Fuck off. I'm in EL3 near the away fans and it's bad enough as it is with the tourists and their bags of souvenir spends. I need the ability to use most swear words known to man at each home game, which we get as the away fans are so close.Dedicating an entire stand to 'families' is daft. Move them up to East stand tier 3, develop the North stand as a single tier, all-standing, 50% season card and 50% £30 pay on the day.
They do want to move the Family Stand but the problem is where they move it to.
Would be a logistical nightmare to allocation people, most won’t want to move the only way I see it happening is if redevelopment ever happens I guess the only option would be to do it over timeThey do want to move the Family Stand but the problem is where they move it to.
if they hadn’t had made thousands of seats unavailable (corporate/ seat removals) they’d have plenty of choice.
So the hundreds of people who do not show in SSL 3 can then be relocated to be no shows in the Family Stand instead….The family stand is just too big and kills the energy in the stadium, it's time it was shifted to the upper tier wings, that end needs to dedicating to younger supporters,and made affordable, no disrespect to the regulars in there, but it just looks shite with the hundreds of no shows, a little bit of vision would work wonders for the whole atmosphere
Posted that earlier on. Not to mention taking out 1000’s of seats for larger advertising boards around the perimeter of the pitch.
So the hundreds of people who do not show in SSL 3 can then be relocated to be no shows in the Family Stand instead….
My best days of watching City were probably aged 14-18. No adults involved. Most of us old timers are on the way out. It's only kids that will liven the place up.So in other words, a kids stand with no adults? Would be even worse than it is now
It's a good idea, but the club dont allow under 14s to attend on their own, imagine the number of youngsters who would love to attend but can't due to cost circumstances and rules, I wOuld make it
It's a good idea, but the club dont allow under 14s to attend on their own, imagine the number of youngsters who would love to attend but can't due to cost circumstances and rules
Completely agree about the pricing. Liverpool charge £9 for kids. I'm very keen that we encourage kids to attend regularly, as they'll be the future season card holders.
The question is, what does having the Family Stand do for kids above sticking them all over the ground? I guess it's a safe space mainly but the club's idea is to have a self-contained space that they can configure to be attractive to kids. That's going to be hard to find. The club originally suggested EL3 but it was pointed out that kids don't want to be stuck up there; they want to be close to the pitch and players. So the other alternative is to move it 'round the corner' to the corner of NS 1/EL102/3 area.
I guess a lot will depend on what we're ultimately going to do with the North
So the hundreds of people who do not show in SSL 3 can then be relocated to be no shows in the Family Stand instead….
My best days of watching City were probably aged 14-18. No adults involved. Most of us old timers are on the way out. It's only kids that will liven the place up.
it’s their own fault. They’ve focused so much on corporates we’ve ended up with patchwork of normal / empty areas. Making south stand level 2 corporate is the most bizarre one for me. Should be a singing area that connects all three tiers. Instead it’s half empty, especially after half time.
Been saying this since the day it opened as the Family Stand. It was a terrible idea to create the stand in this form and it’s been a terrible stand for far too long now.The family stand is just too big and kills the energy in the stadium, it's time it was shifted to the upper tier wings, that end needs to dedicating to younger supporters,and made affordable, no disrespect to the regulars in there, but it just looks shite with the hundreds of no shows, a little bit of vision would work wonders for the whole atmosphere
It’s by far a bigger issue in the family stand then any other part of the ground. It’s regularly not full and large numbers of people in there aren't going.It is not an issue confined to the North Stand, the East and West are just as bad.
When the club does things like create a singing section around 111/112, it was just to the detriment of the organic singing section in the rest of the South Stand.
How do those young adults get so many tickets for away games if they never go to home games?its not kids that will liven the place up. They wouldn’t be going without parents anyway.
it’s young adults - 18-30, who we need in the ground. Away games and cup games there’s loads of them, league games barely any, as most can’t afford it.
make the family stand into a home end and have a 18-30 category tickets that’s say £350 and it would change our entire ground and atmosphere