Villa Park Redevelopment

[Dick Edwards]

I walked back into town last night too. I had no confidence I’d be able to catch the last train home in time if I’d had to wait for a bus.

[ender4]

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...

Do we think this is the new pricing for next football season as well.   Or just a premium price for the concert?

[chrisw1]

I walked back into town last night too. I had no confidence I’d be able to catch the last train home in time if I’d had to wait for a bus.

For people who don't want yo walk all the way back to town, walking to the A34 and getting a bus makes a lot of sense.  It's about 15 mins.

[Gareth]

I’ll say what I’ve always said an about the facilities, the service, the range of products etc on the GA concourses….if there was an ounce of inclination amongst those in charge to improve it they would have done, it’s not rocket science required…we are cattle class to them and should be jolly well grateful that they still let us attend

[VillaTim]

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

It's a pie with a bacon cheeseburger in it. I think.

Warning. Pie Filling hotter than surface of sun

[nigel]

You can see from that photo where they've wedged an extra row in at the back.

Pretty sure that row was already there, mate.
I used to sit T2, second row from the back

No mate, I've been back row 5 years (row LL), it's no longer the back row, that's now MM, was speaking to the ticket office about it yesterday

Ahh, cheers, mate 👍

[UK Redsox]

£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.

The Barbican does Brixton lager, which I like

[SamTheMouse]

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

It's a pie with a bacon cheeseburger in it. I think.

Still not a patch on Iceland's chicken tikka Yorkshire pudding.

[john e]

I walked back into town last night too. I had no confidence I’d be able to catch the last train home in time if I’d had to wait for a bus.

For people who don't want yo walk all the way back to town, walking to the A34 and getting a bus makes a lot of sense.  It's about 15 mins.

Catching local busses is so 1970’s

[amfy]

I was there last night with my best mate, who is football agnostic, and his brother who is a Blues ST holder, but otherwise a totally sound guy. 

As we were walking up from Aston Station he quipped "this will be one of the last gigs at VP" cue we had a bit of bantz about my skepticism that they will never build it, and his belief that they will.  But we had a really good chat about things for both of us, and from his POV their new owners have got everything right off the pitch (apparently have spent millions on the shit-tip) but are a car crash on it, and ours recently are the other way round.  We both agreed concluded that VP is a great "arena" when you are sitting watching the game, but so much of the rest of the experience is really not fit for purpose now for a major sporting establishment, and if they actually ever do build it (I said IF!!) , we will lose any "leisure" stuff like last night to a more modern arena. Even he was peddling the line that it will be a "city centre" venue though, which I just don't have any truck with at all.

I've been to 2 of the Foos gigs on this tour and I would imagine plenty others would have been at London, or Cardiff and many of the concert goers would have found our facilities wanting.

Taylor Swift has just done 3 nights at Anfield. Getting back away from there by car or trying to get public transport into town after a game is never any fun, but that didn’t stop it being a venue for a massive money spinner there.

[VillaTim]

Beyonce did 5 nights at Spurs.
good luck anyone coming out of that place at 11pm , makes Aston look like Monaco.

[Villan82]

I was there last night with my best mate, who is football agnostic, and his brother who is a Blues ST holder, but otherwise a totally sound guy. 

As we were walking up from Aston Station he quipped "this will be one of the last gigs at VP" cue we had a bit of bantz about my skepticism that they will never build it, and his belief that they will.  But we had a really good chat about things for both of us, and from his POV their new owners have got everything right off the pitch (apparently have spent millions on the shit-tip) but are a car crash on it, and ours recently are the other way round.  We both agreed concluded that VP is a great "arena" when you are sitting watching the game, but so much of the rest of the experience is really not fit for purpose now for a major sporting establishment, and if they actually ever do build it (I said IF!!) , we will lose any "leisure" stuff like last night to a more modern arena. Even he was peddling the line that it will be a "city centre" venue though, which I just don't have any truck with at all.

I've been to 2 of the Foos gigs on this tour and I would imagine plenty others would have been at London, or Cardiff and many of the concert goers would have found our facilities wanting.

Which is why I do not understand how so many here are perfectly fine with Heck coming out and saying that he decided last November that doing the new stand was a bad idea and we are instead watching them invest in making our shittest stand a more of a GA+ experience.

What are they playing at?

[London Villan]

Looks like the Corner FLag has been resurrected for next season.

[cdbearsfan]

Surely we'll need four?

[London Villan]

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