Popular Post sidcow Posted December 20, 2016 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted December 20, 2016 On 18/12/2016 at 00:01, One For The Road said: Rather sad that we can't pull 40k in on regular basis for a club our size. If only our home support was even a fraction as good as our away support. Yeah I mean you could understand it if we had suffered 5 years of awfull football and then got relegated to the second division in the most utterly humiliating season any club has had ever whilst at the same time smashing the very few remaining negative club records that we hadn't smashed the previous year........ Oh wait... 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NottingVilla Posted December 20, 2016 Share Posted December 20, 2016 200 tickets left with no away fans? I don't believe we'll get a 42k attendance. I'll be happy to back big money against it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippo Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 (edited) 13 hours ago, NottingVilla said: 200 tickets left with no away fans? I don't believe we'll get a 42k attendance. I'll be happy to back big money against it. I know at times I have logged on VP ticketing to find very few seats available - then when arriving at match the seat that were unavailable are empty. Not sure its a reliable indicator of seats sold TBH . Edited December 21, 2016 by hippo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattyvilla Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 13 hours ago, NottingVilla said: 200 tickets left with no away fans? I don't believe we'll get a 42k attendance. I'll be happy to back big money against it. 37.5k sold as of saturday with burton having sold 2.2k , maximum of just over 40k , so i would agree Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippo Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 2 hours ago, mattyvilla said: 37.5k sold as of saturday with burton having sold 2.2k , maximum of just over 40k , so i would agree What is Burtons allocation £3k ? - so your looking at an attendance of 41,200 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tismyk Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 On 20/12/2016 at 23:05, NottingVilla said: 200 tickets left with no away fans? I don't believe we'll get a 42k attendance. I'll be happy to back big money against it. Email me I will take your bet 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dnmacf Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 (edited) Just noticed the Upper Trinity is available to buy tickets for the Leeds game on the 29th as well via the official site Edited December 22, 2016 by dnmacf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markavfc40 Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 Looks like there is around a hundred tickets left and most of those single seats. That is great support given that we are currently mid table in the Championship and playing Burton. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentVilla Posted December 22, 2016 Moderator Share Posted December 22, 2016 31 minutes ago, markavfc40 said: Looks like there is around a hundred tickets left and most of those single seats. That is great support given that we are currently mid table in the Championship and playing Burton. I wish Small Heath could have been at home as well with 17k, that would have forever put them in their place. Mind you, any time any of them ever say anything about fan base we can tell them to come back when they get 42k for a game with Burton. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 On 20/12/2016 at 23:05, NottingVilla said: 200 tickets left with no away fans? I don't believe we'll get a 42k attendance. I'll be happy to back big money against it. Our capacity is 42,785. There's 4 days to go and we've a handful of tickets left. We will definitely sell our lot. I believe, though I might be wrong, that if Burton take 3,000 tickets that counts as 3,000 tickets sold even if they don't sell their lot. They buy the tickets from us regardless. Even if that's incorrect and they don't sell any more, it will be 42k. Which is incredible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevomanila Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 On 19/12/2016 at 21:28, Wainy316 said: I just can't see where a 10k jump in fans is coming from. If anything I'd have thought people would be less likely to be able to go (me for one). Regardless it's still encouraging and it would be nice to see a regular boost in home attendances. We should be getting 38k every game imo. I wonder if there's a bit of an increase in numbers from people like me living abroad and returning home for the holidays. (I always did the same as a student down in Plymouth and I bet a lot of students come back from college/uni too around this time) If I'm back home at xmas I'll always take in a game if the dates work out and the last one I managed was the dreadful 0-0 vs Sunderland taking my daughter and 2 nephews to their first match and my sis (so that's 5 extra people that wouldn't normally go- I can imagine that happens quite a lot) Sadly though, I've not seen us win at Villa Park for years (2008 when we beat Spure 2-1!) and have witnessed such games since like our 4-0 defeat at home to Spurs when Bale grabbed 3 and Wigan where we lost 3-0. (I think in between was when we got thrashed away at Chelsea on Sky). I managed to see us draw 1-1 with United when Benteke scored that cracker with his left foot. I've also seen us lose away 4-0 to Man City in that time and 3-0 to Arsenal when Fabregas came on as a sub and scored 2 goals then got subbed off. The good news for you lot is that I land late on Boxing Day so will miss the Burton game which as a result I think we'll surely win, but you might want to think about staying away for the game vs Leeds as I'll be there, hoping to see us win live for the first time in 8 years! Wish me luck! (8 is my lucky number though) Anyway, merry xmas fellow Villa fans, UTV! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted December 23, 2016 Moderator Share Posted December 23, 2016 7 hours ago, dont_do_it_doug. said: I might be wrong, that if Burton take 3,000 tickets that counts as 3,000 tickets sold even if they don't sell their lot. They buy the tickets from us regardless. Even if that's incorrect.... It is incorrect. In the EFL away tickets are sale or return. Rule 34 section 2, if you're interested 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 3 hours ago, blandy said: It is incorrect. In the EFL away tickets are sale or return. Rule 34 section 2, if you're interested I am. Thank you! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sexbelowsound Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 I got my tickets yesterday and was surprised to see many of the blocks in the Holte, particularly the upper had seats available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted December 23, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted December 23, 2016 14 minutes ago, sexbelowsound said: I got my tickets yesterday and was surprised to see many of the blocks in the Holte, particularly the upper had seats available. They must have had some returns then. I checked a few days ago and all but one block in the upper Holte was completely sold out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sexbelowsound Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 1 hour ago, Stevo985 said: They must have had some returns then. I checked a few days ago and all but one block in the upper Holte was completely sold out. How strange. I was surprised to be honest. I was expecting to find out that they were already reserved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 Hopefully we put on a show the next 2 home games and get these people coming back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stockport_Villain Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 Now showing on avfc as sold out. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 On 19/12/2016 at 21:28, Wainy316 said: I just can't see where a 10k jump in fans is coming from. If anything I'd have thought people would be less likely to be able to go (me for one). Regardless it's still encouraging and it would be nice to see a regular boost in home attendances. We should be getting 38k every game imo. Problem in the last 10 years is we've always seemed to play at home on Boxing day at stupid times. I can remember Spurs and Everton home games we played at half 5 ffs. Last season we played West Ham at home at 3pm and pulled in 38k I think....for a team at that point pretty much everyone knew would get relegated. It's Boxing day, the ticket prices are cheap and Burton's a bit of a novelty fixture so I'm not shocked we'll be getting a good crowd for this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 Boxing Day= big crowd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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