MickA
Player Valuation: £10m
Yeah that's a huge unknown. If the stadium is built in the correct orientation it lines up nicely with the Lucas Oil big window situation looking into town but also opens up the waterside for the new Main Stand which surely would have premium facilities.
Atmosphere should be generated by the design of the seating bowl/tiers. Once inside you shouldn't necessarily know you were below street level. Sunderland's ground (albeit an awful design) has its lower tier built under street level but means there are no facilities at all 'behind' the terrace it's all at mid-point and above.
Fie game.
Gardocki
Player Valuation: £8m
As a fellow 'international' supporter of Everton, this makes me cringe a bit. Dan Meis, like the rest of us who aren't from Liverpool, chose to support Everton. Terrible choice, yet my best ever choice.
Technically Meis was literally chosen by Everton
Gardocki
Player Valuation: £8m
lol Fair enough. I'm available for a competitive fee if they want to choose me too.
orly
Please check with me for Blammo criteria
For huge sums of money, let's be honest
Big Neville Southall
Player Valuation: £8m
One thing Barcelona done was to expand their stadium downwards and lower the pitch.
In some situations it can be a cheaper way to add a few thousand to the capacity. You'd have to design it with that in mind so that the front row of seats wouldn't be as close as you'd initially hope them to be, but in time the front row would be.
In some situations it can be a cheaper way to add a few thousand to the capacity. You'd have to design it with that in mind so that the front row of seats wouldn't be as close as you'd initially hope them to be, but in time the front row would be.
chrismpw
Player Valuation: £70m
If you plan to do that in the future, we'd have to plan in pitch side size to do it, or have the dreaded running track. Can't just go down without going in.
Telford-Feb-85
Player Valuation: £5m
Is the day where Meis gets the model out of his bag at GP and realises he didn't pack it properly and the floodlights and roof details have all been smashed off.
Big Neville Southall
Player Valuation: £8m
That's what I meant by the front row of seats not being as close as you'd like. You could possibly do it in Goodison, though not sure how the views would be affected at the rear of the Upper Gwladys Street.
Onwards Evertonians
Player Valuation: £8m
Wrong forum.
Frank Gallagher
Player Valuation: £50m
just been watching the video on the future on stadiums which has Dan Meis on it and he goes on about having different levels of the ground and having it blend in the surroundings and a below ground stadium, well the docks is perfect for that as its already been dug out and would really trap the atmosphere of the crowed and give it a nice steep stands look.
There was also a great idea about being able to boost the capacity when needed by around 10,000 and then when not needed lower the tier to make it back to the original size
like this -
video - https://t.co/RK7eUNxPp3
you need to expand this to get the big picture/gist
Something like this happened when Barca got rid of their running track
They dropped the pitch then dug the track out at an angle until they got to pitch level, then put the seats and stuff in.
The dock lends it's self to this easy peasy
Commonwealth games here we come.
Thus neatly side stepping the biggy - 'we don't want no 'kin running track anywhere near our ground'
Funding comes in
The games come and go - so does the track. The 48-53K stadium becomes 60k
Job's a goodun
They'll have to press the 'Go' button soon though to get it sorted for 2022.