Etihad Campus, Stadium and Collar Site Development Thread

[gkmcfc]

While the extension to the South Stand was being built. I was in Mac d's a few years back, and he said that the extension to the North Stand was supposed to start 2/3 years after the south Stand was finished. It now looks like this is on the back burner.

With more clubs in the premier League now building extensions to their grounds and going over our capacity, it won't be long before they will over takes us in buying the top players. So I think that the club should look to increase the capacity of the North Stand as soon as possible.

I don’t think capacity has any bearing on which players we sign. Have a look at Stretford, Arsenal and West Ham for starters.

 

[nmc]

Could people watch the match instead of using WiFi?.. or am I being stupid again.

Football’s no different to the rest of society - a lot of people have turned into zombies wandering around staring at a phone screen walking into people while they look at what their beautiful friends are doing on Facebook. I’m sure this is just a phase and normality will be restored and we’ll start talking to each other and quit living in fantasyland! I.e. people will be able to order a drink or some food and eat it without taking a photo of it and posting on social media to tell all their friends!

 

[Bert Trautmanns Helemet]

Football’s no different to the rest of society - a lot of people have turned into zombies wandering around staring at a phone screen walking into people while they look at what their beautiful friends are doing on Facebook. I’m sure this is just a phase and normality will be restored and we’ll start talking to each other and quit living in fantasyland! I.e. people will be able to order a drink or some food and eat it without taking a photo of it and posting on social media to tell all their friends!

I agree 100% with you. However...
When the club have pretty much built the 'match day experience' (whatever that is or supposed to be) around social media its a little hard for the younger ones amongst us not to be on their phones during the whole of the match. The clubs marketing & promotion is virtually totally driven by social media these days.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

I agree 100% with you. However...
When the club have pretty much built the 'match day experience' (whatever that is or supposed to be) around social media its a little hard for the younger ones amongst us not to be on their phones during the whole of the match. The clubs marketing & promotion is virtually totally driven by social media these days.

That’s mainly to help fans around the world and other Blues who just can’t make the game (for whatever reason)

 

[asahartford1]

Football’s no different to the rest of society - a lot of people have turned into zombies wandering around staring at a phone screen walking into people while they look at what their beautiful friends are doing on Facebook. I’m sure this is just a phase and normality will be restored and we’ll start talking to each other and quit living in fantasyland! I.e. people will be able to order a drink or some food and eat it without taking a photo of it and posting on social media to tell all their friends!

It is not just me then.
last evening I went into the golf club. 7/8 young lads sat at one table. All with caps on (mostly the wrong way round) with face into a screen. No conversation at all. I decided to exit left shaking my head.
Oops drifted off topic.

 

[JASR]

Trams: whilst reading about Lyon on the OS, it mentioned an interesting snippet about transport there.
The stadium is new (2016), and it sounds like Lyon City has decent public transport system, including a tram line which has a station within 10mins walking distance to the stadium...
Except on match days... where a branch line takes trams to directly outside the stadium.
Would be nice to have some extra tracks/expanded station just for match days... sigh

 

[nmc]

Trams: whilst reading about Lyon on the OS, it mentioned an interesting snippet about transport there.
The stadium is new (2016), and it sounds like Lyon City has decent public transport system, including a tram line which has a station within 10mins walking distance to the stadium...
Except on match days... where a branch line takes trams to directly outside the stadium.
Would be nice to have some extra tracks/expanded station just for match days... sigh

Lyon like most French cities has a really good underground system. It’s pretty much the norm in Europe. In the U.K. we just build one in London and the rest of the Country can just use that one when they visit.

 

[cptaidan88]

Trams: whilst reading about Lyon on the OS, it mentioned an interesting snippet about transport there.
The stadium is new (2016), and it sounds like Lyon City has decent public transport system, including a tram line which has a station within 10mins walking distance to the stadium...
Except on match days... where a branch line takes trams to directly outside the stadium.
Would be nice to have some extra tracks/expanded station just for match days... sigh

I hope they've made improvements compared to when I went during the Euros. It was fine going but then no one was allowed to use it going back after the game, so everyone had to pile into buses. The bus took you to the expo centre, where you had to get off and board another bus to the end of another metro line. Obviously this was a different metro line and wasnt the one I needed to be on to get back to the hotel so I had a change on that too. No exageration, it took over 2 hours to get back to my hotel near the main station. It was an absolute farce.

Lovely city and stadium though.

 

[cleavers]

Lyon like most French cities has a really good underground system. It’s pretty much the norm in Europe. In the U.K. we just build one in London and the rest of the Country can just use that one when they visit.

Not quite, Glasgow, and Tyne/Wear also have limited undergrounds.

 

[Zubrman]

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Not quite, Glasgow, and Tyne/Wear also have limited undergrounds.

And Liverpool.

 

[cleavers]

And Liverpool.

Isn't that just part of the normal train service operated by merseyrail ?

There's tunnels in Birmingham's train network too.

 

[nmc]

Not quite, Glasgow, and Tyne/Wear also have limited undergrounds.

In the case of Glasgow the term limited is wholly appropriate. The Tyne and Wear Metro is great but the fact remains Manchester, Birmingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Leeds and Bristol should have proper underground systems on the basis that all their European equivalents do. We just don’t fund large scale projects outside the capital for some reason.

 

[nmc]

Isn't that just part of the normal train service operated by merseyrail ?

There's tunnels in Birmingham's train network too.

When the railway was built the Mersey was deemed too wide for bridges - hence the tunnels - the tunnels under the Mersey are really the reason for Merseyrail.

 

[Fred_Quimby]

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And Liverpool.

Nope that’s called the sewer. But you were close.

 

[TheRemainsOfTheDave]

In the case of Glasgow the term limited is wholly appropriate. The Tyne and Wear Metro is great but the fact remains Manchester, Birmingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Leeds and Bristol should have proper underground systems on the basis that all their European equivalents do. We just don’t fund large scale projects outside the capital for some reason.

Edinburgh had one until the fifties, too.

The UK has always spent its money in London at the expense of the rest of us. Even when money comes to us, it's after London have spent their share.

We have an east-west metrolink line at the stadium, just add a north-south and that would bring it up to scratch.

 

[King KdB of Belgium]

Re Marvin mentioning that the rags want to increase their ground to 85,000. This was put on the back burner for a long time, mainly due to 2 reasons, 1 was the train line beside the stadium that has to be moved completely, and 2nd was the cost of purchasing the houses on the other side of the train line. The cost was about £1 billion in total. That was about 3yrs ago.

However I was digressing, what I want to know has the clubs any plans to increase the capacity of the ground in the North Stand as I sit just in the Colin Bell Stand any future development will effect me and all those who sit around me. If so when are they going to start to do this.

 

[gkmcfc]

Re Marvin mentioning that the rags want to increase their ground to 85,000. This was put on the back burner for a long time, mainly due to 2 reasons, 1 was the train line beside the stadium that has to be moved completely, and 2nd was the cost of purchasing the houses on the other side of the train line. The cost was about £1 billion in total. That was about 3yrs ago.

However I was digressing, what I want to know has the clubs any plans to increase the capacity of the ground in the North Stand as I sit just in the Colin Bell Stand any future development will effect me and all those who sit around me. If so when are they going to start to do this.

The club have been saying within the next 18 months or so..

 

[worsleyweb]

The guy from Laings who built the South Stand is not that far off retirement. Need to hurry up.

 

[FantasyIreland]

The guy from Laings who built the South Stand is not that far off retirement. Need to hurry up.

He must be fast approaching 50.....

 

[worsleyweb]

He must be fast approaching 50.....

60!