Season Tickets

[Flin5tone]

Arrived 2nd class I forgot to add

[pauliewalnuts]

My best mate at University was a Stags fan. Went to see a few of their home matches with him (second half of the 1980s), still keep an eye out for their results. I still hold the Spireites in a certain disdain, too.

Good man

My first ever Villa game was against Mansfield at field mill 1972
1-1 Geoff Vowden

Another mate of ours was a Sunderland fan. I recall a group of us travelling down from Newcastle to go in the away end to see Stags v Sunderland on a midweek night. Jesus, that'll be over 35 years ago.

There's a lot to be said having an interest / going the the occasional match for a team you like which isn't your own.

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Arrived 2nd class I forgot to add

Isn't that more working class for you?

[dave.woodhall]

I've never been in the 1874 lounge.  What is it like, where is it accessed from and how much is it?  Is it open at half time too?

I was just wondering how it compares to the Terrace View and given the limited take up if that is more what the TV will become in the future.  Or will it go the other way and will they upscale the 1874 and chuck some padded seats into the Witton?

I've been in there a few times. Mick Dale used to host in there, do a quiz written by Rob Bishop and you'd get an ex player or two come in. It was alright actually. You'd get a pint quick enough and a pie. It's the sort of thing they should keep on and make it a reasonable price. Last I heard it was £50 for the season so it's a shame if its gone up. I got in via a draw using my reward points.

This is the sort of thing that's being eradicated - pay a couple of quid more to get a bit better service. It's similar yo how the corporates have gone from affordable as an occasional treat to unaccessible.

[Gareth]

Had mine delivered yesterday by a fellow H&V poster.
He wasn't happy at all. Something about it all being a disgrace.
I just shrugged my shoulders, said thanks and went back to my gardening project.

Has anyone had the season ticket delivered by  Pat and his black and white cat yet?,now that what I call special treatment

Nah, the fecker was on strike…bloody working classes!

[john e]

My best mate at University was a Stags fan. Went to see a few of their home matches with him (second half of the 1980s), still keep an eye out for their results. I still hold the Spireites in a certain disdain, too.

Good man

My first ever Villa game was against Mansfield at field mill 1972
1-1 Geoff Vowden

Another mate of ours was a Sunderland fan. I recall a group of us travelling down from Newcastle to go in the away end to see Stags v Sunderland on a midweek night. Jesus, that'll be over 35 years ago.

There's a lot to be said having an interest / going the the occasional match for a team you like which isn't your own.

Sitting in the ice cream van stand watching Jordan Bowery that’s what you get for your £27
what’s not to like

[VillaTim]

Some ST are being reported as arriving in presentation boxes with a pen and a key ring .

[Border villan]

Some ST are being reported as arriving in presentation boxes with a pen and a key ring .

Those will be to the bourgeoisie living in the shires.

[Flin5tone]

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The way loyal fans are being treated is a disgrace . This really has gone too far.

[dekko]

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The way loyal fans are being treated is a disgrace . This really has gone too far.

I dont like the implication that there hasnt been any contact since the last statement they made.

Is there anything stopping the club continuing with all these crappy decisions on the ticketing side?  I'm concerned that due to demand they can more or less do what they want and aside from complaining there isnt much we can do about it.

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In the first example, wouldn't the season ticket holder have some evidence of confirmation of purchase that he could produce? There must be something that's given rise to a belief of renewel that could be relied upon.

I would like to see them publish the evidence of away tickets, as I noted when the club provided Newcastle sales criteria, they showed the overall numbers who qualified with 19 aways. The total exceeded the capacity at Bournemouth, which cannot have been correct. I wonder of the additional 300 were Terrace View purchases?

I was making a query on a cup scheme issue the other day and rang the ticket office. Suggestion away tickets may be on a ballot for the Conference League rather than loyalty. Makes my teeth itch.

There should not be any short circuit to away tickets through an advanced hospitality package. They could open up the ballot to 5-10% of away seats (depending on how bug thr away end is) to give more of a shot than the 50 now.

[Dogtanian]

I'd like to think that when the club were told that credit wasn't being extended, their first act would have been to call the ticket holder up and ask for alternative payment. If they haven't communicated with him and offered him the chance to pay upfront, that's poor.

I wonder what the terms and conditions are for the credit option. Does the credit company have the right to terminate a sale agreement between the applicant and the club? Or do the conditions say that the club can cancel the sale immediately if credit is refused?

I'm paranoid about mine, I always check my email to ensure the confirmation, and I always check the website to make sure both mine and my mate's are showing up on my history.

[Nev]

Many years ago I had a stand up row with Ray Fairfax in the ticket office (the old one in the North Stand) about a certain amount of away tickets going to corporate customers. It was in the days of getting your card stamped as you purchased in person, many grounds were restricting away fans due to redevelopments linked to the Taylor Report post Hillsborough. We got 650 at Old Trafford and around 400 at Blackburn I seem to recall so these were much sought after. Anyway, I made my point about who deserved and who didn't deserve to get tickets and to be fair to Ray, he did try to explain to a young, naïve and idealistic kid about the way the world works and said, without actually saying it, that money talks.

Thirty years on, nothing has changed.

[Dogtanian]

Just checked out my season ticket renewal confirmation email, and it states;

"Applying Online - When you click ‘Pay’ you will be taken to the V12 Retail Finance application form to complete your application for finance. You must complete your season ticket application, regardless of how you pay, within 45 minutes. If paying by finance, you will usually receive an immediate decision. You will be notified by email once you have signed the agreement and completed the application. Occasionally V12 will need to review your application in more detail. If this is longer than 45 minutes then you will need to start the ticket purchase from the beginning. If your application is declined, you will be able to log back in and purchase your season ticket using a credit/debit card."

So it sounds like he hasn't checked to see his application was approved and then the onus is on him to go back and renew with a card. I don't think this is a conspiracy where the club has asked the credit company to not send the email to Holte End Upper people who are declined so they can resell the seats at a higher price.

[RamboandBruno]

On the supporter refused credit and not receiving notification of this and the terrace view conspiracy. One thing i would point out is that one of my roles in my job, is to manage my organisation’s direct debit payments from members and their are often lots of members who we haven’t been able to collect a payment, claim they have never had the notifications of this, even though there is absolutely no reason why they wouldn’t.

Aside from that, the way the Terrace View is being handled does stink to be honest, particularly being able to jump the que for away games amongst all the other issues.

I do think there is a problem with away game allocation. I completely understand the need for loyalty to those who follow Villa up and down the country every other week, but how do you break into that. Ive been a season ticket holder for donkeys, my kids too. My lads a teenager now and at an age when he wants to go to more away games with me, but its virtually impossible. Last year we went to Bolton and Man Utd in the league cup and then managed to get tickets to Spurs and Liverpool and friends couldn’t go, but obviously none of these go on our booking history. The ballot system is just too small.

Im getting on but my lad is the future in terms of home and away support for the club, so there needs to be a fairer way of allowing others some chance to break into the booking of away games. Maybe Ads idea of 5-10%, would be a better way, though i know he meant for euro cup away games.

The Terrace View and the whole way they are managing this process isn’t it.