Etihad Campus, Stadium and Collar Site Development Thread

percypawpaw said:
If anyone thinks the club are going to develop new areas and not have to pay for it, then you are wrong, the whole of level 2 on both sides of the ground will become corporate in the future, the average fan will be priced out, especially older fans as they retire, but still want to support their club ???
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Yes in a few years we will only have the ends and the corners. Colin Bell Level 3 will probably become a Boutique Hote and Spa where you can watch the game from your Bed..
 
Also the seats which are being lost to Corporate also mean tickets for big games home and away will go to them, so this affects everyone, it wont matter how many loyalty points you have because Corporate will get first dabs, so less tickets for the average fan ???
 
blueparrot said:
The second tier won't be all corporate, though it may all be premium priced seats, I'm an average fan and use these sometimes. I expect when the North stand extension happens the number of cheaper seats will mirror the South stand and actually increase.
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Yep Im in 105 and we have been expecting to be turfed out for corporate for years. If we were in the same seats directly opposite us we would be in the the Tunnel Club.
I have long suspected the eventual plan is for ‘premium/corporate’ pricing down the sides and the pesky, inconvenient ‘legacy fans’ to be shunted behind the goals
 
jrb said:
The home CL Atletico crowd shows where our support is heading. Loads of Day trippers, tourists, and foreign football fans. They are now watching PL and CL matches again after a 2-3 year break because of Covid. Saying that, there won’t be many of them watching City v Brighton tomorrow night.
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Every one of the Premier league grounds with a capacity of over 50k only ever sell out if the tourists go. Its a sign of how popular the Premier league is. In the 20 years prior to the formation of the Premier league no team had an average crowd of over 50k. We certainly didn't.
 
jrb said:
The home CL Atletico crowd shows where our support is heading. Loads of Day trippers, tourists, and foreign football fans. They are now watching PL and CL matches again after a 2-3 year break because of Covid. Saying that, there won’t be many of them watching City v Brighton tomorrow night.
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And yet the Atletico and Real games will have by miles the better atmosphere.
 
jrb said:
The home CL Atletico crowd shows where our support is heading. Loads of Day trippers, tourists, and foreign football fans. They are now watching PL and CL matches again after a 2-3 year break because of Covid. Saying that, there won’t be many of them watching City v Brighton tomorrow night.
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that’s because of the pricing. If it’s affordable the crowd isn’t made up of tourists or day trippers. The fa cup games show that. The champions league games are different anyway as lots of our fans don’t bother with them.

as you say if there’s loads of tourists why aren’t they buying tickets for today’s match?
 
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LongsightM13 said:
Yep Im in 105 and we have been expecting to be turfed out for corporate for years. If we were in the same seats directly opposite us we would be in the the Tunnel Club.
I have long suspected the eventual plan is for ‘premium/corporate’ pricing down the sides and the pesky, inconvenient ‘legacy fans’ to be shunted behind the goals
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if they do that the ground will be half empty. We simply do not have the tourists or corporate fans for that amount of corporate seats. Would be ludicrous to have basically half the ground corporate when our fanbase isn’t and Manchester is predominantly working class
 
Any idea what’s going on at 10 acres lane a big site cleared probably nothing interesting or related still so much of Manchester suitable for development
 
Gingers Dad said:
Every one of the Premier league grounds with a capacity of over 50k only ever sell out if the tourists go. Its a sign of how popular the Premier league is. In the 20 years prior to the formation of the Premier league no team had an average crowd of over 50k. We certainly didn't.
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City would have been hard pressed to given the post-Hillsborough attendance limits!

But then again the capacity was rarely tested. On the run-in to 1967-68 League title City had a crowd of 32,999 against Sheffield Wednesday. There were three matches after that one.
 
Centurions said:
I'd have thought that two years of Covid had more of an effect rather than the fact that we're playing Brighton on Tuesday. It most definitely is going ahead though.
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No wonder the crowd is poor tonight if City played Brighton yesterday!
 
If they increase the corporate and premium seats can they not put more reasonably priced seats in any extension of the North stand. Whenever there's a cup game with cheap seats I always bring non regular going fans. Loads of people do and they usually sell out quickly. Especially at the weekend. Price it correctly and we always fill the ground.
 
percypawpaw said:
New Sports Bar, level 2 in the East Stand, which means moving people out of seats which were allocated when they moved into the Etihad 20 years ago. Its not the first time this has happened. Level 2 down both sides of the pitch will now be Corporate for the 2022-23 season. No thought for the fans once again, we knew this was coming but still a shock, season ticket holder for 48 years, so what ?, it certainly tests your loyalty.
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No emails come to us in 201. Think we're safe till North Stand Extension is built
 
Heading for a sell out against Watford. Still quite a few blocks highlighted on the stadium planner, but they all contain 1-10 seats. Those few remaining seats will sell out over the coming days.
 
Had a walk to look at the arena tonight and it’s really starting to take shape. Can see how huge it’s going to be and really visualize it now.
 
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