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god that's embarrassing. can't sell even close to 1700 for a saturday 3pm fixture. couldn't at sunderland either. we're taking little over 1000 there, spurs sold out 3000 on sunday at £51 a ticket. those big followings to southampton, swindon, west ham and fulham are certainly trumped by the horrifically poor 'crowds' we've taken to newcastle, sunderland & man city x2.

it can be if enough villa fans want it to be! i know that loads of everton fans went in the lower last season after the club 'only' took 1700. but generally, no it's not a neutral end. home fans only. it's the same at villa park today. all stands on general sale, they're still home stands but you can bet there'll be a load of united fans in with us.

yeah, last time they played away in europe they really struggled in their next game up at st james', only beating them 3-0...

no, lower tier is now on general sale, as confirmed on the qpr website.

absolutely. as i've said in many of my posts. but you can't defend a ticket office that seemingly make a mistake on the allocation/prices/criteria/coach travel for every single one of our away games. they're a joke.

cheers villa. initially list a 'young adult' price of £33 and then alter the details and take it away. they did the same for sunderland, listing a young adult price, and then changing it. decided i was gonna do this one based on the YA price. but now won't be at £44. thanks for **** up again you copy & paste rocket polishers in the ticket office.

on the eticketing page: To book your Official Away Coach Travel ticket online now for the Norwich City fixture by clicking [here] not only does it not make sense, the link takes you to chelsea away ticket info. just.....useless.

no rise then from last year but still an absolute disgrace.

yep, same place. along the side. league allocation is 2400.

the merlin, drove road, is the main "away pub" i believe.

if we sold the 1700 quickly, we could in theory request the other 1400 in the lower tier, yes. i know qpr held back the 1400 in the lower tier for everton, pending how sales went for the upper tier. but then the villa will know how poor our support is once the price goes above £40 (chelsea, liverpool, united, etc.) so i wouldn't be surprised if they've told qpr we'll only need the 1700 allocation. so whether qpr are already selling the lower to their own fans i don't know. i was speculating mate, i don't know that they have ever or will ever close a row or two at the front; just that that could possibly explain the 200 fewer seats in that upper tier compared to last season. ---------------------- i just came on to post that. who knows with the villa ticket office anymore?! they're an absolute joke. i would imagine it's yet another mistake to add to the list: two different allocations listed for swindon; the apparent 1600 allocation for fulham (when we'd taken and sold 2900); the listed allocation of 1600 for spurs when there's no such thing at WHL (allocation is 1800); or telling us we'd taken and sold out of a 2940 allocation for newcastle when in fact we'd only taken approximately an 1800 allocation and sold less than 1000. it's embarrassing how useless they are.

everton had the upper and lower. but their away support, numbers wise, has always been far superior to ours. apart from chelsea away, they sell out every full allocation up and down the country, whatever the day, whatever the time. we took less than 1000 to chelsea last season at £52-£55 a ticket and will do again this season. the initial allocation should be sufficient. odd though that last season's allocation in the upper was 1,850, whereas this season it's 1,653 (1700). perhaps they've closed a row or two at the front? the lower tier holds approx. 1400.

yeah CI, there's a roof. the first five rows however are uncovered. a-e.

1,407 away tickets sold as of thursday, according to swindon.

cheers lee, good to hear! weird how we always take thousands to fulham yet can never sell 1800 at spurs. yep, loads seemed to buy tickets in the neutral end when it first went on sale. always lots of us in the neutral bit. as for pubs, the duke's head on the other side of the river (by putney bridge) is always full of villa, the eight bells, as has been mentioned, is an away pub but is always rammed early doors, and then there's the larrik (formely king's arms) but last time i went in there they were playing loud music and no villa songs were getting going. it was far better as the king's arms; good beer/cider on tap and a lot of old heads about, and thus old villa songs being sung. there's also the temperance and the golden lion both by the larrik but i'm not sure if they're away pubs. don't know if anyone's been in those before? should probably start a pubs thread.

out of interest lee, what block are you in? if it's block p5 then we can confirm that we have got the 2900 allocation. same question to anyone else who's received their tickets from the villa.

can i just ask, no swindon(a) subforum? or am i being thick?

if we have indeed got the higher 2900 allocation nulli, i'm afraid P5, P6 and P7 are the blocks that the villa fans will be in. P1-P4 are all neutral and P6-P7 is the smaller 1700 allocation.

tottenham hale tube station is about a 25 minute walk from the ground. You can get a train to northumberland park from tottenham hale train station then its only a ten minute walk up park lane to the ground. drinking by white hart lane is crap as pretty much everything along the high st has closed down. last time i went two seasons ago we went to the irish bar on pretoria rd by white hart lane station which was okay. its probably better to have a tot elsewhere in london and get a train to white hart lane train station to be fair. the ground is only a few mins away then, u can get a train from liverpool st station to white hart lane ...yep. or get a tube to seven sisters then walk upstairs and change onto the overhead rail to white hart lane. easy as you like. we've also been to the irish centre the last two times, always lots of villa there but not your typical away pub. it's like a school hall with a bar, no real singing and more spurs fans in there than villa. i know wmpvilla tweeted an away pub last year, as did wmpalbion for their trip there the other week. the elmhurst, on lordship lane. although they then tweeted again to say it was actually closed for a refurb. so whether's it's open now i don't know. i imagine wmpvilla will tell us soon. ........... anyone know how sales are going for this one??

we only ever take the initial allocation at spurs. and always struggle to sell it.

no, you're probably right about albion being the likeable ones. you're so unoffensive (read: boring) as a club, from the cringeworthy boing boing thing you do, to the 'ingerlund' day you held when the FA stole your manager (all other fans would be apoplectic), to taking a wigan-esque following to your away matches and sitting in silence. we don't care about wigan either. you say there wouldn't have been the same reaction to an appointment at the albion akin to that of mcleish down the villa. and again, i agree with you. but that's simply down to the fact that west bromwich albion is a passionless club. you sit down away from home, your fans in the brummie road end look like they've been encased in concrete since the introduction of all seater stadia, and you allow villa fans to walk around your ground every season you bother to stay in the PL, singing derogatory songs, without so much of a response. although, i'll give you this: you're all excellent at putting across your hatred towards us on the internet. i regularly venture onto westbrom.com and every other post is filled with vitriol about the villa. hilarious how you're all silent on match days, though. as i say, passionless. oh and if you're going to use images to try to prove that we were against mcleish from the start, you should probably use some from the first month or two of his reign; not some from the end of april vs bolton when it looked like we were down. indeed, we may have been had you beaten us in the next game; your cup final.

The club have not really done anything to entice those people back though. The appointment of Lambert is not especially exciting and there has been a lack of quality signings made to get the pulses racing. As somebody else posted once fans have left you need something special to get them going back again. I think a lot of fans are still very bitter and will never forgive Randy for appointing McLeish. they shouldn't have to. many left on the premise that "once mcleish goes, we'll be back". judging by the 33,000 home fans against everton, the 13,000 against tranmere and the hilariously shite following of 900 odd up in newcastle, i ask, where the hell are they, then? And yet at away games, we still taunt the home team for having "shit support" and "empty seats" indeed. 962 villa fans up at newcastle singing "empty seats, my lord", whilst surrounded by a couple of thousand empty seats that we were unable to sell. thick support, my lord. i did nothing of the sort. i needn't say anything when you come out with a post like this: speaks volumes...

piss poor support. i too have been monitoring the etickets site. looking like there's going to be big empty spaces in the lower holte again. what happened to all those 'supporters' that said they'd stay away while mcleish was in charge but return once he was gone? joke fans.

because our fans are shite and we only took 1000 to newcastle at £26 a ticket..........

actual allocation is 2200, not 2940. and does anyone really trust what the ticket office tells us? they said we'd sold out the 1800 allocation there last season, turned out there were only 1300 of us...