New Everton Stadium

[maccavennie]

Who's bringing the stickle bricks?

Boss that mate. If you could change the red bricks to blue please mate and maybe cut out EFC and glue that on and we have a winner.

 

[AndyC]

Needs mustn't though necessarily. With a fraction of the expenditure required for a new ground GP could be upgraded and expanded to leave us with a mix of the new (improvements to the Park End and the Main Stand) and the old (Gwladys St and Bullend Rd) unique in England.

The footprint of GP simply isn't big enough to accommodate expansion and the level of upgrade required. Much as we'd all probably prefer that, it simply won't happen as there isn't the space and it still would not resolve the access and parking issues we currently endure. I love GP as much as the next Blue, but we have to face up to realities, to grow our match-attending fan-base and the revenue streams that would engender, we need a stadium that can hold 48,000 and ideally with sufficient capability to expand to 55,000 when required.

 

[bluemangroup]

Who's bringing the stickle bricks?

I don't think that is going to hold 50,000 and the pitch is one of those horrible 3G jobs.

 

[Carlito]

I'd prefer to wait until the current board are gone before attempting to re-locate.

They absolutely cannot be trusted to take on a task of such magnitude.

 

[maccavennie]

I don't think that is going to hold 50,000 and the pitch is one of those horrible 3G jobs.

It's It's a triple decker stand and terracing behind the goal, of course that can hold 50k! !

 

[blulouie]

Take this stadium and paint anything that's yellow, blue!

Love to mate, but be hard filling It....83 k plus...awsome tho.

 

[ijjysmith]

Love to mate, but be hard filling It....83 k plus...awsome tho.

True - like a smaller version of that.

 

[bluemangroup]

It's It's a triple decker stand and terracing behind the goal, of course that can hold 50k! !

That roof is a health and safety disaster waiting to happen.

 

[Pat's Van]

It's It's a triple decker stand and terracing behind the goal, of course that can hold 50k! !

and it's stickle which means we won't fall out of our seats and that's got to be a bonus in this day and age

 

[magicjuan]

It has to be done right. I just cannot see GP being remodelled at all and within a cost we can afford. Cannot see any way of getting rid of obstructed views without taking stands down and rebuilding. We all talk of the club progressing, to me it is GP which is holding the club back not so much the Board who admittedly have not helped. With a new stadium built or planned it is possible the club could then attract a moneyed interest ala Spurs.

There is a very strong argument that it is Goodison that has driven us on, no matter what you do with a new stadium you cannot guarantee an atmosphere, the Old girl has that, noted by many players and managers of opposition.

I would argue that the case for a new stadium isn't to please existing supporters but to attract daytrippers the way 'big' clubs do, as they spend in the shops more.

You want a football experience or you want an arcade with a pitch, with Everton it is so dependant upon outside forces with a ground move, and their input will be higher on the list of priorities than those of existing supporters, DK was testament to that.

 

[ically]

All this rubbish about GP, the existing footprint, it can't be redeveloped etc.....

It can be done and has been proven on a previous feasibility study.
It just takes the will and the obvious funding(which our current board have neither)

They want a "Effectively free" stadium, which in turn, will make a massive profit on their shares when they sell them.

 

[Moomin]

Robert Earl has got this Stadium designed, so he and his spiv mates can ski down the roof of the stands while watching the game.

 

[Toffeelover]

There is a very strong argument that it is Goodison that has driven us on, no matter what you do with a new stadium you cannot guarantee an atmosphere, the Old girl has that, noted by many players and managers of opposition.

I would argue that the case for a new stadium isn't to please existing supporters but to attract daytrippers the way 'big' clubs do, as they spend in the shops more.

You want a football experience or you want an arcade with a pitch, with Everton it is so dependant upon outside forces with a ground move, and their input will be higher on the list of priorities than those of existing supporters, DK was testament to that.

Of course there is sentimentality, but how else can one get rid of the restricted views that GP has, I live in Burnley now and even Turf Moor has better views than GP.

 

[Dymak]

There is a very strong argument that it is Goodison that has driven us on, no matter what you do with a new stadium you cannot guarantee an atmosphere, the Old girl has that, noted by many players and managers of opposition.

I would argue that the case for a new stadium isn't to please existing supporters but to attract daytrippers the way 'big' clubs do, as they spend in the shops more.

You want a football experience or you want an arcade with a pitch, with Everton it is so dependant upon outside forces with a ground move, and their input will be higher on the list of priorities than those of existing supporters, DK was testament to that.

Do you honestly think it is Goodison that provides the atmosphere? Or the people who sit in it? It can provide a nostalgic atmosphere, but it doesn’t increase crowd decibels. We’ve all been to Goodison when the atmosphere has been diabolical.

 

[cjuk87]

I'm sick of hearing an argument against a bowl shape because "we'll lose atmosphere"

I'll get stick for this, but i'm being honest...apart from when we play the big boys, Goodison is silent. It's shockingly bad at times, (like the majority of prem grounds now tbf)

So for me, i don't care if it's a bowl or stands, as long as we get a new developed stadium which brings in money and lets us fight with the bigger boys.

If we want atmosphere, be it in a bowl or stand, we can easily organise the loud ones to sit together.

Not that we're getting a new stadium anyway...