Villa Park Redevelopment

[Ads]

You'll be able to check via the planning portal on BCC when the apps go in.

[LeeB]

New offer, 'The Bogs'.

Enjoy a premium pre-match experience in a converted space that was previously used by the untermensch to relieve themselves.

[purpletrousers]

New offer, 'The Bogs'.

Enjoy a premium pre-match experience in a converted space that was previously used by the untermensch to relieve themselves.

Insert joke about Steamers

[purpletrousers]

I'm currently 12500 on the waiting list. So try this out, to get myself a season ticket, at a vastly inflated price. Decide I don't like it and then go to 40000 (or whatever it is now) on the waiting list.

For someone 35000 on the list, like Percy for example, it's a better bet I'd have thought.

Regular season tickets are reducing in numbers anyway, more than 2000 gone over the last 2 summers (29k down to 27k), and it's looking increasingly likely that I'll never get there.

I'd be tempted to be honest, if I were on my own, but I have a 9 year old with me, and I'm not paying that, or close to it, for him. So I'll scrabble around for tickets again.

The new match by match prices added up are going to close the gap between those costs and this queue jump, but it’s still was it, an eye watering £82 per game? Some subliminal messaging there maybe… (just checked £68 for a nipper. And if you can’t get to a crazy kick off time, or are away, much harder to pass on/successfully sell back presumably)

The problem is , and I have it with my youngest marginally ahead of you in the queue, even with what natural wastage, STs getting priced out, and those on the list not taking the option, it’s hard to see her/you offered a ST until there is significant capacity increase. [sorry Drummond I just re-read your post and saw your comment about never getting there…indeed]

The growing gap of the mark up on match day prices Vs ST together with not offering any new STs atm shows they are clearly and I suppose sort of understandably squeezing revenue where they can.

[VillaTim]

ST holders must be seen now as a low revenue nuisance , hence the reducing numbers .

[sid1964]

Will there be a time when clubs don't offer season tickets?

The Arsenal season ticket holder who cuts my hair was telling me that - Arsenal give you a maximum of 5 days to re-new your season ticket, 150,000+ on their waiting list and that tickets for the Champions league group games this season where he sits (behind the goal) are £50.00 each, his season ticket costs £800 for just the Premier League games.

[Somniloquism]

Will there be a time when clubs don't offer season tickets?

The Arsenal season ticket holder who cuts my hair was telling me that - Arsenal give you a maximum of 5 days to re-new your season ticket, 150,000+ on their waiting list and that tickets for the Champions league group games this season where he sits (behind the goal) are £50.00 each, his season ticket costs £800 for just the Premier League games.

Sound very good value for Arsenal.

[Pat Mustard]

It seems to me that the fundamental problem with what they are doing is that Heck and his team have clearly been incentivised to generate the maximum return for minimum cost in the short-term.  He knows he won't be here in 5 years time, but presumably will get a nice fat bonus for hitting these short-term targets, so bollocks to the long-term.

Unfortunately, we know all too well that success in football is usually fleeting, and Heck will be long gone by the time we have empty seats again.  In the meantime, however, we will have lost potentially thousands of supporters who you could capture forever by selling them season tickets now.  It's short-termism and the end result is in 10 years time we will still be playing in front of 40k, when we should be transforming the whole future of the club by getting 50k and more in now and forever. 

[Somniloquism]

Does that mean we can't drive a Rover on the pitch at half time?

[Ads]

I think its clear that any loss of revenue from a depleted North Stand for 2 seasons would dramatically impact PSR and that we're building revenue as much as we can to (a) let us compete as is and (b) provide wiggle room for redevelopment.

[cdbearsfan]

Can't you write off lost revenue due to development of infrastructure?

[Risso]

Can't you write off lost revenue due to development of infrastructure?

Yes you can.

[Ads]

Can't you write off lost revenue due to development of infrastructure?

But only at what that revenue was at the time it's depleted. A couple of million for us, clearly means a lot more than it does for the clubs we're competing with.

[cdbearsfan]

Fuck it, let's just sponsor all the individual seats at ten million each. Judging by Man City, by the time they get round to punishing us, I'll be brown bread anyway.

[Drummond]

New offer, 'The Bogs'.

Enjoy a premium pre-match experience in a converted space that was previously used by the untermensch to relieve themselves.

There's a cocktail bar in Sheffield called Public, that is in the old gents bogs under the Town Hall.