Season Tickets

[andrew08]

I actually think time served home and away fans should get some kind of ‘concierge’ level of service from the club just as part of an entry level customer service process to acknowledge loyalty, but in the world of footy that will never happen and instead they are offering it to newbies with deeper pockets.

I get the angst about people jumping the queue  but there would also be some people not on the waiting list who would describe themselves as ‘diehards’ who know they couldn’t afford our season ticket prices let alone anything more expensive.

Sadly that’s the way it is these days and there will be plenty in our region who would forgo ‘kids for a quid’ prices to be in our position.

[N'ZMAV]

That does include 38 pints of luke warm Carling

sounds like my average weekend

[Brend'Watkins]

Every few days there is a little something more that makes the ticking clock of my regular attendance at Villa Park a bit louder.....

That’s true for everyone. It’s called aging. I know you’re referring to the level of price increase but the consolation will be that by the time you’re of pensionable age you’ll only be paying probably twice what you’re paying now!

[Pete3206]

I'm fully aware that despite my many years of sitting through utter shite, The Villa want me to fuck off and vacate my cracking seat in the Witton Upper, to someone with a lot more disposable income.

The boasts of a 30,000 season ticket waiting list won't mean shit if we do a Leicester in a couple of years. It wasn't that long ago that the Trinity Upper was shut and there were empty seats dotted all over Villa Park.

[VillaTim]

Witton Upper middle block will be corporate before long i reckon

[andyh]

Witton Upper middle block will be corporate before long i reckon

That’s my seat ?
Why would you say that?
And there is no way they could put corporate types in the upper…..you can’t swing a kitten in the concourses up there so the hoi poloi won’t be impressed.

[Dogtanian]

What is the corporate hospitality like in there? There can’t be that much room fir the existing boxes, can there?

[Virgil Caine]

I do pay a premium to sit in B3 in the Trinity but worryingly they have said that next season the seats will be padded - I think that they will want to use this as a reason to kick us out and turn into another add on corporate hospitality area aligned to the Gas Lamp Lounge which I have to say is overpriced for what is offered.
I remember Tony Stephens (?) saying years ago that it was the Corporate boxes etc that were the real money earners not the ‘turnstile’ income.

[ChicagoLion]

Witton Upper middle block will be corporate before long i reckon

I think those awful stairs might be a bit if a limitation.

[pauliewalnuts]

I would say that them padding your seat is an absolutely cast iron guarantee that your seat is going to get significantly more expensive and quite possibly become ‘a corporate’.

They won’t be doing that out of the kindness of their hearts.

[ChicagoLion]

I do pay a premium to sit in B3 in the Trinity but worryingly they have said that next season the seats will be padded - I think that they will want to use this as a reason to kick us out and turn into another add on corporate hospitality area aligned to the Gas Lamp Lounge which I have to say is overpriced for what is offered.
I remember Tony Stephens (?) saying years ago that it was the Corporate boxes etc that were the real money earners not the ‘turnstile’ income.

It’s now the corporate seat and a  but of grub , boxes ar very passé and poor returns from a £ per square metre.

[VillaTim]

Witton Upper middle block will be corporate before long i reckon

That’s my seat ?
Why would you say that?
And there is no way they could put corporate types in the upper…..you can’t swing a kitten in the concourses up there so the hoi poloi won’t be impressed.

I say it purely because they are some of the best seats in the ground. I don't want to give them ideas but they seem hell bent on exploiting every opportunity to extract money from the customer base. We are literally just a number. I sit up there too which is why I've mentioned it .

[Gareth]

Every few days there is a little something more that makes the ticking clock of my regular attendance at Villa Park a bit louder.....

I’m hoping for one of those ticks next May….see us win the FA cup and that will be me done as a season ticket holder

[olaftab]

I remember Tony Stephens (?) saying years ago that it was the Corporate boxes etc that were the real money earners not the ‘turnstile’ income.

Not sure about that. In any business it's the volume that makes money. Pile em high sell em cheap is still true as it always has been.

[Lastfootstamper]

The missus has been offered the terrace view. Not sure how come, I'm assuming it's somehow linked to that time she got a ticket for the albion Cup game, the secrets of its procurement I believe she plans on taking to her grave.

She's not taking up the offer.