him.

The same bloke tried to have a pop at McCoist at the Cheltenham Festival for "not giving the Villa enough credit " on ITV. We persuaded him not to on account of the Glasgow heavies looning around.

The only time I did corporate I ended up pretty much with Brian Little sat on me knee. Fun times.

[ez]

We're going to copy Chelsea and put beds in the stadium, and charge premium prices for them.

There's a joke about clean sheets in there somewhere.

[HolteL4]

“There aren’t enough facilities in the area for the supporters”.

Hmmm. I wonder what that means. Inside five years we’re building elsewhere. Nailed on.

would suggest town centre / NEC or a retail Park somewhere - (think Star City / The Fort etc)

I just can't see us moving to the city centre , it would be just too expensive.
Unless God forbid a ground share with that lot.

I think people need to forget about any idea of moving closer to the city centre.  When we move it'll be somewhere secluded and cut off so we are a captive audience so if we want to have something to eat and drink when going to the match we have to pay Hecks prices.  The thought that if he puts the prices up to what Heck wants to charge then we all drink in the city centre then go to the match must be killing him inside.

[Percy McCarthy]

Posted in Emery thread because it went a bit off topic, probably better here:

Wouldn’t surprise me if the strategy is to keep demand high by restricting supply; as all of us who have economics O levels know this increases prices. At the same time bigger sponsorship deals can still be done which won’t cost £100m or reduce capacity for two years and will dwarf the effect of 10,000 extra seats. Front of shirt, stadium naming rights, etc.

If and when that’s all sorted, we move.

It’s worth bearing in mind that according to the rule of thumb for valuing football clubs (5 x revenue) we are now worth a billion quid, How much did NSWE pay and how much invested since? Just over half that I think? And they’ve sold a chunk recently, they’ll be delighted with their investment so far and will keep investing IMO along with their new partners.