Fans Advisory Board

[Clampy]

It's a shame it's come to this and it will be interesting to see if any other groups follow suit. Like others have said, thanks Dave for all your valuable time and efforts.

[Des Little]

It's a shame it's come to this and it will be interesting to see if any other groups follow suit. Like others have said, thanks Dave for all your valuable time and efforts.

Agreed, the others need to the same now and it needs to be shared with the media. Heck and Hatton are the root cause of all our off field turmoil, and they need bringing to account.

[dicedlam]

It is a sorry state of affairs when you have a representative of an Aston Villa website give up on communications with the club and only through sheer frustration.
I do feel that you should formally resign from the board, if only to show that a main Aston Villa forum no longer wishes to be part of it under its present guise. Whether any notice will be taken from it is another matter, but walking away without voicing our concerns on all matters related to why you have come to this decision will be lost.

Don't just walk away from it Dave. Let them have both barrels.

[Risso]

It is a sorry state of affairs when you have a representative of an Aston Villa website give up on communications with the club and only through sheer frustration.
I do feel that you should formally resign from the board, if only to show that a main Aston Villa forum no longer wishes to be part of it under its present guise. Whether any notice will be taken from it is another matter, but walking away without voicing our concerns on all matters related to why you have come to this decision will be lost.

Don't just walk away from it Dave. Let them have both barrels.

I think Dave's right, there's no point. Jon Fear did a big "open letter" rant when he left the FAB, and I doubt they even saw it, or if they, weren't the slightest bit bothered.

[exigo]

Another sad day in the off-field shambles that is being masked by Emery's genius on it.
Listening to Mick Dale's Claret & Blue podcast earlier, reminded me that it's people like him, Lee Preece and fan reps like Dave that are the last bastions of 'our' club.
Thanks for sticking it out this long Dave. I'm not here to tell you what to do with your time, but I would say an open letter will have an effect. My letter to Lee has now been seen by nearly 200,000 people, and I had Radio WM wanting to do an interview. It's less about the club (and particularly the likes of Heck) hearing your frustration, but giving the local press and national fan representation more ammunition can only be a good thing if you have the time.

The Athletic are also very hot on what's going on, with articles like this: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5744104/2024/09/16/aston-villa-ticket-issues/

[London Villan]

The media would be all over this too, as it builds on the story of the shambles of the start of the season off the pitch. But I can understand the reluctance to waste any more time on them.

[Des Little]

Unfortunately, I think we’ll just have to wait this whole situation out. These price hikes and ridiculous GA+ offerings are unsustainable in the long term, and sadly there’s a good chance our brilliant form will take a downturn and the whole picture changes. Please don’t mistake me for someone who wants this to happen, far from it, but I’m pretty sure that it will - but at what emotional cost to the fanbase? I’m not going to to any ECL games, because being a ST holder for 40 years and a regular away for many years I cannot bring myself to sacrifice my principles to pay what Heck is charging, I just can’t.

[edgysatsuma89]

The only way this will really go wrong is if we turn to shit on the pitch, otherwise protests and the like just won't happen. It would be the same at pretty much any British club.

[Stinkin_Thinkin]

I'm not so sure we do.  I know it's ananthema to criticise them, but I worry that he's only doing our owners' bidding.  When you think about how hands on Nas in particular is how could it be otherwise?

It's 100% from the owners, it's just Heck isn't as smooth as Christian. As soon as we got back in the prem the grab started...by stealth. On Purslow's watch my seat went from zone 6 to zone 2 overnight. They got lucky with Emery and decided to go full throttle.

[Brend'Watkins]

The media would be all over this too, as it builds on the story of the shambles of the start of the season off the pitch. But I can understand the reluctance to waste any more time on them.

I admire H&Vs stance on this.  I would also suggest that those from the other Villa sites do the same. 

[amfy]

I am also in total agreement with this stance.

We used to be able to keep st report back what had been discussed but then they started managing the minutes and they bore no relation to any discussion that had taken place.

People are going to the FAB and asking questions and challenging decisions and it never shows up in the minutes.

Everyone who attends is pretty much being made to look a tw@t as it looks, to the wider fan base, like they’ve just sat there and lapped everything up.

No one should be letting the Board make fools of them just so the Board can pretend to be listening. I hope more follow suit. I know MOMs is also right at the end of his tether & boycotting Champions League at the moment.  The Trust need to have a serious think about what to do too.

The latest I’m seeing now is that no one is replying to the disabled fans about whether they have parking for Bayern. The lack of care is a total piss take!

[Pat Mustard]

Some kind of press statement now about the FAB would be really timely.  The club has been ignoring too many warnings from FAB and other groups, and getting something in now ahead of the Bolgna game will bring a real focus.

Barry Glendinning wrote that piece last week about fans not doing anything constructive to stop ourselves being exploited.  When there are thousands of empty seats for a CL game in a few weeks time (which there will be - having bought tickets via memberships for the last 5 years I have never seen as much availability as there is for that game by a considerable distance) then we can see that without any organised fan protest there is already a huge impact.  Get a message out there now and it can't be ignored by the club.

[BC Villain]

It’s a great shame that things have come to this. I do not believe that the owners are fully aware of the situation.
It is not in their long term interests to trash the relationship between the club and its supporters.

Then again they can't possibly have no idea at all.  Surely they must have regular meetings with Heck and the other senior management

[Sexual Ealing]

I think surprise that a couple of billionaires might be c*nts is a bit, well, surprising.

[kippaxvilla2]

Bill Gates is all right.