Season Tickets

[Bad English]

Anybody else find something like this hidden behind the notebook?


 
It looks like it's been cut out from a posh greetings card. Odd.

Yes, it said:

Roses are Red
Claret and Blue
You're too poor for the Holte
So fuck you!

This has cheered me up too.

[VillaTim]

from the BBC
David Michael, My Old Man Said, external

It was business as usual as Aston Villa secured their eighth consecutive home league win against an Everton team that Unai Emery would have probably hand-picked, if he could have chosen a team to play to help get his side back on track.

While Villa looked slick on the pitch, off it, Villa supporters witnessed the surreal spectacle of velvet ropes, concierge staff and laminates in the Holte End on the first game back at Villa Park. For some, this ‘Terrace View’ hospitality offering was an unsavoury sight.

In football, it's long been tradition in football that the main "kop" end behind the goal drives the atmosphere and is the stand that guards the working-class soul of the game, as hospitality and upselling gradually infiltrate other areas. The Holte End once stood proudly as Europe's biggest single stand "kop" end and a cornerstone of Villa Park's identity and the club itself.

While the club's commercial team has used Premier League benchmarking to justify back-to-back sizeable ticket price increases, it failed to benchmark this particular initiative. The Kop at Anfield or the Gallowgate End at Newcastle, certainly wouldn't consider offering hospitality. Spurs built a new stadium and purposely avoided hospitality in the South Stand. Meanwhile, even Manchester United have recently admitted to the errors of their way, announcing plans to remove hospitality from the Stretford End.

This isn't a sentimental perspective - it's vital to preserving the atmosphere of Villa Park, which faces greater gentrification when the North Stand - that recently hosted the stadium's cheapest seats - is rebuilt with a focus on various hospitality options.

I'm certain Emery doesn't want to manage in the Premier League in front of an atmosphere resembling a library. He tried it once before, and that didn't go too well for him.

[nick harper]

Just released on the site. All getting a bit draconian....

https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2023/august/29/ticketing-regulations-for-2023-24/

[dave.woodhall]

Just released on the site. All getting a bit draconian....

https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2023/august/29/ticketing-regulations-for-2023-24/

God forbid anyone should want to let their mate have a spare because they can't go.

[Drummond]

Just released on the site. All getting a bit draconian....

https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2023/august/29/ticketing-regulations-for-2023-24/

God forbid anyone should want to let their mate have a spare because they can't go.

To be fair, that can still happen, it's just that the Villa want to know about it?

[dave.woodhall]

Just released on the site. All getting a bit draconian....

https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2023/august/29/ticketing-regulations-for-2023-24/

God forbid anyone should want to let their mate have a spare because they can't go.

To be fair, that can still happen, it's just that the Villa want to know about it?

And if you don't tell them you get banned. Great.

[PeterWithesShin]

Imagine it's match day, a couple of hours before kick off, something happens in life so you can't go. You give it to your good mate that lives next door as he can't afford matches and you don't want your seat wasted. Club finds out, you are banned from Villa for a month. Yeah they can get to fuck.

[London Villan]

How will they check? ID people at the turnstile?

[Gareth]

Imagine it's match day, a couple of hours before kick off, something happens in life so you can't go. You give it to your good mate that lives next door as he can't afford matches and you don't want your seat wasted Club finds out, you are banned from Villa for a month. Yeah they can get to fuck.

That was my first thought too…if I know I am away weeks in advance wouldn’t have any problem doing it the clubs way but it’s sad if you fall sick on day of game and can’t let a mate cheers the team on…sure they won’t have anything in place for on the day changes

[Drummond]

Just released on the site. All getting a bit draconian....

https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2023/august/29/ticketing-regulations-for-2023-24/

God forbid anyone should want to let their mate have a spare because they can't go.

To be fair, that can still happen, it's just that the Villa want to know about it?

And if you don't tell them you get banned. Great.

Yep, I get that, but as demand grows, and tickets get moved on inappropriately, it helps to counteract it.

[Brend'Watkins]

How will they check? ID people at the turnstile?

Impossible at the minute unless they want to employ additional staff and I can't see fans being too kind to such people interrogating them with questions like.... the name of your first pet?

[Drummond]

Imagine it's match day, a couple of hours before kick off, something happens in life so you can't go. You give it to your good mate that lives next door as he can't afford matches and you don't want your seat wasted. Club finds out, you are banned from Villa for a month. Yeah they can get to fuck.

There's always an exception.

[Brend'Watkins]

My Season Ticket still hasn't arrived.

[spangley1812]

My Season Ticket still hasn't arrived.

How did you get into the Everton game

[astonvilla82]

Just released on the site. All getting a bit draconian....

https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2023/august/29/ticketing-regulations-for-2023-24/

God forbid anyone should want to let their mate have a spare because they can't go.

To be fair, that can still happen, it's just that the Villa want to know about it?

what the process and how easy is it because I am still learning about the internet