It's the club that started the ' legacy fan ' nonsense not the fans
North Stand Construction Discussion
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Norman kneejerk
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It's true you never knew what to expect at MR.
Me and my dad used to park on Hart Road off Wilbraham Road, near the Fallowfield pub but some weeks even Wilbraham Rd was already full out of the blue and you knew it was a bumper crowd !
I know that’s why I said it in inverted commas. By legacy fan I mean the people who have attended for years don’t spend much on the day, watch the match and go home. The club doesn’t like this type of fan because they don’t spend as much money, but you ignore them at your peril, if they all go it all collapses.
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They may have ,but a few on here use it.
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Your self blowing trumpet is in the post from Khaldoon....Marahaba !!
Unfortunately I didn’t keep my York away ticket. Not only because of it’s sentimental value, because it’s a collectors item and it’s worth some money, but mainly to prove I went to York away. :-)
I’ve never called myself a legacy fan either. As others have pointed out, the club are calling us legacy fans. Or a G fan. Or a G+ fan, which I might try and become one day. ;-) How about the club just call us City fans? We don’t need to be divided and categorised by G, G+ , etc. Just a City fan will do. Thank you City marketing department.
No MR wasn’t always full, the numerous videos of matches in the past at MR prove that.
But when City went down into the 3rd division.
City's average attendance in the 1998/99 season was a remarkable 28,261, while their sizeable travelling support were a boost to coffers of clubs all over the division. "We broke records everywhere we went," Royle recalled. "Clubs welcomed us with open arms and then set about trying to beat us.
MR‘s capacity at the time was 32,500.
Gary James.
That’s not to shabby for a team that was in the 3rd division, was struggling for the 1st part of the season, was mid table after the York City defeat, and when football was on it’s arse due to the hooligans ;-) and all the trouble.
Us older fans started going by bus. We couldnt afford programmes so never had vouchers from them required to qualify for the big all ticket games even with 50-60k+ attendances when the average was nearer 30k.
We were all scoreboard end, pay at the gate fans who watched the crap games - yep, I was one of the the Swindon 8k crowd. Now as a FOC living far outside Manchester, even as a member of a supporters club, my only realistic way of a direct purchase for a match day ticket at the Etihad is by way of a hospitality package plus travel costs to Manchester. It has been that way for years and easier to watch away games.
I watched City from all parts Maine Road. Platt Lane was dead apart from Helen's bell, main stand full of moaners with the others good on their day. The days of Gene Kelly gave atmosphere a boost.
The Etihad is a great stadium. The North Stand development will be a great addition to raise it to elite status to match the team. Of course the matchday experience and atmosphere is at the heart of attending a game. As one who attended away games at the likes of Oxford, Wycombe and at home v Stockport, I would not swap.
I am delighted that the North Stand will be an extended 2 tier. I agree about making it fan friendly however what is to say that those at the front of tier 2 should have a privileged position over others without paying a premium? Singing auditions? Why should they ever move away in the future?
No-one disagrees with the sentiments of creating a better atmosphere. How long before it becomes an entitled privilege for those fans to have the best seats if there is no differentiation? Solutions for some parties creates problems for others. City is a business that needs to resolve the dilemma between economics and conflicting interests.
Me? I am in favour of anything that improves the matchday atmosphere/experience. Our owners have bought unprecedented success. If you do not like it then withdraw your support. Personally as a long standing supporter, there is nothing I would take as better than has been given by our owners from any other football club.
You only have to compare MCFC and CFG with the rags and their owners.
We must continue to trust that we are in good hands and accept you aint gonna please everyone and no solutions are perfect. By all means make views known.
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Well said, I had a few snarky comments because I can’t get to the vast majority of home games as a pensioner that lives on the south coast, but I supported City during the lean years and shouted for Swailes to go along with the true Blues. Without that we might not have even had a club to sell any more
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I’ve got mine :-)
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Well said sir! I am doffing my hat to you as i write........I will join the ranks of 'pensioners' in June of this year and hope to retire in June 2025!
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Mate Feck Em !! I live a mile and half away and can't go because of health reasons, I'm 66 know and hoping to one day attend again, I was there in the late 60s' and never missed a game except abroad in the 70s, 80s and 90s.
I was stood proudly shoulder to shoulder with you blue and many thousands of others, we earnt our stripes mate and snide comments can't take them away.
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My grandson is 9 and has been going to dirty Lids since the age of 6....up,down,down,up.
The singing,chanting and atmosphere is THE most enjoyable part of the day cos there is no 'kids matchday experience', it comes from the atmosphere !!
you better stay in the concourse if you like the singing and chanting. Me I like watching football.
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Me too....have you understood the context of my initial reply ?
Reading comments on here and the expansion thread. Would we have been better creating an exhibit centre instead of the Arena and then down the line turning the stadium into an Arena and building a new stadium with a higher capacity 100,000 instead of 60,000 -70,000 ?
We’ve got Manchester Central or GMEX as us FOC’s still remember it. Event City has now gone, so you could argue another large exhibition venue in Manchester could be busy and viable. Birmingham has the NEC which pretty much hoovers up all the big national exhibitions. London has Earls Court. I sincerely hope whatever is planned for the Collar site is more interesting and exciting than an exhibition centre.
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A new 65,000 capacity stadium costs over £1billion. We don’t need a new 100,000 capacity stadium. We’d never fill it. Putting a retractable roof on the Etihad stadium and fitting it out into an indoor arena would cost £100millions. I know Sheikh Mansour is rich, but even he couldn’t justify spending £1.5 bill on a new stadium and converting the Etihad into an indoor arena.
