"Give Eastlands It's Kippax" Update - Meeting Planned

[Anonymous]

For those who don't know what the "Give Eastlands It's Kippax" is about here is the original thread

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It got about 1500 signatures of support for it which was fantastic considering it was only put on the forums. I sent that to the club who were impressed with it and promised they would look into it.

I got a response back in April saying they were still looking into it but nothing could be done for this season as it was too late.

I then sent an e-mail after the Celtic game wondering if they noticed the majority of the Celtic support and if they were impressed with it (the noise, colour and atmosphere, not the minority of Celtic supporters who have been discussed at length here) as that is what it would look like with us blues in there if it went ahead.

Last week i got a reply saying Danny Wilson (the Head of Supporter Experience), Vicky Kloss (the Head of Communications), Garry Cook and our Chairman also witnessed the scenes and they acted as a very useful pre-cursor to new discussions on the idea. Therefore they are planning a meeting in the first week of September to start canvassing opinion OFFICIALLY and carefully and methodically gauging support or objection for it.

There are those who don't agree with it and think that the structure should stay as it is with the away fans in half of the south stand and that is fair enough there will be objections to it and they have a right to object to it if they think everything is fine, but i also know there are lots of people who do want the whole of the south stand to be full of blues singing as one voice and to give Eastlands something it misses that Maine Road had, a designated end where the heart of the atmosphere comes from.

So all those who want Eastlands to have it's very own Kippax if you could put your reasons on here why it is needed and why you agree with it, i can then collate it all, get my mate who is a designer to put it in a brochure and present it to the club at the meeting so those who agree with it can all have their say in the matter.

Those who don't agree with it, you could also put on here why you don't think it should change, it would be good to hear both sides.

p.s I’m not in charge of this, it isn't my cause and i shouldn't get any praise (or abuse) for it, all i have done is given us City fans an avenue to have their say, it took a minute to set up. Those who have got it to this stage are the 900 or so people who signed it on that "petition" and the 800 or so who were on Facebook. As i said at the beginning in December, i felt a change was needed, so did hundreds of others and if nothing could be done then at least we could say we tried instead of just moaning about it.

This meeting is a huge step for those that want it, you need to make your voices heard and clearly and you need to fight for it if you really believe in it and convince the club it is the right idea as there will be those who rightfully in their mind who will oppose it.

This is your chance so fire away!!

 

[yatesy94]

Please City give us our Kippax, theres been a lack of atmosphere ever since we left maine rd.

 

[NPBlue]

My only thoughts on it are they should move the away fans over to the right of the goal, away from the TV cameras.

It's not right when City score, and half the time all you see is stony faces with the odd person giving their team some stick.

I know it's a can of worms for those that sit in the seats I am writing about, but I think it would be better if the noisy ones were joined together and the away fans were out of sight from the TV cameras, like at every other ground in the league.

Is it blocks 110 and 117? Anyway, get them together and it would be a lot better, IMO.

 

[yooof]

i want the away fans right next to us cos half the fun is giving them shit all game

 

[rowsley_st]

I could understand it if the whole of our part of the South stand were singers and we wanted to expand that...but it isn't, there are only two blocks that sing there anyway, 116 and 117. (Plus singers corner).
The away fans being there creates the atmosphere too, and what do you mean " a designated end that Maine Rd had"..eh?...you mean Platt Lane right?...no!
The north stand had the atmosphere because it was one tier and the away fans were there too.
BAD MOVE in my opinion..especially if the thought is to move away fans right out of the way in the 3rd tier or whatever.

Why not have a voting button on this forum to gauge opinion too?..Then you could see at a glance what the feeling is (at least for bluemooners).
Keep it to 4 suggestions...

My opinion is that the away fans are moved to singers corner and the end block of the South stand and East stand upstairs and down...BUT, There must be a massive effort by the club involving all forums and supporters branches to push the fact that this would free up space for SINGERS, there are too many in the south stand already that just stand, arms folded and only make a noise when we score or they've got wind.

The club could help along with this by having volunteers have those massive flags on poles behind the goal before the match/2nd half etc and also by having one huge banner which comes down from the 2nd tier and covers the bottom tier before the game.
PC now messing up...argh, an Iwas on a roll!!!!

 

[JWP1926]

could we not turn the north stand into eastland's kippax, but i totally agree with the idea, we need our supporters who sing to be together, we are known for having some of the best support in the country, lets keep it that way, maybe think of a really good name for the stand as well, and then put the name on the seats, permitting that the council allow this, to really make eastlands our home, maybe something simple like 'the proelia' or something, anyway im getting ahead of my self, but please City GIVE EASTLANDS ITS KIPPAX.

 

[Blue Smarties]

could we not turn the north stand into eastland's kippax, but i totally agree with the idea, we need our supporters who sing to be together, we are known for having some of the best support in the country, lets keep it that way, maybe think of a really good name for the stand as well, and then put the name on the seats, permitting that the council allow this, to really make eastlands our home, maybe something simple like 'the proelia' or something, anyway im getting ahead of my self, but please City GIVE EASTLANDS ITS KIPPAX.

Great idea, we can all swap Pokemon with our Nintendo DS's enabled WiFi!

 

[Halfpenny]

could we not turn the north stand into eastland's kippax, but i totally agree with the idea, we need our supporters who sing to be together, we are known for having some of the best support in the country, lets keep it that way, maybe think of a really good name for the stand as well, and then put the name on the seats, permitting that the council allow this, to really make eastlands our home, maybe something simple like 'the proelia' or something, anyway im getting ahead of my self, but please City GIVE EASTLANDS ITS KIPPAX.

Great idea, we can all swap Pokemon with our Nintendo DS's enabled WiFi!

Pmsl :P

 

[JWP1926]

Great idea, we can all swap Pokemon with our Nintendo DS's enabled WiFi!

Pmsl :P

lmao, i mean move the family stand and everything to a corner, and then use the north stand as Eastland's 'kippax'

 

[josh06]

I don't think it would actually make the atmosphere any better. Especially as others have mentioned, its the away fansthat help make the atmosphere. That said there can't be much harm in trying.