Etihad Campus, Stadium and Collar Site Development Thread

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blueparrot said:
It probably depends a lot on whether they can do a single tier without needing to close the stand. I doubt they could, but they probably could do a single second tier version.
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That's true. There's no way they could manage it in the off season.
 
jrb said:
The view from where I was stood.

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I'm 2 rows in front of you there jrb.

One little thing I noticed which gives an idea of how rushed there were to get everything ready for the game is this...

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The rows were labelled differently at each end too. I'm sure they'll sort it soon.
 
Manchester_lalala said:
I'd love to see the Colin bell and east stand to be rebuilt like the south stand, with just a little gap for the two screens in between each stand. Then the North stand to have one big tier. I think leaving a gap in between the west, South and Colin bell stands would give our stadium an identity which isn't seen in football, all other modern stadiums are the same old bowl shape which gets a bit repetitive. The North stand would look fantastic, I wouldn't mind seeing a millennium stadium type stand.
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Personally I like the bowl shaped stadium, when you think of the best stadiums, all are nearly bowl shaped with about 3 tiers. Always thought the Millennium Stadium look's a bit strange with the 2 tiered stand at one end, I think what give's a stadium a wow factor is size, like the New Camp or the Bernabeu. Doing the outside right also helps ie
Allianz Arena.
 
The two tiered stand in the millennium stadium is also known as Glanmors gap, named after the then president of the WRU who messed the stadium up, by falling out with Cardiff Rugby who own the stadium attached to it. The millennium was supposed to be another bowled shaped stadium but Cardiff wouldn't allow one of their stands to be knocked down in the building of the millennium stadium. being a Welsh rugby fan i've always found that stand to be a embarrisment, where our union were so inept that we ended up with a Only 80% complete stadium, with a capacity of less than 2.5k than it was intended to hold. Luckily the owners at City are levels ahead in their professionalism and I have no doubt when all the future expansions of the Etihad are complete it will be something spectacular.
 
This has probably been asked before BUT can anyone (Worsley?) tell me how the capacity of each stand is made up. e.g We now know that SS level 3 is 6300 give or take some.
Before expansion - NS 8,700 - SS 8,700 - CB 15,000 - ES 15,000 = 47,400. Now SS must be 15,000 giving capacity to be say 54,000 or a bit more. (yesterday 54,331).
What I was wondering was how the away fans are split. Level 1 say 1,200 - Level 2 say 1,300 and Level 3 say 500. Maybe the club have issued capacity of each level in each stand - in the past. Anyone know?.
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Bluep*ss said:
This has probably been asked before BUT can anyone (Worsley?) tell me how the capacity of each stand is made up. e.g We now know that SS level 3 is 6300 give or take some.
Before expansion - NS 8,700 - SS 8,700 - CB 15,000 - ES 15,000 = 47,400. Now SS must be 15,000 giving capacity to be say 54,000 or a bit more. (yesterday 54,331).
What I was wondering was how the away fans are split. Level 1 say 1,200 - Level 2 say 1,300 and Level 3 say 500. Maybe the club have issued capacity of each level in each stand - in the past. Anyone know?.
Thanks......
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I think your level 2 and 3 figures would be the other way round looking at it on Sunday. No way we're there 1300 Chelsea in level 2
 
bluwes said:
I think your level 2 and 3 figures would be the other way round looking at it on Sunday. No way we're there 1300 Chelsea in level 2
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OK - thanks for that - I was sat in the CB stand and could not see the segregation very clearly.
 
I had to write on this thread because it is 22 hours since any comment - and it moves the thread up the Bluemoon topics. - oh oh!.
Will this thread now "die out" until jrb starts his photo album on the Expanded North Stand.
 
Bluep*ss said:
I had to write on this thread because it is 22 hours since any comment - and it moves the thread up the Bluemoon topics. - oh oh!.
Will this thread now "die out" until jrb starts his photo album on the Expanded North Stand.
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It now turns to speculation over what the North Stand may look like. Though other options may be explored, it seems logical that we'll match the South Stand design to ensure minimal impact on matchday crowds. We will see though. Judging by the engineer's CV he's the perfect man to be involved.
 
Are we going to have the screens back up in the south stand this season anyone know?

I take it that it's possible if the north stand expansion is of the same type.
 
CitizenTID said:
Are we going to have the screens back up in the south stand this season anyone know?

I take it that it's possible if the north stand expansion is of the same type.
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Someone wrote on this thread that one of the screens in the North Stand is being moved to one of the corners of the South Stand - so I assume we'll end up with a screen in opposing corners
 
Have to say I'm slightly disappointed we have no news yet on the collar site and what might be going on there. I love the fact that the stadium is being expanded and the fantastic updates we get off jrb, worsleyweb etc. But for me the collar site is the crown jewel in terms of profile, ffp/income etc. I do hope we get some kind of announcement in parallel with the news of the North Stand expansion and its not left as late as the East/Colin Bell stand expansion.
 
supercity88 said:
It now turns to speculation over what the North Stand may look like. Though other options may be explored, it seems logical that we'll match the South Stand design to ensure minimal impact on matchday crowds. We will see though. Judging by the engineer's CV he's the perfect man to be involved.
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Been meaning to post on this all week, I was out on Saturday night and was chatting to a lad who was a mate of a mate of a mate, and he happens to work for City in some marketing capacity.

Anyhoo, after seeing @worsleyweb's comment earlier that day about the north stand expansion being one tier, I asked him if it was true and he laughed, looking a bit shocked and asked "how the fuck do you know that?!"
 
geoffo said:
Been meaning to post on this all week, I was out on Saturday night and was chatting to a lad who was a mate of a mate of a mate, and he happens to work for City in some marketing capacity.

Anyhoo, after seeing @worsleyweb's comment earlier that day about the north stand expansion being one tier, I asked him if it was true and he laughed, looking a bit shocked and asked "how the fuck do you know that?!"
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I've repeated that story about one tier to other people who hear snippets from within the club and somebody had already told them too.
 
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