[Albion] The Liverpool off-site hospitality

[amexer]

Have no wish to join 1901 as happy with seats and friends I sit with. However if there was a facility to sit down for something to eat for £15/25 we would definitley use it.

 

[Hastings gull]

Have no wish to join 1901 as happy with seats and friends I sit with. However if there was a facility to sit down for something to eat for £15/25 we would definitley use it.

Yes, I would too - the hospitality price is very expensive. We thoroughly enjoyed the one-off occasion to sample it, but due to price, it will remain a one-off, I regret. Pity -the club might make extra dosh through a no frills service, which presumably would be the case at 15 to 25 pounds.

 

[Weststander]

Champagne socialists perhaps? Yes, I do see that there is a difference; Tony Blair's version would presumably be different to that of Corbyn.

The left leadership of the Labour Party and many key Union leaders are very clear that Blair was not a socialist. Leader of New Labour, but not a socialist in their eyes.

That doesn’t mean that he didn’t do good as PM, although some of his enemies would argue against him in that too.

 

[Hastings gull]

The left leadership of the Labour Party and many key Union leaders are very clear that Blair was not a socialist. Leader of New Labour, but not a socialist in their eyes.

That doesn’t mean that he didn’t do good as PM, although some of his enemies would argue against him in that too.

Yes, I would certainly agree with your first point -I am sure that they saw him as being too wishy-washy for their socialist liking.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

The left leadership of the Labour Party and many key Union leaders are very clear that Blair was not a socialist. Leader of New Labour, but not a socialist in their eyes.

That doesn’t mean that he didn’t do good as PM, although some of his enemies would argue against him in that too.

Had he told Bush to do one, and not introduced tuition fees, history would put him in a very different light. Sadly, he did both.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Have no wish to join 1901 as happy with seats and friends I sit with. However if there was a facility to sit down for something to eat for £15/25 we would definitley use it.

I can’t see this working though. People would book a table, have a 25 quid meal and then sit there until KO. Also, the Liverpool hospitality was 140 quid for the food (match ticket is extra). You’d need a table to turnover 4 or 5 times to get the same return.

 

[Weststander]

Yes, I would certainly agree with your first point -I am sure that they saw him as being too wishy-washy for their socialist liking.

I don’t necessarily agree with my first comment, I’m not sure, but I know very left wing Labour and Green voters who can’t stand Bkair, or Brown/Cooper/Balls and their allies. Referring to them as “Tories in all but name”. Due to their very close ties to The City and big business, low-ish taxation, them not reversing all the Conservative legislation from 1979 to 1997, Blair buying £10m’s of homes and buy to lets, Blair earning £m’s on the lecture circuit, their closeness to the USA and generally not being class warriors.

Factually, they have a point on the whole list. But personally I think Blair/Cameron consensus politics and economics isn’t a bad compromise for the nation.

 

[Weststander]

I can’t see this working though. People would book a table, have a 25 quid meal and then sit there until KO. Also, the Liverpool hospitality was 140 quid for the food (match ticket is extra). You’d need a table to turnover 4 or 5 times to get the same return.

Very true. £15 to £25 isn’t a huge step up from the cost of burgers etc on packed standing concourses. The financial return to the club on the huge area taken up by tables and chairs, with waiting staff, for a meagre £15 to £25 doesn’t stack up. They have the demand from 1,000 diners (including your good self) paying premium hospitality prices .... whether others like it or not, it’s the only way for the club to go.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Very true. £15 to £25 isn’t a huge step up from the cost of burgers etc on packed standing concourses. The financial return to the club on the huge area taken up by tables and chairs, with waiting staff, for a meagre £15 to £25 doesn’t stack up. They have the demand from 1,000 diners (including your good self) paying premium hospitality prices .... whether others like it or not, it’s the only way for the club to go.

And as people have all said, the current hospitality is great fun. I only do it once a year, typically for special occasions, but I always enjoy it.

My father is doing it this weekend; but then he’s a Tory so it’s permitted for him to treat himself.

 

[Weststander]

And as people have all said, the current hospitality is great fun. I only do it once a year, typically for special occasions, but I always enjoy it.

My father is doing it this weekend; but then he’s a Tory so it’s permitted for him to treat himself.

Your photos of the meal at the LFC match looked enticing. I might look into it one day ... I may qualify under the busibody politics test as I have sometimes voted Tory. Because we didn’t have enough points for Albion tickets at Anfield, we did the tourism thing and bought hospitality packages in the new main stand. It was was great, expensive but worth it; low and behold we recognised other Albion regulars in the lounges.

 

[amexer]

Very true. £15 to £25 isn’t a huge step up from the cost of burgers etc on packed standing concourses. The financial return to the club on the huge area taken up by tables and chairs, with waiting staff, for a meagre £15 to £25 doesn’t stack up. They have the demand from 1,000 diners (including your good self) paying premium hospitality prices .... whether others like it or not, it’s the only way for the club to go.

. Point I am making is that, for at least half of games a group of us meet and sit down to eat in Lewes at 12/12.30. . Just a pity we cant do this at ground.

 

[Hastings gull]

I don’t necessarily agree with my first comment, I’m not sure, but I know very left wing Labour and Green voters who can’t stand Bkair, or Brown/Cooper/Balls and their allies. Referring to them as “Tories in all but name”. Due to their very close ties to The City and big business, low-ish taxation, them not reversing all the Conservative legislation from 1979 to 1997, Blair buying £10m’s of homes and buy to lets, Blair earning £m’s on the lecture circuit, their closeness to the USA and generally not being class warriors.

Factually, they have a point on the whole list. But personally I think Blair/Cameron consensus politics and economics isn’t a bad compromise for the nation.

Yes, I think that the fact that Blair seemed to line his pocket with lectures etc did not sit well with political allies and opponents alike - he certainly gave his opponents ammunition to hit him with cries of hypocrisy. But there is something to be said for the idea of consensus politics, and I recall Blair complaining that if it is a straight forward left versus right, the outcome was always the same, hence his decision to go for the middle ground. Would perhaps have helped the whole Brexit dilemma.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

. Point I am making is that, for at least half of games a group of us meet and sit down to eat in Lewes at 12/12.30. . Just a pity we cant do this at ground.

I hear you. But I usually eat in Brighton then jump on the train. I much prefer this to regularly eating at the AMEX.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

But there is something to be said for the idea of consensus politics, and I recall Blair complaining that if it is a straight forward left versus right, the outcome was always the same, hence his decision to go for the middle ground. Would perhaps have helped the whole Brexit dilemma.

Agree. And the reason why I typically prefer PR and coalitions.

 

[Weststander]

. Point I am making is that, for at least half of games a group of us meet and sit down to eat in Lewes at 12/12.30. . Just a pity we cant do this at ground.

I do agree and I like sitting rather than standing anyway, but unfortunately the stadium hasn’t the space. If they can sell 1,000 covers x a lot of money, that uses up all the space. Your idea would be bloody popular IMO, I’d be interested for one, but there’s no space. And then football being football, the menu you and I think should be worth £20, would be £35. A huge premium paid for being hooked football supporters (inelastic demand).