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Etihad Campus, Stadium and Collar Site Development Thread
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Holcombe bloo
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Anyone know if the 54000 capacity would of been all seated?View attachment 10412View attachment 10413
these were from the 1981/82 opening day programme v West Brom
trevorcitytilidie
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No that was keeping the Kippax standingAnyone know if the 54000 capacity would of been all seated?
Holcombe bloo
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Knocking down the old kippax really shafted us capacity wise didn’t it!No that was keeping the Kippax standing
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I think the Kippax was going to stay all standing, but with a new roof similar to the Main Stand’s.Anyone know if the 54000 capacity would of been all seated?
Would have been a really nice ground, what we ended up with by the mid 90s was a bit of a mess.
When we left in 2003, two of those stands were newer than the Etihad is now. But they were shite!
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As my Uncle once said, “the day they knocked the Kippax down, the club lost something it didn’t get back until the FA Cup semifinal against United”.Knocking down the old kippax really shafted us capacity wise didn’t it!
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ThanksView attachment 10412View attachment 10413
these were from the 1981/82 opening day programme v West Brom
HelloCity
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Anyone got the artists impression of the new Kippax? It was in one of the match programmes. Not the one with the stand going all the way around from the outside. It was a drawing of the stand looking at it from the family stand perspective I think. @Gary James
nmc
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I think the Kippax was going to stay all standing, but with a new roof similar to the Main Stand’s.
Would have been a really nice ground, what we ended up with by the mid 90s was a bit of a mess.
When we left in 2003, two of those stands were newer than the Etihad is now. But they were shite!
The New Platt Lane stand was awful... the New Kippax wasn't so bad but we ended up with 4 stands that were completely different and around the ground there were dozens of different shades of blue seats - as you say a total mess but a stadium that reflected the chaos that had dominated our Boardroom during that era.
kev20971
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The thing that happened to Maine Road, was it had so many half finished "master" plans , that when we moved out it was a hochpoch of different stands . Let's hope The Etihad not going the same way , ie get the North Stand rebuild.