Chris Heck - President of Business Operations

[kippaxvilla2]

Don’t worry everyone.  Heck has been sacked. Someone called K Starmer is taking over. 

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Starmer favours the Upper Holte.

[Chip Butty 111]

Thanks for all the good wishes everyone,  very much appreciated.
Hopefully someone at the club has a moral compass and revisits this sooner rather than later.
I very much doubt it though.
As long as we stick together we will sort things in the end.
    ....UTV

[Pat McMahon]

As an experienced senior executive Heck will have been given a remit to grow revenue from the owners and will have a lot of independence in how he goes about it. If he meets his remit of increasing turnover to £400m ( the figure I think I saw) the owners won’t be concerned about the bodies he has to walk over to achieve this. If he fails to do so he can be a scapegoat who tried to grow revenue but failed to respect the loyal fan base etc.

But it is massively disappointing that we have so much going wrong off the pitch when we have moved so far so quickly on field. A comment I have read many times on here over the years is that we can generally be trusted to do the right thing. It feels like somebody has looked at that and thought “no way, nice guys come last”. We are now in danger of becoming one of those franchise clubs we have sneered at for years.

Given the way this season is shaping up I would genuinely have been happier in the Europa league with the feel good factor of progress on last year than the current shenanigans now we are in the chimps league.

[ozzjim]

Best of luck mate. I can empathise a little, keep going fella.

I can see the point and the driver for the ticket prices.

The disabled parking is as big a disgrace as it comes, and he should lose his job for it. Disgusting.

[Pat McMahon]

And good luck to you and your family Chip Butty.

[pauliewalnuts]

The really depressing thing is, the extra 30 quid per ticket or whatever it is across the board, in football terms it is absolutely peanuts. It is small fry, loose change. This is a club that has players on six figure sums a week.

But whoever it was that made the decision thought that whatever bad will this would drum up with the fan base was worth it, otherwise they wouldn’t have done it.

And then there’s the disabled parking. Someone thought that an extra £200 a season from a bunch of almost certainly the most vulnerable people in our support was worth the awful press. It was worth the anguish those people will be going through.

It wasn’t that long ago we were in the second division and they were begging us to buy tickets. The top tier of the trinity was closed more often than not.

But here we are, after a decade of being spoon fed lukewarm liquid dog shit every other week for a decade, the very first chance they get to start defiling people for money, they’re at it like a rat up a drainpipe.

The absolute fucking nerve of Heck with his £8k season tickets and his promotional video for all those wanky lounges, whilst at the same time people paying “only” 6 or 700 quid for their tickets are faced with truly disgusting unsanitary overflowing toilets.

It’s just really depressing that the second they thought they could do stuff like this, they went for it big style. Fuck the lot of us, like it or lump it.

[PaulWinch again]

Exploiting the most vulnerable is absolutely appalling. It’s just a very weird choice to choose to torch reputation for a relatively small revenue bump.

[PeterWithesShin]

The disabled charges actually sicken me. My club, supposedly a key part of the community, is fucking over our most vulnerable supporters for a few grand a year. Quite how they justify that is beyond me and the club can get to fuck over it. Absolute complete and utter wankers.

[Brazilian Villain]

Don’t worry everyone.  Heck has been sacked. Someone called K Starmer is taking over. 

No chance now of a Dortmund style 'Claret Wall' in a new North Stand, with Two-tier Keir in charge.

[Demitri_C]

I wasn't going to post this as it's a bit close to home to say the least, but I've changed my mind.
My wife has a disabled badge, she's 49
The reason she has a disabled badge is because she has terminal cancer.
She hasn't been to Villa for a couple of years, so the disabled parking is no issue for us.
But some of the people who do use the disabled area will be in a similar situation to my wife.
When we have the Holte Enders in the Sky at half time at the end of the season...some of those people would have used those spaces. Youngsters who have terminally ill conditions, who sometimes are mascots or appear in the program, their parents would use those spaces.
It wasn't long ago that Acorns was on the front of our shirts, and what a wonderful gesture that was.
And now here we are advertising betting and kicking blue badge holders in the teeth.
What a time to be a Villa fan..

So sorry to hear about your wife mate 😔

[PeterWithesShin]

[VillaTim]

Don’t worry everyone.  Heck has been sacked. Someone called K Starmer is taking over.

I love being 3-0 up

[algy]

Is that orange blanket that did for DOL still around? Hang it off the Holte again in honour of Heck

'We're not fiscally austere, we just don't like you'?

Not for the first time in this thread, you’ve brought a smile to my face

[VillaTim]

Thanks for all the good wishes everyone,  very much appreciated.
Hopefully someone at the club has a moral compass and revisits this sooner rather than later.
I very much doubt it though.
As long as we stick together we will sort things in the end.
    ....UTV

all the best to you and family CB111.