Lavinda Past
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That's CB1 FOC behaviour. Possibly got a bit confused without their helper. Did they have a blanket over their lap?
Time to move the family stand
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LongsightM13
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Spot on. If your shit team is getting humiliated on the pitch.. resort to singing nursery rhymes about libraries and fire drills .. because it’s all you’ve got
Danny Hoekman
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Far more no shows in SS3. Where should we move them?
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.
Lavinda Past
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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.
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
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.
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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.
LongsightM13
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The roof?
Cheadle_hulmeBlue
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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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Well at least the Leeds fans must of got the memo the other night
JGL07
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That may well be the case but I have had a season ticket in NSL 2 for the past eight years. My youngest child is 36 and has two children of her own. It has never been an exclusive family stand to my knowledge over that period.
BlueMoonRisin’
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I've read most of this thread and I'm not sure whether anybody has mentioned one point I have. Two points in order to get the atmosphere sorted in future for good!
Point one, a few have previously mentioned that when we do finally extend the North stand we do it properly. By properly make it one stand throughout like The Wall at Dortmund.
Second point. We are now allowed safe standing, great it's what most wanted who care enough anyway. But rather than allocate each SC holder with an individual seat to stand in front of the club should allow a roving seat where fans can choose where they want to be and who they want to gather with.
If allowed, THIS WILL determine where the epicentre of our most vociferous supports emanates from. It's a no brainer to me, especially now the police have face recognition cameras. It would finall congeal and unite all the small pockets of vocal fans in one place.
It's not hard to do and would definitely be to our advantage. The club need to act on what the match attending supporters think is what is best for us supporters and the club.
Point one, a few have previously mentioned that when we do finally extend the North stand we do it properly. By properly make it one stand throughout like The Wall at Dortmund.
Second point. We are now allowed safe standing, great it's what most wanted who care enough anyway. But rather than allocate each SC holder with an individual seat to stand in front of the club should allow a roving seat where fans can choose where they want to be and who they want to gather with.
If allowed, THIS WILL determine where the epicentre of our most vociferous supports emanates from. It's a no brainer to me, especially now the police have face recognition cameras. It would finall congeal and unite all the small pockets of vocal fans in one place.
It's not hard to do and would definitely be to our advantage. The club need to act on what the match attending supporters think is what is best for us supporters and the club.
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That's interesting
That sounds like a reasonable idea to me, do other grounds take this approach?
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Good points but look at the safe standing when the teams come out. Most are still in the concourse. With safe standing you do need a recognised seat so it won’t happen. And would most of the noisier fans move away from away fans. Lots locate there for “banter” which by the way does not create an atmosphere.
Sack spending fortunes on extending the NS. Build a new purpose built stadium.
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SS3 isn’t either as I observe from the NS! I agree about Family Stand but don’t think SS3 fills up because it doesn’t.
Hence my previous point, forget the notion of a family stand and just make it more affordable to get families in all around the ground. Put rail seating in NSL1 and encourage young adults to move into there. A mass relocation isn’t required, anybody who wants to move out because they don’t want to stand gets their pick of the rest of the stadium before anybody else can look at relocating. It shouldn’t be that difficult to do if what you say is correct.
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Those rows tend to be given away to schools or clubs, if they want to do that put them up in the top tiers somewhere, put the £325 SSL3 people in the lower tiers and you will fill it. I pay basically £18 a game it’s unreal when I tell people that, to watch this team, however drop down to the bottom tier it’s at least double, ye I know you are closer but the view is brilliant in level 3, even if you drop down towards the front it’s fantastic. City want to sell out reduce prices down, let’s say £500 through the stadium just short of £25 a game, who could say they can’t afford that. If I put my ticket in the the exchange they try to sell it for about £40-50, very rarely a gets sold as it’s a single, stick it on for £25 I guarantee it would be sold, if City stop been greedy on those tickets they would be snapped up.