North Stand Expansion
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Apologies.
Haven’t had time to post the pictures tonight. Will definitely post the pictures in the morning.(up early as a new mattress is being delivered)
Screen grab from the drone video Lexstar posted showing the 3 sample trees that have been planted in-front of the East stand. I prefer the tree on the left.
From that view, expanding the East stand would be difficult and expensive for a limited amount of extra seats.
I like the spirals. They give the Etihad stadium a unique stadium identity
Haven’t had time to post the pictures tonight. Will definitely post the pictures in the morning.(up early as a new mattress is being delivered)
Screen grab from the drone video Lexstar posted showing the 3 sample trees that have been planted in-front of the East stand. I prefer the tree on the left.
From that view, expanding the East stand would be difficult and expensive for a limited amount of extra seats.
I like the spirals. They give the Etihad stadium a unique stadium identity
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United and their fans are active at improving the atmosphere at Old Trafford. Whilst we still have no idea what City’s final plans for the new North stand home end will be.
Where are our club led initiatives at improving the atmosphere at the Etihad when the North stand is expanded? All we hear from the club is a wall of silence on that matter. And constant references from the directors about improving match day revenues and nothing else.
Never mind just talking to City Matters, 1894, and selected fan groups, talk to the wider City fan base via the OS. Let us know what your plans are for improving the atmosphere ‘in conjunction with the fans’ when the North stand is expanded. As it is you‘re not telling us anything.
United.
Another significant change is the replacement of executive seating in the Stretford End and reallocating the area to ordinary season ticket holders. Applications will be accepted from existing season ticket holders, and 500 seats will be reserved for fans aged 16-25 with a special ‘youth season ticket’ priced at £16 ($20) per game. United said that the initiative, which had been planned from last year, aims to enhance the atmosphere and support for the team.
TRA, a United fan group that sits in the Stretford End above the tunnel, will now be behind the goal in former executive seats, occupying 2,700. The TRA’s old section of 1,800 will now be occupied by youth tickets and season ticket holders who go to away games, with applications open.
United also plan to expand safe standing areas by adding 1,300 in the first tier of the North-West quadrant, known as the Sir Alex Ferguson stand. With this expansion, over 10 per cent of the general admission capacity and all four corners of Old Trafford will have safe standing areas.
Where are our club led initiatives at improving the atmosphere at the Etihad when the North stand is expanded? All we hear from the club is a wall of silence on that matter. And constant references from the directors about improving match day revenues and nothing else.
Never mind just talking to City Matters, 1894, and selected fan groups, talk to the wider City fan base via the OS. Let us know what your plans are for improving the atmosphere ‘in conjunction with the fans’ when the North stand is expanded. As it is you‘re not telling us anything.
United.
Another significant change is the replacement of executive seating in the Stretford End and reallocating the area to ordinary season ticket holders. Applications will be accepted from existing season ticket holders, and 500 seats will be reserved for fans aged 16-25 with a special ‘youth season ticket’ priced at £16 ($20) per game. United said that the initiative, which had been planned from last year, aims to enhance the atmosphere and support for the team.
TRA, a United fan group that sits in the Stretford End above the tunnel, will now be behind the goal in former executive seats, occupying 2,700. The TRA’s old section of 1,800 will now be occupied by youth tickets and season ticket holders who go to away games, with applications open.
United also plan to expand safe standing areas by adding 1,300 in the first tier of the North-West quadrant, known as the Sir Alex Ferguson stand. With this expansion, over 10 per cent of the general admission capacity and all four corners of Old Trafford will have safe standing areas.
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Above.
From next season United will have 4,500 singers in and next to the Stratford End.
We have 1 official singing block, block/section 115, mixed with people who sing, sing some times, and don’t sing at all.
As for the other singers and potential singers, they are spread all over the stadium in small pockets of singers or as (brave) individual singers in areas of the ground where people don’t sing.
From next season United will have 4,500 singers in and next to the Stratford End.
We have 1 official singing block, block/section 115, mixed with people who sing, sing some times, and don’t sing at all.
As for the other singers and potential singers, they are spread all over the stadium in small pockets of singers or as (brave) individual singers in areas of the ground where people don’t sing.
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LongsightM13
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They still get away with flagrantly flouting the Premier League rules about pitch level seats for away fans and the provision of video screens. God forbid they have to spend money on compliance, rather than squeezing in as many seats as possible with legroom that would even make Ryanair embarrassed
That maybe true? And I take your point. But United are leaving City behind when it comes to trying to improve the match day atmosphere.
LongsightM13
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Yep. And we all know there’s going to be corporate stuck smack bang in the middle of what should be a dedicated City end.
Still irritating that they, the cult and Newcastle are allowed to flout the various PL rules simply because they don’t want to pay for the necessary works. Especially as they’ve had years to sort it out
HelloCity
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Can we stop posting about United or at least keep that to the atmosphere thread?
If you don’t want to read what I post scroll past it. It will take you a second. A shorter amount of time than it took you to write that and to post it. Eventually the thread will go back to topic.
It’s important! It highlights the differences between what the 2 clubs are doing to improve the atmospheres at both grounds. The atmosphere at the Etihad is an important part of the expanded North stand expansion and this thread.
It irks me that United, apologies for bringing the up again, are publicly working with their fans to improve the atmosphere at Old Trafford by ‘implementing positive fan led initiatives’, whilst City are saying nothing publicly about improving the atmosphere at the Etihad via the North stand expansion, but are publicly saying the Etihad stadium is constraint and the club will have to find different ways of driving match day revenues because of that, ie, more hospitality areas(at the front of NSL2), etc. The club comments aside, we all know what the PA shows, which isn’t promising, but there’s no need to go into that again.
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