Etihad Campus, Stadium and Collar Site Development Thread

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While I was at the game last Wednesday. I got talking to a OAP in the Colin Bell Stand and he said to me that he had heard that the club is thinking of building a 4th tier on the stand opposite the Colin Bell stand. So I was wondering if anybody has heard anything. This is supposed to be done after the extension to the North Stand has been completed. In about 3yrs + from now.
 
I think both East and West stands are both in the offing but understood it was a good 5 - 10 years away before work even starts. North 3rd tier to open commencing 2018-19 season.
 
Got into a argument with a guy at work, As the Etihad ever been only half full for a City game ? I can't think of a game that as had less then 25'000 ?
 
Bluep*ss said:
I believe that the Chinese have just found a map , centuries old , that proves that the "Silk Road " wound its way from Outer Mongolia , through Beswick ,
on its way to Macclesfield..............ha ha
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That's how we came to sign Barry Silkman!
 
TBooksbluearmy said:
While I was at the game last Wednesday. I got talking to a OAP in the Colin Bell Stand and he said to me that he had heard that the club is thinking of building a 4th tier on the stand opposite the Colin Bell stand. So I was wondering if anybody has heard anything. This is supposed to be done after the extension to the North Stand has been completed. In about 3yrs + from now.
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4th tier Think of the difficulties in doing this It would require a new roof all around the stadium the logistics of doing that are huge would probably require the stadium to be closed for a year whilst the old roof was removed and a new one built IMHO a new stadium would be cheaper and easier which is the course that should have been taken before extending the south stand.
 
kev20971 said:
Got into a argument with a guy at work, As the Etihad ever been only half full for a City game ? I can't think of a game that as had less then 25'000 ?
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The lowest league gate I can remember was 34000 plus for a Televised Monday night game against Watford under Stuart Pearce which finished 0-0. The Guy at work is talking shite.
 
Gordyola said:
4th tier Think of the difficulties in doing this It would require a new roof all around the stadium the logistics of doing that are huge would probably require the stadium to be closed for a year whilst the old roof was removed and a new one built IMHO a new stadium would be cheaper and easier which is the course that should have been taken before extending the south stand.
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Yeah but we could play our homes games at Oldham would be great then when people said Emptyhad they would have a point because it would be empty
 
TBooksbluearmy said:
While I was at the game last Wednesday. I got talking to a OAP in the Colin Bell Stand and he said to me that he had heard that the club is thinking of building a 4th tier on the stand opposite the Colin Bell stand. So I was wondering if anybody has heard anything. This is supposed to be done after the extension to the North Stand has been completed. In about 3yrs + from now.
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your answer is in the original planning app - there was a low res concept diagram showing all four stands extended and for the east and west it was just an extension upwards of the existing third tiers - i.e. NO fourth tier. The roof is not an issue as it is already clear (from the South Stand) that the existing roof will ultimately be removed and replaced
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kev20971 said:
Got into a argument with a guy at work, As the Etihad ever been only half full for a City game ? I can't think of a game that as had less then 25'000 ?
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I was one of the 19,578 that saw City thrash Barnsley 7-1 in the League Cup in 2004
http://www.11v11.com/matches/manchester-city-v-barnsley-21-september-2004-25700/
In front of 21,207 we got tonked by Arsenal in the next round where they had a very young Cesc Fabregas and Robin van Persie playing for them ISTR
 
DiscoSteve said:
your answer is in the original planning app - there was a low res concept diagram showing all four stands extended and for the east and west it was just an extension upwards of the existing third tiers - i.e. NO fourth tier. The roof is not an issue as it is already clear (from the South Stand) that the existing roof will ultimately be removed and replaced
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Bloody hell I can only just make it to the very top as it is! Where we like to sit and survey the world without some twat behind us. Oh to be 25 again!
 
17,200 in the UEFA Cup against Midgetland (or something like that) was, I believe, the lowest for a City first team match at The Etihad.

All league games have been well above 30,000.
 
Wilf Wild 1937 said:
17,200 in the UEFA Cup against Midgetland (or something like that) was, I believe, the lowest for a City first team match at The Etihad.

All league games have been well above 30,000.
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We've not had a league crowd below 30k since 1998. I think the lowest league crowd at the Etihiad is around 35-36k
 
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