Quote from: Rory on September 28, 2023, 04:13:24 PMQuote from: ez on September 28, 2023, 03:55:30 PMVilla fans to our credit won't be mugged off as easily as the club would like. The new owners have just found it out for the first time.I remember Doug Ellis pitching the ticket prices too high as well and had to adjust them mid season.Another issue is that there are plenty of supporters like me who don't find it easy to get tickets to league games, and cup games like this would be a perfect way for us to get down to VP.As fair-weather as it may be, each time we are limply dumped out of a cup, the less appetising this becomes.Sums up my feelings exactly.
Quote from: ez on September 28, 2023, 03:55:30 PMVilla fans to our credit won't be mugged off as easily as the club would like. The new owners have just found it out for the first time.I remember Doug Ellis pitching the ticket prices too high as well and had to adjust them mid season.Another issue is that there are plenty of supporters like me who don't find it easy to get tickets to league games, and cup games like this would be a perfect way for us to get down to VP.As fair-weather as it may be, each time we are limply dumped out of a cup, the less appetising this becomes.
Villa fans to our credit won't be mugged off as easily as the club would like. The new owners have just found it out for the first time.I remember Doug Ellis pitching the ticket prices too high as well and had to adjust them mid season.
Very weird atmosphere in the holte last night, combination of empty seats and regulars not there, and a lot of faces not normally in the area i sit, not singing but moaning and at the end booing a bit. My son who has been going since the relegation years, actually commented that he really didn’t enjoy the experience last night. He wasn’t talking about the match, he’s seem loads better and loads worse, he was talking about the feel of the holte end. Like many others Ive been in the holte when its subdued, anxious, angry, half empty in the late 80s, but last night just felt odd. A combination of people just seemingly detached or others just moaning. Not an excuse for a poor performance, but all that has to rub off on the players. Massive almighty fuck up by the club. £10 less per person and the place could of been rocking, and with the Everton lot in fine voice, it would be of been a cracking old atmosphere and cup tie.
Quote from: RamboandBruno on September 28, 2023, 06:33:51 PMVery weird atmosphere in the holte last night, combination of empty seats and regulars not there, and a lot of faces not normally in the area i sit, not singing but moaning and at the end booing a bit. My son who has been going since the relegation years, actually commented that he really didn’t enjoy the experience last night. He wasn’t talking about the match, he’s seem loads better and loads worse, he was talking about the feel of the holte end. Like many others Ive been in the holte when its subdued, anxious, angry, half empty in the late 80s, but last night just felt odd. A combination of people just seemingly detached or others just moaning. Not an excuse for a poor performance, but all that has to rub off on the players. Massive almighty fuck up by the club. £10 less per person and the place could of been rocking, and with the Everton lot in fine voice, it would be of been a cracking old atmosphere and cup tie.The question is are the club aware of their pricing cock up and more importantly will they learn from it? £25 for adults and a tenner for U16's would have bought in another 10,000 and the extra volume from the home end may well have spurred the team on or at least woke them up. Not to mention the extra revenues from catering. It's a no brainer.
as soon as it goes wrong on the pitch the owners will start getting a lot of bad attention for some of the fuck-ups.
I’ve seen a number of people confirm that Newcastle charged £15 last night and food and drink were half price, resulting in a grand win for them.I also heard from an Arsenal mate today that since Wenger started using the league cup to experiment they have charged £10 for adults and £5 for kids. European games included in season tickets too. Seems ludicrously sensible.I think the pricing sent out a really poor message before the game, which resulted in a very poor attendance and a team unable to motivate themselves and generate any momentum from a lethargic crowd. Throw in a large and boisterous away following and you have an self harming disaster.
The shite atmosphere last night contributed to the result. The players were listless. It was a very passive performance against a side who were woeful. They couldn't get themselves up and there wasn't enough of us to create an atmosphere. The result is on the club and the fucking moron who priced the majority of season ticket holders out.Some of which will have just come back from Poland, paid for flights and accommodation in Amsterdam, were at the Bridge, shelled out £90 on the European home games, or a combination of the above. Throw in the contempt we've been held in with the abysmal downgrading of the Upper Holte, the total bastardisation of the stand in general with Terrace View and Lower Grounds (which was booed louder at half time than any song was sung during the game) and you've alienated people, driven them away and contributed significantly, as much as McGinn at left back, to getting us knocked out the cup. You clueless, arrogant wankers.