Chris Heck - President of Business Operations

[dave.woodhall]

For all the talk of cheap seats, did anyone get one?

[Chip Butty 111]

For all the talk of cheap seats, did anyone get one?

And did they work at the turnstiles??

[Ads]

A lot of season ticket holders around me but also a lot of people I'd not seen before. I've reluctantly come to the conclusion that perhaps that is part of the aim.

Those once in a bluemooners got to witness some of the best football anybody is playing anywhere in Europe. They got a great atmosphere, they got total value for money. As did I.

[Chico Hamilton III]

Upper Holte, a fair sprinkling of empty seats around us.

[eamonn]

Thought that would have one or two on here bristling.

"The H&V Forum. Bristling since 1997"

[AV82EC]

There were a couple of empty seats in A1 where I sit but speaking to the people they’d been purchased but people were away on Holiday and hadn’t given them to others just wanted the credit in the record.

[Chip Butty 111]

A lot of season ticket holders around me but also a lot of people I'd not seen before. I've reluctantly come to the conclusion that perhaps that is part of the aim.

Those once in a bluemooners got to witness some of the best football anybody is playing anywhere in Europe. They got a great atmosphere, they got total value for money. As did I.

The plan is price the seat as high as they think is achievable, and see who is prepared to pay it. If it's not
                A :  A season ticket holder in the seat
           Or B :  A Villa fan in the seat
                     they ain't really bothered....is how it looks

[john2710]

For all the talk of cheap seats, did anyone get one?

I'd treat the, "I know a bloke on Twitter who's mate said he got a ticket for £25" for what it is. If it sounds too good to be true, it almost certainly is.

[stevo_st]

Saw two instances of elderly fans with blood covered heads from tripping over the kerbs trying to navigate through the north stand car park.

Club have got to sort out temporary lighting in this area, it’s completely unacceptable and not helped by the fan zone setup.

Hopefully they were patched up and managed to get into the ground before kick off.

[j66acd]

For all the talk of cheap seats, did anyone get one?

My neighbour was sitting in the upper Doug with one he purchased yesterday so they were legit.

[Pat Mustard]

For all the talk of cheap seats, did anyone get one?

Yes, we got two yesterday morning - cost £60 for the pair including booking fee. 

[tomd2103]

Saw two instances of elderly fans with blood covered heads from tripping over the kerbs trying to navigate through the north stand car park.

Club have got to sort out temporary lighting in this area, it’s completely unacceptable and not helped by the fan zone setup.

Hopefully they were patched up and managed to get into the ground before kick off.

Yeah I saw an elderly woman have a really nasty fall stepping off a kerb I'm the North Stand car park.  Luckily there were a lot of people around to help.

[LeeB]

It's a disgrace trying to navigate around and just get into the North Stand. They've done absolutely nothing to help, just placed barriers to stop people walking between parked cars.

[jon collett]

I did wonder why they were shouting at us to mind our step after we'd been in Shop!

I think most people saw large queues outside the North Stand and were worried about getting in on time!

[SoccerHQ]

Turning out to be a complete fiasco regarding the tickets. Villa/Heck have lost a lot of faith from long term supporters like me and, will be difficult for the club to turn this around. £35 would have been about right for this Bologna match. Good luck to whoever has got my seat for tonight for the bargain price of £97!! They will be right pissed off when they find out others have paid £25 or thereabouts!

Not sure about £35. They can charge more than that without pricing people out.

Same prices as Cat B prem game like Bournemouth on Saturday would've been right for Bologna, 40-50 quid in all parts of the ground.

The club can and will get away with it this season but if we're in CL again next year it won't have quite the same pull as this season unless we draw Real Madrid and Barca at home (or one of the Milan clubs).

We could easily have three Bologna type matches at VP, maybe four. How well would the games have sold if the fixture list had flipped and we'd have Leipzig, Monaco, Brugge and Young Boys as the four home games.

One thing we can't do is play this trick v Celtic and Juventus as with the demand from their fanbase there will be away fans in home ends and all the security headaches that would bring so if the GA + dosen't sell it needs to remain unsold rather than being shifted at knock down prices.