North Stand Construction Discussion

[Bournemouth Blue]

You are right about all those things.

But fan engagement is either still very poor or doesn’t exist. That’s the decision the club took a long time ago. And that’s what they are sticking to.

If I was local these days I would probably be more sympathetic, but I am so far from Manchester now I have become a “tourist”, in the words of many on here, despite having been a fan of 58 years and a regular at Maine Road for half my adult life. But now I live in Bournemouth, who are also in the Premier League. I have a grandson mad on football, and he relies on his Dad paying for hospitality so he can watch them, the capacity is less than 12k, and the tickets are impossible to get except for friendlies and unattractive Carabao Cup home ties. So in effect, for every home game he and his Dad attend, they pay more than a Ticket for a City home game. I read somewhere that Leyton Orient sell out their home games every week, and they are in Division One. The big issue here is that the demand for tickets is outstripping supply, City’s owners would be mad not to follow the rules of economic success. Sad but true, blame the TV

 

[edgecroft]

Can we have a North Stand Expansion Construction Update Thread please and a different North Stand Expansion Ticketing thread please?

 

[PPT]

So if you choose or are unable to go to all 19 games,the club presumably have the right to sell your seat at an inflated price for those games ?

Yes.

 

[bluesmith]

So if you choose or are unable to go to all 19 games,the club presumably have the right to sell your seat at an inflated price for those games ?

Correct. You have a 3 day window to buy your seat approx 3 weeks before the game. If you don't its listed by the club.

 

[jrb]

Can we have a North Stand Expansion Construction Update Thread please and a different North Stand Expansion Ticketing thread please?

I did suggest that, but they were lumped together.

 

[big gaz]

Right, I'm following this thread now. This is going to be fun......off home soon and I'll get a nice glass of whisky after me tea and sit down. I'll get some gifs lined up.

What dram would that be malg ? just being a nosey git, got a Bunnah 12 c/s lined up for tonight :-)

 

[Bournemouth Blue]

Shame because now i have to wade through hundreds of posts saying the same thing in case I miss the latest progress on the actual build

 

[M18CTID]

Btw, the fact that the 1894 lot and their fanbase often use the words such boot licker to describe blues with a different opinion to theirs, should tell you that there is a big part of this which is a robin hood vanity crusade for them.

Seriously, are you still fucking going on about that? A different opinion? Come off it. A poster went on a completely unwarranted hate-filled vitriolic rant about 1894 and because @Manchester33 dared to ask if he was a bootlicker you ended up siding with the poster he questioned. Anyone with half a brain cell could see that the **** spouting that shite was deliberately causing trouble, yet you fell for it hook, line, and sinker. You want your fucking head testing mate.

 

[M18CTID]

Your words, not mine, re the 1894. But I do stand by what I said about their statement.

That post above, and their response are very different, let's not pretend to be dumb.

Look, I might be a bit of a git here and there, but I am not usually unreasonable. The fact I reacted to it like that, and the fact that a dozen or so generally level-headed blues agreed with me, I would say suggests their statement is actually open to being read like that, and rubbing people the wrong way.

It is easy to bang out cliches of 'standing up against a corporate machine' while avoiding the actual response.

I read it again today having slept on it. I see it the same way as I did yesterday, indulgently championing their conflict with the club, first and forememost.

There was fuck-all wrong with that statement. If anything, it was nowhere near as hard-hitting as it could’ve been. You’ve lost the plot.
Any opinion on Alex’s point that it’s going to be Flexi Gold season tickets only in the new stand? Or are you still spitting your dummy out about the 1894 statement and the timing of it? Speaking of which, what gives you the fucking right to tell 1894 or any other fucking group when they can or can’t release a statement?

 

[Coatigan]

Seriously, are you still fucking going on about that? A different opinion? Come off it. A poster went on a completely unwarranted hate-filled vitriolic rant about 1894 and because @Manchester33 dared to ask if he was a bootlicker you ended up siding with him. You want your fucking head testing mate.

If I 'sided' with anyone, it is because I would have agreed with their point and disagreed with the other.

But no I am not still going on about it, it was used just yesterday, in the context of defending their statement. And slagging the club off.

 

[M18CTID]

If I 'sided' with anyone, it is because I would have agreed with their point and disagreed with the other.

But no I am not still going on about it, it was used just yesterday, in the context of defending their statement. And slagging the club off.

Why, who used it yesterday?

 

[.db.]

The whole point of being a rep is that you put forward the views of others and not just your own.

Quite right. Literally what the word rep/representative means.

 

[Coatigan]

There was fuck-all wrong with that statement. If anything, it was nowhere near as hard-hitting as it could’ve been. You’ve lost the plot.
Any opinion on Alex’s point that it’s going to be Flexi Gold season tickets only in the new stand? Or are you still spitting your dummy out about the 1894 statement and the timing of it? Speaking of which, what gives you the fucking right to tell 1894 or any other fucking group when they can or can’t release a statement?

What gives me the right? They put it out on social media and in public. That's what gives me the right to comment on it and say what I think.

No opinion on the flexi ticket yet, will believe it when I see it.

If true, somewhat disappointing. But people are still finding ways to overreact. Given just yeaterday, they were assuming there would be no season ticket at all and it would all be sold to corparate and tourists, now they are outraged by the fact there will be plenty of (more expensive) seaon tickets. You would have thought someone would have spotted the irony. But hey, people can't get enough discontent at the club, it seems. Apart from the boot lickers, obviously.

 

[.db.]

Shame because now i have to wade through hundreds of posts saying the same thing in case I miss the latest progress on the actual build

A panel was taken out of a roof space and two screws put in a joist today. The lads on site had an early Friday finish and went to the Townley for a few before getting a chippy tea on the way home.

 

[Bournemouth Blue]

Sometimes I think there should be a room where people can lock themselves in and argue, whilst the rest of us can get on with admiring the new concrete and steelwork

 

[M18CTID]

What gives me the right? They put it out on social media and in public. That's what gives me the right to comment on it and say what I think.

No opinion on the flexi ticket yet, will believe it when I see it.

If true, somewhat disappointing. But people are atill finding ways to overreact. Given juat yeaterday, they were assuming there would be no season ticket at all and it would all he sold to corparate and tourists, now they are outraged by the fact there will be plenty of (more expensive) seaon tickets. You would have thought someone would have spotted the irony. But hey, people can't get enough discontent at the club, it seems. Apart from the boot lickers, obviously.

I never said you don’t have the right to comment on it. I said you’ve got no right to tell them when they can make a statement.

By the way, who said there would be no season tickets in the new stand? It wasn’t 1894.

Sounds like you don’t seem particularly arsed if it’s Flexi Gold only going off your post.

 

[malg]

What dram would that be malg ? just being a nosey git, got a Bunnah 12 c/s lined up for tonight :-)

Oh very nice. I'm on the Glenlivet tonight. Have a cheeky wee Macallan lined up for tomorrow.

Thought there would a bit of to and fro with the @moggymoz fella but it appears he has been thread banned. I don't look at this thread much so he may have wound people up previously as nothing he posted today appeared to be 'ban-able' material especially when you see half the stuff posted in Off Topic. Must be some thin skinned people in here.

 

[malg]

Sometimes I think there should be a room where people can lock themselves in and argue, whilst the rest of us can get on with admiring the new concrete and steelwork

Keeps it interesting though. The Matchday Thread is only good for people losing their shit.

 

[Coatigan]

I never said you don’t have the right to comment on it. I said you’ve got no right to tell them when they can make a statement.

By the way, who said there would be no season tickets in the new stand? It wasn’t 1894.

Sounds like you don’t seem particularly arsed if it’s Flexi Gold only going off your post.

I never told them when they can or can’t make a statement. I commented on a forum on how that looks or comes across.

It is not that I am not arsed. I just think there is a fair way to go yet, and the shock and horror is premature.

Ultimately the club could make half of them regular season tickets, and increase the season ticket price, and the result would still be the same. But till there is actual detail on that, I just don't have much to say on it.

 

[M18CTID]

I never told them when they can or can’t make a statement. I commented on a forum on how that looks or comes across.

It is not that I am not arsed. I just think there is a fair way to go yet, and the shock and horror is premature.

Ultimately the club could make half of them regular season tickets, and increase the season ticket price, and the result would still be the same. But till there is actual detail on that, I just don't have much to say on it.

Yet you have a lot to say about the 1894 statement. Ever thought that they might just know more than you but are bound by the NDA?