I know. I meant in the future. The NS is in hold. The focus is now the Etihad Campus. 5 years? I would rather City wait until safe standing is introduced. It will be.
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I know. I meant in the future. The NS is in hold. The focus is now the Etihad Campus. 5 years? I would rather City wait until safe standing is introduced. It will be.
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I can't see the government getting round to it in this parliament so could be at least 3 years away, probably more. I still expect the North Stand to be started within 3 years, mainly because I would think they want the building work done at the same time or at least for when the campus up and running.
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Name me one stadium where the atmosphere is best next to the away fans, I'll name you ten in response where it is the exact opposite.
The atmosphere isn't next to the away fans for most clubs. Liverpool, United,Dortmund, Munich, Real, Gladbach etc all have their main sections opposite from the away end. Even smaller clubs like Watford have their main section the other end of the ground.
Not saying the atmosphere is great in all of them by any means like Real, however the majority of their atmospheres come from the sections opposite. Most German teams / European teams do it for the displays to be seen.
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Stanloi wants to know which carpark she's doing it in.
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they also let you drink in the stands (alcoholic or non alcoholic)
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All this stuff about the stadium configuration is just bollocks.
European away fans generate amazing atmospheres in the corner of the ground we give them.
Anyway, fuck it, I'm off to Anfield.
European away fans generate amazing atmospheres in the corner of the ground we give them.
Anyway, fuck it, I'm off to Anfield.
I disagree, when I’ve been to them grounds and I’ve been to four you listed you can’t hear a peep from these “walls” or “kops” but that’s completely irrelevant my point is with city fans anyway. There is atmosphere either side of the away fans because them ones prefer to spend 90 minutes offering the away fans outside. We’ve tried it with one end being blues and it didn’t work. Look at the videos of us singing at Everton and even then it’s all over and one side singing something completely different to others only yards away. Since we’ve been in the stadium we’ve constantly looked at ways to make the atmosphere better, fair play to every one who tries but it’s utterly pointless. It’s modern day football and won’t ever change
Cheaper season tickets on offer doesn’t always mean younger fans would get their hands on them ... a lot of tourists who attend 3, 4 or 5 games a season only and even end up paying £100+ each to touts for biggers games like derby and the last home game etc (as being offered on various social media these days) would snap those up and then those seats/spaces would be empty most of the season except for a few bigger games ... and this would be true not only for tourists but also for out of area fans, who go game by game because buying a season card doesn’t make sense for them as they can’t always make them, especially when TV keeps changing almost all our games (we had only a handful of Sat 3pm games at home all season) ...
Yes it will.
It's not the rail seats as such, it's the amount of people you can put in one stand, under the same roof, and standing together.
I'm not going to spill the beans of a planned display(come back to me on that), but if that display had a 20,000 safe standing tier like Dortmunds, it would look f***ing amazing. And so would the support.
Sorry mate, but why aren't people like you getting it? And getting what could happen at the Etihad if such a stand was created by the club?
It won't ever be Dortmund, but it would be bloody good.
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Couple of things I wouldn't call 4 or 5 games 'a tourist' , secondly any fan that goes to 4 or 5 shouldn't need to buy of touts I go to 6 a season and have no problem with the derby or last game. That said you are right if the North stand had plenty of £299 0r £350 tickets available I would think about it but probably couldn't make more than 8/9 games a season so unless resale worked it would be empty a lot.
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Yes it will.
It's not the rail seats as such, it's the amount of people you can put in one stand, under the same roof, and standing together.
I'm not going to spill the beans of a planned display(come back to me on that), but if that display had a 20,000 safe standing tier like Dortmunds, it would look f***ing amazing. And so would the support.
Sorry mate, but why aren't people like you getting it? And getting what could happen at the Etihad if such a stand was created by the club?
It won't ever be Dortmund, but it would be bloody good.
I'm all for safe standing, in fact i actively support it when I can.
But having a display isn't the only thing going to help.
Restrictions like drinking in the stands are a big reason why people don't get involved.
It's probably not the right time to post this.
But don't ever tell me a 20,000+ single tiered stand behind a goal doesn't make a difference.
Regardless of what happened outside the ground, and to the City coach, the atmosphere inside Anfield was brilliant.
And it was started and driven by the KOP, with the 3 other stands joining in.
But don't ever tell me a 20,000+ single tiered stand behind a goal doesn't make a difference.
Regardless of what happened outside the ground, and to the City coach, the atmosphere inside Anfield was brilliant.
And it was started and driven by the KOP, with the 3 other stands joining in.
You don't need to drink to sing.
The fact that City actively leave the bars open close to and past kick off encourages fans to buy another drink and to stay on the concourse.
Unfortunately at City it's all about driving revenue, regardless of how that impacts on the atmosphere.
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I’ve suggested this before. If say £299 ST,s were sold with the caveat that 75% of all home games had to be attended (tkt through the turnstile) in order to qualify for the same price tkt the following season. Only people who knew they would be attending regularly would buy them unless they didn’t mind the price hike the following season. I would do this for all season tkts tbh.
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Horlicks !!
if you think there is empty seats now, try that vindictive approach.
and take that to its next step, all season ticket holders have to buy tickets for cup games, because empty seats mean you get teased by the nasty fans of other clubs. ahhhh didums you soft arsed shit
If its the atmosphere you are worried about, just fucking sing and its job done
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I agree, the other thing I would say is that all the lower level seats should be charged at £299, i'm sick to death of this emptyhead shit, we extended a stand into the heavens and reduced the prices to sit there, many people vacated their normal seat to take advantage of these prices. In effect we add 4000 extra seats and the crowd numbers increase but we see gaps in the lower levels that make it look like our crowds are shit.
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