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New Everton Stadium

I often wonder how many who comment on here actually go to to GP week on and week out and then go to other grounds.
We’re living in the seventies still, redeveloping to a modern standard would take a massive job over years for what?
we need to move and move quickly ensuring we take with us the atmosphere and intimacy Meis has mentioned but bringing in modern day facilities.
 
AsiaAsia82 said:
I often wonder how many who comment on here actually go to to GP week on and week out and then go to other grounds.
We’re living in the seventies still, redeveloping to a modern standard would take a massive job over years for what?
we need to move and move quickly ensuring we take with us the atmosphere and intimacy Meis has mentioned but bringing in modern day facilities.
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The time scale of any serious modernisation, each stand one by one, after somehow relocating schools and people's homes? No expert but it's not feasable.
 
AsiaAsia82 said:
I often wonder how many who comment on here actually go to to GP week on and week out and then go to other grounds.
We’re living in the seventies still, redeveloping to a modern standard would take a massive job over years for what?
we need to move and move quickly ensuring we take with us the atmosphere and intimacy Meis has mentioned but bringing in modern day facilities.
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Majority of people registered on here won't be season ticket holders.
 
David09 said:
I think any place where there is large crowds all leaving at the same time there is going to be congestion though.
The NEC in Birmingham is right on a motorway and has it's own train station but you still queue to get out in your car afterwards or queue for up to an hour for a train.
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We won't all be arriving and leaving at the same time, though. Won't be like Goodson.
 
Disgruntledgoat said:
How the stadium cause the tail rotor to disconnect from the drive shaft?
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More pertinent is the question of what are the odds of a globe trotting businessman constantly flying hither and thither having a fatal air accident not crossing the Atlantic etc but in the environs of his new togger ground? What devilish forces were in play ensuring the tail didn't turn to mush at the airport?

The facts don't lie - new build = 100% curse - we are doomed
 

Tom Hughes said:
Their funding fell through in the crash and the owners had to sell up. The Fenway group took over and looked at the stadium issue. They chose a route that the previous owners and experts said was not viable. It's their solution that was actually delivered.... the comparison couldn't be more appropriate or valid. Similar issues, opposite sides of the same park ......except in our case the solution is less expensive in terms of both construction area/volume and property acquisition as explained in the pdf.
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And yet it is a solution that is off the table, so I don’t understand why it is still being debated?
 
Tom Hughes said:
I used the construction cost as the comparison, as additional ancillary developments are site/project specific. If I remember rightly, the mainstand was just £74m to construct according to the construction contract. There were additional costs that don't necessarily relate to a similar development elsewhere. The latest figures for the Anfield Rd stand are apparently £60m (when I last looked), whether that grows or not will be dependent on material costs and the type of contract adopted. I'm not sure if their last one was actually fixed. Maybe that's what sunk Carilion. Bottom line is they will have gone to 61k for well less than £150m.
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The construction contract isn't the full story though is it? There is a huge process that leads up to and alongside that which arent site or project specific. The Main stand cost them £114m as they can hardly call it a completed build until all the fit out is completed and it is ready for handover. Anfield road will increase, as all projects of this nature do, for a variety of reasons. With BMD as a completed project, at point of handover, it's likely we'd pass £700m

Anyway, the crux of it is, will it be cheaper to expand Goodison? Maybe so, in the short term. Does that make it a better option that BMD? In my opinion, no, as there are more opportinities available to us at BMD than there ever will be at GP.

This is a massive opportunity for us, a chance to make a statement, a chance to add something else to the city, in both the new stadium and the legacy project.
 
Lmc2016 said:
Bit weird how some people are so vehemently opposed to even entertaining talk of how Goodison could be redeveloped.

Tom only detailed how it could be developed, hasnt stated we should stop all plans for BMD
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Bit late now don't you think seeing we have applied for PP at BMD?

Let's put the whole thing on hold while we draw up plans that will cost millions to see what is possible at Goodison, to then find out what we already know that there are a load of houses to be bought and knocked down before we get started. Probably take 5 years to get what is behind BR cleared if we started right now. That'll be something to look forward to.
 

Yea as I said, doesn't look like anyone is actually saying to stop any plans for BMD and start redeveloping Goodison, but theres no harm in acknowledging that it could actually be done, except to the odd person who seem to get aggravated about the subject.
 
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Lmc2016 said:
Yea as I said, doesn't look like anyone is actually saying to stop any plans for BMD and start redeveloping Goodison, but theres no harm in acknowledging that it could actually be done, except to the odd person who seem to get aggravated about the subject.
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Yes it could be done but a great cost to the neigbourhood and it would be a nightmare to construct without moving to a temporary ground .Would it be better then BMD ? Never in a million years ,not for the prestige or for the city .Everton have always been a leader and we could be the first one to kick on with a new stadium .
 

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