Next FAB meeting

[eamonn]

I strongly suspect ‘bowl optimisation’ won’t lead to more seating.  It will just lead to more padded seating.

Bowels deserve padding.

[Pat McMahon]

What do GA and GA+ mean? Presumably some form of expensive tickets?

[Brazilian Villain]

What do GA and GA+ mean? Presumably some form of expensive tickets?

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

[Pat McMahon]

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!

[frank black]

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+.

[Richard E]

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.

[Nii Lamptey]

I'm in the middle of Trinity Upper. If they fuck around with my seat, I'm out.

[Towser]

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

[Villan82]

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.

[Pat Mustard]

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.

[London Villan]

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...

[Sexual Ealing]

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.

[chrisw1]

The minutes all seem very vague.  Dismissive really.  Was there any more chat about the badge and the stand that can be discussed?

[Villan82]

It's not even a drop in the ocean but I am not adding to my extensive merch collection until Heck leaves the club.

[aev]

Is the flooging of loads of Iceland food really the way we become competitive with those we look up to commercially?