Does the Etihad Stadium feel like "home" now?

[Abbeygoo]

Its been a while.

My brother and I have had a few conversations about the new ground not feeling like home, like Maine Road used to feel.

But after this season, I now feel "home" at last. The results have clearly helped but looking round the stadium after we had won the league, it truly for the first time felt like our home. At last.

Anyone else have similar feelings?

 

[stony]

I think most older fans will always see Maine rd as home. I'm not saying they're stuck in their ways or don't like change, but the sights and smells and memories from childhood are always the most vivid.

 

[BigJoesArmy]

Not just yet!

 

[jimharri]

Its been a while.

My brother and I have had a few conversations about the new ground not feeling like home, like Maine Road used to feel.

But after this season, I now feel "home" at last. The results have clearly helped but looking round the stadium after we had won the league, it truly for the first time felt like our home. At last.

Anyone else have similar feelings?

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There was a buzz around the stadium that day that felt like ''we belong here''. Although, like Stony said, to us fans of a certain vintage, Maine Road will always be a very special part of our footballing lives.

 

[Skashion]

It'll never be Maine Road. I'll always love that ground more than the Etihad despite watching many more matches at The Etihad. I was one of the 36,000 who witnessed its birth - with Sun Jihai having Ronaldinho in his back pocket all game. If it should be anyone's baby, it should probably be mine. But it's not because neither the ground nor the surroundings have anything like the character of Maine Road.

However, yes, it's feeling more like home now. It's witnessed trophies now. The birth of new crazes. Legendary matches. Great atmospheres. A pitch invasion. It'll never be Maine Road but it may yet be home.

 

[gxblue]

it would feel better if i did,nt have a right boring bloke and his brother sat in front of me ;)

 

[talkativesprout]

Safe standing, thats what Gods Garden needs. You just cannot create the same intensity of feeling with what we have.

 

[mayo31]

It all about your age I reckon.

 

[BigJoesArmy]

It all about your age I reckon.

I'm only 21 and it still dosnt feel like home! Maybe in a year or two!

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

It'll never be Maine Road. I'll always love that ground more than the Etihad despite watching many more matches at The Etihad. I was one of the 36,000 who witnessed its birth - with Sun Jihai having Ronaldinho in his back pocket all game. If it should be anyone's baby, it should probably be mine. But it's not because neither the ground nor the surroundings have anything like the character of Maine Road.

However, yes, it's feeling more like home now. It's witnessed trophies now. The birth of new crazes. Legendary matches. Great atmospheres. A pitch invasion. It'll never be Maine Road but it may yet be home.

I'm not sure I approve of your indiscriminate use of this word.