Mayor's Bramley Moore Dock Open Letter To Evertonians

[davek]

I do agree with this though. Some things don't change I guess.

Shoving forward to deliver their own news a designer with no formal connection to the club and a Mayor who only a month ago was calling Everton out for 'stabbing the city in the back' over the S*n issue.

How cowardly can this organisation's bosses get? They are reprehensible.

 

[SerenityNigh]

What do they get by lying about their intentions?

Uh-oh, you've just bat-signaled the BU brigade

 

[catcherintherye]

Well I assume they can have seats there, take them out and install a track and then take the track out and put the seats back once it's done?

With the constant advances in technology there's probably an efficient way of doing that, and maybe the council will cover the costs of doing it as a favour to us for letting them essentially "borrow" the ground for a bit?

They pay to take out the seats and put in the track, we have the games, once the games are over they pay to put the seats back in again

So long as they're paying for it, I'm not that bothered really

Now if they want us to pay for it and it's considerably more of a hassle than that, then I'm going to be somewhat more perturbed

The bear minimum is they are paying us to renovate our stadium for their games. What will be very interesting is what else they are paying us for renting the stadium for that time. LCC will benefit to the tune of hundreds of millions of pounds as a result of this, and it can't go ahead without our proposed new Stadium. Somebody at the club needs to be negotiating a significant figure to be paid to us for rent, and also agreement of priority arrangements as we go on with building the stadium as part of this deal.

 

[Eggs]

They havent.

..oh, I thought I'd missed something.

 

[catcherintherye]

Shoving forward to deliver their own news a designer with no formal connection to the club and a Mayor who only a month ago was calling Everton out for 'stabbing the city in the back' over the S*n issue.

How cowardly can this organisation's bosses get? They are reprehensible.

When has our Chairman ever come up and fronted the fans with any bad news?

 

[davek]

When has our Chairman ever come up and fronted the fans with any bad news?

Never.

I do expect the CEO of the club to do that job though. Why hasn't he piped up?

 

[ijjysmith]

They said it won't effect how close the stands are to the pitch.

That's their words they have to stick to now.

How? I do not have a clue. But it's not my job to know. It's theirs. It's now what is expected.

You can say it's not possible and ask how as much as you want, they've said it won't. Therefore if it does then they've let us down.

 

[bicycleheader]

On a more serious note, if they paint everything and then have to put a track in and take it out, it's going to ruin the paint job. I don't know if they have thought of this

 

[SerenityNigh]

Oh dear god no, not again......

I've just cancelled my Klaassen 8 shirt order...

 

[GrandOldTeam]

Can no one else just envisage them building the running track very high? Hypothetically, we build a 55,000 stadium, you build it up so much that it eradicates a large chunk of the lower like Hampden did?

I'm concerned too, but trying to see the positives here.

Have you been to Hampden mate?

I was there for the Commonwealth games - it represents every concern I have over Everton's new stadium;

 

[KUEFC09U2]

When has our Chairman ever come up and fronted the fans with any bad news?

What bad news ffs?

 

[Amw79]

Or one design but featuring different technology

even just that would have implications in terms of the design and cost.

 

[IllinoisBlue]

Not sure why there needs to be anything retractable or removable. It's a football stadium that may host a one-off athletics event. The temporary athletics track could be constructed on top of the lower sections of seating, as far as is needed to get the track to the correct width. I can't see them putting a whole lot of design constraints on a stadium that is to last us 100 years on the off chance we may host a one-off athletics event.

 

[LinekersLegs]

What is the current betting on Liverpool getting the games?

 

[ianefc]

You can replicate something without copying it.
Goodison is a 40k seat stadium on a tiny footprint. Totally agree that an athletic track could not be done there.

But we're not trying to build an athletics track at goodison. At the docks we're wanting a 50-60k stadium on a bigger footprint. It's the atmosphere and intimidation we're trying to recreate, not the exact design of goodison - otherwise we'd just stay there.
Let the experts get on with it and chill out.

I'll understand the moaning if plans are released and they confirm your suspicions. But at the moment you're simply choosing to not believe someone who is a world leading expert in their furled because you don't know how they're going to do something. Seems a bit of an on thing to get worked up about.

I liked your post, but I think it's human nature to air on the side of caution, especially when we are hoping for something that doesn't seem to have been done, or at least done well before.

But you make a great point, they are the experts, we are not.

The bigger concern is does this delay the design as we won't know the host city for a while.