Chris Heck - President of Business Operations

[Risso]

On Twatter:

Russ Dale 🦁
@russkyd11
20h

Aston Villa matchday revenue... £36m....
Spurs matchday revenue.....£106m.....
But a new stadium would be a terrible idea wouldn't it? 🙄
Can't move forwards if you're standing still.
#avfc

I don't know whether the numbers are right, but I'm guessing the 3x differential is probably not far off being.

And how many years do you need to maintain that to pay off the debt of the new stadium?

Well at least as far as FFP goes, it doesn't matter. The increased income hits the P&L and affects FFP. The costs of building the new stand don't.

[Beard82]

I think our match day spend is I’ll be much higher this season.  It would be even higher if they could find a way of serving people quicker I would probably spend a lot more if there was a chance of getting served

[pauliewalnuts]

Regular punters alone are nowhere near enough to provide much of an uplift.

I understand it is just part of the jigsaw but if 40,000 all bought a pint at £5, that is £200k per home game - and we’ll never get near that so this is mega optimistic numbers - that is 3.8m a year (and I bet after costs our margin is tiny on all that so profit would be way less. 

Yeah, it adds to the pot, but the real money there is in corporate - corporate that is almost permanently sold out and therefore in short supply.

The Lower Grounds and Terrace View, even should they sell out every single match, would add a pinprick of revenue.

Driving all of this, though, is the number of people in the ground, that has got to increase and that’s what makes the stadium situation so weird.

[VillaTim]

I think our match day spend is I’ll be much higher this season.  It would be even higher if they could find a way of serving people quicker I would probably spend a lot more if there was a chance of getting served

take this to the Witton Upper thread.

[aldridgeboy]

And the Upper Trinity thread ( if there is one lol)

I will never even try to get food or drink at a home game again after my one attempt this year. Just no point trying unless I miss last 20 mins of first half or first 15 mins of second

[Gareth]

Regular punters alone are nowhere near enough to provide much of an uplift.

I understand it is just part of the jigsaw but if 40,000 all bought a pint at £5, that is £200k per home game - and we’ll never get near that so this is mega optimistic numbers - that is 3.8m a year (and I bet after costs our margin is tiny on all that so profit would be way less. 

Yeah, it adds to the pot, but the real money there is in corporate - corporate that is almost permanently sold out and therefore in short supply.

The Lower Grounds and Terrace View, even should they sell out every single match, would add a pinprick of revenue.

Driving all of this, though, is the number of people in the ground, that has got to increase and that’s what makes the stadium situation so weird.

Exactly this, there is no inclination to improve anything for us plebs when it’s the real money with the real margins that they want

[Somniloquism]

On Twatter:

Russ Dale 🦁
@russkyd11
20h

Aston Villa matchday revenue... £36m....
Spurs matchday revenue.....£106m.....
But a new stadium would be a terrible idea wouldn't it? 🙄
Can't move forwards if you're standing still.
#avfc

I don't know whether the numbers are right, but I'm guessing the 3x differential is probably not far off being.

Although as they have a season ticket price difference over ours of + £200 at he lower end and + £1200 for the rich seats, it it not just coming from the bigger stadium but what people are prepared to pay. They also charge £45-£55 just to be able to buy day to day tickets on the priority route (not sure if they reach general sale). You do get all but £10 back in vouchers, but that is vouchers to get £10 off the Spurs streaming subscription, and the rest in club shop vouchers.

With the way we have reacted to the offerings our club has tried to get extra money in, I can expect similar when we try to go down similar routes.

[Percy McCarthy]

On Twatter:

Russ Dale 🦁
@russkyd11
20h

Aston Villa matchday revenue... £36m....
Spurs matchday revenue.....£106m.....
But a new stadium would be a terrible idea wouldn't it? 🙄
Can't move forwards if you're standing still.
#avfc

I don't know whether the numbers are right, but I'm guessing the 3x differential is probably not far off being.

Although as they have a season ticket price difference over ours of + £200 at he lower end and + £1200 for the rich seats, it it not just coming from the bigger stadium but what people are prepared to pay. They also charge £45-£55 just to be able to buy day to day tickets on the priority route (not sure if they reach general sale). You do get all but £10 back in vouchers, but that is vouchers to get £10 off the Spurs streaming subscription, and the rest in club shop vouchers.

With the way we have reacted to the offerings our club has tried to get extra money in, I can expect similar when we try to go down similar routes.

I pay £80 just to be able to buy tickets for me and the kids.

[Somniloquism]

I didn't realise we were doing paid memberships now being as DW has mentioned previously you don't have to pay to be on the ST list (Spurs ones include that as a perk, so no ST 5 years down the line if you are not paying £50 a year to keep on it). Not sure how many kids you have but they run £25 for kids memberships.

[Percy McCarthy]

I didn't realise we were doing paid memberships now being as DW has mentioned previously you don't have to pay to be on the ST list (Spurs ones include that as a perk, so no ST 5 years down the line if you are not paying £50 a year to keep on it). Not sure how many kids you have but they run £25 for kids memberships.

Two of brainwashing age. The others have completed their training. Membership is £40 for me, £20 each for the kids.

[algy]

On Twatter:

Russ Dale 🦁
@russkyd11
20h

Aston Villa matchday revenue... £36m....
Spurs matchday revenue.....£106m.....
But a new stadium would be a terrible idea wouldn't it? 🙄
Can't move forwards if you're standing still.
#avfc

I don't know whether the numbers are right, but I'm guessing the 3x differential is probably not far off being.

Although as they have a season ticket price difference over ours of + £200 at he lower end and + £1200 for the rich seats, it it not just coming from the bigger stadium but what people are prepared to pay. They also charge £45-£55 just to be able to buy day to day tickets on the priority route (not sure if they reach general sale). You do get all but £10 back in vouchers, but that is vouchers to get £10 off the Spurs streaming subscription, and the rest in club shop vouchers.

With the way we have reacted to the offerings our club has tried to get extra money in, I can expect similar when we try to go down similar routes.

I pay £80 just to be able to buy tickets for me and the kids.

I'm similar - pay £100/yr for me, my dad, and 1 child's membership which our 3 kids share. Can't really justify getting them all membership when we realistically can't get the kids to more than 1-2 games a season (needing Saturday 3pm kickoffs basically for us all to be able to get to VP & back by public transport)

[Holte L2]

I had a moment of weakness before the Manure match.  I bought a bottle of water and a sausage roll from the Amazon stye pick up in the Holte  Checked my bank the next day £8! £8 for a sausage roll and a water. The world's gone mad.

I won't be doing that again!!

[London Villan]

When are we going to see the improvements in every part of the ground, as promised in his dog walk video from Bodymoor? No changes in the Trinity, other than now having luke warm water in the sinks, rather than water directly from the Arctic. Still no way of people drying their hands without queueing. 

[Clampy]

When are we going to see the improvements in every part of the ground, as promised in his dog walk video from Bodymoor? No changes in the Trinity, other than now having luke warm water in the sinks, rather than water directly from the Arctic. Still no way of people drying their hands without queueing. 

 I dont get the last line. If there is someone using the towel dispensers, then you have to wait.

[London Villan]

There are no towel dispensers - just two hand dryers...