New Everton Stadium

[deipnosophist]

I'm good Carlos...you?
Ted Baxter was my favourite character

 

[Moomin]

The Minnesota Vikings are the team I support in the NFL. I started supporting them after watching The Mary Tyler Moore Show reruns about 5 years ago. They (the Vikings) have been rubbish until recently. Their new stadium has without question improved them from rubbish status to 'decent'.
Everton are currently decent...with a new stadium we will become a footballing super power.

I started to support them when they missed the easy field goal in the playoff finals.

It was so Everton.

 

[deipnosophist]

I started to support them when they missed the easy field goal in the playoff finals.

It was so Everton.

lol...that's what especially endeared them to me as well! Mary, Lou, Ted, Murray, Sue-Ann et al put Minnesota on the map for me, but their 'Everton that' balls-up sealed the relationship.

 

[Phil86]

St Louis Rams stadium planned for the riverfront, next to the Mississippi River:

Haven't the Rams gone back to being based in LA? Impressive stadium non the less

 

[ToffeeTim]

Haven't the Rams gone back to being based in LA? Impressive stadium non the less

Yea it's the LA Rams now, and yea the stadium in St Louis was great

 

[deipnosophist]

Are you sure? I thought the Missouri was longer than the Mississippi....and the Ohio river joined the Mississippi a bit further north (in Illinois).

 

[Shropshire Blue]

That looks too wet, windy and cold for the banks of the royal blue Mersey.
Bit of drizzle and a breeze off the river and we'd all drown or freeze to death.

 

[gorgeousgeorgeEFC]

What are you on about 'even smaller than St James Park'? Have you seen our current ground compared with St James?

I was just making the point that Everton Football Club and its fans deserve a bigger and better ground than Newcastle United.

 

[Thuck ma Baws]

That Vikings stadium is incredible but surely cost about a trillion quid?

 

[gorgeousgeorgeEFC]

I very much doubt the new ground will be below 60k. I would assume 65k but have heard higher, though I believe the higher figure to be one plucked out of the air.

Very encouraging.

 

[4737carlin]

That Vikings stadium is incredible but surely cost about a trillion quid?

O we wont get anything like that, we dont even need it, we need capacity but those NFL sides its like a day out, fans in the grond for hours, spending all kinds of food....etc footy fans its in and out, ll we actually need is everyone able to see and plenty of boxes.

 

[Jacko93]

O we wont get anything like that, we dont even need it, we need capacity but those NFL sides its like a day out, fans in the grond for hours, spending all kinds of food....etc footy fans its in and out, ll we actually need is everyone able to see and plenty of boxes.

I'm under the impression that they are trying to create a football zone. A place where people wouldn't feel the need to disappear immediately afterwards, and plenty to do prior to the game to give fans reason to turn up 1, 2 maybe 3 hours before the game. If you can get fans there early and keep them later it works wonders for the transport network.

 

[4737carlin]

I'm under the impression that they are trying to create a football zone. A place where people wouldn't feel the need to disappear immediately afterwards, and plenty to do prior to the game to give fans reason to turn up 1, 2 maybe 3 hours before the game. If you can get fans there early and keep them later it works wonders for the transport network.

Yeah thats a good point that, I would see that as outside the stadium in the surrounding area, I dunno,
at the moment there is nothing arond there so all that needs to be planned. When you think about it this is a massive project that i'snt just about building 4 stands around a pitch, no wonder there is no real announcements so far that some are desperate for, it is going to take ages to plan this right.

 

[kithnou]

I'm under the impression that they are trying to create a football zone. A place where people wouldn't feel the need to disappear immediately afterwards, and plenty to do prior to the game to give fans reason to turn up 1, 2 maybe 3 hours before the game. If you can get fans there early and keep them later it works wonders for the transport network.

And the bank balance more importantly.

 

[gorgeousgeorgeEFC]

We should be aspiring to be at least matching the likes of West Ham, Tottenham and Arsenal. So 60,000 is what we should be aiming for. No less than that. New stadiums ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS attract a significant increase of new fans. There are so many examples of this.

Absolutely bang on.