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Just noticed the furniture store. Surely not IKEA?
North Stand - fans being moved for "City Hall" GA+ section
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This is what our sister club are doing with their North Stand, it gives an idea of what CFG and City are doing regarding stadium design, as a lot of the features mentioned here are also at the Etihad- City Hall, City Square and the Tunnel Club
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A First Look at the Supporters Section at the North End of New York City Fc’s Stadium in Queens | New York City FC
Etihad Park - New York City FC Stadium. The First-Ever Soccer-Specific Stadium in New York City.etihadpark.com
A first look at the supporters section(Ultra's everywhere else) at the north end of New York City FC’s stadium in Queens, including: The Supporters Porch: a 9,000+ sq ft outdoor bar & gathering area, 3,400 safe-standing positions, mural wall for fan-created designs, three ‘capo’ stands and a drum platform, and a roof canopy designed to hang tifos.
Hopefully, the power at Manchester City can copy this to our North Stand, but on a bigger scale
The video below shows what the NYCFC is going to have at their stadium
Different set of directors. Perhaps they actually listen to what their fans want.
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I read that United have put 6,000 rail seats in one of there second tiers. Why can’t we do similar?
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I’m surprised we haven’t done it in the home section of 314 where most people stand anyway.
Because that won’t generate the match day revenue from the new North stand that the directors want.
The compromise is 3000 rail seats, with a possible 1000 extra rail seats, if the initial 3000 rail seats sell out, which won’t happen, as a percentage of those rail seats are match day ticket sales, so we won’t know if all the rail seats have sold out until ticket sales show they have on the OS ticket website.
The club may add the extra 1000 rail seats at the end of this season, in time for next season, if the rail seats do sell out for every home game after NSL2 is opened early next year.
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Centurions
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If the new seats/standing do open early next year are you thinking that relocations will be allowed before season end? Not something I'd considered myself, besides the small number of people who decide against staying at the back of tier 0. They'd get first dibs I'd have thought regardless but that would make sense.
Any standing places not taken up this season will obviously be sold as matchday, but if all 3,000 go quickly to relocates I wonder what the timescale would look like to replace some seats with more standing areas? Close season presumably?
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Offsite is done via Viagogo now isn't it?
You don't find out the restaurant until closer to the date, and for Sunderland the only remaining ones are for Gaucho, not Tast as displayed.
On Viagogo the price drops lower than GN tickets if they don't sell, and even with booking fee it can end up cheaper than GN. Viagogo are going to be offering free offsite back to City staff, when they can get rid for £30.
Try booking Tast offside via the City website.
EastMidlandsBlue
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Just had a thought. One of the reasons for the expansion is so that the Etihad can be host to neutral fixtures, including major European finals.
Neutral games usually have fans of the teams behind the goals, with coorperate/Neutral sections along the side.
If we were to host a UCL final, where would the fans go if we've got a big coorperate section behind one of the goals
Neutral games usually have fans of the teams behind the goals, with coorperate/Neutral sections along the side.
If we were to host a UCL final, where would the fans go if we've got a big coorperate section behind one of the goals
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We already have a corporate bit in the south stand. This would even things up.
Also, UCL finals tend to be 25% to the competing teams (if they are lucky) so there wil be plenty of hangers-on to use the corporate bits.
In any case we won't get a CL final as Wembley will still hold nearly 30,000 more, London is a bigger draw than Manchester (since they closed the original Jilly's on Gore Street) and public transport to and from Wembley is ten times better than public transport to the Etihad. - And you can park closer to the ground.
We might get a Thursday League final, though we don't want it if Rangers are involved.