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[shabba]

The lazy gits at the club have done it again, internedt bookings only for Villa tickets and postal applications discouraged and no phone bookings!

What is it about the club that they make eveyones life so difficult and they seem scared of hard work. It is their job to sell tickets and why are they so precious about it?

You are a football club, sell tickets by all means and maximize income and stop being so lazy.

This is yet another instance of the club treating supports like an annoyance and being detached from reality.

It will be their own fault if they don't sell the full 6,000 allocation.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

 

[Wozza]

The lazy gits at the club have done it again, internedt bookings only for Villa tickets and postal applications discouraged and no phone bookings!

What is it about the club that they make eveyones life so difficult and they seem scared of hard work. It is their job to sell tickets and why are they so precious about it?

You are a football club, sell tickets by all means and maximize income and stop being so lazy.

This is yet another instance of the club treating supports like an annoyance and being detached from reality.

It will be their own fault if they don't sell the full 6,000 allocation.

Are you not on the internet then?

 

[Westdene Seagull]

The lazy gits at the club have done it again, internedt bookings only for Villa tickets and postal applications discouraged and no phone bookings!

What is it about the club that they make eveyones life so difficult and they seem scared of hard work. It is their job to sell tickets and why are they so precious about it?

You are a football club, sell tickets by all means and maximize income and stop being so lazy.

This is yet another instance of the club treating supports like an annoyance and being detached from reality.

It will be their own fault if they don't sell the full 6,000 allocation.

Strange - I thought buying over the internet made things easier rather than more difficult - silly me

 

[Rusthall Seagull]

The lazy gits at the club have done it again, internedt bookings only for Villa tickets and postal applications discouraged and no phone bookings!

What is it about the club that they make eveyones life so difficult and they seem scared of hard work. It is their job to sell tickets and why are they so precious about it?

You are a football club, sell tickets by all means and maximize income and stop being so lazy.

This is yet another instance of the club treating supports like an annoyance and being detached from reality.

It will be their own fault if they don't sell the full 6,000 allocation.

how bad is that ? I mean, look at Amazon/Ebay etc. Internet sales are rubbish.

 

[Barnham Seagull]

Strange - I thought buying over the internet made things easier rather than more difficult - silly me

Technology does not allways work as Im experiencing at present and I have brought tickets online before.

 

[FLOG GNAW]

Strange - I thought buying over the internet made things easier rather than more difficult - silly me

It SHOULD make thing easier. A lot of people (me included) are having problems with the online ticket office.

There is no way you could have problems in the club shop.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

There is no way you could have problems in the club shop.

Never had a problem buying tickets over the internet but have in the club shop !

 

[ATFC Seagull]

i did have a few probs yesterday but having calmed down I can see the lofic in it.

I would imagine a problem is that seeing as the draw was only 5 days ago and the tie only finalised on Wed, there is no way in hell that Villa could allocate (which probably involves discussions with police and moving their own fans), organise, print and send down 6k+ tickets by now.

Which means we'd all be queueing up to buy hypothetical tickets asking all sorts of awkward questions etc. Which would then have to be organised and posted out at a later date. So its easier if its done on paper/electronically and then when the tickets arrived there is a database and they can get shipped out nice and quick.

If the club waited till the actual tickets arrived, it'd probably be 7 days before the game and everyone would moan about how it was last minute, absolute carnage and how they can't be bothered with it as a result.

 

[KneeOn]

It didn't work at first on teh internet, but with all good things and women, you need to take TIME and PATIENCE!

and 'course, neither club looks after fans, i mean, what type of well run club gives an away allocation fo 6000 tickets at a 10'er tops? A SHIT ONE! fml

 

[KneeOn]

i did have a few probs yesterday but having calmed down I can see the lofic in it.

I would imagine a problem is that seeing as the draw was only 5 days ago and the tie only finalised on Wed, there is no way in hell that Villa could allocate (which probably involves discussions with police and moving their own fans), organise, print and send down 6k+ tickets by now.

Which means we'd all be queueing up to buy hypothetical tickets asking all sorts of awkward questions etc. Which would then have to be organised and posted out at a later date. So its easier if its done on paper/electronically and then when the tickets arrived there is a database and they can get shipped out nice and quick.

If the club waited till the actual tickets arrived, it'd probably be 7 days before the game and everyone would moan about how it was last minute, absolute carnage and how they can't be bothered with it as a result.

CORRECT, i'd rather have a bit of confusion with garanteed tickets in advance, than having to get them with 7 days to spare, with potentially 6000other people... (Prolly closer to 3000 but thats still a mission!)

 

[Ditchboy]

It's not just the online booking mate. I went into the club shop yesterday and ran straight into a wall of books and programmes. How hard can they make it for loyal fans like me to make it to the ticket desk? They don't deserve to sell out the allocation IMHO.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

I think Brown Perry and Bloom should walk around selling these on the knocker to STH

 

[Gerbil]

It SHOULD make thing easier. A lot of people (me included) are having problems with the online ticket office.

There is no way you could have problems in the club shop.

f*** me, 1st time i have looked at your avatar, highly amusing

 

[HarryNT]

Stop moaning!

 

[Foolg]

The reason they are discouraging postal applications, is because at any one time it appears only 2 people work in the club ticket office. At our current position, getting gates of what 6000 a week, 2000 of which are probably bought outside of season ticket sales, that is all the club requires. To employ 10 people in a ticket office would be pointless until we reach falmer and larger ticket sales. Just accept that its the one time every few years we drew a big team, and that it always will be a struggle. I dont see the problem with buying your tickets on the internet, and if its that much of a struggle, could you not just post the application form or drop it in by hand? I dropped mine in today, and the guy couldnt have been more helpful, and even managed it so a group of 10 of us can all sit together with different applications. They were rushed off their feet, with the phones constantly ringing, and a permanent queue for tickets, as well as trying to sort out other tickets such as walsall etc.
I cant see the problem, and tbh think the guys in the ticket office are always top notch!

 

[Gazwag]

shabba will also hate gritter drivers because there are not three million in the country that needs them once a decade

 

[Insider]

Lazy gits? I don't think so. They'll be working overtime to ensure 6,000 applications get processed and despatched!

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Don't rise to it, mate. there will alway be moany idiots, and they'll always get shot down anyway.

 

[Hiney]

The lazy gits at the club have done it again, internedt bookings only for Villa tickets and postal applications discouraged and no phone bookings!

What is it about the club that they make eveyones life so difficult and they seem scared of hard work. It is their job to sell tickets and why are they so precious about it?

You are a football club, sell tickets by all means and maximize income and stop being so lazy.

This is yet another instance of the club treating supports like an annoyance and being detached from reality.

It will be their own fault if they don't sell the full 6,000 allocation.

You my friend, if you don't mind me saying so, are a f***ing twat.

Do you actually really believe that the club haven't looked at the most effective way to shift 6,000 tickets in the fairest possible way?

This is yet another instance of some supporters treating the club like an annoyance and being detached from reality.