collapse collapse

Please donate to help towards the costs of keeping this site going. Thank You.

Recent Topics

Villa Store in Bullring by cdbearsfan
[Today at 02:24:41 AM]


Villa Park Redevelopment by Percy McCarthy
[Today at 02:12:05 AM]


Other Games - 2024/25 by eamonn
[Today at 01:04:59 AM]


James Collins by eamonn
[Today at 12:57:01 AM]


Aston Villa 1-1 Ipswich Post Match Shouting by dcdavecollett
[Today at 12:22:04 AM]


New songs needed by thick_mike
[Today at 12:20:10 AM]


No, we're not paranoid - Liverpool at home by eamonn
[February 18, 2025, 11:39:44 PM]


Champions League by Rory
[February 18, 2025, 11:35:03 PM]

Recent Posts

Re: Villa Store in Bullring by cdbearsfan
[Today at 02:24:41 AM]


Re: Villa Park Redevelopment by Percy McCarthy
[Today at 02:12:05 AM]


Re: Villa Store in Bullring by dcdavecollett
[Today at 01:47:48 AM]


Re: Villa Park Redevelopment by FatSam
[Today at 01:47:28 AM]


Re: Other Games - 2024/25 by eamonn
[Today at 01:04:59 AM]


Re: Villa Park Redevelopment by eamonn
[Today at 12:58:07 AM]


Re: James Collins by eamonn
[Today at 12:57:01 AM]


Re: Villa Park Redevelopment by Rory
[Today at 12:22:59 AM]

Follow us on...

Author Topic: Next FAB meeting  (Read 27376 times)

Offline eamonn

  • Member
  • Posts: 32554
  • Location: Down to Worthing...and work there
  • GM : 26.07.2020
Re: Next FAB meeting
« Reply #135 on: February 29, 2024, 11:23:38 PM »
I strongly suspect ‘bowl optimisation’ won’t lead to more seating.  It will just lead to more padded seating.


Bowels deserve padding.

Offline Pat McMahon

  • Member
  • Posts: 7071
  • Location: Shanghai - Blarney Stone for Villa games
Re: Next FAB meeting
« Reply #136 on: March 01, 2024, 12:07:15 AM »
What do GA and GA+ mean? Presumably some form of expensive tickets?

Offline Brazilian Villain

  • Member
  • Posts: 42313
  • GM : 09.03.2025
Re: Next FAB meeting
« Reply #137 on: March 01, 2024, 12:19:11 AM »
What do GA and GA+ mean? Presumably some form of expensive tickets?

General Admission, and General Admission plus (Terrace View, Lower Grounds).

Offline Pat McMahon

  • Member
  • Posts: 7071
  • Location: Shanghai - Blarney Stone for Villa games
Re: Next FAB meeting
« Reply #138 on: March 01, 2024, 12:26:21 AM »
What do GA and GA+ mean? Presumably some form of expensive tickets?

General Admission, and General Admission plus (Terrace View, Lower Grounds).

Cheers Gary. Knew I could rely on you to translate for me!

Offline frank black

  • Member
  • Posts: 3585
Re: Next FAB meeting
« Reply #139 on: March 01, 2024, 06:18:38 AM »
I wonder where the 400 or so folks behind the dugout will be offered to relocate. There’s no way they’re all going to be able to sit together. Some have been in the same seats for 15 plus seasons and know everyone around em. Scattered around the vacant wings or rear ends of the stands I guess. Assuming the other great seats are taken or GA+.

Offline Richard E

  • Member
  • Posts: 13842
  • Age: 54
  • Location: Tipton
  • This also will pass.
  • GM : 28.02.2019
Re: Next FAB meeting
« Reply #140 on: March 01, 2024, 07:31:17 AM »
What do GA and GA+ mean? Presumably some form of expensive tickets?

General Admission, and General Admission plus (Terrace View, Lower Grounds).

I thought it meant that the club was trying to attract more netball players.

Offline Nii Lamptey

  • Member
  • Posts: 2528
  • Age: 49
  • Location: Kidderminster
Re: Next FAB meeting
« Reply #141 on: March 01, 2024, 07:34:30 AM »
I'm in the middle of Trinity Upper. If they fuck around with my seat, I'm out.

Offline Towser

  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 3697
  • GM : 10.06.2025
Re: Next FAB meeting
« Reply #142 on: March 01, 2024, 07:53:16 AM »
I'm in the middle of Trinity Upper. If they fuck around with my seat, I'm out.
Me too, my Wife and I are in A5 front row, certain we will be losing our seats sooner rather than later

Offline Villan82

  • Member
  • Posts: 4049
Re: Next FAB meeting
« Reply #143 on: March 01, 2024, 08:09:52 AM »
Just our luck that things would click on the pitch and immediately go to absolute shit off it.

Many of us stuck with the club through the lean years, going to games in the Championship when we were mid table there.

Honestly so pissed off about them scrapping the new vision for Villa Park in favour of turning what's there into a GA+ nightmare.

Offline Pat Mustard

  • Member
  • Posts: 835
Re: Next FAB meeting
« Reply #144 on: March 01, 2024, 08:32:37 AM »
Was there no discussion of why the North Stand was cancelled and the way the announcement of this was handled?  Aside from everything else that is pissing people off this was just amateurish (to add to the badge fiasco) - it doesn't seem reflective of a senior management group who know what they are doing.  Say what we like about Purslow, communications were much better generally when he was here.

Offline London Villan

  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 10425
  • Location: Brum
  • GM : 01.10.2025
Re: Next FAB meeting
« Reply #145 on: March 01, 2024, 08:59:21 AM »
The supporters sat in those blocks of the Lower Trinity are exactly the type of fans the club doesn't want.

Low in-ground spending, regularly attending fans, sat in prime seats.

Forget the loyalty through the very recent crap times, or the times when they've offered the bring a friend deals, or the times when the ground has been less than half full  - when we've been there...

It will be the same for lots of fans - but myself 40+ years of sitting in that stand, my dad 70+ years, (support for almost half of the club's existence) to find out that we may or not be moved via a third-hand, half-arsed message distributed to fan message boards is shit.

I understand the need for more cash - we need it to compete - but they should at the very least be communicating directly with the fans who are under threat, something like "we are reviewing the seating arrangement in your block" and more importantly where/how we'll be relocated.

But they don't give a flying fcuk about loyalty, fans, support or relationships. Short-term money is the focus... it's like a drug - feed the addiction at all costs.

I can see there being some pushback on this - we've already seen the reaction in the ground to the TV and LG - piss more hardcore, loyal fans off and the reactions might be a little more than booing the screens at halftime and cat-calling people in lanyards. Let alone if it all goes to shit and the daytrippers disappear overnight as happened when we were relegated...




Offline Sexual Ealing

  • Member
  • Posts: 21780
  • Location: Salop
Re: Next FAB meeting
« Reply #146 on: March 01, 2024, 09:15:28 AM »
I really feel for the affected fans, lots who first bought season tickets (I've never had a season ticket) when football wasn't a capitalist tiger ride, but collectively we have bought into the Premier League bullshit (me included) and eventually, even your own tiger will come for your face.

Offline chrisw1

  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 9966
  • GM : 21.08.2025
Re: Next FAB meeting
« Reply #147 on: March 01, 2024, 09:19:40 AM »
The minutes all seem very vague.  Dismissive really.  Was there any more chat about the badge and the stand that can be discussed?

Offline Villan82

  • Member
  • Posts: 4049
Re: Next FAB meeting
« Reply #148 on: March 01, 2024, 09:54:33 AM »
It's not even a drop in the ocean but I am not adding to my extensive merch collection until Heck leaves the club.

Offline aev

  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 5327
  • Location: Beckenham
  • GM : 07.01.2026
Re: Next FAB meeting
« Reply #149 on: March 01, 2024, 10:28:36 AM »
Is the flooging of loads of Iceland food really the way we become competitive with those we look up to commercially?


 


SimplePortal 2.3.6 © 2008-2014, SimplePortal