Did the Hamburg trip, great novelty to play a European away. Remember some Hamburg fans asking if we had any players they would know, named most of the team and was greeted with blank looks.
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What Happened to Manchester City's Maine Road
- Thread starter uncle fester
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I think all area's were better for pubs then, I bet there were a quite a few pubs in the area of the Etihad back in the day.Still prefer it to the etihad. Especially the area. Much better for pubs
DontLookBackInAnger
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Yep his last game for the club was the cup final reply loss when he scored that volley.....Thats amazing, I remember Peter Barnes & Gary Owen going to west brom but I had no idea Steve Mackenzie went there as well?
Sky Blue Thinking
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An overlooked goal that would have been worthy of winning any cup final.Yep his last game for the club was the cup final reply loss when he scored that volley.....
DontLookBackInAnger
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Totally! sadly the winning goal was pretty good too!!! It reminds me a little of Darren Fletcher's goal in the 6-1 totally overlooked because of the narrative of the whole game(ironically also actually two very smilier goals)An overlooked goal that would have been worthy of winning any cup final.
Johnny Mars Bar
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They’ve given all the roads on the estate City related names. Trautmann street, Blue Moon Way etc.Happy memories. Its a shame that a little more hasn't been made of what used to stand there. I've seen the centre circle part, but is the rest of the grass really from the pitch?
Personally I don’t think they could/should’ve done much more.
I think the area has been nicely done. For affordable housing in a difficult area it really is a nice little estate that seems to be well maintained.
Nebuchadnezzar
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They’ve given all the roads on the estate City related names. Trautmann street, Blue Moon Way etc.
Personally I don’t think they could/should’ve done much more.
I think the area has been nicely done. For affordable housing in a difficult area it really is a nice little estate that seems to be well maintained.
I can't disagree with your reasoning
My dad got us season tickets in the north stand when the seats went in & that scoreboard was a real joke, start of every new season we used to think it would be fixed but I dont think it ever was, it took real skill at times to work out what the message was supposed to be there was that many bulbs out :-)Don't remember it ever workin
DontLookBackInAnger
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I worked with a system in the past not too too dissimilar to this and the issue when lights burnt out is that the power not being drawn to them boosts the other bulbs power.... so the more you lose the worse it gets, not sure if it applied here but I don't remember it working often!!!!My dad got us season tickets in the north stand when the seats went in & that scoreboard was a real joke, start of every new season we used to think it would be fixed but I dont think it ever was, it took real skill at times to work out what the message was supposed to be there was that many bulbs out :-)
JGL07
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The New Kippax stand may have massive but it didn’t hold that many people. That was the same issue with the Platt Lane rebuild. All is down to bad design.Call what you want no skin off my nose I've told you what I know
Just one comment re you downsizing; Of course it was downsizing, doesnt take an expert in construction to know, seats means less than standing. Within the constraints of the site the new Kippax as as large as possible and when opened the highest stand in the country in fact residents on Kippax Street could get Tv and the club had to put in relays
The stand held around 10,000. I think that the top tier had two rows of seats. The outcome is that City has to build an exposed open stand to pack a few more in and push the capacity up to 33,000.
In many ways it was a good thing that Swales made such an arse of the stadium as it helped convince the supporters that a move was not only desirable but essential when the COMS became available.