Short Term Fixes For Aston Villa

I have a great idea but if it takes off I want a cut Mr Lerner....basically you have a season ticket discount if you a buy a shirt at the same time. I.e. £50 disount if you buy a shirt as well. This would apply also to match day tickets - get 10% off if your wearing this seasons villa shirt. This would hopefully sell more tickets and we will get the ground more full of villa shirts which would be something to look round and be proud of and raisethe atmosphere. I know its genius isnt it.

I have another one...we need to start a chant of 'get your takeover approval slips back in before lerner changes his mind and Ellis starts filling his pockets back up with the transfer kitty'...not sure how it would sound but its an important message.

1. The away end is a great idea. Would be good for the players to celebrate with our fans. 2. Try and do something by putting seats in the corners. 3. Attach the North stand roof to other stands. 4. Get the training ground finished to help attract players. 5. Sort the sound system out, it was appalling in the top of te Holte against reading. 6. Our own Sky TV station - Villa TV.

100% behind the suggestion of moving visiting supporters from behind the goal and relocating them in the corner up/lower tier of The Witton Lane Stand.

I think I would rather give away fans half of the upper tier of the North stand, so that none of them are anywhere near the pitch at all. When the stand is then developed consideration should be given to incorporating the away section as far from the pitch as possible, similar to Newcrapstle. Also I am not sure if I have mentioned this before ........ but buy your season tickets now.

agentprovocateur. I understand your views on away fans throwing things down. However this is easily remedied by having the first few rows of seats being cordoned off, in the same way as the segregation used on the bottom tier of the Witton Lane. Newcrapstle do not have any problems. Season tickets are the most important sale that any club makes to its fans, so it is vital that every fan that can, purchases their tickets now. For those who pick and choose there games there should be price increases. Let me explain that using the home games against Bolton on 16th December and Manure on 23rd December. If an average ticket is £30, the price for the Manure game should be raised to £45. However if you buy both Bolton and Manure together you get them for a combined price of £55 (a saving of a fiver). If you buy the Bolton ticket on its own you pay the regular price of £30. If for whatever reason a supporter can not make the Bolton game maybe opening the offer to include one of the other less attractive fixtures is a possibility.This has several benefits. Firstly it means that we can charge away supporters exactly the same price. Secondly we are encouraging supporters to come for the 'less' attractive fixtures. We are in effect lowering the prices at a financially sensitive time of year (pre Christmas) for the fans who come regularly but who can not afford season tickets. Not one regular supporter will have to pay more. The only fans penalised are those that only come once a season (usually to the manure fixture). I am sure that some of these are manure fans anyway so tough. And if you are a Villa supporter you will be glad of the opportunity to purchase two tickets and make a saving at the same time. This scheme could also be extended to cover the Chelski and Redscouse games. If you lower prices you are in effect lowering the perceived value of the product. The aim is to make the product as good as possible and charge a competitive rate to see it. Not make the product average and have to reduce prices to encourage people to attend. That is the route to financial ruin and is where we were headed under Ellis.

Voice of the holte i agree on what you say about Manure idea indeed there will be a fair number of manure fans in villa sections so yes charging £45 to me seems like a very good idea and similarly means that fans who go regular wont mind this at all because they will be in attendance at the bolton game anyway I understand what you are saying about making the product less attractive by lowering or making games free but in my suggestion i said if tickets were given via selected schools not only are you possibly getting fans of the future perhaps there dads and moms may also accompany them and they would be paying entrance this is effect like a loss leader get a percentage of kids in and not only are you hoping some will become long term villa fans but this equates to short term loss long term gain , what im not suggesting is widespread free tickets but selected schools, clubs and games in which the opposition arent so attractive the 1st game i went to was in 1983 notts county at home and we won 3-1 the reason i was hooked was because we won that 1st game and remembering peter withe coming over to the holte to throw in his wrist bands so if we do have kids in on reduced rates hopefully a winning performance will ensure some will become long term villa fans

VOTH, APV why oh why didn't you get your bid in on time, you could always offer your services to MR LERNER as fan specialists, go on Randy give em a job.