Protest to affect travelling Villa fans.
Fans travelling to this weekend’s massive fixture against Manchester City by road may want to rethink there travel arrangements as protesters plan to cause havoc with the M62 and surrounding roads.
The Huddersfield Dailly is stating that bikers plan to straddle all three lanes on the M62 leading to the Manchester Town Hall in a protest over continuing rise’s in petrol prices.
The protest will start around 9am and continue all day long as they plan to go no faster than 25MPH to obstruct any traffic on surrounding roads.
Coach travel for Palace away
Due to the fact that Selhurst Park is probably the most inconvenient ground to access in the country (particularly on a Sunday), we are considering running coach travel to the match on Sunday 14th February. The coach will go ahead if demand is sufficient.
The price is likely to be around £18 to ensure we could run the travel without needing to fill the coach. Probable pick up points would be as follows:
Kingstanding Circle
Birmingham City Centre
Solihull Town Centre
We’d leave early enough to allow plenty of time for a drink before the game. We would then return immediately after full time.
Ticket prices are as follows:
Adults (STHs): £15
Adults: £20
Over-65s (STHs): £10
Over-65s: £13
Under-17s (STHS): £5
Under-17s: £8
Under-12s (STHs): £2
Under-12s: £5
If you are interested in reserving seats, please PM avstu or B90villa through the forum, send an e-mail via our contact us page (title the form ‘Palace travel’), or alternatively ring Chris on 07846 309 082
Villa get Palace in the FA Cup!
Aston Villa will be taking the trip to London to take on Crystal Palace in the FA Cup 5th Round.
The Eagles beat our local rivals Wolverhampton Wanderers at Selhurst Park tonight 3-1, thanks to a hat-trick from Danny Butterfield.
The tie will take place on Sunday, 14th February with a kick off time of 3.45pm.
Avillafan.com will be looking into coach travel for this game.
Preview: Blackburn Rovers v Aston Villa
So the long awaited League Cup Semi-Final between Villa and Blackburn at Ewood Park is now just a matter of hours away. After the game being called off already due to the weather last week, fans have had to wait even longer than first anticipated.
Martin O’Neill stated in his pre-match press conferance that Villa will be out there to give it there all as we try and reach our first final since our defeat to Chelsea in the FA Cup Final in 2000.
This competiton is now everything for Blackburn as they don’t have much more to play for apart from maybe Premier League survival so they will be fired up despite being battered by Manchester City on Monday night.
Villa look to have a full team ready to choose from, while Blackburn will give late fitness tests to Gael Givet and Benni McCarthy after they both picked up injuries against Man City.
Villa will have a strong official following of 5,325 supporters, which others expected to travel and try and get into the home end and theres no doubt they will get behind the lads as they always do on there day.
I don’t know how much truth is in this, but i was today told that Blackburn have only sold a very dissapointing 11,000 tickets. As i said I’m not sure how much truth is in this but would be terrible if it is true with it being a Semi-Final tie.
Also, if you are travelling to tomorrows game look out for the Avillafan.com coach, which expects to arrive in Blackburn around 3.30pm. We hope to have the Avillafan.com flag flying, however it doesn’t always go to plan on our away trips.
New date for Blackburn Semi-Final
As we expected a new date has been confirmed for the away fixture in the Semi-Final of the League Cup. The new date is Thursday 14th January with a kick off time of 8pm.
For all those looking for tickets, Check out avfc.co.uk for news on new tickets now available.
And not to forget, as we told you yesterday, Avillafan.com are running a coach to this fixture with seats sold on a first pay basis. For more information please click here.
