Stadium Expansion

from todays news its looking likely the stadium will be expanded so the info i got about that was right but looks like the 75k was wrong.
 
mikeee said:
from todays news its looking likely the stadium will be expanded so the info i got about that was right but looks like the 75k was wrong.
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However.....IF they are expanding it as seems to be the case....with the addition all at the one end, it allows for doing the south stand at a later date in the same manner. Up until now all the talk was to add upto 60k(or higher) adding to both ends
 
DontLookBackInAnger said:
mikeee said:
from todays news its looking likely the stadium will be expanded so the info i got about that was right but looks like the 75k was wrong.
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However.....IF they are expanding it as seems to be the case....with the addition all at the one end, it allows for doing the south stand at a later date in the same manner. Up until now all the talk was to add upto 60k(or higher) adding to both ends
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true. didnt think about that, time will tell anyway to see what happens.
 
mikeee said:
DontLookBackInAnger said:
However.....IF they are expanding it as seems to be the case....with the addition all at the one end, it allows for doing the south stand at a later date in the same manner. Up until now all the talk was to add upto 60k(or higher) adding to both ends
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true. didnt think about that, time will tell anyway to see what happens.
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Not sure how this can be done, to add a third tier to the North Stand would not see the ground capacity increased by 12000.
The whole North stand holds 6000. The third tier of the East and Bell ends hold aroun 8500, increasing the capacity to 60,000 by extending the just the Northstand is beyond me.
Unless im missing somthing.
 
The stadium expansion is likely to leave us with a significantly more impressive, but different structure.

But it aint gonna be no Maine Road ;-)
 
bridgeblue said:
mikeee said:
true. didnt think about that, time will tell anyway to see what happens.
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Not sure how this can be done, to add a third tier to the North Stand would not see the ground capacity increased by 12000.
The whole North stand holds 6000. The third tier of the East and Bell ends hold aroun 8500, increasing the capacity to 60,000 by extending the just the Northstand is beyond me.
Unless im missing somthing.
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You are . The corners. Furthermore you could make into a single end.
 
Marvin said:
bridgeblue said:
Not sure how this can be done, to add a third tier to the North Stand would not see the ground capacity increased by 12000.
The whole North stand holds 6000. The third tier of the East and Bell ends hold aroun 8500, increasing the capacity to 60,000 by extending the just the Northstand is beyond me.
Unless im missing somthing.
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You are . The corners. Furthermore you could make into a single end.
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Once the ends and corners are extended then the 2 other stands can be raised as well, and the roof could re-shaped.

The interesting bit about the first stand being turned into a Kop style is that they could quite easily start a new roof style there and move everything back.

I assume that as long as the 'floating' roof that remains can be held in place the thrust forces (or whatever they are called) can be grounded at any point further back?

Using the idea of a suspension bridge, new towers could accommodate that load leaving the stands free to be redeveloped independantly of the roof?<br /><br />-- Sat Mar 13, 2010 12:40 am --<br /><br />The roof structure comprises two separate structural systems. The first forms the roof surface, with radially arranged box-section steel roof beams at approximately 8m centres, supporting l-section steel beams at 4m centres.

The second structural system or 'primary structure' is the network of high strength steel cables and rods, along with the 12 masts from which the roof structure is hung. This 3-dimensional network of cables and rods is called a 'cable-net'. This is kept rigid by tension forces from a ring of cables just above the roof surface, and tied to the ground at the corners of the building. The cable-net structure resists the gravity, wind and lateral loads applied to the roof.
 
But the downside might leave this....

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Sounds just like transfer deadline day:

'A mate of mine who works there blah blah blah'

Usually turns out to be rubbish so expect this to be the same-75,000 would be a waste unless we won a serious amount of trophies over the next few years.

mikeee said:
A mate who works at city has told me the owners have put 400 million aside to expand the stadium to 75,000.

Can't see myself why we would make it that big, but hopefully its true.
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Watchman said:
well there is plenty of historical evidence

<a class="postlink" href="http://mcfcsupporterstrust.blogspot.com/2007/05/falling-attendances-post-season-update.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://mcfcsupporterstrust.blogspot.com ... pdate.html</a>

unless you are claiming that ther is suffienct demand to increase the stadium to 60-70k ?

when last season the COMS averaged an occupany rate of less than 84% ..or on avarage ..7.5k empty seats

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.purelymancity.com/index.php/12/20/a-closer-look-at-our-attendance-figures/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.purelymancity.com/index.php/ ... e-figures/</a>
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I know about 6 or 7 people who stopped going to the CoMS after a few years because it was a pain in the arse to get to and from the ground, they didn't like the stadium, they weren't enjoying the occasion, they went to 10 games at the start 2006 and didn't see a single goal that's £300 for nothing, in my Mams case because she wasn't well, and also with City having a huge amount of working class fans (this has been in the papers that the average City fan earns around £15k/yr!) the recession has hindered our attendances greatly!

and we had one, that's ONE (1), game where tickets were a fiver! and that was a sell out!

if I know 6 people, there must be THOUSANDS out there who are proper actual Mancunian City fans who just need re-encouraging to attent games and support the team! making transport links better, making the day out more enjoyable, making it a football stadium instead of a shit symetrical seating area with a pitch in the middle, making it cheaper, watching a good team, seeing goals, seein trophies, seeing us beat Barcelona instead of drawing 0-0 with Watford or losing to Leicester; will all massively increas our attendances!

There are EASILY 75,000 proper City fans in Manchester alone, easily! think of the size if the City and the history of us having 50-80,000 attendances throughout our history up until the 1980's!

60,000 would sell out next season! 75,000 would take a while longer but I reckon in 5 years it will be done! considering the population of this country, only a very small percentage actually go to the ground to support their teams, there are so many more people that can become foot supporters than at present!
 
Just no need for it at the moment and having thousands of empty seats every game would be deeply embarrassing. 48,000 is right on the money for the time being. I have no doubts there will be expansion in the future and at it will almost inevitably be three tiers on all sides.
 
Skashion said:
Just no need for it at the moment and having thousands of empty seats every game would be deeply embarrassing. 48,000 is right on the money for the time being. I have no doubts there will be expansion in the future and at it will almost inevitably be three tiers on all sides.
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You may be right, but say City were to bring in players like Villa, Ibrahimovic, Ribery, Gourcouff over the summer. Can you imagine demand for tickets? Im not saying this is going to happen but surely it is the right thing to do to get enough seats in just incase.
 
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