andykeenan Posted September 26, 2011 Share Posted September 26, 2011 MATCH INFORMATION Saturday October 29th 2011 – 3:00pm kick-off Barclays Premier League Stadium of Light, Sunderland Initial Ticket Allocation - 2,000 Ticket Prices £29 [adults] £18 [over 65s] £10 [under 16s] Sale Dates Tuesday September 27th: On sale to 2011/12 Season Card Holders who attended 3+ Away fixtures in the 2010/11 season* Tuesday October 4th: On sale to 2011/12 Season Card Holders * Monday October 10th: On sale to supporters who have Away Booking History* Monday October 17th: On sale to supporters with Aston Villa Booking History* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wedge Posted September 26, 2011 Share Posted September 26, 2011 Always a great day out, looking forward to it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chappy Posted September 27, 2011 Share Posted September 27, 2011 I'm heading up for this one, hope it's a better day out than my trip to their neighbours last season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villan_avfc Posted October 8, 2011 Share Posted October 8, 2011 they really are **** useless, our ticket office. i've just looked at the latest 'updated' ticket news and this is what's shown... Sunderland v Villa Barclays Premier League Saturday October 29 KO - 3pm Stadium of Light Initial allocation: 1,700 Prices £40 for adults, £23 for O65s, £21 for U16s, £29 for disabled and personal assistant On sale to 2011-12 season card holders* Monday October 10: On sale to supporters with away booking history* Monday October 17: On sale to supporters with a Villa booking history* *Strictly one ticket per client reference; remember to supply one client reference per seat to build up booking history Buy Info: hotline 0800 6120970, in person Villa Village or New Street, online by clicking icon http://bit.ly/qY9TPh so for a minute i was outraged at sunderland in thinking that the ticket price had shot up from a mere £27 in '09, to £28 in '10 to a whopping £40 in '11. anyone who goes searching for ticket news will see that price and think 'blimey, i'm not going to sunderland then'. i only found the correct price by having a look on here and on the ticketmaster site. they've also listed the allocation as 1700, rather than 2000. talk about shooting yourselves in the foot and making it even more difficult to sell tickets. sort it out you useless clearings in the woods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted October 9, 2011 Moderator Share Posted October 9, 2011 Sunderland v Villa Barclays Premier League Saturday October 29 KO - 3pm Stadium of Light Initial allocation: 1,700 Prices £29 for adults, £18 for O65s, £10 for U16s, £29 for disabled and personal assistant On sale to 2011-12 season card holders* Monday October 10: On sale to supporters with away booking history* Monday October 17: On sale to supporters with a Villa booking history* *Strictly one ticket per client reference; remember to supply one client reference per seat to build up booking history Buy Info: hotline 0800 6120970, in person Villa Village or New Street, online by clicking icon on that link now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villan_avfc Posted October 9, 2011 Share Posted October 9, 2011 yep, i tweeted paul brown and avfcofficial last night and in fairness it was a matter of minutes before it was changed. still got the wrong allocation though!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wedge Posted October 9, 2011 Share Posted October 9, 2011 I thought that, useless morons can't even get the simple things right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted October 9, 2011 Moderator Share Posted October 9, 2011 I thought that, useless morons can't even get the simple things right. Useless moron's is ridiculously harsh. Someone made a typo/cut and paste error. It's slack and lame, and they should check these things before pressing save or send or whatever. But still, that doesn't mean everyone in the ticket office or on the web-side of it is a "useless moron". IMO they're far from that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villan_avfc Posted October 9, 2011 Share Posted October 9, 2011 they are if you take into account the numerous errors they make, rather than just basing it on the above errors. every couple of away games they make themselves look as if they haven't a clue about how to sell tickets to a football match. it all builds up. and people get frustrated. they were totally clueless about how many we were taking to west ham last season. they told us 2900, but when counting it up in the ticket office came to the figure 2200, yet still told us we'd taken the 2900 allocation and that's how it stayed on the website. and presumably in the programme. it was only until the day of the game when it became clear that we infact did only have the 2200 allocation. arsenal was similar. 2200 was printed in the programme time and time again but it turned out we had taken, and sold, the usual 2900 allocation. the number of mistakes they make is astounding. is it really that difficult to double check? and that's the website and the programme as a whole, i'm constantly reading typos or sentences that just plain don't make any sense. -------------------------- wedge, out of interest, why do you say it's a good day out? where do you drink when you go up there? we've never really been able to pin down an away pub. although we've drank a couple of times in a sunderland pub, a 'spoons, and they've been friendly enough. but would prefer to be with lots of villa for obvious reasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wedge Posted October 9, 2011 Share Posted October 9, 2011 I thought that, useless morons can't even get the simple things right. Useless moron's is ridiculously harsh. Someone made a typo/cut and paste error. It's slack and lame, and they should check these things before pressing save or send or whatever. But still, that doesn't mean everyone in the ticket office or on the web-side of it is a "useless moron". IMO they're far from that. Ok it was a harsh exaggeration but they do make numerous simple mistakes on allocations, prices etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaJ20 Posted October 11, 2011 Share Posted October 11, 2011 got my tickets for this one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wedge Posted October 11, 2011 Share Posted October 11, 2011 Mine arrived today, any idea how many we've sold so far? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maloneyt Posted October 17, 2011 Share Posted October 17, 2011 Got mine today, looking forward to the train journey... what time is anyone else getting the train heading off? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wedge Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 180 left as of about fifteen minutes ago out of 2,000. More possibly issued for sale on the day at the ground but won't be announced until Friday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAVe80 Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 180 left as of about fifteen minutes ago out of 2,000. More possibly issued for sale on the day at the ground but won't be announced until Friday. That's a fairly good turn out all things considered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCU Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 180 left as of about fifteen minutes ago out of 2,000. More possibly issued for sale on the day at the ground but won't be announced until Friday. That's a fairly good turn out all things considered. Agree! Can't wait! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CI Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 Was going to go but costs of the day have put me off, will go to pub and watch and spend £10 as opposed to circa £130 with fuel, parking, pie, programme etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wedge Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 180 left as of about fifteen minutes ago out of 2,000. More possibly issued for sale on the day at the ground but won't be announced until Friday. That's a fairly good turn out all things considered. To be honest I think the away support is still really good. We are pretty average nowadays but a lot of people just go to get p****d and have a sing-song. Sunderland/Newcastle is a great away day and they are amongst the cheapest ticket prices in the PL so this is bound to attract a fair few even when we are s***e. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CI Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 Must admit, you cannot beat going, the away days are always memorable Just can't justify it at moment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaAndLoyal Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 Any away pubs? I've never found any. Looking forward to backing Darren Bent against the barrage of abuse he will no doubt encounter. Surely worth a couple of quid on Bent + 1-0 Villa win? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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