Chris Heck - President of Business Operations

[Rory]

Loads of hospitality left for the Munich game.
They would have sold it out at last season’s prices.

There is a new place in the Witton Lane called The Aston.     Looks nice.

But it is a grand a seat.  £1,080 for one game.    What the actual fuck.   Who is going to pay that?

Risso 😉

[purpletrousers]

Where is confirmation of this ? I actually had an email response from lee this afternoon stating that my complaint had been logged?

Was thinking the same, we exchanged texts end of Friday:

My haranguing (read very politely following up) where face painters were going to be. as it turned out, they were not going to be anywhere as promised, including to a 3 and 5yo.(Heck out etc).

You may not be surprised my last minute effort against the clock in the car before the schlepp to the ground resulted in tears from my eldest little AV🥲, though my youngest was more accepting.
My Halloween efforts have gone down exceptionally well but a true artist needs time blah blah.


Back to the off topic; Lee indeed appreciated the positive feedback for fielding the recent sh*tshow. 

[adrenachrome]

Loads of hospitality left for the Munich game.
They would have sold it out at last season’s prices.

There is a new place in the Witton Lane called The Aston.     Looks nice.

But it is a grand a seat.  £1,080 for one game.    What the actual fuck.   Who is going to pay that?

Risso 😉

That's a cracker!

Seriously, though, has Heck considered donating these ticket to Labour Party Cabinet members? Rachel Reeves would be up for it, and Jessie Phillips says it fine and dandy. A bit on influence for ground redevelopment issues and suchlike would not go amiss.

Gotta grease dem wheels.

[Risso]

Loads of hospitality left for the Munich game.
They would have sold it out at last season’s prices.

There is a new place in the Witton Lane called The Aston.     Looks nice.

But it is a grand a seat.  £1,080 for one game.    What the actual fuck.   Who is going to pay that?

Risso 😉

Not guilty your honour! That's what they were trying to charge us, which is more than double for the same thing last year, so they were politely invited to poke it.

[Ads]

217 hospitality tickets left.

[Risso]

217 hospitality tickets left.

Be interesting to see how many GA+ season tickets are left unsold after the deadline to buy those passes.

[Ads]

I've just seen that Platinum Plus that makes you buy a further GA+/Hospitality seat for another fixture.

[Dogtanian]

I've fallen into the trap of counting those tickets before, only to find they keep changing and more being added.

There's definitely something going on, either with people getting their seats held and then declining them, or something to give the illusion there are less available to convince people to buy no or miss out.

[The Edge]

 2,000 empty seats for a local derby and struggling to sell out when the team is playing in the bloody Champions League against Bayern Munich should have alarm bells ringing loud and clear for our owners. I don't buy the excuse that we have to satisfy ffp because other clubs have managed it without the need to alienate the fanbase with an exorbitant pricing policy. As you may be able to guess I'm fuming that i will have to settle for watching Villa v Bayern on TV in the knowledge that there may well be empty seats in the ground that I'm priced out of buying.

[exigo]

Where is confirmation of this ? I actually had an email response from lee this afternoon stating that my complaint had been logged?

Was thinking the same, we exchanged texts end of Friday:

My haranguing (read very politely following up) where face painters were going to be. as it turned out, they were not going to be anywhere as promised, including to a 3 and 5yo.(Heck out etc).

You may not be surprised my last minute effort against the clock in the car before the schlepp to the ground resulted in tears from my eldest little AV🥲, though my youngest was more accepting.
My Halloween efforts have gone down exceptionally well but a true artist needs time blah blah.


Back to the off topic; Lee indeed appreciated the positive feedback for fielding the recent sh*tshow. 

He's leaving some point in November. Would be nice if we could all send him positive emails wishing him well in that time, god knows he's earned it.

[purpletrousers]

Thanks Exigo. I agree, though wary of bombarding further, but why not!

I’ve really appreciated him.

[exigo]

He's confirmed he's here until the end of November.

[sid1964]

Just completed the questionnaire from the Villa about my match day experience on Saturday - it will be interesting to see what the feedback is from the Villa fans

[chrisw1]

Just completed the questionnaire from the Villa about my match day experience on Saturday - it will be interesting to see what the feedback is from the Villa fans

Other than the lower Holte access, were there any other problems on Saturday?  Holte Upper seemed to run as smoothly as any other matchday really.  So however I feel about the empty seats, catering and ticket prices etc, I can't say there was anything bad about my experience tbf.

[andyh]

Just completed the questionnaire from the Villa about my match day experience on Saturday - it will be interesting to see what the feedback is from the Villa fans

Other than the lower Holte access, were there any other problems on Saturday?  Holte Upper seemed to run as smoothly as any other matchday really.  So however I feel about the empty seats, catering and ticket prices etc, I can't say there was anything bad about my experience tbf.

DE upper was fine at 2:30 too, although there was a latecomer who said there were queues at 3pm to get in