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Re: Ticket Ballot For Chelsea Game
« Reply #240 on: May 15, 2021, 03:20:18 PM »
Loyalty should always count.

To a degree in my view or you risk alienating the younger fans coming through. Fortunately we aren't in a position yet to be having this regularly but its a fact of life for those clubs who get to Finals esp Euro's on a regular basis.  The first time this is going to bite is if we maintain 30k season tickets and then get to an FA Cup Final. Not enough of an allocation to go around for 30k STH's. I agree that longevity should be one of a number of criteria but we need to be careful. Quite liked that idea from earlier in the thread which England use.

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Re: Ticket Ballot For Chelsea Game
« Reply #241 on: May 15, 2021, 03:26:21 PM »
I don’t think there's an issue at home. These are unique circumstances of it being significantly oversubscribed for a public health reason. It's not ideal, but I get it.

I think we'll shift 30,000 season tickets again and then there is a slog on for the 8000 or so match tickets out of members, but Villa Park in 5 years will be bigger than it is now

Away from home there's perhaps a 1000 core of us who've been going home and away for the last 30 years. That loyalty should be rewarded with the Away Scheme.

I dont know whether it would be fairer to weight games for those outside that. At present you qualify for games based on attendance, so game X opens up at 12+ aways and so on. But it might be possible for say a standard game to be worth 1 point and more distant fixture 3 points. So kicking off tomorrow at midday at a ground 16 days away would attract more than going to the Wolves. Its either that or retain the tiered system but have a 15% of all away tickets go I to.a ballot for season ticket holders.

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Re: Ticket Ballot For Chelsea Game
« Reply #242 on: May 15, 2021, 03:27:23 PM »
give them to acorns to raffle off

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Re: Ticket Ballot For Chelsea Game
« Reply #243 on: May 15, 2021, 03:57:19 PM »
I think it should be much more than 15% open to newer younger fans.  At least 30%, possibly more.  You can't have a closed shop forever and even with a ballot it will take someone years to build up enough credit to be one of the chosen few.

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Re: Ticket Ballot For Chelsea Game
« Reply #244 on: May 15, 2021, 05:06:50 PM »
I don’t think there's an issue at home. These are unique circumstances of it being significantly oversubscribed for a public health reason. It's not ideal, but I get it.

I think we'll shift 30,000 season tickets again and then there is a slog on for the 8000 or so match tickets out of members, but Villa Park in 5 years will be bigger than it is now

Away from home there's perhaps a 1000 core of us who've been going home and away for the last 30 years. That loyalty should be rewarded with the Away Scheme.

I dont know whether it would be fairer to weight games for those outside that. At present you qualify for games based on attendance, so game X opens up at 12+ aways and so on. But it might be possible for say a standard game to be worth 1 point and more distant fixture 3 points. So kicking off tomorrow at midday at a ground 16 days away would attract more than going to the Wolves. Its either that or retain the tiered system but have a 15% of all away tickets go I to.a ballot for season ticket holders.



It's not that easy though. I live 120 miles away from Villa Park, in London so I've got half a dozen away games within easy reach every season. Who's to say what a standard or difficult game to get to is? Home games are a five hour round trip for me. I only missed 4 games league and cup, home and away before lockdown, racking up 6,000 miles. I worked my way up through the Lions club first, then with a season ticket I was doing enough games to start climbing through the tiers all the way to the 12+ top tier.

I've missed out in the ballot, and I'm gutted. But I totally accept that was the fairest way. If we got to the cup final and had 30,000 season ticket holders all wanting 25,000 tickets, there'd almost certainly be a weighted system – but it's never going to be 100% 'fair'.

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Re: Ticket Ballot For Chelsea Game
« Reply #245 on: May 15, 2021, 06:42:48 PM »
I hope the 10k that have tickets are busy sorting out songs for the new players....

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Re: Ticket Ballot For Chelsea Game
« Reply #246 on: May 15, 2021, 06:57:45 PM »
I hope the 10k that have tickets are busy sorting out songs for the new players....

Oh Ollie, Ollie! Ollie, Ollie, Ollie, Ollie, Ollie Watkins

Oh Emi, Emi! etc etc

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Re: Ticket Ballot For Chelsea Game
« Reply #247 on: May 15, 2021, 07:19:08 PM »
Easy. There's only one Emiliano Martínez, one.....

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Re: Ticket Ballot For Chelsea Game
« Reply #248 on: May 15, 2021, 07:36:30 PM »
I hope the 10k that have tickets are busy sorting out songs for the new players....

It's that long since I've been at Villa Park I've forgotten the songs for the old players!!

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Re: Ticket Ballot For Chelsea Game
« Reply #249 on: May 15, 2021, 08:06:31 PM »
I hope the 10k that have tickets are busy sorting out songs for the new players....

It's that long since I've been at Villa Park I've forgotten the songs for the old players!!

Guess Barkley will be classed as old player by time of Chelsea game so round of "you're not fit to wear the shirt" as he walks round at the end (probably won't even be at the ground).

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Re: Ticket Ballot For Chelsea Game
« Reply #250 on: May 15, 2021, 08:14:03 PM »
I am rehearsing:
Bye bye Barkley
Barkley goodbye
Bye bye Barkley
It won't make me cry

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Re: Ticket Ballot For Chelsea Game
« Reply #251 on: May 15, 2021, 08:23:57 PM »
A song for Martinez from Dean martins amore, just because he’s foreign, and exotic 🤔😂

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Re: Ticket Ballot For Chelsea Game
« Reply #252 on: May 15, 2021, 08:59:39 PM »
Loyalty should always count.

And it did by only having the ballot amongst season ticket holders.

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Re: Ticket Ballot For Chelsea Game
« Reply #253 on: May 15, 2021, 09:24:24 PM »
A song for Martinez from Dean martins amore, just because he’s foreign, and exotic 🤔😂

When the score ends in nought, and the strikers can't score, that's Martinez...

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Re: Ticket Ballot For Chelsea Game
« Reply #254 on: May 15, 2021, 09:32:12 PM »
Empty seats, my Lord.

 


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