Etihad Campus, Stadium Development and Collar Site

[citysix]

Re: Etihad Campus & potential new stadium

went on the stadium tour today was told that the club are to put a cover over the entire city square due to the manchester weather and it being so popular with the fans

 

[cibaman]

Re: Etihad Campus & potential new stadium

went on the stadium tour today was told that the club are to put a cover over the entire city square due to the manchester weather and it being so popular with the fans

Mixed feelings about that. I like it being open when the weather is nice.

 

[kunaguero10]

Re: Etihad Campus & potential new stadium

went on the stadium tour today was told that the club are to put a cover over the entire city square due to the manchester weather and it being so popular with the fans

Mixed feelings about that. I like it being open when the weather is nice.

same, if it was basically tented it would lose the relaxed walk-in-walk-out style of it, and it would smell

 

[blueparrot]

Re: Etihad Campus & potential new stadium

Just had a survey sent to me asking about season tickets in an expanded level 3.
The questions included this

Prices for new season tickets could range from approximately £380 to £570 per season (£20 to £30 per match) depending on the location of the seat. Seats in the expanded area could be available for the start of the 2015/16 season.

 

[whp.blue]

Re: Etihad Campus & potential new stadium

went on the stadium tour today was told that the club are to put a cover over the entire city square due to the manchester weather and it being so popular with the fans

Mixed feelings about that. I like it being open when the weather is nice.

same, if it was basically tented it would lose the relaxed walk-in-walk-out style of it, and it would smell

on the plus side it would also become a no smoking zone

 

[Leyther]

Re: Etihad Campus & potential new stadium

Just had a survey sent to me asking about season tickets in an expanded level 3.
The questions included this

Prices for new season tickets could range from approximately £380 to £570 per season (£20 to £30 per match) depending on the location of the seat. Seats in the expanded area could be available for the start of the 2015/16 season.

Must be a targeted survey. The one I've just filled in was asking if I would be interested in "ever blue membership" - reads like a debenture scheme?

 

[kunaguero10]

Re: Etihad Campus & potential new stadium

Mixed feelings about that. I like it being open when the weather is nice.

same, if it was basically tented it would lose the relaxed walk-in-walk-out style of it, and it would smell

on the plus side it would also become a no smoking zone

techinically isn't everywhere within the Etihad Campus a no smoking zone?

don't mind smoking in city square bar, its just in the fucking bogs that I can't stand

 

[droylsdenblue]

Re: Etihad Campus & potential new stadium

I'm sure a Club Museum would bring in 600 visitors a day. Surely we've got enough history / artefacts etc to warrant one?

I recently went on the official Stadium tour which was good but you just felt it could be a lot better. I think there are 3 tours a day and certainly during school holidays they are full with 30 people on each tour.

Obviously someone like Gary James could / should be involved in this too.

Personally I could walk along a row of all the shirts we've worn and reminisce about bygone eras, I'm sure there's all sorts of thing that a museum could encompass like that.

I think there should be some sort of cafe too, that's open on non-match days.

Don't want to burst any bubbles on this because I do strongly believe in developing a proper stadium tour and museum style attraction at the ground, but there isn't a club museum in the world (with the possible exception of Barcelona) that attracts over 200,000 - that's what 600 a day works out at.

Utd often claim figures close on 200k but in truth their numbers are about 100k to 150k depending on success and other factors. LFC's best was about 150k when they won the CL a few years back but they were averaging about 30k a decade ago and typically average 60k. In 1992 MUFC's museum only had about 17k visitors - I've got the research somewhere. That to me proves that attractions have to build up a little over time - plus success does help.

The NFM will exceed the 200k figure but that's a National Footy museum and free.

I've done lots of research over the years on this and visited most of the museums/attractions. In 2002 I project managed the development of our old museum & tour. The budget started at £1m with a decent maintenance budget but was slashed to 500k around the time Chris Bird left and then to £350k a little while later with no (seriously - zero!) annual maintenance - to put that into context MUFC spent over £1m on one small display c.2000. My initial plan was to build a decent interactive museum & tour and a proper digital archive of MCFC's progs/literature/sounds/videos etc. with plans to improve it year on year, but once budget slashed that was impossible.

Nevertheless, it still became the first footy museum to be nominated for an award for excellence at the national museum awards, and won several north-west & Greater Manchester attraction awards.

Its busiest year saw about 25k attend - and while I was there (opened Dec 2003; I left Jan 2009 and it closed in May 2009) it attracted an average of £21k a year - not bad for a museum that had no budget to buy objects or even maintain its facilities.

This is something of course that I still care passionately about and would love to see how MCFC take the club's tour/museum attractions forward.

I find it unbelievable that the club doesn't have a purchasing policy where memorabilia is concerned. There is a lot of our history put up for sale on certain websites etc that should be bought by the club and shared with the supporters IMO .

 

[Bob Hope]

Re: Etihad Campus & potential new stadium

SportCity/Etihad Campus needs an Ice Dome. Bring Phoenix home and capture Manc Giants from Wright Robby too.

I might have got this wrong, but I'm sure I heard a rumour Reddish Vale was being expanded and that was going to be the new home of the Giants.

I did have my money on a home on the Etihad campus - this smaller arena which has been discussed over the last few pages, and [somehow] linked with City (as with Barcelona).
Also ties in with the wholescale sports area the council (and NEM) were talking about a year or so back (Corridor of Olympians and National sports HQ's). Perhaps another pipe dream...

Did see this yesterday, which although at the arena in town, demonstrates the city can attract such events in the sporting calender:

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/others/basketball-nba-comes-to-manchester-8521761.html

Basketball: NBA comes to Manchester

American pro basketball will be stage in Manchester for the first time as the Philidelphia 76ers play Oklahoma Thunder in a global eight-team NBA pre-season tour.

The 76ers will play Thunder on 8 October at the Manchester Arena, while pre-season fixtures will also take place in Turkey, Spain, Philippines, China, Taiwan and Brazil. The other sides taking part in the tour are the Indiana Pacers, the Houston Rockets, the Los Angeles Lakers, the Golden State Warriors, the Chicago Bulls, the Florida Fred Wests and the Washington Wizards.

Florida Fred Wests got to be a pisstake ;)

 

[blueparrot]

Re: Etihad Campus & potential new stadium

Just had a survey sent to me asking about season tickets in an expanded level 3.
The questions included this

Prices for new season tickets could range from approximately £380 to £570 per season (£20 to £30 per match) depending on the location of the seat. Seats in the expanded area could be available for the start of the 2015/16 season.

Must be a targeted survey. The one I've just filled in was asking if I would be interested in "ever blue membership" - reads like a debenture scheme?

Yes the one I had had a question about Ever Blue but as I am a Blue member was mainly about different season ticket options I would be interested in.
However my main reason for posting on this thread was the mention of the new expanded 3rd tier tickets being available for 2015/16 season with options in the survey, being to either pay a deposit or pay to go on a waiting list from summer 2013. Which make me think an announcement on expansion must be close.