The Holte Suite

[Risso]

Sweet potato chips are great. They're like normal chips, but made from sweet potatoes! Amazing thing, this choice malarkey.

[VillaTim]

i don't like them. Or Caramilised onions .

[VILLA MOLE]

i don't like them. Or Caramilised onions .

certainly not together

[Nii Lamptey]

The Holte Suite should never have been touched and the Terrace View should never have happened.

The Holte End is there purely for our loud, dedicated, boisterous, working class fans to meet up with their mates of a weekend and sing and cheer their team on. It is not a place for day tripping corporate types to take social media selfies with the pitch in the background, with more money than sense. Lose/price out the hardcore fans from the Holte and you lose any resemblance of atmosphere from Villa Park. This corporate shite should have been paused and dropped into the new North Stand.

I'm a season ticket holder in the Trinity, and have seen it change massively over recent years. Tickets are priced to a point where it's only really affordable on an add-hock basis for a lot of fans - Lost count the amount of people I've spotted in the Trinity who obviously don't even support Villa, hence the absolutely dead atmosphere in there.

Last season, season ticket holders got FREE access to the Holte Suite plus a FREE cup game.... This season my season ticket went up well over a hundred quid, and on the flip side I also lost access to the Holte Suite where I used to meet up with my mates prematch, along with the free cup game.

THIS is what we're booing for claret+blue ed. 👎🏻

[dave.woodhall]

I paid £3.60 for the best pint I've had in ages on Saturday.  Food in this pub was cobs or scratchings. It was very busy.

Sounds perfect Dave. Where was this heavenly place?

Cradley Heath. There's always a catch.

[Nev]

Tell me it's International week without telling me it's .......etc etc

[Risso]

The Holte Suite should never have been touched and the Terrace View should never have happened.

The Holte End is there purely for our loud, dedicated, boisterous, working class fans to meet up with their mates of a weekend and sing and cheer their team on. It is not a place for day tripping corporate types to take social media selfies with the pitch in the background, with more money than sense. Lose/price out the hardcore fans from the Holte and you lose any resemblance of atmosphere from Villa Park. This corporate shite should have been paused and dropped into the new North Stand.

I'm a season ticket holder in the Trinity, and have seen it change massively over recent years. Tickets are priced to a point where it's only really affordable on an add-hock basis for a lot of fans - Lost count the amount of people I've spotted in the Trinity who obviously don't even support Villa, hence the absolutely dead atmosphere in there.

Last season, season ticket holders got FREE access to the Holte Suite plus a FREE cup game.... This season my season ticket went up well over a hundred quid, and on the flip side I also lost access to the Holte Suite where I used to meet up with my mates prematch, along with the free cup game.

THIS is what we're booing for claret+blue ed. 👎🏻

As I've said before, absolutely nobody is going to take a corporate client into the Terrace View. In there they're going for the fan  who's prepared to pay more for better service, same with the Lower Grounds. Of course decent service everywhere in the ground should come as a bare minimum, but it doesn't mean in there that "normal" fans are being priced out and displaced for corporate clients.

[LeeB]

The only food it's acceptable to boo is salted caramel.

[Sexual Ealing]

The only food it's acceptable to boo is salted caramel.

Mushrooms.

[LeeB]

The only food it's acceptable to boo is salted caramel.

Mushrooms.

It's not the mushrooms fault they're born that way, you fungist.

Salted caramel is a man made creation, somebody is responsinle and they should feel the full weight of the law as a result.

[Drummond]

I saw one stall outside recently and they were selling sweet potatoe fries. It really annoyed me.

Why?

The superfluous ’e’ I assume.

I've had, err, one or two of those in my time.

[Sexual Ealing]

The only food it's acceptable to boo is salted caramel.

Mushrooms.

It's not the mushrooms fault they're born that way, you fungist.

Salted caramel is a man made creation, somebody is responsinle and they should feel the full weight of the law as a result.

Nonsense. Some of these so-called mushrooms don't even get you spannered. They're a disgrace.

[Monty]

The only food it's acceptable to boo is salted caramel.

Mushrooms.

It's not the mushrooms fault they're born that way, you fungist.

Salted caramel is a man made creation, somebody is responsinle and they should feel the full weight of the law as a result.

Nonsense. Some of these so-called mushrooms don't even get you spannered. They're a disgrace.

Booing mushrooms? Salted Caramel? You both need therapy.

[chrisw1]

I like salted caramel.  And sweet potato fries.  And craft beer tbh.  Christ, am I a hipster?

In my defence I also like a pint of Bathams and 'old mans pubs' are by far my favourite.

[chrisw1]

I haven't actually been in the Upper Holte this season as I have been taking my lad in the family section in the Trinity, but will be in there for the Legia game so will see how much the TV has impacted the space

I can tell you - the whole middle section of the lower concourse has gone.  The bit with the main bar, windows overlooking the pitch and largest toilets.

So 80-90% of the people are squeezed into approx 50% of the space, with significantly less bar and w/c facilities.

Not one thing was done to mitigate this at the start of the season.  Not one extra urinal in the remaining toilets, not one extra beer tap.  They're starting to try to address this now as funnily enough fans were pissed off, but it feels like token changes so far and this should have been addressed as a priority from game 1.