Glass Tunnel now taking shape

posted this in the stadium expansion thread - more appropriate here...

Those who remember the fan survey in 2012 will remember the 8 grand (plus vat) ultimate ticket option...
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Well this is what the new walls are for and they give the fans four years notice it was coming!
 
DiscoSteve said:
posted this in the stadium expansion thread - more appropriate here...

Those who remember the fan survey in 2012 will remember the 8 grand (plus vat) ultimate ticket option...
2012surveycolinbelllevel1.jpg

Well this is what the new walls are for and they give the fans four years notice it was coming!
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I think most fans were aware of the general idea, but £480 a game will take the ideal mix of the very rich and very stupid to fill.

For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, but loses his soul?
 
DiscoSteve said:
posted this in the stadium expansion thread - more appropriate here...

Those who remember the fan survey in 2012 will remember the 8 grand (plus vat) ultimate ticket option...
2012surveycolinbelllevel1.jpg

Well this is what the new walls are for and they give the fans four years notice it was coming!
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Very interesting post

The disruption to fans is very similar to how it was for fans from to 212 etc in ES Level 2 a couple of years ago. There was an interim breeze block wall and a bar was closed.

City are intenr on having the best possible corporate services and this increases the disruption for fans (even if years of notice is given).

It reminds me a bit of the Swales days (in attitude but at a very different scale of investment) when the programme had a feature on how the replacement Platt Lane reflected a though investigation into the best corporate facilities in all sports ground across the Country.
 
kenny1312 said:
I'm in 127, being kicked out at the end of the season. Since the 1st day we moved in I've drunk with my mate who's in 124 at the bar near him. No more, the Berlin wall's been put up. When me and my 83 year old dad, who's been going since 1940 , get kicked out of our seats at the end of the season we've been told we can get really good seats on the 3rd tier. He's eighty fucking three !!!
If the club could get rid of all supporters and replace them with 54,000 corporate they would, as would every club in the country. They don't give a fuck about us, it's all about the bottom line.
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Sadly, you are absolutely correct!
 
I sit in 127, I wasn't at the match at the weekend but I hear it was a nightmare. I'm always one to embrace change and accept things move with the times - the corporate changes at City are probably just bringing us in-line with other major clubs in the UK - but I can't help feel City have messed up on this one. It's honestly not down to the fact it affects me, to be honest I might enjoy being in level 3, I've often felt too close to the pitch to really enjoy the tactical side of the game which you need more of a bird's eye view for, it's the lack of consultation or empathy towards elder fans (who shouldn't be moved to the third tier) or regular fans who meet up with others from blocks 125 and down and can no longer do so is a trait befitting of a corporate club like United. The direction the clubs going is certainly alienating a lot of regulars and it's a shame the club is treating it's fans this way. City do a hell of a lot right and I'm not naive enough to think the owners aren't going to start to want to reap the financial rewards to their huge investment but this situation could have been handled a lot better.
 
A simple thing city could have done is just state if the wall is a permanent fixture or is just temporary while works take place.
Would have made life simpler for everyone
 
bugsyblue said:
I sit in 127, I wasn't at the match at the weekend but I hear it was a nightmare. I'm always one to embrace change and accept things move with the times - the corporate changes at City are probably just bringing us in-line with other major clubs in the UK - but I can't help feel City have messed up on this one. It's honestly not down to the fact it affects me, to be honest I might enjoy being in level 3, I've often felt too close to the pitch to really enjoy the tactical side of the game which you need more of a bird's eye view for, it's the lack of consultation or empathy towards elder fans (who shouldn't be moved to the third tier) or regular fans who meet up with others from blocks 125 and down and can no longer do so is a trait befitting of a corporate club like United. The direction the clubs going is certainly alienating a lot of regulars and it's a shame the club is treating it's fans this way. City do a hell of a lot right and I'm not naive enough to think the owners aren't going to start to want to reap the financial rewards to their huge investment but this situation could have been handled a lot better.
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Agreed, but dont you think that the club were just going through the motions with consultations such as the south stand expansion, the badge etc? I always thought they knew what they were going to do no matter what anyone said anyway, and one or two of the badge designs on here were better in my opinion that what we ended up with. At least the glass wall will avoid Wenger getting hit with a Pizza- or its a la carte equivalent!
If/When the north stand expansion goes ahead i can see the new third tier becoming the family stand and all level 2 (apart from the south stand) becoming corporate as they are the premium seats. East and west level 2 has gone this way already in the main so we shouldnt be surprised at more upheaval.
 
DiscoSteve said:
posted this in the stadium expansion thread - more appropriate here...

Those who remember the fan survey in 2012 will remember the 8 grand (plus vat) ultimate ticket option...
2012surveycolinbelllevel1.jpg

Well this is what the new walls are for and they give the fans four years notice it was coming!
Click to expand...

i really dont get where city think all these corporate fans will come from, we do not have that type of fan base. this is city being greedy and pricing out/ cleansing out poorer fans. the whole 2nd tier, soon to be be level colin bell will be corporate and half empty. we are becoming like united.
 
In 201 we've been waiting for the chop (or mahoosive price rise) ever since the squishy seats were fitted in 2011 - it would appear we may get away with it because of what is mooted in the way of corporate provision (or lack of it) in the North Stand Expansion - but even if we weren't it wouldn't stop me going, I'd just move somewhere else (and probably save a stack of cash) - the club has changed massively over the last 10 or more years, we have to live with it I'm afraid...
 
Corporate is the way of the world I'm afraid. It's a bit like a wet fart, you know its coming and you are sure as hell not going to stop it.

The best you can do is take evasive action by moving to the best option available before it engulfs you...staying ahead of the game is the way forward.
 
worsleyweb said:
Level 2 is very low level corporate for the most part.
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Do you nosh Khaldoon off or something?

You seem to think that everything the club does is fantastic, you slate long-term fans off for being angry at the changes affecting them and their family/friends and have a pop at them for having the temerity to criticise the club for doing things that are questionable to say the least.

I've seen you in the past shrug your shoulders and accept the huge rises in season ticket costs for some, maybe you are happy with everything the club does, but stop being so myopic and accept others have different views, everybody has different circumstances, I think it's disgusting the club hasn't found a solution for friends/family to sit together again, after disrupting the 'modus operandi' by making certain sections corporate.

None of this has affected me, but the club is not beyond reproach, especially when they always spout the line about us, the 'supporters' being hugely important to the club, it's obviously bullshit as the line should say 'wealthy supporters'.

Despite the amazing upturn in fortune for the club I love and support, I find myself becoming more and more distant from it as each season passes.

It won't take much more for me to give up my season ticket.
 
Bilboblue said:
Do you nosh Khaldoon off or something?

You seem to think that everything the club does is fantastic, you slate long-term fans off for being angry at the changes affecting them and their family/friends and have a pop at them for having the temerity to criticise the club for doing things that are questionable to say the least.

I've seen you in the past shrug your shoulders and accept the huge rises in season ticket costs for some, maybe you are happy with everything the club does, but stop being so myopic and accept others have different views, everybody has different circumstances, I think it's disgusting the club hasn't found a solution for friends/family to sit together again, after disrupting the 'modus operandi' by making certain sections corporate.

None of this has affected me, but the club is not beyond reproach, especially when they always spout the line about us, the 'supporters' being hugely important to the club, it's obviously bullshit as the line should say 'wealthy supporters'.

Despite the amazing upturn in fortune for the club I love and support, I find myself becoming more and more distant from it as each season passes.

It won't take much more for me to give up my season ticket.
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Go now!! fucking hell get a grip!
 
DiscoSteve said:
In 201 we've been waiting for the chop (or mahoosive price rise) ever since the squishy seats were fitted in 2011 - it would appear we may get away with it because of what is mooted in the way of corporate provision (or lack of it) in the North Stand Expansion - but even if we weren't it wouldn't stop me going, I'd just move somewhere else (and probably save a stack of cash) - the club has changed massively over the last 10 or more years, we have to live with it I'm afraid...
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Sorry to be the bringer of bad tidings but it very likely that the North side of ES Level 2 and Corporate Level 2 will be corporatised. It's the North Stand that won't have corporae seats.

As Worsley and others have said, the corlirate seats help to pay for the expansion under the Club's existing business model
 
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