City to expand Etihad to 62,000?

[Bluep*ss]

How wrong you are pal, 30 odd years a season ticket holder my friend with a family history of blues back to 1884, and my post above is 110% bob on.!!

You meant to say S E Manchester.

Rem.Art.Mann................are you a closet rag? Seeing your location is Newton ..........Heath.
Just a thought.!

 

[supercity88]

I've got to say after reading all the stuff about the stadium I was really excited. But after reading the last two pages of this thread I could not be more unenthusiastic. How good news like this has been turned into the most mind numbingly boring maps of red v blue dots, I do not know.

I couldn't care less where the fans are coming to the games from. Clearly we will attract fans from all over in the coming years, it is necessary to ensure we are at the top of the footballing pyramid. But my god can we look at some pictures of the stadium and concentrate on the fun parts instead!

 

[Shirley]

regarding the people worrying about not being able to fill the ground for "lesser" games and being constantly reminded by opposition fans that we cant fill the ground at 48,000 let alone over 60,000, then we could do what happens in the Millenium stadium down here. The top games always sell out at 74,000, but when crowd attendance is expected to be around the 40-50,000 mark, then the top tier is not opened for that game. Hence the two bottom tiers are full and with clever use of the tv cameras, the empty top tier is not shown and therefore the ground looks pretty full.

Just a thought if offering cheaper tickets still doesnt fill up the ground?

Please dont shout at me.

You must be a nervous wreck my friend :-) Some said we'd never fill the CoM stadium after moving from Maine Road, but we filled it immediately. It's only because we became utter shite that numbers dropped off again.

This season I had no chance of a Barca ticket despite being a paying blue member. After being number 5800 in the internet queue it sold out. nearly all league games sell out well before the day of the game.

Plus get a feel for the immense growth our execs are putting in - we've been expecting this expansion for absolutely ages and I'll bet right now we sell out at each stage of completion as our growth powers away.

The only variable it that we actually start winning things - but then again how many people who've said over the years 'I support so-and-so because I love the way they play'?

How we've maintained so many supporters over the years is one of the wonders of the world, many years of NOBODY around the country choosing City, all some other bugger. Now we will reap the rewards of being a successful club again in the support base. When I moved to Cornwall from Manchester in 1968 there were a good few kids supported City by choice. When my kids went through school the only ones were the children of us, from that generation - those who had managed to maintain their kids in the faith!


That is all changing.

This is a very interesting and relevant point. I would argue that in Manchester and the surrounding area, we've lost a whole generation of younger fans to United in the past 20 years or so on account of them being hugely successful on the pitch and us being largely, ahem, shite at the same time. I'm not talking about the ones who had family that supported City or United and therefore had a natural path to follow but all those that went to school who had parents and family that weren't arsed about football and hence weren't swayed by peer pressure. I doubt whether any kid in those circumstances would choose City while United were winning everything and to be honest you could hardly blame them.

Nowadays it's totally different and we're not only contenders for trophies but are currently streets ahead of them on the pitch and as such I'd expect us to hoover up a lot more of the young local fans that don't have strong family allegiances to either club compared to just a few years ago.

Without doubt we did lose a whole generation of younger fans during those years, some I'm sure also from Blue families.
Credit must be given to the formation of the Junior Blues during the 70's which kept our support strong, Big Mal I understand was one of people behind that.
We must also appreciate what the club are currently doing with affordable junior season tickets, I don't see too many juniors at the swamp, Anfield or Highbury.

 

[somapop]

Are we expecting anything from the club (via the OS) today, or was that just a rumour?
Not quite sure what else they can say/show given the images already out there...a nice CGI fly through might brighten up this otherwise sodden Friday.

 

[Pelly Greeny]

So another 10,000 -15,000 season ticket holders?

Anyone who wants a pretty much guaranteed Cup Final ticket and are on 5 or 6 thousand loyalty points had better get on Platinum and make sure they stay ahead of the pack. With a 1,000 starting bonus and 600- 700+ points a season easily achievable these ST holders who already have a few points on their Blue Members card could soon catch the Gold stragglers up.

You have been warned ;-)

 

[CatMan]

Are we expecting anything from the club (via the OS) today, or was that just a rumour?
Not quite sure what else they can say/show given the images already out there...a nice CGI fly through might brighten up this otherwise sodden Friday.

A nice CGI fly through, Top Idea.

It's a great time to be Blue.

 

[fbloke]

Are we expecting anything from the club (via the OS) today, or was that just a rumour?
Not quite sure what else they can say/show given the images already out there...a nice CGI fly through might brighten up this otherwise sodden Friday.

No rumour, Chris Bailey said it would be on the site today.

 

[Mayor West]

I've got to say after reading all the stuff about the stadium I was really excited. But after reading the last two pages of this thread I could not be more unenthusiastic. How good news like this has been turned into the most mind numbingly boring maps of red v blue dots, I do not know.

I couldn't care less where the fans are coming to the games from. Clearly we will attract fans from all over in the coming years, it is necessary to ensure we are at the top of the footballing pyramid. But my god can we look at some pictures of the stadium and concentrate on the fun parts instead!

Exactly what i thought. Why people on here have felt the need to clog a decent thread with that shit is beyond me.

 

[blueparrot]

Are we expecting anything from the club (via the OS) today, or was that just a rumour?
Not quite sure what else they can say/show given the images already out there...a nice CGI fly through might brighten up this otherwise sodden Friday.

No rumour, Chris Bailey said it would be on the site today.

Around 4.00 pm seems to be a favoured time for that kind of thing on the o/s, not sure why unless it's to tie in with various time zones.<br /><br />-- Fri Feb 14, 2014 3:06 pm --<br /><br />

Are we expecting anything from the club (via the OS) today, or was that just a rumour?
Not quite sure what else they can say/show given the images already out there...a nice CGI fly through might brighten up this otherwise sodden Friday.

No rumour, Chris Bailey said it would be on the site today.

Around 4.00 pm seems to be a favoured time for that kind of thing on the o/s, not sure why unless it's to tie in with various time zones.

 

[adr2.8i]

I've got to say after reading all the stuff about the stadium I was really excited. But after reading the last two pages of this thread I could not be more unenthusiastic. How good news like this has been turned into the most mind numbingly boring maps of red v blue dots, I do not know.

I couldn't care less where the fans are coming to the games from. Clearly we will attract fans from all over in the coming years, it is necessary to ensure we are at the top of the footballing pyramid. But my god can we look at some pictures of the stadium and concentrate on the fun parts instead!

Exactly what i thought. Why people on here have felt the need to clog a decent thread with that shit is beyond me.

im afraid i must hold my head in shame for i started all this off by asking a question out of curiosity.
Maybe these last few pages could be deleted by the mods?