Etihad Campus, Stadium and Collar Site Development Thread

Psychedelic Casual said:
Yeah disappointing that. They’re comparing themselves to their neighbours though, while we’re probably doing the same and thinking “well, Old Trafford’s a shit hole so compared to that we don’t have to do anything to the Etihad”.

But we do!

From a distance the Etihad still looks impressive… but up close, it doesn’t look impressive at all. Especially the ground level of the stadium surroundings.

I took my niece and nephew on Saturday and picked up my nephew when we were walking to the ground because there were so many puddles, his feet were soaked. The puddles are bloody everywhere and quite deep in places.

And it looks dead scruffy all around the outside of the stadium. If you just showed someone a picture of the surroundings to our stadium and said “what do you think to this?” to someone who didn’t know that it was part of one of the best run clubs in world sport, they’d probably think it was the surroundings to somewhere like a struggling Championship or League 1 club.
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You are dead right about the puddles, you end up doing Hop Scotch to avoid them.
 
jrb said:
Strange.

I live in Burnage.

15 minute walk to Piccadilly Station. Straight on the 192. Get off at McVities. Home in 30 minutes. Another 10 minutes to Mersey Square.

If I drive, it also takes me 30 minutes. 15 minute walking to the car parked near the cash and carry, opposite Ashbury Train Station. Then 15 minutes home through Gorton.(Mount Road)

TBH I prefer going back into town, having quick a scoop, then catching the 192, getting off in Leve, and having another scoop whilst watching the 2nd half of the Saturday night match in Fred's Bar.
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He’s not told you that he gets off every two miles and has a pint in the nearest pub. It takes him two hours but he has five pints in that time n’all.
 
Gray said:
You are dead right about the puddles, you end up doing Hop Scotch to avoid them.
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There are that many at the back of the East Stand that people form a queue just to walk somewhere where there isn’t a puddle.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Yeah disappointing that. They’re comparing themselves to their neighbours though, while we’re probably doing the same and thinking “well, Old Trafford’s a shit hole so compared to that we don’t have to do anything to the Etihad”.

But we do!

From a distance the Etihad still looks impressive… but up close, it doesn’t look impressive at all. Especially the ground level of the stadium surroundings.

I took my niece and nephew on Saturday and picked up my nephew when we were walking to the ground because there were so many puddles, his feet were soaked. The puddles are bloody everywhere and quite deep in places.

And it looks dead scruffy all around the outside of the stadium. If you just showed someone a picture of the surroundings to our stadium and said “what do you think to this?” to someone who didn’t know that it was part of one of the best run clubs in world sport, they’d probably think it was the surroundings to somewhere like a struggling Championship or League 1 club.
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The amount of rain that came down on Saturday would make it difficult for the ground surrounds to be dry.
It will take years for the puddles to compete with those outside the Kippax.
Some of those were wells-;)
More dangerous were the concourse floors, saw two go full length on Saturday.
 
asahartford1 said:
The amount of rain that came down on Saturday would make it difficult for the ground surrounds to be dry.
It will take years for the puddles to compete with those outside the Kippax.
Some of those were wells-;)
More dangerous were the concourse floors, saw two go full length on Saturday.
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I take my ice skates for the concourses on rainy days now.
 
Gray said:
Here’s a weird one. Went into town today with my wife to look at the 1921 census at Central Library.

Got the tram from Altrincham at 10:10am and after a short delay at OT for driver change over we set off for St, Peter’s Square. Over the course of that short journey (4 stops) there were at least 16 trams heading in the opposite direction 6 of them going to Altrincham and most of them double units.

Why can’t they do that on match days?
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They do it on purpose to make it as difficult as possible for city fans to get to games it’s like they start work in the roads just as the season starts not close season!

Why someone at city don’t bring it up with the council I don’t know.
 
Whilst we’re on the subject of the Etihad’s exterior.

The arse end of Old Trafford that nobody ever see’s. (the biggest football club in the world?)

And what the Glazer’s have to overcome to expand the main stand.

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Gray said:
Here’s a weird one. Went into town today with my wife to look at the 1921 census at Central Library.

Got the tram from Altrincham at 10:10am and after a short delay at OT for driver change over we set off for St, Peter’s Square. Over the course of that short journey (4 stops) there were at least 16 trams heading in the opposite direction 6 of them going to Altrincham and most of them double units.

Why can’t they do that on match days?
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There was a major blockage of trams in the city centre today, they were just playing catch up...
 
Holcombe bloo said:
Given that 90 per cent of us are told we are supposed to come from Stockport, hard to understand why there isn’t any good public transport between the two?
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there is good public transport. There’s a direct train to Manchester which is about 7 minutes and buses straight into town every few minutes.

no idea how it’s taking him that long. Must live at the very edge of Stockport
 
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