New Everton Stadium

So Liverpools mayor is now talking about our new ground hosting athletics meetings as well as commonwealth games and the like - so a permanent racing track round the pitch? Yes I know these days you can have seats removed and put back in place again between football matches and athletics meetings but the fans will never be as close to the pitch as at Goodison. The Echo also mentions Stonebridge Cross as the most likely stadium option - no please. Canada Dock I could just about live with, Trafalgar Dock I could live with if it was a proper football stadium with no athletics.

Can we please get back to discussing Goodison redevelopment please?
 

I think those of us hoping for a Goodison redevelopment are probably living in cloud cuckoo land. It would be great, but I find it difficult to believe it would be financially realistic when compared with the other options.

As far as SC vs Docks is concerned, there's only one winner on the location there. I'd venture if you polled this, over 90% of us would favour a waterfront site.

Having said that, I think it would be daft of us to dismiss SC on the basis of where it is. DK was a bad plan for many reasons (being a sub-standard breeze-block monstrosity and the lack of any kind of credible transport plan being amongst them), I'm not prepared to lump SC alongside DK until we've seen a plan. Yes, the obvious preference would be the docks, but I won't write off another site until we know more about it.
 
Plus if Peel want their skyscrapers in the North, make it part of the ground, 4 Rupert's towers. could stick a wire from each tower to the other and have bungee's going on during the game, add some thrill to the action.
 

If redeveloping Goodison is as unlikely an option as its being made out to be, then I'd at least like our new stadium to be the Goodison Remix. Sack the corregated iron cladding, but I want the pitch really close to the fans, the Leitch design around the ground, and I wouldn't even mind the wooden seats from the Bullens Road to pay our homage to one of the greatest stadiums the world has ever seen.
 
toffeeblue9 said:
I think those of us hoping for a Goodison redevelopment are probably living in cloud cuckoo land. It would be great, but I find it difficult to believe it would be financially realistic when compared with the other options.

As far as SC vs Docks is concerned, there's only one winner on the location there. I'd venture if you polled this, over 90% of us would favour a waterfront site.

Having said that, I think it would be daft of us to dismiss SC on the basis of where it is. DK was a bad plan for many reasons (being a sub-standard breeze-block monstrosity and the lack of any kind of credible transport plan being amongst them), I'm not prepared to lump SC alongside DK until we've seen a plan. Yes, the obvious preference would be the docks, but I won't write off another site until we know more about it.
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Stick some batman lights on it and a giant yellow bubble bus stop outside the ground and that should do the trick no...
 
hibbo'sclass said:
Size mate. Athletics track has a maximum length of about 170m and is about 100m wide.
American football pitch is the same shape and about the same size as a football pitch I think.
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I think there's some stadia that have moveable seating. Saracen's stadium has dual fucntion rugby and athletics. I guess both of these would increase costs massively though
 
I love Goodison but we need a New Stadium for the next 100 Years. I get the sentiment but come on, it's a dump and a redevelopment would just be painting over the cracks. Same people wanting a redevelopment would want to keep the same wooden seats and horrendous obstructions.
 

Would it not be of more benefit to build on the waterfront, due it being more attractive to any future corporate investment, sponsors etc. Where would you rather see logo or name, in the city centre or stuck out on the city boundary.
 
Pretty Sure that with the timescale given there will be no consultation with the fans this time, we will be going were Moshiri thinks is the best option.
Nice having a rich dude in charge who can make things happen but he is less likely to care about fan opinion, buckle up because some people are not going to be happy which ever way this goes, and he is not going to give two flips
 
CJR said:
Pretty Sure that with the timescale given there will be no consultation with the fans this time, we will be going were Moshiri thinks is the best option.
Nice having a rich dude in charge who can make things happen but he is less likely to care about fan opinion, buckle up because some people are not going to be happy which ever way this goes, and he is not going to give two flips
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If it,s SC then it will be a bitter battle.
 
CJR said:
Pretty Sure that with the timescale given there will be no consultation with the fans this time, we will be going were Moshiri thinks is the best option.
Nice having a rich dude in charge who can make things happen but he is less likely to care about fan opinion, buckle up because some people are not going to be happy which ever way this goes, and he is not going to give two flips
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How long do West ham have to keep the running track etc?
 

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