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No. The club give you 80% of the 1/19th of the season ticket cost and only if they can resell it on for the match day price, which is obviously higher than season ticket average game cost. For category A games, it's near 100% profit increase for the club. I've no issue with the club making an increased profit by reselling at the higher match day price, but I think the ST holder should get the full value of the ticket (ST cost/19), even if the refund was limited to say 3 matches per season before the 20% charge was triggered. This would prevent people buying STs just for a few games, knowing they'd get a full refund for all the other games.

What was the score? It's great to read some match detail but it can lack some context without a scoreline.

It definitely happened immediately after Forest's joke of a cross field pass, so it's hard to think it wasn't linked. Could be that Digne shouted something like 'These are ****'. Emery didn't like his lack of respect for the opposition, knowing it could lead to Villa players taking it easier and Forest players increasing their efforts to prove Digne's comment wrong. Not sure how that links to Digne's "When? When?" and smirk though. Whatever happened, it obviously wasn't a major issue, as Emery still felt able to call on Digne for his 35 minutes substitute appearance.

Even bigger than those - Stourbridge Town.

I think most insurers are capitalising on the news that car insurance has 'gone through the roof' and hoping existing customers begrudgingly accept profiteering increases. This month my renewal quote from LV was £920, up from last year's £560 and an increase of 64%. I've cancelled the renewal and moved to Aviva with a near identical '5 star' policy. The cost, after a bit of cashback, was £540; a saving of £20 on last year's deal and a massive £380 cheaper than LV's renewal quote. Customer loyalty certainly does not pay!

Mate, last night's loss was proppa proppa. Mate, it was a proppa defeat to a proppa relegation candidate and without any help from them lot up the road. Mate, mate, matey mate.

Born in Selly Oak and lived in Northfield and Selly Oak suburbs of Birmingham until age 22, so around 6 miles or 10km from Villa Park, as the crow flies. Last 32 years spent just south of the Lickey Hills so 12 miles or 20km. Fortunately the extra distance is soon travelled using the M5, so I'm still home in an hour after the final whistle.

In case some of the younger VTers are thinking 'Yeah but that was two lifetimes ago, a £500 bonus is probably tens of thousands in 'today's money' ', after accounting for UK inflation, £500 in 1981 is now worth £1845. That's probably just 2% of the average weekly wage of a Premier League starting player!

I believe it was recently mentioned this is being completed in the summer.

Ideally it would be sold out but not rammed.

Is this even confirmed or could it be a way of - Increasing interest - with the new season approaching; Raising Hamilton's profile even further; Kicking Mercedes up the backside to increase their performance; Detrimental impact to a competitor team as Ferrari end up being 'snubbed'. Just wondering, at least until confirmation.

Mercedes paying the world's most expensive gardening leave?!

Hamilton off to Ferrari in 2025 would be a surprise, wouldn't it?

I understand the sentiment of this kind of statement but, as with any signing, is it possible to judge what fee is good or poor value, until sometime in to the player's tenure at a club? Supposing Rogers joins us for an initially perceived bargain of £8m and is a flop? Yet a fee of £15m would trigger comments of Boro 'pulling our pants down' - way before he could possibly prove a bargain signing.

As @Kingman wrote, it's destined to be Wednesday 7th February. We have games on the Saturday before and Sunday afterward but as Chelsea play on the Sunday before, that probably rules out Tuesday 6th. I think Wednesday 7th would suit us well. 4 days after Sheffield Utd away and 4 days before manu at home. There seems to be exponentially more recovery/fitness issues with a 3 and 2 (usually only at Christmas) day gap.

I can kind of see why those rules are in place. Unintentional handling isn't handball but, as all the governing bodies of football decided, nobody likes to see a goal scored by the player who has handled - unintentionally or otherwise.

If the cap is worth any value it needs to be lower than the highest clubs charge. Surely that will 'cap' the income of Sky6 before it affects us. Obviously more seats helps, but that's the case now with or without a cap.

I wonder for how long though. That's unlikely to curtail our ticket income for years but I expect the London clubs would be affected before long.

I'm more rattled than Mrs Overall serving soup.

Not global enough. The Solar System Scousers has more reach and financial gravity pull.

Not when 'Aston Villa' is already taken.

I expect those loopholes will be properly closed after the outcome of the charges against citeh are announced in 2025. Even if the case against citeh isn't proven, the PL (and following EFL) won't want that much egg on their face again and are sure to revisit the exact wordings and effectiveness of their laws. I'll be slightly surprised if the sty@ name sale to their own selves helps them climb the greasy pole for more than the next season or two.

Given previous PL voting issues have required a majority of 14 of the 20 clubs, I'd be surprised if an average price cap on home ticket was agreed to. It's one thing to 'do the right thing' and agree a £30 cap for the small minority that away fans represent, but capping home ticket prices would be like Turkeys voting for Christmas. Really can't imagine the London clubs being happy at anything less than an average of £80!

Fair enough but I still think we're chatting about something that's not going to be built at a time when something is very unlikely to happen.

As you wrote, I can't see an average fan price cap being introduced for home fans. However, if it were, wouldn't that encourage expansion as the only way to increase gate revenue? Kind of the opposite of what Heck's current plan is.