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26/11/08 |
Somerset Lions Club – Away Trip
We are running transport
to a few away games in the second half of the season. In an attempt
to avoid any confusion, we are setting out our plans well in advance
so everyone knows the score upfront. There are two away specials
planned with overnight stops, which Alan has planned, and he will be
accompanying us on the trips to Blackburn and Middlesboro.
Complete the booking form
and return to Glyn Hurst Somerset Lions chairman with your details.
A non refundable deposit of £20 must be paid when booking.
Blackburn Rovers February
7th 2009.
Coach will start at Newton
Abbot picking up along the M5 to Weston S Mare as normal.
This match will involve an
overnight stay at hotel on the way back included in the price,
subsidised by the supporters club for your loyalty.
Transport cost return
including overnight accommodation in a Premier Inn type Hotel will
be just £40.00 pp. The cost of the match ticket will be £25.00 Adult
and £7.00 juniors, £15.00 senior Citizen. Match ticket prices are as
listed now, and are subject to change.
Exact details will be sent
out to all one month before the fixture.
This fixture is an annual
event for the South West, and will involve a breakfast on the way up
at one of our usual pub stops, a visit to the famous Fernhurst Villa
Pub outside the stadium, and a stop over on the way home, with a
curry lined up at the Hotel, which also has an excellent bar with
normal “pub” prices. I think you will all agree this is exceptional
package, £65.00 for Transport, Hotel and Match Ticket.
Prices are based on room
share basis, anyone not sharing a room £15.00 surcharge applies.
Please complete the form,
places are limited, first come first served £20.00 deposit cash now,
Balance on January 7th – 14th 2009.
Booking Form HERE.
Kind Regards Glyn.
Glyn Hurst
Somerset Lions
t 07796 956 039.
www.somersetlions.co.uk
chairman@somersetlions.co.uk
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21/11/08 |
Tickets are now on sale for the Lions Club exclusive Christmas party
on Saturday 13th December in the Trinity Lounge (8pm).Prices are £19.95 adult and
£9.95 children, to include Turkey Curry, Rice and Naan or
Traditional Christmas dinner with all the trimmings.
All of Villa’s trophies will be display for
you to take a photograph - the European Cup, FA Cup, League
Championship and League Cup available free of charge for a memento
of the evening using your own cameras. Former players will be in
attendance, and there will be a disco until late. The unveiling of
the new Lions Club patron, will be the pinnacle of the evening.
Hercules will be attending for the kids,
with a few surprises in store for everyone.
The Christmas prize draw will take place at
10pm with some amazing prizes, including a Directors match day
experience for two, the use of an Executive box and signed Villa
memorabilia.
This promises to be a fantastic evening of
entertainment for all the family and places are limited
The Holte Pub will be open to supporters
clubs immediately after the match up to the start of the party at
8pm in the Trinity Lounge.
Supporters clubs wishing to stay over can
receive discounted room rates at the Premier Inn Hotel, Aston by
contacting
jo.rogers@whitbread.com
The Friday evening before the event a free
tour of the stadium behind the scenes with a tour guide will be
exclusively available to Lions Clubs upon production of your
membership card. The tour starts at 17.00 and lasts approximately
one hour 30 minutes.
Please let me know if you are interested in
attending. Only the chairman (i.e – me!) can book spaces, and these
must be paid for up front
Pls also let me know if you are interested
in the tour so I can book you in
TRANSPORT – A decision will be made shortly
on whether we can provide transport for the game and the xmas bash,
or just the match.
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05/11/08 |
BOOKINGS
Bolton – 6 remain
We are now taking bookings
for Bolton. This coincides with the xmas bash. (See below)
I have emailed confirmation
to all members of their bookings for the above games.
If you have not received a
confirmation email and believe that you were booked on for any of
the above transport, then please contact me ASAP. If you’ve not
received an email, then you’re not on the above games.
Any queries whatsoever,
please let us know.
XMAS BASH
Alan has organised an
exclusive Christmas event on Saturday December 13th v
Bolton in the brand new Trinity Lounge, including Disco and buffet.
He has gone to a lot of trouble to get this arranged and so it would
be good if we attended, although of course this is not obligatory.
I am awaiting confirmation
as to what is involved but from what I understand, there will be a
shed load of former players.
I’ll get an email out as
soon as I found out more concrete details and what the itinerary
will involve.
Please let me know if you
are interested in attending this after the Bolton game. We can
consider providing split transport ( an early bus and a late bus )
if necessary depending on interest. It should make for a good end
to the season this side of Christmas. Let us know……
TRANSPORT TIMES
No change
Pls
see website if unsure.
http://www.southwestvilla.com/page50.htm
CORPORATE BOXES
These still remain. Please
see last newsletter for full details.
Any
queries or issues with anything, please don’t hesitate to contact
us.
Thanks
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08/10/08 |
WIGAN AWAY
Calling “ Biker Bob”, your
club needs YOU! ....... Think of the Breakfast, the xxl Kebab on the
way back! You know you want to, as in the words of our sponsor Nike
“ Just Do It!”
We are awaiting your call,
we cant do away trips with our “ Sat Nav” Biker!!!!!
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07/10/08 |
UEFA CUP DRAW / FIXTURES
Thurs 23 Oct Home v Ajax
Thurs Nov 6 Away v Slavia Prague
Thurs Dec 4 Home v Zilina
Thurs Dec 17 Away v Hamburg
Travel details for the home games will be announced shortly.
The home Premier League game against Middlesborough will now
be played on Sunday 9 November
KO tbc.
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06/10/08 |
CORPORATE BOXES
Alan has managed to wangle a fantastic deal at Villa for the North
Stand corporate boxes exclusively for supporters clubs!
The £45.00 Inc Vat Per Person, would include a 3 Course Buffet menu
and a match programme, Hostess service for drinks with use of the
box holders lounge also. The games available on a first come first
served basis are as follows,
* Fulham (29.11.08)
Each box seats 6 people. If you are interested come back to me asap
with your preferred choice of game and I will try to make the
necessary arrangements for you.
If you haven’t experienced this before it really is worth doing. The
view is superb, you are in the warm, and the food is excellent! If
you think how much your normal match ticket would cost you, I think
you can then realise the true value of the special offer.
TICKETS
After a long fought battle, Villa have now changed their stance on
ticket bookings and I am pleased to confirm that as a supporters
club, we can now book tickets on your behalf.
We have access to home tickets in blocks A1, A8, L9, R2, and T1.
These are available to us the 1st day they go on priority
sale. We MUST pay for tickets in one go and so if you do require us
to book on your behalf, you must let us have you money and choice of
game before the booking deadline. Let us know if you need us to
book tickets for you.
You may however where possible try to book yourselves and build up a
booking history in your own name. This would be important as Villa
(hopefully) progress in competitions and fingers crossed, get to
Wembley or any other cup finals, tickets are difficult to obtain and
so the stronger your own booking history is, the better.….
Not only that, we can now also get away tickets too!.....
Again, same rules as above. Let us know if you’re interested.
XMAS BASH
Alan has organised an exclusive Christmas event on Saturday December
13th v Bolton in the brand new Trinity Lounge, including
Disco and buffet. He has gone to a lot of trouble to get this
arranged and so it would be good if we attended, although of course
this is not obligatory.
Please let me know if you are interested in attending this after the
Bolton game. We can consider providing split transport ( an early
bus and a late bus ) if necessary depending on interest. It should
make for a good end to the season this side of Christmas. Let us
know……
MATCH DAY ACCOMODATION
Alan has also arranged for some great deals for supporters club
members with the local hotel chain Premier Inn
Situated
close to
Vila and
about 2 miles from the city centre, they are offering accommodation
INCLUSIVE of Bed & Breakfast ( Single or Twin ) for just £45. This
includes priority entrance to Oceana Night Club.
You can book by calling 0121 3332120. To take advantage of this
offer quote: Football Fans on Reservation
Other discounted hotels are also available.
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3/10/08 |
With lots of new and exciting things in progress behind the scenes
for supporters clubs I was thinking how nice it would be if we had
our own patron of the Lions clubs. I have a list as long as the
Trinity Road in my head of suitable applicants, so I thought I would
do the decent thing and let you guys decide who you would like to be
the face of the supporters club network.
If you could put this out
to your members and see who is your chosen “ hero” we will then add
the votes to see who is the outright winner. I will then ask your
chosen player if he would do us the honour of being patron of Aston
Villa supporters clubs worldwide.
Can each chairperson e
mail me their clubs choice no later than 09.00am Thursday 30th
October 2008. One chairperson will be drawn at random to come and
meet the new patron at Villa Park for the unveiling ceremony.
Many thanks for your help
and co operation.
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3/10/08 |
FIXTURE CHANGES
Please note the following fixture changes, for December
Sunday 7th Away V Everton (Sky 4.00pm)
Friday 26th Home v Arsenal (Sky 5.15pm)
Tuesday 30th Away v Hull City (Sky 8.00pm)
The above changes now confirms that the Supporters Club
Christmas Party will be held after the Bolton Wanderers game on
December 13th at 7.00pm in the refurbished Trinity Suite. More
Details will follow shortly.
FUTURE TELEVISION FIXTURE CHANGES
We are ware that the TV companies should issue fixture
changes by a certain date, these are as folows:
January by 20 October
February by 19 November
March by 2 January
April by 2 February
May by 27 March
UEFA FIXTURE CHANGES
For once we have the worry of European games changing our
fixtures, bring it on!!!
The draw for the group games is this Tuesday, the scheduled
dates for the matches are 23 Oct, 6 Nov, 27 Nov, 3/4 Dec and 17/18
Dec, we will not play on one of these scheduled dates, we will be
in a group of five with 2 games at home and 2 away.
Premiership games that are subject to changes due to our
UEFA involvement are
25 Oct Wigan Away
8 Nov Middlesborough Home
29 Nov Fulham Home
20 Dec West Ham Away
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3/10/08 |
Please see and read the attached with reference
to former Holte End hero Paul Birch.
Paul is very ill with
cancer, and Chris Cooper from our Yorkshire Lions club branch is
embarking on a 500 mile trip to France to raise money for the Paul
Birch Trust fund.
Birchy a cult hero with
the Holte End to this day, played over 200 times for the Villa and
was a energetic terrier like midfielder, who was instrumental in our
return to the top flight in 1987 under Graham Taylor. I personally
watched Paul in all of his Villa games and i can assure you he gave
110% every time he pulled on the famous claret & Blue shirt. One
game that sticks in my mind was the day we played Inter Milan at
Villa Park, playing them off the pitch, winning 2-0 with Birchy
outclassing the so called world beater Lothar Matthus in midfield.
I am sure all Villa fans
around the world would love to help with this venture to give Paul
and his little girl with the quality of precious life they deserve
together.
You can make a donation
direct to the Paul Birch Trust via
www.chriscooperevents.com by following the links page on this
site. It’s safe, secure and quick.
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2/10/08 |
VERY IMPORTANT MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL
Just a reminder, in case you have not as yet renewed your
membership, please do so as soon as possible.
Forward your form and payment (payable to AVSC) to Nigel.
Details are on the membership page. You must be a member to take
advantage of the privileges we can offer, including some special
ones coming up!
VILLA TALK FORUM
We have been given our own little slot on the forum, please
make use of it, it is there for all to see, use the link button now.
BOOKINGS
We are now taking bookings for all October / November games
please book through Simon / Steve asap as places are filling up
quickly, December bookings can be placed at the end of October as
set out in our August Newsletter.
TRANSPORT TIMES
Due to the current roadworks on the M5, we have changed our
departure times slightly, please see the coach availability page
for the revised times.
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14/8/08 |
Bookings
Please note that the bookings system will change slightly soon. We
will advise you all of the changes in good time.
Memberships
Please note that with effect from Liverpool game, you will not be
permitted access to the Gordon Cowans Suite without a valid
membership card. If you are not a season ticket holder and wish to
access the Gordon Cowans Suite before a match, then please contact
us to obtain membership.
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