New Everton Stadium

[H.H.]

A couple of pages back people were mentioning other teams not filling their stadiums to capacity so let's take Totnam's new stadium for example.
For arguments sake let's say it has a seat capacity of 62,100. This can be achieved for concerts etc but for football and needed segregation, the capacity will be hundreds less (and hundreds more if in a cup game a visiting team get the whole 9,000 which will mean they will get the use of 3 tiers instead of just one tier for the 3,000 allocated for visiting teams in the P/L.)

 

[welshtoffee]

55k state of the art stadium. . Na, id rather stay at Goodison behind a blue girder with the pigeons than be insulted like that.

Agreed lets all hail the Goodison girders, I am best buddies with these beauties

 

[evertonarntwe]

anyone got on the comment section of that article from the echo, the one with grant thornton have backed the stadium idea

just absolutely full of the retarded kopites, THEIR ARE HOMELESS ON THE STREET AND JOE IS FINDING THIS MONEY TO FUND HIS TEAMS STADUIM

honestly hard to comprehend how thick some of these people are

 

[AJ_1878]

I won't be happy unless is does this and more

 

[jaybx1878]

These Kopites bitching and moaning about the Council funding deal are either extremely docile or some of the bitterest individuals to walk the planet, actually their probably both.

 

[f.t.r.s]

anyone got on the comment section of that article from the echo, the one with grant thornton have backed the stadium idea

just absolutely full of the retarded kopites, THEIR ARE HOMELESS ON THE STREET AND JOE IS FINDING THIS MONEY TO FUND HIS TEAMS STADUIM

honestly hard to comprehend how thick some of these people are

homeless thanks to liverpool kicking them out and bulldozing half the anfield area by any chance?

 

[GrumpyBlue]

I won't be happy unless is does this and more

Prepare for eternal misery then. We aint getting one of them any time soon

 

[Eggs]

Why would they be against it Eggs?. I'm not suggesting I expected them to be 100% on board but why would they be so set against it?.

My understanding on Momentum is that they are all for the working class. So an arrangement whereby the council use their influence to attract a cheaper rate of interest for the club, whilst earning good income for the council, thus enabling the club to charge lower prices for their season tickets, (which would invariably be purchased by working class people) would be something that they should approve.

..others will be better qualified than me, Fred, but it might be something to do with the council generating funds to be used in the private sector and the risks associated with such deals.

 

[Tigger]

Agreed lets all hail the Goodison girders, I am best buddies with these beauties

They save us from having to watch the dross on the other side of them, a spangly stadium will be nothing without a team to match.

 

[Toffeelover]

homeless thanks to liverpool kicking them out and bulldozing half the anfield area by any chance?

They want to forget how their club drove the area down over years making the resident's lives a misery just like Heysel has been forgotten.

 

[RobC]

The "peoples money" (tax) being used to subsidise a billionaires pet project was always going to rankle the left wing, Momentum are a strange bunch of hard left, ex-SWP etc. but I doubt they could stop it alone. Transparency is the key, if all is above board then any councillor will struggle to refuse £7M a year when we are skint. Don't see the council as the issue, now the rest of the funding may be.

 

[RobC]

They want to forget how their club drove the area down over years making the resident's lives a misery just like Heysel has been forgotten.

Not on here.

 

[brieverton]

It would be interesting to see the cost comparisions between building at 52k and 60k, on the assumptions that there are no architectural / design constraints for building to 60k.

Both private and public funding seems very precarious as it is. There may be a "take it or leave it" attitude from the council as regards the portion loaned through them, and a consequent limit on capacity in that manner. Not to mention the bedraggled group of opponents who will provide LCC with a lot of nuisance value on this in the coming years.

I think the club has largely succeeded in lowering expectations for the final capacity, by the back door. "If" this goes ahead, I have a hunch though that they'll announce it at ca. 57-58k. They would be seen to be pushing the boundaries at that figure, and in my view it would come in as an acceptable compromise.

Confirmation of total funding needs to happen by the end of September so crunch time approaching.

 

[RobSpurs]

A couple of pages back people were mentioning other teams not filling their stadiums to capacity so let's take Totnam's new stadium for example.
For arguments sake let's say it has a seat capacity of 62,100. This can be achieved for concerts etc but for football and needed segregation, the capacity will be hundreds less (and hundreds more if in a cup game a visiting team get the whole 9,000 which will mean they will get the use of 3 tiers instead of just one tier for the 3,000 allocated for visiting teams in the P/L.)

For normal Prem games with 3000 away fans in the lower tier there might not be a loss of capacity. The segregation area is already built-in for the stewards to stand in, no tarping over seats will be needed. Might be different for cup games once away fans get some of the upper-tier as well.

 

[rockin' robin]

Remember jumping in a cab to town in 2008, city of culture and the driver moaning all the way in about what a waste of money it was, money should have been spent on more needy issues. Local infrastructure etc. Then I asked him how his shift had been, told me how busy he was, coining it, due to all the tourists, visitors to town etc. He didn’t seem to be able to connect the two . Some people!