North Stand Construction Discussion

goatinho said:
So your saying the ground was full?
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Saying it was sold out and in the stadium it looked 99.9% full as well.

Always gonna be a few who don’t turn up when it’s late Sunday and the weather is like this.

Very strange to go on the offensive about our fans and our plans after a game tbh.

Why didn’t you go?

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Sure it wasn’t your own empty seat?
 
HelloCity said:
Saying it was sold out and in the stadium it looked 99.9% full as well.

Always gonna be a few who don’t turn up when it’s late Sunday and the weather is like this.

Very strange to go on the offensive about our fans and our plans after a game tbh.

Why didn’t you go?

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Sure it wasn’t your own empty seat?
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I've had to come in work and someone always has my tickets so I'm not sure what your getting at? The same cant be said for others with the 100s of empty seats visible. I was shocked to see how many there were as I hardly ever watch on tv
 
goatinho said:
I've had to come in work and someone always has my tickets so I'm not sure what your getting at? The same cant be said for others with the 100s of empty seats visible. I was shocked to see how many there were as I hardly ever watch on tv
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Do you work at the MEN in the Red Pen department? ;)

There’ll always be people who can’t come at the last minute or just decide to watch it on telly (it’s still money saved on transport and drinks/food even if the ticket cost is lost). Especially if there’s kids involved, which invariably means the north stand is particularly noticeable for empty seats. They’ve been sold and that’s all that matters to the club.

And not everyone has mates or family to pass them onto at short notice.
 
jrb said:
I’ll try and keep it civil. ;-)

As a comparison to the NS expansion.

All the seats have been installed.

Anfield Road expansion.

2nd tier added.

Additional 7000 seats.

New Anfield capacity, 61,000.

View from the pitch. (click picture to enlarge)

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It does resemble a single tier in the picture even though it is 2 separate tiers. Whereas the the North stand will still look like two separate tiers.

Let’s be honest. The Anfield Road expansion won’t compare to the North stand expansion in any sense bar a similar increased capacity. It’s a bog standard looking expansion internally.
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So Liverpool still have no screens…. What’s their excuse now?
 
jrb said:
I’ll try and keep it civil. ;-)

As a comparison to the NS expansion.

All the seats have been installed.

Anfield Road expansion.

2nd tier added.

Additional 7000 seats.

New Anfield capacity, 61,000.

View from the pitch. (click picture to enlarge)

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It does resemble a single tier in the picture even though it is 2 separate tiers. Whereas the the North stand will still look like two separate tiers.

Let’s be honest. The Anfield Road expansion won’t compare to the North stand expansion in any sense bar a similar increased capacity. It’s a bog standard looking expansion internally.
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What's with the weird photoshopping?

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Citizen of Legoland said:
Do you work at the MEN in the Red Pen department? ;)

There’ll always be people who can’t come at the last minute or just decide to watch it on telly (it’s still money saved on transport and drinks/food even if the ticket cost is lost). Especially if there’s kids involved, which invariably means the north stand is particularly noticeable for empty seats. They’ve been sold and that’s all that matters to the club.

And not everyone has mates or family to pass them onto at short notice.
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Pal of mine, who's suffering from terminal cancer but still tries his up most to get to all home games had to sack it off last minute due to having a bad night. No time to use ticket exchange.
Goatinho is a wanker.
 
Citizen of Legoland said:
Do you work at the MEN in the Red Pen department? ;)

There’ll always be people who can’t come at the last minute or just decide to watch it on telly (it’s still money saved on transport and drinks/food even if the ticket cost is lost). Especially if there’s kids involved, which invariably means the north stand is particularly noticeable for empty seats. They’ve been sold and that’s all that matters to the club.

And not everyone has mates or family to pass them onto at short notice.
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There seems to be large groups all arrive at the same time in the family stand, I suspect City are passing tickets on to schools, junior football teams etc., which if I’m correct is to be applauded. On the other hand I suspect some of these groups don’t attend hence the empty seats in that stand. The family section needs moving to level 3 in my opinion.
 
LEXSTARproject said:
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I haven’t got an issue with school children getting tickets - that’s always happened. Why on earth are school kids from Australia getting large amounts of tickets like that though. *if it’s true. There are schools in the local area, full of city fans that don’t get any tickets..

They are chasing tourists and short term money over long term city fans too much in my opinion. We need a balance and it’s swaying too much one way.
 
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Cheadle_hulmeBlue said:
I haven’t got an issue with school children getting tickets - that’s always happened. Why on earth are school kids from Australia getting large amounts of tickets like that though. There are schools in the local area, full of city fans that don’t get any tickets..

They are chasing tourists and short term money over long term city fans too much in my opinion. We need a balance and it’s swaying too much one way.
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You don't really believe there were large amounts of Australian kids given tickets?
 
Gingers Dad said:
You don't really believe there were large amounts of Australian kids given tickets?
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I’m just going off the above picture. Probably not Australia, but it wouldnt be a surprise. the club give large amounts of tickets to school kids from Ireland and other places - usually at the top of east stand level 3 or the bottom corner of the family stand.
 
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The main problem is that they are some of the hardest seats to sell, due to how wet and cold it gets there at certain times of the year. So it’s either groups like these or empty seats. I used to sit in row L and gave it up for that very reason, nearly got pneumonia after one game. Plus you only see half the match.

It’s not really a family stand either. I was in there on Sunday for the first 30 mins and near my old seat everyone was adults.
 
This is a tipping point. The atmosphere has been killed by those at the club organising tickets - selling proper fans down the river to give fans of other clubs a nice day out !!

Tickets for this game were sold out months ago yet there hundreds of empty seats and now we hear hundreds occupied by international schools cheering the opposition !!! Never mind the thousands of other tourists all round the stadium.

Some consultant probably thinks the Aussie kids will become City fans the minute they get in the stadium - not singing fucking Spurs songs they won’t !

The sad thing is we have nobody to challenge the club on behalf of supporters.

The official supporters club do nothing cause they are worried about their own tickets.

1894 is good for flags and smoke bombs outside but not taken seriously by anybody at the club.

City Matters is just a tickbox exercise.

I wonder at games why any kid today would get hooked like we did when it’s like a fucking morgue every week.

Was reading yesterday that Barca - the worlds biggest tourist club are struggling with crowds this season - only 34k in their temporary stadium on Sunday - €120 euro tickets and tourists not fancying a trip to a shit stadium out of town.

Hopefully the dickheads in control of City tickets have taken notice.
 
Prophet of Doom said:
This is a tipping point. The atmosphere has been killed by those at the club organising tickets - selling proper fans down the river to give fans of other clubs a nice day out !!

Tickets for this game were sold out months ago yet there hundreds of empty seats and now we hear hundreds occupied by international schools cheering the opposition !!! Never mind the thousands of other tourists all round the stadium.

Some consultant probably thinks the Aussie kids will become City fans the minute they get in the stadium - not singing fucking Spurs songs they won’t !

The sad thing is we have nobody to challenge the club on behalf of supporters.

The official supporters club do nothing cause they are worried about their own tickets.

1894 is good for flags and smoke bombs outside but not taken seriously by anybody at the club.

City Matters is just a tickbox exercise.

I wonder at games why any kid today would get hooked like we did when it’s like a fucking morgue every week.

Was reading yesterday that Barca - the worlds biggest tourist club are struggling with crowds this season - only 34k in their temporary stadium on Sunday - €120 euro tickets and tourists not fancying a trip to a shit stadium out of town.

Hopefully the dickheads in control of City tickets have taken notice.
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They won’t all be Spurs fans in one group, just a few of them with a load of neutrals probably joining in. They’re only kids, people shouldn’t be getting riled up about it.
 
Citizen of Legoland said:
They won’t all be Spurs fans in one group, just a few of them with a load of neutrals probably joining in. They’re only kids, people shouldn’t be getting riled up about it.
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That’s the problem. Nobody is riled about it.

Nobody is arsed. The Liverpool game had scousers all round the stadium for a game sold out in August for City supporters that you needed a history of purchases to buy a ticket for.

Except of course for those spending £250 on a ticket a seasonticket holder has sold back then the club - which City ( or the agencies they use ) don’t give a fuck who they sell it to.

Then Spurs another game sold out months in advance for home supporters yet a fucking Australian school can bag as many tickets as they want.

We are being positioned as the tourist club of the Premier League and nobody is arsed.
 
Prophet of Doom said:
That’s the problem. Nobody is riled about it.

Nobody is arsed. The Liverpool game had scousers all round the stadium for a game sold out in August for City supporters that you needed a history of purchases to buy a ticket for.

Except of course for those spending £250 on a ticket a seasonticket holder has sold back then the club - which City ( or the agencies they use ) don’t give a fuck who they sell it to.

Then Spurs another game sold out months in advance for home supporters yet a fucking Australian school can bag as many tickets as they want.

We are being positioned as the tourist club of the Premier League and nobody is arsed.
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I suppose it depends on how this school got the tickets and why. For kids, in some of the worst seats, I don’t have too much of a problem. But I do agree with your concerns about how the club sell matchday tickets and season tickets too. I reckon all clubs are trying to maximise their income in all areas otherwise they risk falling foul of the daft FFP rules like Everton just have. Plus Manchester is becoming more of a tourist destination, and the club are exploiting that. Not sure we can stop that now.
 
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