A slight change of subject but have the club announced what the arrangements are for Corporate for this game? I don’t believe they have, have they?
A few things got me thinking:
Club Platinum (with a meal and seat in the Directors balcony) is very limited. Capacity can’t be much more than 200.
We usually get a lot of interest from local business for the big games. Their only option would be to hire a box. That’s pricey unless there’s ten of you. Not always possible for business even, let alone a fan with deep pockets struggling to find nine friends/associates/colleagues to fill it.
There’s a huge ballroom for at least five hundred people to sit downstairs.
There’s a huge kitchen to serve those same five hundred people.
A regular seat in Club Red is £32.
A regular seat with meal in Club Platinum is (from memory) about £80 a head.
You see where I’m going with this?
Why would the club want people taking their CR seat at £32 when there’s real money to be made?
I’ll be stunned if there’s not at least a sprinkling of people sat in CR seats a week Thursday. May all be players wives and girlfriends and agents and members of “the football family” and not what we would consider “fans” but they’ll be there.