Yes. Agreed. I understand why the club want to put ££ into the Tunnel Club, or new lounges. And there's some on here that appreciate that side of the Albion and happy to cough up for it, but others will recoil given what it represents. But i think the stairs, PA, toilets, what have the Romans done for us type stuff was because there's also a strong view on here from a vocal minority that EVERYTHING the club do is about shaking you down for more ££. Either way, many clubs aren't investing in their stadiums to maintain or improve them er, at all.
Yep. Agreed. Many will turn up at Villa and be surprised they won't be able to go upstairs. I guess most will just not care, some will be annoyed about it, and a few might just go home and order a card - which i guess is what AMEX are hoping for given they've given the club ££ to sponsor it ?
I don’t know I just think having an Amex isn’t something that should be rewarded by the club. Despite the comments there are some checks that mean some people wouldn’t be able to apply for an Amex, for right or for wrong. The only thing that prevents people here is potentially their poor credit score. Would people be happy if they only let people into “the clubhouse” with a certain number of loyalty points? As ultimately that is how much you’ve spent at the club.
I think that's valid. We can moan about the corporate nature of it, (and the 'Amex carholders only' thing sticks in the craw a bit) but that too is part of modern football, indeed modern hospitality.
One small thing - it says in the FAQ - you can have up to three guests with you who won't have cards. And @Bozza has said the club are going to be "sensible" in terms of managing volumes if the upstairs balcony space is underused etc. (my reading of that is they will just open it up for everyone at certain times) .
Maybe you're a man of higher principles than me, Jack.
Agree, that is positive, seems like a slight own goal, as an example, my group of 15 or so mates I drink with after games, ONE has an Amex, and he works for them. I think there's a very targeted demographic that has an Amex. If they want to tempt people into the facility out of choice rather than a necessity, they need to have reasons to go there.
I don't disagree with a lot of that, I'm likely to be able to use it as have a mate, others won't. I just have never seen these things work out as being beneficial to event spaces from when I've seen this sort of thing implemented elsewhere. I think its a great facility. To phrase someone else formerly of this forum 'im just haveing my views'.
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I'm struggling to understand the issue here. All Brighton fans are welcome into the Fan Zone, no one is being denied. If you also have an AMEX card, and there is space, there's a lounge you can also use. If entry to the entire Zone was only for AMEX card holders, that would be shit.....a small lounge in a 2000-3000 cap venue.....no big deal.
I'm with you, quite clearly from my prior posts. However, we don't know the capacity split...
I'm pretty sure that's the case, yes.
Like Bozza said its about the capacity split, that hasn't really been explained, and whether you get the same drink/food choices, from what I can gather (and maybe I'm wrong) the downstairs looks very similar to a concourse, with no seating, same food/drink choices.
So in the winter months, with the doors closed and 1000 capacity, 500 of those places will be reserved upstairs for Amex card holders and their mates? How is that going to make any kind of meaningful dent in the train queues?
Interesting. I assumed the opposite. That the downstairs would be 'open' on match days. Allowing more folks to move through the area and or eat/drink even if they aren't actually 'under the roof'.