North Stand Construction Discussion

[Keeper!]

United and their fans are active at improving the atmosphere at Old Trafford. Whilst we still have no idea what City’s final plans for the new North stand home end will be.

Where are our club led initiatives at improving the atmosphere at the Etihad when the North stand is expanded? All we hear from the club is a wall of silence on that matter. And constant references from the directors about improving match day revenues and nothing else.

Never mind just talking to City Matters, 1894, and selected fan groups, talk to the wider City fan base via the OS. Let us know what your plans are for improving the atmosphere ‘in conjunction with the fans’ when the North stand is expanded. As it is you‘re not telling us anything.

United.

Another significant change is the replacement of executive seating in the Stretford End and reallocating the area to ordinary season ticket holders. Applications will be accepted from existing season ticket holders, and 500 seats will be reserved for fans aged 16-25 with a special ‘youth season ticket’ priced at £16 ($20) per game. United said that the initiative, which had been planned from last year, aims to enhance the atmosphere and support for the team.

TRA, a United fan group that sits in the Stretford End above the tunnel, will now be behind the goal in former executive seats, occupying 2,700. The TRA’s old section of 1,800 will now be occupied by youth tickets and season ticket holders who go to away games, with applications open.

United also plan to expand safe standing areas by adding 1,300 in the first tier of the North-West quadrant, known as the Sir Alex Ferguson stand. With this expansion, over 10 per cent of the general admission capacity and all four corners of Old Trafford will have safe standing areas.

"United and their fans are active at improving the atmosphere at Old Trafford."

Singing in the rain....

This atmosphere thing is becoming far too repetitive, it's an issue at ALL stadium's and will never change because the game is no longer for the working man/woman, football is an expensive hobby and society has changed.

Just be grateful that our club is continuously building and improving an already top class stadium.

 

[Centurions]

Yep. And we all know there’s going to be corporate stuck smack bang in the middle of what should be a dedicated City end.
Still irritating that they, the cult and Newcastle are allowed to flout the various PL rules simply because they don’t want to pay for the necessary works. Especially as they’ve had years to sort it out

Except we don't "all know there's going to be corporate stuck smack bang in the middle of what should be a dedicated City end" because that's bollocks and you won't find that stated anywhere whatsoever. Why post crap that's only in your own head as fact?

 

[Centurions]

Above.

From next season United will have 4,500 singers in and next to the Stratford End.

We have 1 official singing block, block/section 115, mixed with people who sing, sing some times, and don’t sing at all.

As for the other singers and potential singers, they are spread all over the stadium in small pockets of singers or as (brave) individual singers in areas of the ground where people don’t sing.

Can we at least let them get it half built before complaining about the atmosphere :(

 

[Francis Crawford]

United and their fans are active at improving the atmosphere at Old Trafford. Whilst we still have no idea what City’s final plans for the new North stand home end will be.

Where are our club led initiatives at improving the atmosphere at the Etihad when the North stand is expanded? All we hear from the club is a wall of silence on that matter. And constant references from the directors about improving match day revenues and nothing else.

Never mind just talking to City Matters, 1894, and selected fan groups, talk to the wider City fan base via the OS. Let us know what your plans are for improving the atmosphere ‘in conjunction with the fans’ when the North stand is expanded. As it is you‘re not telling us anything.

United.

Another significant change is the replacement of executive seating in the Stretford End and reallocating the area to ordinary season ticket holders. Applications will be accepted from existing season ticket holders, and 500 seats will be reserved for fans aged 16-25 with a special ‘youth season ticket’ priced at £16 ($20) per game. United said that the initiative, which had been planned from last year, aims to enhance the atmosphere and support for the team.

TRA, a United fan group that sits in the Stretford End above the tunnel, will now be behind the goal in former executive seats, occupying 2,700. The TRA’s old section of 1,800 will now be occupied by youth tickets and season ticket holders who go to away games, with applications open.

United also plan to expand safe standing areas by adding 1,300 in the first tier of the North-West quadrant, known as the Sir Alex Ferguson stand. With this expansion, over 10 per cent of the general admission capacity and all four corners of Old Trafford will have safe standing areas.

Do u not think it’s just that utd can no longer get away with othering that part of the stadium as hospitality?-its rank !,compered to what City have to offer Utds cooperate hospitality is like comparing the Ritz with a little chef .

 

[CC1]

Yep. And we all know there’s going to be corporate stuck smack bang in the middle of what should be a dedicated City end.
Still irritating that they, the cult and Newcastle are allowed to flout the various PL rules simply because they don’t want to pay for the necessary works. Especially as they’ve had years to sort it out

Hi. I haven’t seen this mentioned anywhere. Could you post a link showing this proposal. Then we can all write to the club about it……or have you just decided that this is happening?

 

[CC1]

If you don’t want to read what I post scroll past it. It will take you a second. A shorter amount of time than it took you to write that and to post it. Eventually the thread will go back to topic.

It’s important! It highlights the differences between what the 2 clubs are doing to improve the atmospheres at both grounds. The atmosphere at the Etihad is an important part of the expanded North stand expansion and this thread.

It irks me that United, apologies for bringing the up again, are publicly working with their fans to improve the atmosphere at Old Trafford by ‘implementing positive fan led initiatives’, whilst City are saying nothing publicly about improving the atmosphere at the Etihad via the North stand expansion, but are publicly saying the Etihad stadium is constraint and the club will have to find different ways of driving match day revenues because of that, ie, more hospitality areas(at the front of NSL2), etc. The club comments aside, we all know what the PA shows, which isn’t promising, but there’s no need to go into that again.

Or maybe they can’t sell the corporate

 

[CC1]

Do u not think it’s just that utd can no longer get away with othering that part of the stadium as hospitality?-its rank !,compered to what City have to offer Utds cooperate hospitality is like comparing the Ritz with a little chef .

Exactly. I’ve got friends (!) who are ST holders & they say the corporate is struggling to sell because it’s rank.

 

[HelloCity]

What’s everybody’s favourite expansion of Old Trafford (the theatre of dreams) so far?

Always loved how big the North Stand, now Sir Alex Ferguson Stand, is. Such an epic scale and I believe it even holds 26000.

It will be exciting to see how their stadium develops under the new part ownership.

 

[Keeper!]

Can we at least let them get it half built before complaining about the atmosphere :(

I also want to know where this notion of Corporate/Hospitality tickets don't create atmosphere.

There are "popular" areas of the ground where the atmosphere in a cemetery is better.

I don't even think the club are 100% certain how the completed stand will be configured, so the early speculation is stupid.

 

[Keeper!]

Or maybe they can’t sell the corporate

Uncle Jim is buying up all the corporate sections and giving them away in a weekly draw in the Evening Standard.