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.
The same thought went through my mind.
I would imagine it will be corporate/players family and staff at the club and maybe half of Suzuki's head office.