Yours or mine? I can understand people complaining that the down payment is too high for flex-gold but the concept reflects many fans’ attendance at games. Many thousands of season cards / tickets are transferred for every game. The norm is north of 10k, I understand.Slight exaggeration.
Cheers.That’s right - I can’t say too much, suffice to say that Alex’s post stating that it will be Flexi Gold only mirrors exactly what was conveyed to 1894 as well.
Don't be an idiot.What a strange post. Fancy goading 1894 into breaking the NDA. Utterly bizarre
True lol.Would have been ques for the prayer room had they been in place for the qpr or villa title deciders
Maine Road had a Not A Bloody Prayer room at times.True lol.
Btw there already prayer rooms at the ground.
It takes time to change things. The new north stand will be completely new so I don’t see the point in comparing it to say rangers or saying that end of the ground is quiet.I watched the Rangers game today where the Union Bears, the main singing group, have been moved from one end of Ibrox to the other.
Previously the Union Bears had been in a corner of the Broomloan Stand where most people were stood up and the away fans were located, albeit in the opposite corner.
Today it seemed quite incongruous with the Union Bears stood in the middle of the Copland Road stand and fans in the blocks either side of them sat down.
It struck me that the atmosphere was worse, as previously those stood in the Broomloan stand would join in with the Union Bears but now being at the opposite end they didn't and neither did those fans sat adjacent to them in the Copland Road stand.
I think this is a cautionary tale for this new "all things to all people" North Stand and it's quite likely that those sat in front of the standing section at the back won't be joining in the songs and so the noise won't travel very far. Also, at the Etihad there are more people who will join in with songs in the south side of the ground than the north and there isn't going to be a mass movement of these people, even if a few singers move to the new North stand.
Additionally at City, the vocal fans have always congregated around the away fans.
And if the new stand is all flexi gold it will be a moot point anyway as not many people will move .
So imo the most vocal area will remain the South Stand, both L1 and L3, when the new North Stand opens. As has been mentioned on here previously, it's a great shame 1894 didn't move to SSL3 when it opened.
Make SSL3 all safe standing.I watched the Rangers game today where the Union Bears, the main singing group, have been moved from one end of Ibrox to the other.
Previously the Union Bears had been in a corner of the Broomloan Stand where most people were stood up and the away fans were located, albeit in the opposite corner.
Today it seemed quite incongruous with the Union Bears stood in the middle of the Copland Road stand and fans in the blocks either side of them sat down.
It struck me that the atmosphere was worse, as previously those stood in the Broomloan stand would join in with the Union Bears but now being at the opposite end they didn't and neither did those fans sat adjacent to them in the Copland Road stand.
I think this is a cautionary tale for this new "all things to all people" North Stand and it's quite likely that those sat in front of the standing section at the back won't be joining in the songs and so the noise won't travel very far. Also, at the Etihad there are more people who will join in with songs in the south side of the ground than the north and there isn't going to be a mass movement of these people, even if a few singers move to the new North stand.
Additionally at City, the vocal fans have always congregated around the away fans.
And if the new stand is all flexi gold it will be a moot point anyway as not many people will move .
So imo the most vocal area will remain the South Stand, both L1 and L3, when the new North Stand opens. As has been mentioned on here previously, it's a great shame 1894 didn't move to SSL3 when it opened.
The front of the north stand?Make SSL3 all safe standing.
Have an OAP section somewhere else in the ground for those who can’t or won’t stand.