Chris Heck - President of Business Operations

[TonyD]

Email from the club trying to sell the hospitality seats for Wednesday.
£1,080.
I bought 4. 
Did I fuck.

My first season ticket on the Holte cost £14.

[VillaTim]

Email from the club trying to sell the hospitality seats for Wednesday.
£1,080.
I bought 4. 
Did I fuck.

My first season ticket on the Holte cost £14.

That's Club Chelsea Platinum prices , what is Heck playing at, absolute buffoon

[ender4]

It’s so weird for them to say that they had tickets for sale and didn’t sell out.

I know around 50 people who would definitely have bought a standard ticket for the Wolves match if Villa had any tickets to sell.  And not singles obviously, no-one is going to go and sit alone for a one-off match.

Heck is a complete idiot.

[Brend'Watkins]

Maybe Heck has the geographical nous of Jhon Duran when it comes to areas of England. He must actually think we’re in a suburb of London and the fan base are mostly millionaires. One thing is for sure, Heck must be an idiot if he thinks a lot of fans will hand over £1040 for a football match.

[CLEEVE]

Just take a look on the ticket website now and see how many STH have not exercised their right for Bologna. Wow!

[Gareth]

Just take a look on the ticket website now and see how many STH have not exercised their right for Bologna. Wow!

Anyone picking the one of four to skip is likely to choose that one…the tw@ will be happy if he can get the extra £20 a head for a non STH to fill the seat.

[Chip Butty 111]

Just take a look on the ticket website now and see how many STH have not exercised their right for Bologna. Wow!

Anyone picking the one of four to skip is likely to choose that one…the tw@ will be happy if he can get the extra £20 a head for a non STH to fill the seat.

This was going to be the acid test for the pricing. If the members don't take up the slack on empty seats and follow the STH with giving it a miss, it could be a poor attendance. I'm not sure how many tourists fancy Bologna on a cold October night in Aston for £97 ?  I'd be very surprised if Bologna bring over 1500 judging by how many empty seats they had at home for their previous tie. It could be as flat as a fart

[Nev]

Just take a look on the ticket website now and see how many STH have not exercised their right for Bologna. Wow!

Anyone picking the one of four to skip is likely to choose that one…the tw@ will be happy if he can get the extra £20 a head for a non STH to fill the seat.

Which is the driver to having such a tight window for claiming your seat. I'm not going but all my mates are, I'll save the money for our beano to Bruges.

[Risso]

I'm not going to Bologna. I extremely reluctantly got tickets for Bayern, because it's Bayern, but they can piss off with the rest of the games.

[London Villan]

On a quick look, I'd estimate about a third of season ticket holders haven't taken up their tickets.

[Chip Butty 111]

On a quick look, I'd estimate about a third of season ticket holders haven't taken up their tickets.

So about 10,000 going begging then. What a great businessman he is, can't even sell Champions League tickets to STH when we haven't been in the Competition for 40yrs. Know your market, know your customer...he knows neither.

[kippaxvilla2]

We all know if these were listed earlier they would sell out as groups/couples/families can't get seats together. It seems  they aren't willing to change and are happy to have empty seats for a 3pm KO local derby when we're the best we have been for years. As I said before who has empty seats in the premier league these days? especially a club of our size

Yes, who the YABADABADOO do they think they are fooling?

Sooner or later, they'll realise that those couples and families are the bedrock of our future fanbase.

If they don't then there's going to be a proper barney between the club and supporters.

And we'll reduce the club to rubble.

They had Betty get this sorted soon.

[Ads]

How are people making the calculations that 10,000 STH haven't taken up the option?

Edit just musing over the ticket page and the crazy reality that we're trying to fill a stadium with £90+ tickets and against nobodies as well. The other 3 games have a little something about them whether it's the opposition, the ocassion or geography, but Bologna? Deary me. I've been had off for the thick end of 80 notes for me, never mind thinking £90 is some sort of value. The pricing is abysmal.

[London Villan]

Nothing too scientific - but looking at centre blocks of stands - which are pretty much all season ticket holders - and seeing how many are for sale.

[Villan82]

Look at the damage done in one year and imagine how  bad it could get over the next few years and then imagine we hit the rocks like in 2010?

We are not future proofing the club, we are wrecking it.