Do you think we need a proper name for COMS?

[felixbg]

Maine Road

 

[scall11]

The Beswick Terrordome?

 

[Dubai Blue]

The Blue Camp

Get a grip of yourself... silly childish name

the name is City of Manchester Stadium.. commonly known as Eastlands... over the coming decade the name Eastlands will be the preferred term... same as with Arsenal's old ground (not actually called Highbury) and West ham (not actually called Upton Park)

WH is The Boylen, what's Highbury? Also, the old Wembly was really the Empire Stadium.

I stand to be corrected, but most football stadiums are known by "unofficial" names, aren't they? Even Maine Road and Old Trafford were initially simply called Manchester City Football Ground / manchester united Football Ground (that's what it says on a lot of old maps anyway). They only took on their coloquial names because of where they are/were situated. Highbury's official name was The Arsenal Football Ground, I think.

 

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The Blue Camp

Get a grip of yourself... silly childish name

the name is City of Manchester Stadium.. commonly known as Eastlands... over the coming decade the name Eastlands will be the preferred term... same as with Arsenal's old ground (not actually called Highbury) and West ham (not actually called Upton Park)

WH is The Boylen, what's Highbury? Also, the old Wembly was really the Empire Stadium.

I stand to be corrected, but most football stadiums are known by "unofficial" names, aren't they? Even Maine Road and Old Trafford were initially simply called Manchester City Football Ground / manchester united Football Ground (that's what it says on a lot of old maps anyway). They only took on their coloquial names because of where they are/were situated. Highbury's official name was The Arsenal Football Ground, I think.

True.. It was always listed as The Arsenal Stadium but everyone called it Highbury.

I reckon if you did a poll of other fans I bet the majority call it Eastlands... The City of Manchester Stadium is too much of a mouthful, and COMS is just a shit Acronym... I always seem to want to say Maine Road still, then start saying "City of Manchester Stadium" which just becomes The City Stadium so I prefer Eastlands if that's what it's commonly called.

But maybe it's going to be given a sponsors name once the initial lease runs out and we can get putting names in the seats etc...?

 

[psut1]

nothing wrong with it being called eastlands THB

:-) A more non-descript name you'd be hard-pressed to find. It's the kind of name only a committee could come up with. If it were a school-boy, it'd be the last one against the wall during picks for dinnertime football. If "The City of Manchester Stadium" is grand, this is the antithesis. Listen to the sound of it; whiny, tinny, and harsh. We're City, so we probably could take something like Buckingham Palace and rename it Sharples Grove, or Atkinson Mews, or something.

we are not allowed to change the name as the council insist it is the coms
The club have been quietly asking the media to only refer to it as eastlands

 

[BufordUSABlue]

Personally "The City of Manchester Stadium" is perfect..................it sure beats the "The City of Salford Stadium" does it not???

It has our name in it and we are of course the only team who can lay claim to this title..


Purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrfect i say!!

 

[dom]

EASTLANDS...Thats it

That's the one .

 

[Anonymous]

EASTLANDS...Thats it

That's the one .

Same here, i don't know anyone who calls it anything else. I like it.