Etihad Campus, Stadium and Collar Site Development Thread

[squirtyflower]

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

Because the roof has to be taken off using cranes pitch side - it will take about 5 weeks minimum and would destroy the pitch. Laing offered City a £1 million saving on the tender if they took the roof off the South Stand during the last close season but City said no. This (the taking of the roof off) is the tightest element of the construction programme next close season, due to interface with pitch works needed to make front 3 rows site lines work better. The pitch height has actually gone up 80mm since we moved in the stadium.

I thought I felt closer than before

How did United take of the old east and west stand roofs mid season if it wasn't by using cranes from pitch side? The new roofs were complete before the old ones came off very similar to what we are doing and the stands were partially open by around the Feb I think.
Just thought it'd be great if the south stand upper tier was partially open by the end of the season and we could get a 50k+ crowd this season

presumably because City's cable net 21st Century construction is a little harder and more complicated to overhaul than the 19th Century Meccano construction used at the swamp

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

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

presumably because City's cable net 21st Century construction is a little harder and more complicated to overhaul than the 19th Century Meccano construction used at the swamp

Fucking right, squirty. Blue-tinted glasses off, the swamp is such a fucking ugly construction. And wtf is it with all that red brick around the dug-outs? I looks so fucking....errrrr....small time, like a dividing wall in the back garden of a Barratt home.

 

[marco]

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

presumably because City's cable net 21st Century construction is a little harder and more complicated to overhaul than the 19th Century Meccano construction used at the swamp

Fucking right, squirty. Blue-tinted glasses off, the swamp is such a fucking ugly construction. And wtf is it with all that red brick around the dug-outs? I looks so fucking....errrrr....small time, like a dividing wall in the back garden of a Barratt home.

what an eyesore that is, what is that screwed to the wall is it for fag butts

 

[flb]

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

presumably because City's cable net 21st Century construction is a little harder and more complicated to overhaul than the 19th Century Meccano construction used at the swamp

Fucking right, squirty. Blue-tinted glasses off, the swamp is such a fucking ugly construction. And wtf is it with all that red brick around the dug-outs? I looks so fucking....errrrr....small time, like a dividing wall in the back garden of a Barratt home.

what an eyesore that is, what is that screwed to the wall is it for fag butts

Its a durex dispenser for Brian Twigg

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

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

presumably because City's cable net 21st Century construction is a little harder and more complicated to overhaul than the 19th Century Meccano construction used at the swamp

Fucking right, squirty. Blue-tinted glasses off, the swamp is such a fucking ugly construction. And wtf is it with all that red brick around the dug-outs? I looks so fucking....errrrr....small time, like a dividing wall in the back garden of a Barratt home.

what an eyesore that is, what is that screwed to the wall is it for fag butts

I don't want to come across "all Laurence Lewellyn-Bowen", but that would look so much better if it was rendered and painted. As you say a total fucking eyesore.

 

[Chippy_boy]

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

Fucking right, squirty. Blue-tinted glasses off, the swamp is such a fucking ugly construction. And wtf is it with all that red brick around the dug-outs? I looks so fucking....errrrr....small time, like a dividing wall in the back garden of a Barratt home.

what an eyesore that is, what is that screwed to the wall is it for fag butts

I don't want to come across "all Laurence Lewellyn-Bowen", but that would look so much better if it was rendered and painted. As you say a total fucking eyesore.

It's so typical of British investment vs more ambitious Middle East or Asian investment, where they are prepared to pump vast amounts of money in to reap rewards over the long term, vs our short term "how cheap can we get away with" mentality.

Look at somewhere like Hong Kong airport for example (there's countless examples and I choose this at random), vast, glass, stainless steel, marble, moving walkways, efficient, clean.

vs

Heathrow. Small, lino floor tiles, carpet tiles (stained), polystyrene ceiling tiles (missing), concrete, paint, broken moving walkways, queues, dirty. Cheap.

The red bricks above are just the same, crap, but cheap. Anywhere else in the modern world it would have been red glass with stainless steel and lights and stuff. Here in the UK, a poxy pile of bricks. Utter shite.

 

[bammy blue]

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

presumably because City's cable net 21st Century construction is a little harder and more complicated to overhaul than the 19th Century Meccano construction used at the swamp

Fucking right, squirty. Blue-tinted glasses off, the swamp is such a fucking ugly construction. And wtf is it with all that red brick around the dug-outs? I looks so fucking....errrrr....small time, like a dividing wall in the back garden of a Barratt home.

Belongs in 1940's Berlin, it's like the entrance to the Fuhrerbunker........

 

[worsleyweb]

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

The pitch height has actually gone up 80mm since we moved in the stadium.

Well I never knew that. Why is that WW?

Genuinely no one knows why. Just came about when the contractor surveyed the pitch at the start of the works.

 

[Anonymous]

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

presumably because City's cable net 21st Century construction is a little harder and more complicated to overhaul than the 19th Century Meccano construction used at the swamp

Fucking right, squirty. Blue-tinted glasses off, the swamp is such a fucking ugly construction. And wtf is it with all that red brick around the dug-outs? I looks so fucking....errrrr....small time, like a dividing wall in the back garden of a Barratt home.

Belongs in 1940's Berlin, it's like the entrance to the Fuhrerbunker........

Looks more like a 1970's public convenience.

 

[squirtyflower]

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

Fucking right, squirty. Blue-tinted glasses off, the swamp is such a fucking ugly construction. And wtf is it with all that red brick around the dug-outs? I looks so fucking....errrrr....small time, like a dividing wall in the back garden of a Barratt home.

Belongs in 1940's Berlin, it's like the entrance to the Fuhrerbunker........

Looks more like a 1970's public convenience.

i'd say built before then

looks much more like an Old Toilet