Etihad Campus, Stadium and Collar Site Development Thread

[Utter bobbins]

Re: Etihad Campus, Stadium Development and Collar Site (cont

Pictures from this Morning. The steel frame is shooting up. View of the cranes, stadium roof, etc , looks amazing from inside the stadium.

Weather isn't great, and I used my camera phone, so the pictures aren't brilliant.

Click to enlarge.

[bigimg]http://s7.postimg.org/v0wbchdnv/20140825_120009.jpg[/bigimg]

Weather forecast is for light rain for the duration of the match.

We are all going to get pissed wet through in 211, then possibly have to walk home because the trams stop early.

If it wasn't the first match I would probably stay at home.

Take a coat

 

[Marvin]

Re: Etihad Campus, Stadium Development and Collar Site (cont

Met Office forecast is not too bad (better than BBC). 50% possibility of light rain.

 

[Manchester1894]

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JRB requested as many pics as possible from people in the ground tonight(or outside it. As always, I'm happy to help getting the pictures onto here that I find on Twitter. So if your not great at uploading images, take a photo via Twitter app and put #bluemoonjrb on the post. I'll do a sift at half time and full time and get the pics on here..

Pics welcomed of south stand concourse/south stand roof/LED flags even, or anything that's changed.

I've always wondered if a photo thread would work on here so could be good trial.

 

[lancs blue]

Re: Etihad Campus, Stadium Development and Collar Site (cont

Pictures from this Morning. The steel frame is shooting up. View of the cranes, stadium roof, etc , looks amazing from inside the stadium.

Weather isn't great, and I used my camera phone, so the pictures aren't brilliant.

Click to enlarge.

[bigimg]http://s7.postimg.org/v0wbchdnv/20140825_120009.jpg[/bigimg]

Weather forecast is for light rain for the duration of the match.

We are all going to get pissed wet through in 211, then possibly have to walk home because the trams stop early.

If it wasn't the first match I would probably stay at home.

Take a coat

And leave early to make sure you get the last tram, nobody will notice. ;-)

 

[jrb]

Re: Etihad Campus, Stadium Development and Collar Site (cont

Got my camera ready. Will post this Morning's pictures tomorrow.

 

[jrb]

Re: Etihad Campus, Stadium Development and Collar Site (cont

Got my camera ready. Will post this Morning's pictures tomorrow.

 

[Mike N]

Re: Etihad Campus, Stadium Development and Collar Site (cont

The missing roof and the huge cranes look really strange from the North Stand.

 

[Manchester1894]

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Well the #bluemoonjrb hashtag has it's first pics:

Thanks to <a class="postlink" href="https://twitter.com/DBblue14" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">https://twitter.com/DBblue14</a>

[bigimg]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bv55irYIQAAj1Cx.jpg:large[/bigimg]

[bigimg]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bv50XC-CEAA7h05.jpg:large[/bigimg]

Not tagged but good pics:
@MCR_Andy

[bigimg]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bv58QUdCYAA0dFf.jpg:large[/bigimg]

@BirtyDave

[bigimg]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bv52BAFIcAEhiMW.jpg:large[/bigimg]

 

[Marvin]

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Just got back. I sit right at the back of the South Stand. It was a bit disorientating taking your seat as the back has moved forward. One row from the back has been lost. Was not really aware of the weather or the building work unless I looked for it. Contractors have done a good job in getting it ready for match-day. Longer Q time to get in as lost a turnstile but no big deal.

I noticed that space for the new rows has been created infront of the South Stand and East Stand.

 

[Second Skin]

Re: Etihad Campus, Stadium Development and Collar Site (cont

Some pics from level 3

 

[LevyBee76]

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Have a few photos taken on my phone before and after working... a mix of photos...

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[Bluster]

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I may be in the minority but the screen and scrolling first tier thing were irritating me. I felt like The ground's become the Sky Sports News set.

 

[Carver]

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I may be in the minority but the screen and scrolling first tier thing were irritating me. I felt like The ground's become the Sky Sports News set.

Doing my head in. I have moved from el3 to cbl3 so i have the pitch side boards to cope with as well. Taking some vincent tan specs to the next night game. The live action on the screens helped when the twat in front of me kept standing up even when we were bringing the ball out of defence.

 

[bennyboy]

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Colin Bell stand and I now sit in line wth corner flag.Weird at first.There was also a strong breeze, must have been down to the building work on the south stand.

 

[gouldybob]

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I may be in the minority but the screen and scrolling first tier thing were irritating me. I felt like The ground's become the Sky Sports News set.

Have to admit I didn't notice the Level 2 LED's once the game started, anything other than adverts?

 

[DiscoSteve]

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Took a couple of pictures from 201 just before the game

South Stand
[bigimg]http://stevenicklin.com/images/city/stadium/20140825_south_stand.jpg[/bigimg]

Screen in NE corner - absolutely MA-HOO-SIVE!
[bigimg]http://stevenicklin.com/images/city/stadium/20140825_ne_screen.jpg[/bigimg]

Had to ignore it entirely except when goals were replayed - the camera viewpoint is from the CB stand so facing the wrong for us East Standers

 

[cibaman]

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Will the club provide periscopes when the extra rows are added?

 

[inbetween]

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Stadium looked so strange last night, it's going to be massive. Can't believe how lucky we are.

 

[Gray]

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Three from last night:

 

[Chippy_boy]

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What's our capacity at the moment, does anyone know?

I was surprised to hear 45,000-something on the tannoy last night and yet it was supposedly sold out and seemed pretty full (apart from 5-10 minutes from the end when it was getting embarrassingly empty.)