Villa Park Redevelopment

[WassallVillain]

I just received an offer from my Credit Card supplier to buy tickets for England v New Zealand at Twickenham. £999. That’s true loading onto the corporate.

[VILLA MOLE]

I just received an offer from my Credit Card supplier to buy tickets for England v New Zealand at Twickenham. £999. That’s true loading onto the corporate.

Does that include a hotel stay ? 

[Dante Lavelli]

Location is far from irrelevant.

Walk through the West End and you'll see as many ticket agencies selling London football tickets as they sell theatre tickets. Aston will never have that tourist market.

exactly, London has a much bigger market to draw on , hence why Fulham can sell basic seats at £230

London:  Spurs / Arsenal / Chelsea / West Ham / Palace / Fulham / Brentford
Birmingham: Villa / Blues / WBA / Wolves - there’s minimal competition.

With HS2 you could be at a new stadium within an hour from Euston.  I don’t see how a well located stadium cannot work and compete directly with West Ham (for a start).

Add in gigs, conferences,hotel, weddings etc and the venue could be a 365 day a year venue. Easy.

[VillaTim]

Location is far from irrelevant.

Walk through the West End and you'll see as many ticket agencies selling London football tickets as they sell theatre tickets. Aston will never have that tourist market.

exactly, London has a much bigger market to draw on , hence why Fulham can sell basic seats at £230

London:  Spurs / Arsenal / Chelsea / West Ham / Palace / Fulham / Brentford
Birmingham: Villa / Blues / WBA / Wolves - there’s minimal competition.

With HS2 you could be at a new stadium within an hour from Euston.  I don’t see how a well located stadium cannot work and compete directly with West Ham (for a start).

Add in gigs, conferences,hotel, weddings etc and the venue could be a 365 day a year venue. Easy.

If it's out by the NEC yeah then you'll be close to HS2 Birmingham Interchange station and the airport . It won't be a popular choice though as seen by the comments on here , not that Heck will give a flying f**k.
This is all over 10 years away so no immediate drama .

[London Villan]

It’s why a city centre stadium would be a game changer for us and the city.

[Chris Harte]

It’s why a city centre stadium would be a game changer for us and the city.

If only there was a way to move the city centre north, towards Aston.

[tomd2103]

It's not just the fact Spurs can charge a lot more , there is also more demand there due to location and they need more covers than we do. Same with Arsenal too and the likes of Fulham have been tapping into the wealthy floating market that is much bigger in the South east than the West Mids.

So you've got Spurs, Arsenal and Fulham. Don't forget Chelsea and West Ham, as well as Palace and Brentford. All in the same league.

Meanwhile, we've got Wolves as the most local competetion. Centre spot to centre spot it's 11.79 miles (yes, I've been messing about with Google Earth again).

All those London clubs I've mentioned above, if you draw a circle centred on the Emirates, all the other clubs fit into a circle with a radius of 11.79 miles. Do the same on Villa Park and it's Wolves. That's it.

And while Greater London has a greater population than the West Midlands (9.6m vs 2.6m) we've established that we're not looking at the locals to buy these kind of tickets.

You've missed out that London has goodness knows how many wealthy visitors milling around every weekend looking for something to do.  I love Birmingham, but we just don't have that.

[pauliewalnuts]

Every weekend, there are tens of thousands of foreign tourists in London who would want to go to a premier league match.

That's how West Ham get 60k every home match, and it's a large contributor to how Spurs do it as well.

No other city in this country, and not many others anywhere in Europe, have that appeal in terms of football matches, or the tourists interested to fill the seats.

[Sexual Ealing]

Every weekend, there are tens of thousands of foreign tourists in London who would want to go to a premier league match.

That's how West Ham get 60k every home match, and it's a large contributor to how Spurs do it as well.

No other city in this country, and not many others anywhere in Europe, have that appeal in terms of football matches, or the tourists interested to fill the seats.

I'd be amazed if Sunderland didn't have the same as you describe.

[pauliewalnuts]

Every weekend, there are tens of thousands of foreign tourists in London who would want to go to a premier league match.

That's how West Ham get 60k every home match, and it's a large contributor to how Spurs do it as well.

No other city in this country, and not many others anywhere in Europe, have that appeal in terms of football matches, or the tourists interested to fill the seats.

I'd be amazed if Sunderland didn't have the same as you describe.

I guess in Sunderland, the stadium is at least a place to escape to from the grim desolation of the rest of the city.

[Rigadon]

I just received an offer from my Credit Card supplier to buy tickets for England v New Zealand at Twickenham. £999. That’s true loading onto the corporate.

Does that include a hotel stay ? 

For a fortnight?

[VillaTim]

The hospitality food i had at the springsteen was some of the worst food ive ever had in a football stadium, corporate or not. The whole experience was crap. Saved by the gig.

i was lucky last year went in the Directors Club or Lions Club whatever its called now through work for the Fulham game . We had that 7 course "tasting menu" . It was pretty mediocre and certainly wasn't fine dining. Bang average and all served up by the same level of service we get over in the Witton Upper. How people sit through that every home game is beyond me

[VillaTim]

Every weekend, there are tens of thousands of foreign tourists in London who would want to go to a premier league match.

That's how West Ham get 60k every home match, and it's a large contributor to how Spurs do it as well.

No other city in this country, and not many others anywhere in Europe, have that appeal in terms of football matches, or the tourists interested to fill the seats.

I'd be amazed if Sunderland didn't have the same as you describe.

top trolling there . Sunderland lol

[DB]

Every weekend, there are tens of thousands of foreign tourists in London who would want to go to a premier league match.

That's how West Ham get 60k every home match, and it's a large contributor to how Spurs do it as well.

No other city in this country, and not many others anywhere in Europe, have that appeal in terms of football matches, or the tourists interested to fill the seats.

I'd be amazed if Sunderland didn't have the same as you describe.

I guess in Sunderland, the stadium is at least a place to escape to from the grim desolation of the rest of the city.

Spuds have shed loads of Koreans going to matches.

[Risso]

The hospitality food i had at the springsteen was some of the worst food ive ever had in a football stadium, corporate or not. The whole experience was crap. Saved by the gig.

i was lucky last year went in the Directors Club or Lions Club whatever its called now through work for the Fulham game . We had that 7 course "tasting menu" . It was pretty mediocre and certainly wasn't fine dining. Bang average and all served up by the same level of service we get over in the Witton Upper. How people sit through that every home game is beyond me

Perhaps they just thought you were a bellend and treated you accordingly?