United Thread - 2023/24

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Bluesince1979 said:
A red i know said “well you had a stadium built for you, why shouldnt we?”

Well we didnt have a stadium built for us did we. Manchester built a stadium for the commonwealth games, and we agreed to take it on as tenants post games, otherwise it would have been a total white elephant (at best) or demolished (at worse).

Our deal with the council was beneficial for both parties.
We havent had it for free.

Also, when i said “you want a ground redeveloped/rebuilt for free AGAIN” he had no idea what i meant. Gave him a clue with world cup 66? Nope. So then just told him, to which his reply was “bollocks”

Ah well
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As I’ve said before, if we hadn’t agreed to take on the Commonwealth Games stadium (CoMS), it would never have been built.

A temporary one would have been erected for the Games.
 
OntarioBlue said:
I just heard on the news that the Rags are planning to move some season ticket holders next season to make way for academy players and that going forward fans must attend 17 of 19 home league games or risk losing their season ticket.

Interesting excercise in customer relations!
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Imagine being forced to physically watch that shower at least 17 times!!

I suppose if they lose season ticket holders, they could sell the seats to MI5/MI6 to use as a form of mental torture on terrorists, instead of water-boarding
 
KS55 said:
Correct. Planned 80,000, actual about 20,000
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One of the very few City away wins I have witnessed was at Vale Park, in the 1999/2000 season.

1-0 down at half-time, Joe brought Bish and SWP on, and they caused absolute havoc in the Vale defence.

We won 2-1.

I’ve also seen us win at Home Park, Plymouth and Plainmoor, Torquay.
 
Vienna_70 said:
One of the very few City away wins I have witnessed was at Vale Park, in the 1999/2000 season.

1-0 down at half-time, Joe brought Bish and SWP on, and they caused absolute havoc in the Vale defence.

We won 2-1.

I’ve also seen us win at Home Park, Plymouth and Plainmoor, Torquay.
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I watched us win a pre-season friendly there, Dickov scored and Barton I think. I was sat about 20 seats away from Paul Power.
 
mrbelfry said:
If they do build a new stadium what will happen with the current one. Presumably it will be knocked down but Id hope it wouldn't stay an urban wasteland and they'd actually attempt to improve the area. Maybe a sewage works?
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Scruffy Jim has said that it could be used as their training facilities and for the Ladies team. So probably trying to keep it whilst the mens team play in a swanky new stadium.
Meanwhile, their current training ground at Carrington could then be used for fracking.
 
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