City Voice - Name the stand

JoeMercer'sWay said:
I'd like Bell to be a one-off, I don't think it's right to name stands after former players really, because how do you pick 4 out of the greats we've had, I think it shows a favouritism and disregard for other star players.
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I agree. Had we named stands back in the 1930s there'd now be a Meredith, Doherty, Swift and maybe a Johnson or Brook stand. 20 years later we'd have had a Trautmann, Paul, Johnstone... in the 90s Kinkladze may even have won some votes (when I did Manchester the Greatest City we asked subscribers to name the greatest ever player - Bell won, but Kinkladze wasn't too far behind!). In 1923 fans wanted to name the new stadium after Lawrence Furniss, a former player, manager, director, chairman and 1st life president of MCFC... sounds worthy to me - but Furniss said something along the lines of 'no one should have this honour... the club is what's important'. I tend to agree with Furniss's words. Name lounges, streets, statues, gardens, bars etc. after players - or even seats (maybe an idea for the future?), but not the stands.

It's also worth saying that we have to be absolutely certain that any name that appears cannot become a negative in the future (think of scandals or success at our biggest rival as a manager for example).
 
If we have to rename the South Stand (and I don't think we should) how about the Gorton Stand or Gorton End - remembering our birth and also it is actually the end nearest Gorton (and you can see the old Fujitsu tower out of the back of the stand where our research shows our 1st pitch was, close to Thomas St and Clowes St)
 
The South stand has established it's own a strong identity and it should forever be known The South Stand. Also agree stands should not be named after players. It would be good to rename The East Stand, The Kippax without the word stand.
 
Bentheblue said:
The South stand has established it's own a strong identity and it should forever be known The South Stand. Also agree stands should not be named after players. It would be good to rename The East Stand, The Kippax without the word stand.
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How about the Cheap Stand?
 
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