Sounds familiar, I swear I heard Fisher talking about "sweating assets" in one of the fans forums he put on before the season in Northampton though at the time he was talking about pies & stuff.
Depends, if it's Manure at Old Trafford that's a guaranteed 40K+ crowd with requisite income ..and if it's known that it will be televised that's another big wedge right there.
Finally what will be will be.. the main thing is to be in the draw.