Etihad Campus, Stadium Development and Collar Site

[pride in battle]

Re: Etihad Campus & potential new stadium

Definitely.....

 

[waspish]

Re: Etihad Campus & potential new stadium

Should make the campus in the Summer a music venue like a Glastonbury that lasts for 4 weeks no stop

 

[Anonymous]

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?

I got the Ever Blue one. Couldn't get my head around the concept of purchasing a seat in perpetuity and paying for a season ticket as well?

 

[danebanksheik]

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?

I got the Ever Blue one. Couldn't get my head around the concept of purchasing a seat in perpetuity and paying for a season ticket as well?

Same here, the more I read the less I found any sense in it for the non exec supporter.

 

[waspish]

Re: Etihad Campus & potential new stadium

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?

I got the Ever Blue one. Couldn't get my head around the concept of purchasing a seat in perpetuity and paying for a season ticket as well?

Same here, the more I read the less I found any sense in it for the non exec supporter.

Is it like a yearly direct debit season ticket renewal?

 

[Anonymous]

Re: Etihad Campus & potential new stadium

I got the Ever Blue one. Couldn't get my head around the concept of purchasing a seat in perpetuity and paying for a season ticket as well?

Same here, the more I read the less I found any sense in it for the non exec supporter.

Is it like a yearly direct debit season ticket renewal?

Nah mate. You buy a season ticket and this Ever Blue is in addition to that; ie you buy the right t the seat or summat. There's a separate thread on it where they may explain it better, but sounds like a load of hogwash to me.

 

[waspish]

Re: Etihad Campus & potential new stadium

Same here, the more I read the less I found any sense in it for the non exec supporter.

Is it like a yearly direct debit season ticket renewal?

Nah mate. You buy a season ticket and this Ever Blue is in addition to that; ie you buy the right t the seat or summat. There's a separate thread on it where they may explain it better, but sounds like a load of hogwash to me.

Yeah just read the thread not paying extra for that luxury! just going to renew every season like I have for the last 25 years

 

[goat boy]

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 really strange that nothing yet appears to have been done about the museum. Are they waiting for something...?

 

[bonespost]

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 really strange that nothing yet appears to have been done about the museum. Are they waiting for something...?

History ?????????

 

[BLUE PEANUT]

Re: Etihad Campus & potential new stadium

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 really strange that nothing yet appears to have been done about the museum. Are they waiting for something...?

History ?????????

We've over a hundred years of it, granted not all illustrious. I'm sure some decent funding would make any sort of museum attractive.