Villa Park Redevelopment

[rougegorge]

The toilets in the Trinity didn't even look like they'd be cleaned, let alone improved in any way. But we know our place.

But there was yet more video this week with Mr Heck looking very pleased with his decisions around our home stadium.

I saw no differences in the Trinity Road. The hand gel dispensers have been removed from the toilets, but I don't think that would count as an improvement.

[basavfc]

New bins in toilet Lower Holte and............................................................

[The Moose]

Why not come and share the experience with us poor saps, Mr Heck

[Tuscans]

New bins in toilet Lower Holte and............................................................

What a waste of lager.

[AlexAlexCropley]

New bins in toilet Lower Holte and............................................................

What a waste of lager.

But the lager is often described as piss so it's an eco cycle.Kinda.

[PeterWithesShin]

So how did people that had them get on with the new rail seats?

[dalians umbrella]

When I finally got in the DE stand and started going up the stairs, I realised my feet were sticking to the still-wet paint and the bottom of my shoes were now yellow.

[Gareth]

When I finally got in the DE stand and started going up the stairs, I realised my feet were sticking to the still-wet paint and the bottom of my shoes were now yellow.

I noticed yellow footprints as I eventually got in on the steps & the smell of wet paint was pretty damn strong on the way down

[kippaxvilla2]

Christ that sounds amateurish. So overall was the ground looking better? I’m not sure about the tunnel that looks like American claptrap to me.

[nick harper]

Witton Lane has had a paint job. White walls and grey floor, no claret and blue anywhere. The upper concourse looked more like a prison corridor.

Also, there were new turnstiles where I went in and no operator. Is that the same across the stand does anyone know as they were the oldest remaining feature of the ground I think, dating back to the 1920s.

[RamboandBruno]

So how did people that had them get on with the new rail seats?

I was in L2 lower holte for years, shunted across a bit to the edge of L1 to fit new rail seating in. To be honest everyone always stood up by us anyway, so it wont make that much difference, just something to lean on. Less likely to go arse over tit when those last minute winners go in.

[LeeB]

Witton Lane has had a paint job. White walls and grey floor, no claret and blue anywhere. The upper concourse looked more like a prison corridor.

Also, there were new turnstiles where I went in and no operator. Is that the same across the stand does anyone know as they were the oldest remaining feature of the ground I think, dating back to the 1920s.

Seems like there's no longer any turnstile operators, was the same in the North Stand.

[lukey27]

 Yesterday was totally unacceptable, shocking.

No organisation of queues, people snaking round the ground. No-one in charge.

One bar open in the outside Holte. Toilets blocked. No improvement on food or drink. But hey, they got LED and a fancy new tunnel. It's so short sighted to concentrate on corporate first. Good luck selling those for Ipswich and Southampton at home.

All I want is to get in the ground easily, ( I queued for 25 minutes) not have my feet covered in piss and have the chance of getting a hot drink or beer without joining an unregulated queue for half an hour.

They've done nothing to address the concourses, toilets, food / drink. In fact it's much worse.

[Richard E]

So how did people that had them get on with the new rail seats?

Fine, it just felt a bit strange because of the unfamiliarity of them.

[Flamingo Lane]

I sat in the Witton Lane stand Upper yesterday, for the first time since we lost 4-0 to Coventry in the 1990s. Great view, but I had forgotten just how hopelessly narrow is the concourse in this stand, to the point where it seems uncomfortable almost to the point of dangerous. Even getting into and out of the toilets involves a squeeze through the same narrow doorway, with no in and out. In the actual seating area, most of the numbers on the seats and lettering on the rows appear to have vanished over time. Getting into the ground yesterday was of course the dismal experience that others have described.

 Not that this last part is the club's fault of course, but at half time I decided to change my seat for an empty one a few rows behind, as the bloke sat next to me insisted on manspreading himself across half of my space and talking absolute shit throughout the first half.