Time to move the family stand

jrb said:
TBH my memory isn’t great, so I’ll accept that.

However, I seem to remember the stadium being full or almost full most of the time prior to the Pearce season, when he single handedly shaved 1000’s off the gate with his dire football that season and the following season. Hughes struggled to get the fans back. Mancini and his great title winning team brought the fans back in their drives. I don’t recall much piss taking of our attendances then. Or empty seat jibes.
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It only became a thing when we started winning stuff.
Consolation tales for bitter, arrogant, entitled, smacked arses whose clubs used to win stuff
 
jrb said:
TBH my memory isn’t great, so I’ll accept that.

However, I seem to remember the stadium being full or almost full most of the time prior to Pearce, when he single handedly shaved 1000’s off the gate with his dire football that season and the following season. Hughes struggled to get the fans back. Mancini and his great title winning team brought the fans back in their drives. I don’t recall much piss taking of our attendances then, or empty seat jibes.
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There was no Pearce season, he did very well in his first season + it was an improvement on Keegan.

Then we had Sven after Pearce's 2+ seasons.

The drop off under Pearce's first season was due to selling our best players, Anelka and SWP and not replacing, them, the club were skint and Keegan had gone ultra defensive in the end with Mills and Thatcher, almost like 4 centre backs.
 
MadchesterCity said:
The solution is easy right, extend the North Stand

Safe standing level 1
Family Level 2
Cheap Seating Level 3
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I thought the idea for the North Stand to be developed as a single tier, like Spuds new ground.
If so, have seats at the back half and safe standing the front half, with the whole stand a fixed £30 for 18+ and £15 for under 18s.... Sit/stand where you want, all pay on the day.
Have family s/cards relocated to the front 10 rows of CB1, out of TV camera range

I do like the idea of having a family zone at the academy stadium with entertainment, mascots etc and matches beamed live to big screens.
 
Corky said:
There was no Pearce season, he did very well in his first season + it was an improvement on Keegan.

Then we had Sven after Pearce's 2+ seasons.

The drop off under Pearce's first season was due to selling our best players, Anelka and SWP and not replacing, them, the club were skint and Keegan had gone ultra defensive in the end with Mills and Thatcher, almost like 4 centre backs.
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At least Beanie didn’t give up going to the home matches until Pearce got the sack and he took Beanie home with him for the last time.

You must have read the story yourself by now. The Blues were playing so badly they couldn't have beaten the Blind School. The whispers about Pearce's future were gathering momentum. Who could he turn to for help? No-one it seemed until his seven-year-old daughter Chelsea offered salvation. "Keep my cuddly toy Beanie Horse by your side during the match against West Ham," she said "and your worries will be over."

City will curse day of the Beanie

SO now we know how the Blessed Blues got their season back on track with that welcome victory over West Ham last Saturday. It wasn't all those hours on the training pitch. It wasn't all those hours spent studying footage of West Ham's recent matches. It wasn't the Churchillian team-talk...
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

This inability to find the back of the net at home for five long, barren months nearly cost City their Premier League status in a campaign which could be seen as a turning point in the club’s history.

At times in that period from January to May it as if there were an invisible force field in front of the opposition goal as City’s strike force of Samaras, Bernardo Corradi, Paul Dickov and Darius Vassell toiled against a toxic whirlwind of woodwork, inspired goalkeeping and failing confidence.

720 minutes. Eight games. Five months. No goals.

Earlier in the season, Pearce had enlisted the services of his daughter Chelsea’s horse toy, “Beanie” on the touchline but the good luck properties of this equine mascot had run dry by the time Emile Mpenza signed for the club in January.

www.mancity.com

Etihad Ten: The Goal Drought of 06/07

The darkest hour is just before the dawn...
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Dodgy ankle said:
Sorry mate but your memory is different to mine, it didn't sell out many times, only the big games. Have a look back through some of the season dvd's there were lots of empty seats (sadly). Our fan base has grown since those days but not necessarily fast enough to fill all the seats all the time. I'm sure the family stand issues do need addressing though. Coincidentally during the second half I relocated fro ESL1 to the corner of the NSL1 during the Leicester game just to experience it myself, it was soulless & lacked even less "vibe" than my own seat, at 80 mins the exodus started (not only NSL) thousands missed the 6th goal. Keep smiling.
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I remember I think under keegan when we played Portsmouth and it was distins first game back. Most of the north stand was singing ‘Distin what’s the score’. Something like that rarely seems to happen now.
 
Danny Hoekman said:
Far more no shows in SS3. Where should we move them?
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don’t agree with that. The family stand is regularly not full. A prime location - it doesn’t look great. Much rather have a proper home end and some atmosphere at that end of the ground

it’s not just no shows either.. as said previously the club are making rows of tickets unavailable in the family stand, which aren’t always being sold on.
 
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