I think I agree with Carla Ward there Footy, I'm not sure giving away tickets will do anyone any good in the long run - it effectively devalues the game, particularly when people are willing to pay £5/£10 to watch anyway.Incidentally, the tickets were dead cheap but there was 9,500-ish at the Wrexham Women Vs Connahs Quay Women game yesterday. It'd been heavily marketed & was a bit of a one-off game as they were presented with the Adran North league title/trophy (Welsh 2nd tier), but still shows I think you can get big attendances without giving tickets away.
It’s £10 Footy, & I think they’ve explained it pretty well there.
Quote from: amfy on March 26, 2023, 10:33:26 PMIt’s £10 Footy, & I think they’ve explained it pretty well there.I just think the principle in these economic times rather thanbthe cost and that other clubs are doing free tickets. Could have had many from the surrounding area go along.I understand the strategy, and obviously have a bigger wage bill now Villa have better quality of players. Anyway just find it disappointing myself as under 7,000 attended and other games have 20,000.All in all playing wise the women squad are going in the right direction and that's what's most satisfying to be looking to progress.I'm very much looking forward to the matches versus Chelsea in league and cup.UTVW!
Quote from: algy on March 27, 2023, 07:49:39 AMI think I agree with Carla Ward there Footy, I'm not sure giving away tickets will do anyone any good in the long run - it effectively devalues the game, particularly when people are willing to pay £5/£10 to watch anyway.Incidentally, the tickets were dead cheap but there was 9,500-ish at the Wrexham Women Vs Connahs Quay Women game yesterday. It'd been heavily marketed & was a bit of a one-off game as they were presented with the Adran North league title/trophy (Welsh 2nd tier), but still shows I think you can get big attendances without giving tickets away.I agree, Villa are building a sustainable model of Villa fans. The atmosphere is different without the usual fans leading the chanting but it was great to see so many youngsters, some of them quite tiny, so excited to be at Villa Park and see the Villa. To score 5 goals was great as well.
Quote from: Footy-Vill on March 27, 2023, 09:28:28 AMQuote from: amfy on March 26, 2023, 10:33:26 PMIt’s £10 Footy, & I think they’ve explained it pretty well there.I just think the principle in these economic times rather thanbthe cost and that other clubs are doing free tickets. Could have had many from the surrounding area go along.I understand the strategy, and obviously have a bigger wage bill now Villa have better quality of players. Anyway just find it disappointing myself as under 7,000 attended and other games have 20,000.All in all playing wise the women squad are going in the right direction and that's what's most satisfying to be looking to progress.I'm very much looking forward to the matches versus Chelsea in league and cup.UTVW! We had over 1200 more at a game between two sides that are likely to finish the season in exactly the same relatively inglorious positions they were before kick-off than the table-topping clash between man city and chelsea. If you look at attendances in the WSL, ours are very good. Arsenal's look fantastic, an "average" of 19k. But that's bolstered by three games, vs spurs, man utd & chelsea, each in front of over 40k. Their typical home attendance is under 4k. And that's for a team which you yourself described as one of the very best. I'm with Carla and Emma Hayes in believing that giving away free tickets is not the way to go if you're trying to build a solid fan base. A competitive local rival would help, too. Snigger as much as we like at events in B9, but the dismantling of their very successful women's & girls' set-up was & is undeserved. They remain the last club that weren't named Manchester City, Chelsea or Arsenal to win the FA Cup.
Quote from: Scratchins on March 27, 2023, 08:38:00 AMQuote from: algy on March 27, 2023, 07:49:39 AMI think I agree with Carla Ward there Footy, I'm not sure giving away tickets will do anyone any good in the long run - it effectively devalues the game, particularly when people are willing to pay £5/£10 to watch anyway.Incidentally, the tickets were dead cheap but there was 9,500-ish at the Wrexham Women Vs Connahs Quay Women game yesterday. It'd been heavily marketed & was a bit of a one-off game as they were presented with the Adran North league title/trophy (Welsh 2nd tier), but still shows I think you can get big attendances without giving tickets away.I agree, Villa are building a sustainable model of Villa fans. The atmosphere is different without the usual fans leading the chanting but it was great to see so many youngsters, some of them quite tiny, so excited to be at Villa Park and see the Villa. To score 5 goals was great as well. This is what it's all about, that thing about how if you can't see it, how can you hope to become it. Near as damn it every one of us on here will have dreamed as a youngster of growing up and playing on that pitch in claret and blue, but many were denied that dream irrespective of how talented or dedicated they were, but solely on what they hadn't got stashed in their slacks. The more I contemplate that position, the more f***ing ridiculous it seems.
I know, amfy, there's always that! But I'll never forget, and I bet I'm not alone in witnessing the suchlike, I once gave a mate a lift to pick his son up from football (I'm loathe to use the word 'training', he was only about 5) where there was one kid head and shoulders above all the others in terms of ability and desire to play. I hope she managed to keep playing.
Surely the reason to pin a thread isn’t because it’s more or less popular than other threads, but rather that it is an ongoing thread that people will continue to return to over time. It seems entirely appropriate that the Women’s thread is pinned. The matchday traffic might not be massive at the moment, but it will definitely continue over the course of the season.