Villa Park Redevelopment

[Clampy]

Disruption to Lichfield and Rugeley Trent Valley lines
 
⚠ Due to a shortage of train crew, services on these lines have been impacted.

‼Travelling from Aston/Villa Park? Shuttle bus has been put in place to help mitigate the impact of these cancellations.

https://x.com/WestMidRailway/status/1806441424755318935

Oh good god, just want you want after a gig.

There was a line of buses on the same side as the station heading towards Spaghetti Junction. There were none on the other side. At around 11pm when I left with my daughter it looked like carnage at the station and the city bound queue stretched as far as I could see towards the old Eddie's pub. I stood outside the Swan and Mitre from about 10.15 to 11pm and  not a single train or bus left there towards the city apart from a freight train. How do they put trains on from Wembley every minute towards central London after a match when they're only every 15 minutes the rest of the time?

Yes, its not good but like Dave said, the train company have to more than play their part as well, its their service. It sounds like you just want to blame the club.

[Kevin Dawson]

Seat reconfiguration doesn't appear to have been done in the Lower Holte as yet. The toilets haven't been touched either. There's clearly a lot of work to do in the next 8 weeks.......

Plus the 'one cup' system has changed. Bought a pint of Amstel, thinking it was £6.50. Forgot to take my cup back when I got another one, and was informed that it was actually £8.50, including £2 deposit for the cup, which you don't get back!

[Villan82]

If the adidas logo could appear in yellow on those mock-up club crests a few weeks ago, I don't see why the adidas logo couldn't have been done in blue seats as the old AV lettering was?

[London Villan]

So, no changes yet in the "stadium bowl" for the regular 28000 fans - I mean we only generate £25m for the club - so I guess we don't really matter.

[Ads]

Why would they make changes before a gig for 50,000 people?

[VillaTim]

Class.

[sid1964]

I must admit I have never heard of a single song by the Foo Fighters, and do not know anything about them - so was surprised to just read that 50,000 fans turned up for one of their concerts at Villa park.

They are obviously very popular.

If the club decides to charge a £2.00 deposit for a plastic glass next season, i can just imagine the queue by fans trying to get there money back before and after the game!

They do a similar scheme at Twickenham, there are usually loads of kids picking up the glasses that have been dropped on the floor to collect the refund money.

[London Villan]

So, no changes yet in the "stadium bowl" for the regular 28000 fans - I mean we only generate £25m for the club - so I guess we don't really matter.

They are already making changes for next season though? THe work is underway. My bet is there will be zero changes in the next 8 weeks for regular fans.

[Ads]

£6.90 for Amstel to watch the Foo Fighters at Old Traffoed (LCC) 2 weeks back. £17.45 for a double pint of Peroni at the Co-op Arena last week. Man City building their new stand behind the current one as well. £17 odd for a double pint of Moretti at Leeds Arena too.

Pints at gigs are expensive.  Co-op again this evening. I shall walk back to town rather than wait on a tram, much quicker.

[LeeB]

£6.90 for Amstel to watch the Foo Fighters at Old Traffoed (LCC) 2 weeks back. £17.45 for a double pint of Peroni at the Co-op Arena. Man City building their new stand behind the current one as well. £17 odd for a double pint of Moretti at Leeds Arena too.

Pints at gigs are expensive.

And are, without exception, absolutely terrible.

[chrisw1]

We were in the Witton Lane Upper.  The view was great, the gig was great, but fuck me the bar service and access to the toilets was awful.  I expected this, but people in the concourse looked utterly bemused.  I reckon there's tens of thousands of pounds left in the beer pumps just because they cannot organise a piss-up in a brewery.

Pay people double time, pay them £40 an hour if you have to, but for the love of God just get a decent number of quality staff and give them the equipment they need to serve the thousands of people who literally just want to hand over their money.

[Kevin Dawson]

I must admit I have never heard of a single song by the Foo Fighters, and do not know anything about them - so was surprised to just read that 50,000 fans turned up for one of their concerts at Villa park.

They are obviously very popular.

If the club decides to charge a £2.00 deposit for a plastic glass next season, i can just imagine the queue by fans trying to get there money back before and after the game!

They do a similar scheme at Twickenham, there are usually loads of kids picking up the glasses that have been dropped on the floor to collect the refund money.

You don't get the money back. First pint is £8.50, and then as long as you use the same cup, it drops to £6.50.

The pies at Pietanic had also gone up from £5.95 to £7.00, and the bacon cheeseburger pie wasn't on the menu...

[LeeB]

I must admit I have never heard of a single song by the Foo Fighters, and do not know anything about them - so was surprised to just read that 50,000 fans turned up for one of their concerts at Villa park.

They are obviously very popular.

If the club decides to charge a £2.00 deposit for a plastic glass next season, i can just imagine the queue by fans trying to get there money back before and after the game!

They do a similar scheme at Twickenham, there are usually loads of kids picking up the glasses that have been dropped on the floor to collect the refund money.

You don't get the money back. First pint is £8.50, and then as long as you use the same cup, it drops to £6.50.

The pies at Pietanic had also gone up from £5.95 to £7.00, and the bacon cheeseburger pie wasn't on the menu...

The what now?

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I can feel my arteries furring up just reading that. What in the name of Wigan is a bacon cheeseburger pie?

[cdbearsfan]

That sounds great.