Etihad Campus, Stadium and Collar Site Development Thread

[eyalluvitt]

I can remember city v Forest getting pushed back as it clashed with the Nottingham Goose fair.

I remember making a weekend of the Nottingham away’s as it was supposedly 7 women for every man. Can’t have been true as I never Goosed anything. Even with my passing resemblance to Nigel ‘young man’ Jemson.

 

[Bluesince1979]

Travel out of the stadium and home has become a nightmare now. No decent way at all.
and people get slagged off for leaving five mins early?

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Asked about the North Stand expansion the other day. Sounded like it’s not on the agenda in the near future and there just isn’t the demand for 60,000+ tickets week in week out.

Makes you wonder if there ever will be that demand if it isn’t there under Pep. We might have to wait until the younger generation around the country that started supporting City in the last 10 years grow up and start coming to games. Our continued success will mean we’ll have one of the biggest supports in the country, outside of the home city in the coming years.

Kinda feel like we might have dropped a clanger not building the North Stand as a ‘home end’ single or larger double tiered stand first of all and then doing the South Stand later on though.

It’s not like they keep hiking up the prices while trying to get away with the bare minimum of services and facilities or anything.

 

[Gray]

It’s not like they keep hiking up the prices while trying to get away with the bare minimum of services and facilities or anything.

Or as others have mentioned, sorting out the appalling infrastructure around the stadium and liaising with those who provide public transport to get their acts together.

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

Asked about the North Stand expansion the other day. Sounded like it’s not on the agenda in the near future and there just isn’t the demand for 60,000+ tickets week in week out.

Makes you wonder if there ever will be that demand if it isn’t there under Pep. We might have to wait until the younger generation around the country that started supporting City in the last 10 years grow up and start coming to games. Our continued success will mean we’ll have one of the biggest supports in the country, outside of the home city in the coming years.

Kinda feel like we might have dropped a clanger not building the North Stand as a ‘home end’ single or larger double tiered stand first of all and then doing the South Stand later on though.

They could do if they got the pricing right, £65 quid for a ticket to watch Arsenal is taking the piss. If you haven’t got a season ticket watching City can be a very expensive past time.

The demand for season tickets is certainly there as well, if the new extension adds 10,000 more capacity into the ground, they could add maybe 5,000 more season tickets and get the pricing right for the tickets they want to sell individually for the rest of the extension.

Soriano has his fetish for expensive hospitality which would let him stick another lounge or suite in the middle of it all which could recoup some of the outlay. Having 10,000 more people on site on match day buying food and in the club shop should mean more money in the clubs coffers.

 

[asahartford1]

They could do if they got the pricing right, £65 quid for a ticket to watch Arsenal is taking the piss. If you haven’t got a season ticket watching City can be a very expensive past time.

The demand for season tickets is certainly there as well, if the new extension adds 10,000 more capacity into the ground, they could add maybe 5,000 more season tickets and get the pricing right for the tickets they want to sell individually for the rest of the extension.

Soriano has his fetish for expensive hospitality which would let him stick another lounge or suite in the middle of it all which could recoup some of the outlay. Having 10,000 more people on site on match day buying food and in the club shop should mean more money in the clubs coffers.

Would just mean 10000 more people moaning.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

The last thing we need is another 10000 people scrambling for a pint of bleach - sorry, dark fruit cider - at half time.

Knock down one of the stands to reduce capacity and cut down on the queues I say.

 

[percypawpaw]

I am old school and if anyone wants to come and be City fan they are welcome, the most important thing in life is being a Blue.

 

[bluesmith]

Extending the North stand won't add 10,000 seats it'll be much closer to half that. I think the loss of seats to advertising boards is the biggest indicator the North stand extention won't happen as we will struggle to get the 60k seats to allow us to move to a 5 * stadium and host the biggest events.

 

[Marvin]

Extending the North stand won't add 10,000 seats it'll be much closer to half that. I think the loss of seats to advertising boards is the biggest indicator the North stand extention won't happen as we will struggle to get the 60k seats to allow us to move to a 5 * stadium and host the biggest events.

Capacity now must be around 53k? I think we could just do it by extending the North Stand.

I would use the Silverlake monies to do this. I can't think of anything more worthwhile than creating 5,000 extra City fans. The only thing that counts on match-day is fans at the stadium, especially on a midweek game in a league Cup tie. You don't get supporters turning up to those games unless they are regulars and have got the bug. And you don't become a regular until you've gone to your first home game against Arsenal, seem City win 5-0 and want to come back for more.

Edit: I checked City's official attendance vs Arsenal - 52,276. Given that there's seats lost to segregation, I think our current capacity must be around 53,000 to 53,500 even if it is impossible to reach. We claimed our capacity was 55k before the front seats were taken out and never reached it so I think we could just reach the 60k by doing one end.

It would cost half a Harry Kane. But it would take 20 years to get your investment back.