New Everton Stadium

[SingBlue]

As nice as the Roma stadium bowl looks, I still prefer Spurs' after seeing their 4 sided offering. I hope Everton go down that route.

Thought the new stadium will be the bowl design? Being built adjacent to the existing stadium (hence the modifications to the current ground that are affecting wind circulation). The pitch will slide out.

 

[deipnosophist]

Apotheosis, that's a word I haven't heard since school when I was reviewing Roman Architecture.

...this post dovetails nicely with recent chat toward Roma's stadium design lol

 

[Connor]

Jeez.

Where do we sign up?

 

[Goat]

Jeez.

Where do we sign up?

The thing is, its been on the go since at least last year, from what I can see no actual spade in the ground, but they are hoping for a 2019 completion.

Think Mr Andersons 3 year claim will be off by at least 2 years.

 

[kithnou]

Mate, I consider myself not inarticulate, but I cannot even begin to describe the incandescent fun I had...it was the apotheosis of 'good times'.

Apotheosis, that's a word I haven't heard since school when I was reviewing Roman Architecture.

Yet another one from our beautiful lexicon (yes I did it again).

 

[kithnou]

Thought the new stadium will be the bowl design? Being built adjacent to the existing stadium (hence the modifications to the current ground that are affecting wind circulation). The pitch will slide out.

I stand corrected. You are right. The internal pics just look so amazingly 4 sided they fooled me.

 

[allezlesbleus]

Blimey! Not sharing with Lazio any more then? Just look at the amount of space they are using there!!

 

[gorgeousgeorgeEFC]

People seem very sure about us hitting a 50k capacity regularly.

I reckon this year we'd do it for the Liverpool, United, city, Arsenal, Chelsea and then the Boxing Day/New Years day/Christmas games on the basis that it's not one of the above. That's not even half of home league games.

Even the ethiad is half empty at times.

I'd be gutted if we had a half empty stadium.

I presume that you're basing this unduly negative assessment on the fact that Goodison isn't always full to capacity. According to the club's own data, over a quarter of the seats at Goodison have an obstructed view! I wouldn't expect any club in world football to fill such a stadium every week. Who wants to fork out £40 to sit behind a post? In our new stadium, none of the seats will have an even remotely obstructed view.

When Arsenal played at Highbury they almost never had capacity attendances and Highbury only held 39,000 people. Conversely, the Emirates, a stadium with a capacity of 60,000, is almost always full. Fans are much more likely to fork out for a ticket at a state-of-the-art stadium than at a stadium that is riddled with obstructed views.

 

[vagant59]

I think we can if the price is good, for many its not so much the view that puts them off going to Goodison but they simply cant afford it.

I did not get a season ticket this year as i was late applying due to work, and found only obstructed views were left unsold. The price is pretty reasonable in my opinion

 

[gorgeousgeorgeEFC]

Do we know how much the RS spent taking a revamped Anfield to a 54,000 capacity?

Which means, for our part, that the new stadium has to be at least 55k, because we have to be making an important statement here. But are we brave enough to go to 60k in the first instance?

Spurs' new stadium (set to be completed in around 18 months) will have a capacity of 61,000. What's more, Chelsea, Man City and Sunderland (yes, Sunderland!) all have plans to increase the capacities of their respective stadia to well in excess of 60,000.

With that in mind, building a brand-new stadium with a capacity of just 55,000 would send out a message to the world that EFC is a second rate club that can only think small. Both Arsenal and West Ham already have bigger stadia than that today.

 

[The Cowboy]

Watch if you haven't already

52 mins! Can you tell me where the good bits are?

 

[The Cowboy]

Personally, I couldn't bear to see the word Liverpool in the name of our stadium. The learned Everton fans would be able to muse about how we are the first club in Liverpool etc, but at the end of the day, it would contain the name of our arch rivals. There is no real equivalent in British football to draw on, but I guess it'd be like Port Vale calling their new stadium The Stoke Stadium.

The Docklands Stadium, The LW Stadium (meaning Liverpool Waters but at least it wouldn't be directly in the name) or just have a sponsor from the off so we don't have to worry about it.

 

[Paul Dean]

The "Make Believe Stadium"

 

[Jeff Jones]

Any capacity should be bigger than Liverpool's. It's the starting point for any ambition. Even Arsene Wenger knows it. Building a new stadium smaller than Liverpool's existing one is just accepting our inferiority.

You've just helped that along by even mentioning it. We don't care what they say, remember?

 

[Jeff Jones]

Personally, I couldn't bear to see the word Liverpool in the name of our stadium. The learned Everton fans would be able to muse about how we are the first club in Liverpool etc, but at the end of the day, it would contain the name of our arch rivals. There is no real equivalent in British football to draw on, but I guess it'd be like Port Vale calling their new stadium The Stoke Stadium.

The Docklands Stadium, The LW Stadium (meaning Liverpool Waters but at least it wouldn't be directly in the name) or just have a sponsor from the off so we don't have to worry about it.

Your all mad! Liverpool has been there for hundreds of years, and doesn't belong to LFC.

I doubt that that name of the city would be used in the stadium name, but it wouldn't bother me.

I'm an Evertonian, born and raised in Liverpool, proud of it, and I'm not that insecure.