Villa allocation confirmed

Tonster said:
There's no chance of us getting the trinity road upper, it's closed due to demand. They and the police are never going to put us above their directors box that's in the trinity road middle tier. It's 5900 tickets and that's our lot.
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Yes, you are right. Sorry, I got mixed up between the two side stands at Villa Park. That`s what watching CITY for so long has done to me. I do though recall Richards scoring that header right at the end where we were (probably the highlight of that season) and I think that there was a small overspill of City fans in the lower tier of the Doug Ellis Stand that night. The crowd was low if I remember correctly (circa 24,000 ?) and we had nearly 6,000. The kick off time was odd also. I would have thought that there was scope to allocate City more tickets in the `normal` away section along the side but we will see. I`m not banking on it. We`ve sold out our decent allocation for Villa though very quickly. I wish there was the same, quick enthusiasm for the semi-final against Everton but there is still time for Blues to rally round and turn out in force on Wednesday. C`mon CITY.
 
Will be a great turn out for this one. That whole stand behind the goal just full of City. I'm sure someone has posted something in here already about Villa not selling the normal away seats to home fans in case demand from our side is big, which it seems to be so they might be back on sale tomorrow/Tuesday if that is the case.
 
Awaydays don't get any better than Villa in the cup on a Saturday afternoon at 3 o clock.
 
Pissed off, knew I'd just miss out. Awaiting the ticket exchange thread to re-open for this one. Will be a top away day.
 
Someone posted earlier in this thread that they were told by someone at the ticket office that we didn't ask for more tickets because the club wouldn't be able to post them all out in time. Whether this person in the ticket office (not the poster who stated it on here) was correct on this I don't know, but anyone with half a brain cell that has a hand in running our ticket office would surely know that 5900 tickets, priced at £15 for adults, away at a popular ground, in an FA Cup tie, at 3pm on a Saturday, would sell out in next to no time and so this has proved. Yet the club were worried about postal issues and had selling criteria on the website that went as far as Tuesday so they were factoring in posting tickets out as late as tomorrow. They sold out over the weekend - as predicted by loads on here - so why they couldn't ask for more is completely and utterly beyond me. Or why not take an additional allocation but put them on sale to personal callers only if they're worried about postal issues?
 
M18CTID said:
Someone posted earlier in this thread that they were told by someone at the ticket office that we didn't ask for more tickets because the club wouldn't be able to post them all out in time. Whether this person in the ticket office (not the poster who stated it on here) was correct on this I don't know, but anyone with half a brain cell that has a hand in running our ticket office would surely know that 5900 tickets, priced at £15 for adults, away at a popular ground, in an FA Cup tie, at 3pm on a Saturday, would sell out in next to no time and so this has proved. Yet the club were worried about postal issues and had selling criteria on the website that went as far as Tuesday so they were factoring in posting tickets out as late as tomorrow. They sold out over the weekend - as predicted by loads on here - so why they couldn't ask for more is completely and utterly beyond me. Or why not take an additional allocation but put them on sale to personal callers only if they're worried about postal issues?
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Yes the TO should have tried to get some more on a sale or return basis and sold them to personal callers or people who could collect them later from the TO. I'm sure they could have shifted the usual away section down the side.
 
Managed to get tickets for this. Thanks to the cup scheme. Anybody know where I can find out about coaches. Trains are 40 quid a pop so looks like driving is the best option so far.
 
Bought my ticket Friday morning. Arrived first thing this morning in the post. As usual, no issues with them posting it, they're very prompt in sending out tickets and one of the few things they can't be criticised for.
 
I got a ticket for me and my lad,however friends who werent in cup schme missed out,will any more get allocated ?
 
There will probably be thousands of tickets available in the home ends. Although, given how indignant people have been about Everton fans buying tickets in our ends, I don't suppose anyone will do that.
 
cibaman said:
There will probably be thousands of tickets available in the home ends. Although, given how indignant people have been about Everton fans buying tickets in our ends, I don't suppose anyone will do that.
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I was going too but it's not as enjoyable and I don't trust myself after a few beers watching us not to out myself as an away supporter and get battered.

Bit gutted they didn't allocate more as I can only afford these types of games thesedays. Spurs at home is 47 quid and since I've changed jobs I can't afford that anymore.
 
I'm led to believe that Villa are not selling the 3000 or so tickets in the usual away section to their own fans so why are these not available to City fans?. There has been no answer to fans wondering about extra tickets ob the supporter services Twitter feed, it's all a bit odd considering the demand.
 
Don't have enough points and this got sold out, trying to get one in home end but directly on villa site it needs purchase history so not gone to general sale yet (and not sure if it would?)

What's the best way of getting a ticket? Don't mind home end either ... better than not watching, the game's not on tv either!
 
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