Away Tickets - What's the magic?

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

I've been getting away tickets for my family and friends group for years but had never heard of this putting seats in the basket until someone mentioned it with regard to the Hibs game this season....then I wasn't even sure if/how that could work, as passport details/photo id etc was required...and I do know some who obtained their tickets in Edinburgh and immediately passed them on to AN Other waiting outside.
I simply don't understand that mentality.
I've been to almost every away game for the last 10/12 years or so and find it difficult to accept that some folk say I should give up my chance to go to further away games because a few people cheat the system.
Of all the fans who I go with and meet at away games I don't know of anyone who willingly sells on their ticket on for the sake of it. The usual scenario is that for some reason (illness, medical treatment etc) they can't go so pass their ticket on to a friend, just as most do with their ST if they can't make a home game.
It's a difficult one, in a number of ways, but I'd be massively pissed off if I wasn't able to go to any away game because someone else simply fancied going to the odd game now and again because it suited their whim for the OT, The Emirates or Anfield "matchday experience".   

[Chris Harte]

If we get to the final of the European competition in Athens, it will be interesting to see how many tickets we get and the criteria for buying a ticket.

There are going to be a lot of very angry Villa fans who do not get a ticket.

The venue for the final seats 32,500.

Take a few thousand off for perimeter advertising, then factor in that the sponsors will want tickets for their clients, etc, I reckon each finalist will be lucky to see 10,000 tickets. I'm resigned to the fact I won't get a ticket if we make it to the final. There's going to be a lot of frustrated fans.

European final tickets are a quarter for each team and half for Uefa.

So lucky to get 8,000 then.

For the good of the game?

[dorsetvillian]

Agree with ultimately ID like the European seats is the only way. I'm sure this will become the norm. Also saw the same old faces in Alkmaar but for once didn't bump into Ads. He hangs with the cool kids..

[Ads]

Haha! I spent most of the time outside the marquee chatting with Bladen and fellow Villa northern oiks. Got a few good videos of the atmosphere from inside the marquee. I wish I was technically minded so I could share on here.

[dorsetvillian]

I went off into Alkmaar for a few hours. Lovely place. You wouldn't have known there was a game on that evening.

[Luffbralion]

They clearly know how many qualify for each batch and I think they release that number each time. Inevitably, a few people return tickets for various reasons and they become available again. When I've struggled the TO has told me to phone as often as I can as tickets are returned every day.....unless they decide to sell them via twitter/Facebook etc.....which is exactly what the club is trying to cut down on!
It's still mad.
Never had this problem for a cold, wet Tuesday night in Rotherham!

[Luffbralion]

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Funnily enough the last away game I managed to get an away  ticket (without a little help) was back at Rotherham in 2019. Don't think it was raining though

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

Funnily enough the last away game I managed to get an away  ticket (without a little help) was back at Rotherham in 2019. Don't think it was raining though
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After Grealish's goal it was definitely moist. ;-)

[AlexAlexCropley]

Strange to think, what used to be such a way of life without any thought of ticket nerves, I may never attend an away match again.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

Strange to think, what used to be such a way of life without any thought of ticket nerves, I may never attend an away match again.

As my comment a few pages ago, Alex, it's a bit mad.
It never used to be mad.

[VillaTim]

Strange to think, what used to be such a way of life without any thought of ticket nerves, I may never attend an away match again.

Yeah frozen out . Not good. As a ST holder of over 20 years it feels very unfair

[SoccerHQ]

Incredible how near impossible it is to get away tickets now.

Go back a decade and I could get to the likes of Everton and West Ham away fairly easily and I was a non season ticket holder going to 6-7 home games a season in those times. Those were mid ranking away games but zero chance now of going to either fixture this season (even if we draw either away in the FA cup) and that's not going to change unless we get really rubbish again at prem level and even then they'll be loyalty for a few seasons.

Getting promotion really did re-energise our support home and away in terms of numbers.

[Ads]

Getting good relegated impacted away support. 4200 for a game live on Sky, on a Sunday, paying the most expensive away ticket prices in English football that year at Hillsborough, 2016. 5000 to Preston, 4000 to Barnsley, 4,000 to Reading to see our first away win in 16 months. 4200 to the Molineux. Huge numbers everywhere and that was consistent across all 3 seasons down there.

Dean Smith got the Villa Park numbers consistently back and Purslow knew how to cut elasticity from supply. Now here we are, 7 months away from demolition of the North.

[sid1964]

The only away matches I attend are the pre-season frendlies

Season ticket holder for the last 35 seasons and i realise that I will have little chance of getting a ticket for the European final if we get there!

When we won the European Cup, it was so easy to get a ticket.

[Axl Rose]

Hopefully there'll be loads of touts in Athens