New Everton Stadium

[The Esk]

The key is not how many regular seats we can sell, it's how many premium seats - £200 a premium seat is 10x the current yield of a seat at Goodison.

A 60,000 seat stadium with 5,000 premium seats will generate 2.5 times current matchday income with no increase in regular seat prices.

 

[ashwuk76]

Hope to god that GP has a nicer fate than this!
From the Sporting Life website today:
"The Boleyn Ground was reportedly blown up on Monday evening for a movie called Fatal Score, which stars Pierce Brosnan and former WWE star Dave Bautista and is said to involve armed criminals holding fans hostage inside a football stadium".

I live in East London and know a couple of lads who were involved in the filming of this..

 

[Yorkie]

Hope to god that GP has a nicer fate than this!
From the Sporting Life website today:
"The Boleyn Ground was reportedly blown up on Monday evening for a movie called Fatal Score, which stars Pierce Brosnan and former WWE star Dave Bautista and is said to involve armed criminals holding fans hostage inside a football stadium".

That's horrific! Was it properly leveled or just a bit of it damaged?

 

[Mikelangelo]

I live in East London and know a couple of lads who were involved in the filming of this..

you forgot to finish your story....

 

[The binman chronicles]

That's horrific! Was it properly leveled or just a bit of it damaged?

Just superficial damage, even the seats in that area were still left in reasonable condition. It will be knocked down fairly soon though.

 

[Jacko93]

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we will never regularly fill a 50,000 seater never mind 60k, whoever made that up is talking absolute rubbish

Dont know about the dock next door stuff, but the numbers aren't "absolute rubbish". The top number of 70k is actually a conservative number on what I heard as regards the absolute maximum for expansion.

 

[TheFinnFan]

Mate, it looks like a railway station and or a warehouse!

That kind of industrial look is boss. Would suit us and the docks like nose in the head. Timeless and classy.

 

[TheFinnFan]

That would be great apart from when the sunsets and blinds everyone!!

Sun doesnt set when EFC plays x

 

[TheFinnFan]

Funny you should mention that as Chelsea tried to buy Battersea Power Station for their stadium a few years ago. Thankfully they were turned away but this was their plan:

Amazing.

 

[gorgeousgeorgeEFC]

we will never regularly fill a 50,000 seater never mind 60k, whoever made that up is talking absolute rubbish

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, though, 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.

If our new stadium is going to be smaller than Spurs' new ground (61,000 all-seater) then we might as well not bother.

 

[Goat]

Its off lads, George said it aint worth it.

 

[scratchnsurf]

Its off lads, George said it aint worth it.

Really? Sad times.

Let me get out the blameometer to see how much fume I need to expend.

 

[Trueblue1878]

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  to seat 60,000, with room for expansion to 70k is the remit, and its not just Bramley dock, but the one adjacent too

The Kopites will be apoplectic about this if it's true.

I would be delighted. All those blues who think that we'd not even fill 50k need to just think back to the 80's. At a time when goodison held 49k a good barometer on attendance was if the top balcony at the park end was full then we were at capacity.
This happened regular regardless of the "official" attendance being listed as 30+k, obviously a tax fiddle.

 

[ggooggooggoo]

Amazing.

awful

 

[Saint Domingo]

The Kopites will be apoplectic about this if it's true.

I would be delighted. All those blues who think that we'd not even fill 50k need to just think back to the 80's. At a time when goodison held 49k a good barometer on attendance was if the top balcony at the park end was full then we were at capacity.
This happened regular regardless of the "official" attendance being listed as 30+k, obviously a tax fiddle.

We sell out every single big cup game or league game, and get near a full house for every single league fixture even when we're not doing well. There's clearly a demand there to increase the capacity.