Scandalous Attendance at Villa Park

deafmanstevo said:
Mmmm but that's not strictly true, my lad is 18 knows a few lads around his age group who are reds and they have been not bad with our empty seat business .
The worse age group I've encountered is 35 to 55 , at work in the pub , in general really.they always go on about empty seats.
I just laugh, I don't know why people are bothered about lads Bantz, all it is ,is banter between fans, always goes on no matter what age people are.
Nothing wrong with it in my view, you hear it on the school playground and in the old mens working clubs.
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Maybe. I just think that the biggest demographic in football now is the armchair fan, who's opinions are lifted directly from the MOTD pundits and who's "banter" comes second hand from Twitter.

When football was a working man's sport it was much more healthy, when we all just argued about how soft/hard each other's firm was.
 
Let's be honest, this empty seat fad was started by Rags as they had nothing else/left to throw at us anymore. It was then picked up by Arsenal and Liverpool fans mainly who also have issues with us. Apart from those 3, no other club, not even Liverpool if they where honest, can call our current support. Leceister is sold out. Spurs only has a few tickets left in various blocks. And our average, whether you believe the figures or not, is around the 54,000 mark.

That aside, we have lost nearly 3 generations of support to the Rags. Watching United at Derby, United's away support confirmed this. The vast majority of their away support looked early 20's to mid 30's. Compare that to our away support, which is mainly early 40's to late 50's, with younger fans mixed in.
 
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I think this thread has taken up a life of its own, and turned into criticising / defending Villa's home support.

That was never my intention.What i was trying to complain about, was, presumably, many City fans who wanted to go (2 of my seasoncard holding friends definitely included ) could not get tickets for the match because it, (our allocation), was sold out.

With respect to Villa supporters, that must be the most under-subscribed "sellout" ever. I appreciate its their ground, presumably their fixture, but i just think its plain wrong, that people who want to attend, are prevented from doing so, for no logical / fair reason, especially, given the understandable apathy of the home fans, and its not as if their is particular hostility amongst the 2 sets of fans.
 
City took 900 there a few years ago midweek. Where were all these new City Super Fans then?
 
always respect for Birmingham City....True Football club,with true football fans.....shit on the villa...!
 
worsleyweb said:
Good post fella - good club villa. No problem with you at all although collymore is a bit of a tit. You have decent support.
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He's a bigger tit than the ones he used to see when he went dogging. He only tweets things to get a reaction, and it works.

For the record we're averaging 35,000 in the league which I think is decent considering we've won one home game all season, we're watching probably the worst team in our history and we're relegated by January. It will be interesting to see which way it goes for the rest of the season; people turn up and 'enjoy' being in the Premier League for the last few months (we won't come straight back up either) or people stay away in protest at Lerner and the team. I think the crowds will drop off personally unless we go down with a bit of fight.
 
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