Etihad Campus, Stadium and Collar Site Development Thread

domalino said:
I feel like the club should be able to get 5-6,000 people to go to WSL games, even if it's giving tickets away. Run promotions, target young children and their parents, win over the next generation etc.

Recently it seems like the Women's team has been relegated to a very minor topic at the club.
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Tight shorts and cropped tops anyone ?
 
I don’t know if this has already been discussed but has it been mentioned the prospect of concerts at the new arena and matches being held on the same night?

Maybe for most weekend games it would be feasible but I’m thinking more midweek games.

I’m struggling to see how it would be logistically anything but an unworkable nightmare. But it’s also hard to see how it can be avoided. With concerts normally planned a year plus in advance and cup games in particular having to be played on specific evenings or at best within a two day window and very short notice.

It’s got to have been something that’s been considered building an arena so close to a football ground but what provisions are they talking about?
 
domalino said:
I feel like the club should be able to get 5-6,000 people to go to WSL games, even if it's giving tickets away. Run promotions, target young children and their parents, win over the next generation etc.

Recently it seems like the Women's team has been relegated to a very minor topic at the club.
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We had our 3rd highest attendance of the season so far on Sunday:

 
Gray said:
Go back to playing in the summer the crowds will increase I guarantee it, that Academy Stadium is like Siberia in the winter months.
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I agree with that. I sort of follow the women’s game but it isn’t the same product as the men. IMO only a few fans have enough time to regularly attend both.

I’ve been to two women’s games but I’m sure I’d get to more if it were in the summer.
 
Stephen230 said:
Not sure the timing is great for that.

There was a time in the 90s when Manchester Giants were playing some home games at what was then called The Nynex Arena and getting crowds upto about 15,000.

These days I think it’s a big crowd if they scrape more than a few hundred.
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Started noticing a lot of sky adverts for some netball league. Maybe people are getting more interested in sport in general. Surely mens basketball would do a lot better than ladies netball
 
WRicko said:
Started noticing a lot of sky adverts for some netball league. Maybe people are getting more interested in sport in general. Surely mens basketball would do a lot better than ladies netball
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I’m not claiming to be a big netball fan but they are pushing it a lot on Sky and from my limited knowledge the England team and presumably the English league is about as good as it gets. Maybe Australia are better, I’m not sure.

I think an awful lot of people are in to basketball. But maybe just watching the NBA. I’ve not seen a British match for decades. But traditionally it’s always been very much the Vauxhall Conference of basketball if the NBA is the Premier League.
 
Nethermoor said:
Obviously not everyone likes it.

But people like NFL and that's full of adverts and I find it very stop start.
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Not keen on the way Americans present sport. They stop Ice Hockey matches to do TV advertising. I went to a NY Yankees baseball match and enjoyed that even though I had to leave before the end.
 
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Stephen230 said:
Not sure the timing is great for that.

There was a time in the 90s when Manchester Giants were playing some home games at what was then called The Nynex Arena and getting crowds upto about 15,000.

These days I think it’s a big crowd if they scrape more than a few hundred.
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On a few occasions they had both Basketball and Ice Hockey played on the same day at the Nynex/M.E.N.
 
domalino said:
I feel like the club should be able to get 5-6,000 people to go to WSL games, even if it's giving tickets away. Run promotions, target young children and their parents, win over the next generation etc.

Recently it seems like the Women's team has been relegated to a very minor topic at the club.
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Women's football is a bit like the Emperor's New Clothes though
 
A reminder.

Going to the Coop Live Arena, Open Doors event on Thursday. If anyone has a question or questions they want answering, please either post them on the thread or PM them to me. I’ll do my best to get the question/s answered. Hopefully the Open Doors event will include a tour of the Coop Live Arena? If it does I’ll take some pictures if I’m allowed?

Bristol Street Motors - Linkedin

THE STREET... COMING SOON!

Part of Co-op Live, the UK’s biggest arena which is coming soon to Manchester, TheStreet will be a 4,000-capacity space that includes a 22m long bar and vibrant food market.

Robert Forrester our CEO and Liz Cope our CMO stopped by to see how construction was going! You can already tell, it's going to be incredible

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Does look very impressive for an arena. In the current climate with the cost of raw materials going through the roof, any ideas how much this place will have cost to build? It’s going to take a good few years before it starts to make a profit whatever it is.
 
Went on the Open Doors event today. Sadly there was no tour inside the arena. The group of people on the Open Doors event was too big for that. I’ve put my name down for any future tour of the inside of the arena with a smaller group of of people. However, I did get some decent shots of the arena from the viewing platform opposite the arena. Also wrote down a few interesting snippets from the presentation. I’ll post the pictures and snippets tomorrow. Thanks to the Bam staff for hosting the Open Doors event.
 
Gary Neville praises City’s owners for investing in East Manchester.

Then he goes on criticize the Glazers for not doing something similar around Old Trafford.

Click on the link below for the article.

Speaking at MIPIM, Gary Neville praised the work of Manchester City FC’s owners in redeveloping large areas of East Manchester and said he expected Manchester United’s new owner to take a similar approach.

“They invested in an area that needed it,” he said. “It was an area nobody ever really went before and that takes real courage,” he said.

“If you said to any developer in Manchester in 2007, invest a billion pounds in this area over the next 10 years, they wouldn’t be putting their hand up.”

Since taking over the club, Manchester City’s owner, Abu Dhabi United Group, has developed a new training ground for the club as well as a significant amount of housing in East Manchester through Manchester Life joint venture with the city council.

The Co-op Live arena is currently under construction, while plans were recently unveiled to expand the Etihad Stadium and develop a fan park.
“We need someone to buy the club and do basically what Manchester City have done.”
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MIPIM | Neville calls for United’s next owner to ‘do what Man City did’ - Place North West

While the Glazer family assesses bids for Manchester United, the club’s former captain has laid down a challenge to whoever takes over: regenerate the area around Old Trafford.
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