Etihad Campus, Stadium Development and Collar Site

[jrb]

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[somapop]

Absolutely fine as it is (especially in this type of weather)...god forbid they paint it blue, green.
Shame they're planning advertisements along it now.

Cheers for posting JRB.

 

[Oyster28catcher]

Barcelona building a new Palau Blaugrana.

Palau Blaugrana (Catalan pronunciation: [pəˈɫaw ˌβɫawˈɣɾanə], meaning in English "Blue and deep red Palace") is an arena in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, belonging to FC Barcelona. The 7,585 seating capacity arena is home to the basketball, handball, roller hockey, and futsal divisions of FC Barcelona. Palau Blaugrana is located between Mini Estadi and the Camp Nou. <a class="postlink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palau_Blaugrana" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palau_Blaugrana</a>

The club will build the new Palau Blaugrana {3D}

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKjvM43s0P4[/youtube]

I'm sure what ever we build on the Etihad Campus surrounding the stadium will be much more impressive.

No disrespect Barcelona. ;-)

Yes, but do they have a bridge?

They bridged the gap long ago.

 

[croasdale]

Barcelona building a new Palau Blaugrana.

Palau Blaugrana (Catalan pronunciation: [pəˈɫaw ˌβɫawˈɣɾanə], meaning in English "Blue and deep red Palace") is an arena in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, belonging to FC Barcelona. The 7,585 seating capacity arena is home to the basketball, handball, roller hockey, and futsal divisions of FC Barcelona. Palau Blaugrana is located between Mini Estadi and the Camp Nou. <a class="postlink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palau_Blaugrana" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palau_Blaugrana</a>

The club will build the new Palau Blaugrana {3D}

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKjvM43s0P4[/youtube]

I'm sure what ever we build on the Etihad Campus surrounding the stadium will be much more impressive.

No disrespect Barcelona. ;-)

I would LOVE it if we did something like this on the collar site. I'm a massive fan of the Sporting Club model, and really hope we're thinking about doing something similar. Barcelona, Bayern, Porto, Real Madrid, Galatasary aren't just football clubs and there's no reason why the way those teams do things wouldn't work in the country.

 

[Why Always Ste]

Same, I'd love it if we had a City Ice Hockey team, an indoor arena for UFC aswel.

 

[RuncornBlue]

Same, I'd love it if we had a City Ice Hockey team, an indoor arena for UFC aswel.

I'm with you on that one. Even if it housed the Phoenix and allowed them to push to be back in the top league again - Silverblades at Alty just isn't a patch on the likes of Motorpoint Arena etc.

 

[fbloke]

Same, I'd love it if we had a City Ice Hockey team, an indoor arena for UFC aswel.

I'm with you on that one. Even if it housed the Phoenix and allowed them to push to be back in the top league again - Silverblades at Alty just isn't a patch on the likes of Motorpoint Arena etc.

Its why I'm a firm believer that we will see a modern, multi-purpose arena on the collar site.

You could UFC, Ice Hockey, Basketball, Futsal, Gymnastics and all manner of other lower profile sports hosted or perhaps housed as national centres there.

Chuck in concerts and City's start of season party and you are bringing in huge numbers of people and lots of lovely revenue.

 

[jrb]

Took some pictures of the Arena, mini Camp Nou, and the area around the Nou Camp.(sporting facilities)

The comparisons with what we're doing, and what we've got planned, on a much larger and grander scale, are very interesting.

It's obvious our Spanish Boys from Barca had a major imput regarding the plans and proposals.<br /><br />-- Thu Mar 13, 2014 11:32 am --<br /><br />Took some pictures of the Arena, mini Camp Nou, and the area around the Nou Camp.(sporting facilities)

The comparisons with what we're doing, and what we've got planned, on a much larger and grander scale, are very interesting.

It's obvious our Spanish Boys from Barca had a major imput regarding the plans and proposals.

 

[Falastur]

Same, I'd love it if we had a City Ice Hockey team, an indoor arena for UFC aswel.

I'm with you on that one. Even if it housed the Phoenix and allowed them to push to be back in the top league again - Silverblades at Alty just isn't a patch on the likes of Motorpoint Arena etc.

Its why I'm a firm believer that we will see a modern, multi-purpose arena on the collar site.

You could UFC, Ice Hockey, Basketball, Futsal, Gymnastics and all manner of other lower profile sports hosted or perhaps housed as national centres there.

Chuck in concerts and City's start of season party and you are bringing in huge numbers of people and lots of lovely revenue.

I'm all for expanding into other sports but the one thing that sticks in my mind is whether we would risk alienating some of the fans - and I don't just mean the handful of rags in Manchester, but the ones who hate football and only watch hockey, for example. If City had been bought by a rugby team (I know that could never happen) or by an NFL team I'd be pretty uncomfortable about what they wanted with a football team.

That said, have City ever done anything to suggest that they want to branch out? I know there's been talk of building sports facilities for other sports but there's never actually been any talk of owning the actual clubs that play there. I kind of suspect that the opposite is true - City have no interest in other sports. It certainly didn't take them long to disband Melbourne Heart's futsal team...

 

[fbloke]

I'm with you on that one. Even if it housed the Phoenix and allowed them to push to be back in the top league again - Silverblades at Alty just isn't a patch on the likes of Motorpoint Arena etc.

Its why I'm a firm believer that we will see a modern, multi-purpose arena on the collar site.

You could UFC, Ice Hockey, Basketball, Futsal, Gymnastics and all manner of other lower profile sports hosted or perhaps housed as national centres there.

Chuck in concerts and City's start of season party and you are bringing in huge numbers of people and lots of lovely revenue.

I'm all for expanding into other sports but the one thing that sticks in my mind is whether we would risk alienating some of the fans - and I don't just mean the handful of rags in Manchester, but the ones who hate football and only watch hockey, for example. If City had been bought by a rugby team (I know that could never happen) or by an NFL team I'd be pretty uncomfortable about what they wanted with a football team.

That said, have City ever done anything to suggest that they want to branch out? I know there's been talk of building sports facilities for other sports but there's never actually been any talk of owning the actual clubs that play there. I kind of suspect that the opposite is true - City have no interest in other sports. It certainly didn't take them long to disband Melbourne Heart's futsal team...

I think its a bit of both.

For a while the noises being made were about lots of minority sports having a new home for either a regional or national centre.

The City brand will be very visible as it will have to be for the revenues to be clearly FFP compliant but also to allow the same brands to be 'exported' elsewhere.

 

[Blue Maverick]

I've just been past the stadium and it's bloody impressive the bridge and the other side with the academy etc, anyone young players coming here are going to be very impressed, never mind sponsors.

 

[jrb]

Thanks, Stevan. :-)

Stevan Jovetic interview in the MEN.

"The new training ground looks fantastic, I have seen the pictures,” he explained. “But it will be even further away from Wilmslow!”

Full article here.

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/stefan-jovetic-spells-manchester-city-6832955" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ ... ty-6832955</a>

 

[CitizenTID]

Same, I'd love it if we had a City Ice Hockey team, an indoor arena for UFC aswel.

I'm with you on that one. Even if it housed the Phoenix and allowed them to push to be back in the top league again - Silverblades at Alty just isn't a patch on the likes of Motorpoint Arena etc.

Hockey arena would be great, loved going watching Manchester Storm. MMA gym at least would be a great idea, growing sport and part of gym memberships (or all of it if owned by MCFC) would be good revenue

 

[jrb]

Took a few pictures of Barcelona's current setup while I was there.

Makes an interesting comparison to our current plans.

The pictures show the Camp Nou, the mini Camp Nou, two indoor arenas, souvenir megastore, and food and drink outlets(City Square, esc)

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This is how it will look once the redevelopment is complete. Click on the link for more details.

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.fcbarcelona.com/club/detail/article/a-new-stadium-built-on-the-same-structure" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.fcbarcelona.com/club/detail/ ... -structure</a>

 

[DiscoSteve]

don't think its as good as ours to be honest...

anyway here's a video I took yesterday of a troll around the campus - the footprint of City's involvement in East Mancheter really is huge!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGCcvWuf3yE[/youtube]

 

[Manchester1894]

don't think its as good as ours to be honest...

anyway here's a video I took yesterday of a troll around the campus - the footprint of City's involvement in East Mancheter really is huge!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGCcvWuf3yE[/youtube]

Awesome work. Not been up since the bridge was put in place. Never seen the roads round the back of the athletics stadia either. Great vid.

 

[skybluepete]

don't think its as good as ours to be honest...

anyway here's a video I took yesterday of a troll around the campus - the footprint of City's involvement in East Mancheter really is huge!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGCcvWuf3yE[/youtube]

Have you passed your test our kid !! Oj - well done

 

[nmc]

don't think its as good as ours to be honest...

anyway here's a video I took yesterday of a troll around the campus - the footprint of City's involvement in East Mancheter really is huge!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGCcvWuf3yE[/youtube]

Brilliant. Thanks for this.

 

[Rammyblues]

Nah he would have failed his test exceeded speed limit doing 35 in a 30. Brilliant vid though.

 

[edgecroft]

don't think its as good as ours to be honest...

anyway here's a video I took yesterday of a troll around the campus - the footprint of City's involvement in East Mancheter really is huge!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGCcvWuf3yE[/youtube]

To be honest, I'm a bit disappointed. Thought there would have been disco music in the background. :(