Wilf Wild 1937
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Who were the sceptics? Name, names.
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Who were the sceptics? Name, names.
trotsky
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They should do. But it may depend on how many tickets the away team request. The bottom tier will hold the most, 1500ish at a guess, with 500 in 2 and 1000 in 3. If a team only wanted 1500 (as often happened last season) , I hope City give them 2 & 3 rather than the seats near the pitch where they may have an influence.If the the away fans dont take up all the allocation will they just have the 2nd tier and top tier?
Chris in London
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Good. It's about bloody time. It is our stadium. They just happen to come along once a year to visit. You don't have a mate come round and stay at your house once a year and give him your nice King Size bed in your nice bedroom, you shove him in the box room on the pull-out bed and he doesn't fucking moan about it as he's just a guest.
Away fans were given pride of place, bang in the prime camera spot, splitting our singing sections up, making it hard for us [the home team in our own stadium] to get an atmosphere going for 12 fucking years! It's about time that changed.
Like i never moan about away sections at other grounds - because i have no right to - they should shut up about our new away section set-up.
Spot on. I thought on Sunday Chelsea's support was quite diluted in comparison to previous seasons. Obviously as the game went on the match situation helped, but splitting up their hardcore a bit more must be a good thing.
They more they moan about it, the more effective it is.
Millwallawayveteran1988
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They should do. But it may depend on how many tickets the away team request. The bottom tier will hold the most, 1500ish at a guess, with 500 in 2 and 1000 in 3. If a team only wanted 1500 (as often happened last season) , I hope City give them 2 & 3 rather than the seats near the pitch where they may have an influence.
More than 1000 in tier 3. I reckon they will either get tier 1/2 or all 3. Can't see them having home fans directly below the away fans.
Forget all this fiddling about trying to fit a few hundred seats in they should just crack on and get the North stand extended.
As squirtyflower says a whole row of seats were moved from the new stand. One was mine, which meant me seating in the main stand for the chelsea game
Blue Maverick
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I know the capacity is 55000, stupid question but is that once segregation is taken into account? Last year they had netting on the seats is that the same now, if so we could never actually achieve full capacity.
Millwallawayveteran1988
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I know the capacity is 55000, stupid question but is that once segregation is taken into account? Last year they had netting on the seats is that the same now, if so we could never actually achieve full capacity.
The segregation is virtually non existent by the looks of some pictures I have seen. City fans were literally 6 foot away from Chelsea fans with a metal bar in between them and a few stewards. They will need to look at this for the more spicy games.
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I'm not that sad to remember who they were but a sizeable chunk of posters on here were posting anti-expansion stuff. Mainly their arguments being that 47k was just right for us as we don't sell out for cup games. My argument was just build it as big as possible and price it right.Who were the sceptics? Name, names.
franksinatra
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I'm not that sad to remember who they were but a sizeable chunk of posters on here were posting anti-expansion stuff. Mainly their arguments being that 47k was just right for us as we don't sell out for cup games. My argument was just build it as big as possible and price it right.
I am still a bit sceptical about the expansion of the North Stand. Hopefully the club will introduce a waiting list, to gauge demand, which should give a clearer picture if it is required.
The club is in unchartered territories in relation to attendances and also consideration has to be given to our clubs legacy. This country and europe is full of stadiums half empty where clubs over-sold themselves without growing the fan base successfully. There is nothing less appealing than stadiums half empty such as Wigans, Boro etc. Being part of a full stadium. In itself generates demand. Over the course of this season we will have a better idea.
DiscoSteve
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I think they already have that waiting list http://www.mcfc.co.uk/tickets/waiting-listI am still a bit sceptical about the expansion of the North Stand. Hopefully the club will introduce a waiting list, to gauge demand, which should give a clearer picture if it is required.