New Everton Stadium

[DrEFC]

Which areas will have the bigger seats and more leg room? (normal season-ticket wise)

 

[Jacko93]

Which areas will have the bigger seats and more leg room? (normal season-ticket wise)

Unthink they're all pretty much the same. It's the more expensive seats where the leg space is a little larger.

 

[DrEFC]

Unthink they're all pretty much the same. It's the more expensive seats where the leg space is a little larger.

I swore I thought there may be more spacious seats in the non-hospitality section (with an increased seasonal cost)

 

[Dr Baxter]

Regards these seats going for £1,200 do we know if there is a minimum number of seasons you have to sign up for like with the rest of the hospitality? Also, are you guaranteed a season ticket if you downgrade? And finally, if you get there early and have your £10 drinks, can you leave the area and meet up with other people in other parts of the ground and then get back into that area for the match?

 

[WelshBlue92]

Which areas will have the bigger seats and more leg room? (normal season-ticket wise)

I think they're all broadly the same (if this info graphic is still accurate)

 

[AndyRJ]

The aisle seats adjacent to the wall have had to be removed from approx last 10 rows. That suggests that this was a similar oversight to those near the away section. As I said at the time, I couldn't remember seeing any similarly angled corner walls cutting across the line of sight of a lower raked stand (they were parallel to the goal line in the original Meis scheme), as it makes no sense to do it that way.

How do you know seats have had to be removed due to visibility issues? You're just guessing.

Ultimately, the only way we will truly know if there is any issue with the line of sight is when it is open and someone can go and physically check.

As i said last time, there's been a clear design decision made to construct the wall in this manner. You weren't part of that design decision so you can't really criticise it.

 

[Street end man]

Just a thought. In these £1200 seats does the 10 quid ale voucher have to be used on that day or does it carry over. If the former then won't the bar be simply rammed with a few thousand people making sure they get their monies worth? People who would not normally buy a drink there feeling like they have to

 

[Timbucktoo]

Just a thought. In these £1200 seats does the 10 quid ale voucher have to be used on that day or does it carry over. If the former then won't the bar be simply rammed with a few thousand people making sure they get their monies worth? People who would not normally buy a drink there feeling like they have to

I reckon it will be to be used on the day. Otherwise you could have the bar rammed on the last day of the season with folks looking to use their 19 ale vouchers.

 

[charlie atkins]

Ive got a seat in the village, it says row Q, so god knows how to work that out, as all rows seem to be numbered?

 

[LEONARD]

Us male OAP's, with dodgy prostrates, will welcome the additional toilet facilities.

No fun in the Upper Bullens at half time these days.

 

[The binman chronicles]

Which areas will have the bigger seats and more leg room? (normal season-ticket wise)

There are seats at the back of the tiers that go over the steps, plenty of leg room in those.

 

[tommye]

 

[WelshBlue92]

Just a thought. In these £1200 seats does the 10 quid ale voucher have to be used on that day or does it carry over. If the former then won't the bar be simply rammed with a few thousand people making sure they get their monies worth? People who would not normally buy a drink there feeling like they have to

I'd imagine its £10 per game rather than carry over. Also it doesn't have to be ale and people will be using it before and during the game so it'll be spread out so I wouldn't worry about queues, the bars at BMD will be much larger, numerous and better staffed than the Goodison ones.

 

[The binman chronicles]

Surely it would look better and more menacing if it turned the corner fully, (ie bigger wrap-around safe-standing capacity, and with no views compromised). I don't think that was intentional....and those removed seats suggest an oversight.

The other option was for the lower corner section not to turn the corner into the side stands, but continue at that angle, till it blended more seamlessly into the lower raked stand. With a lower dividing wall providing unimpeded sightlines of the playing area (and the whole South stand) for those on the lower side-stands. Materially and structurally no more complex nor costly in the grand scheme.

I suppose it is subjective. Imho those walls angle the supporters onto the pitch, kind of focusing them in my mind.

That to me looks better than the flat Chelsea style join: (obviously this is an extreme example)

Or the Principality/Dortmund version, which makes it technically a smaller goal stand for us.

Like you pointed out before, they had the parallel version to start with - so I believe they knew what was better in terms of practicality and still chose to do something more aesthetic/design orientated. At least in my eyes.

Be interesting to speak to Dan about it if by chance I happen to bump into him at the opening game.

 

[Tom Hughes]

How do you know seats have had to be removed due to visibility issues? You're just guessing.

Ultimately, the only way we will truly know if there is any issue with the line of sight is when it is open and someone can go and physically check.

As i said last time, there's been a clear design decision made to construct the wall in this manner. You weren't part of that design decision so you can't really criticise it.

Those removed seats were in place in the drawings. Their support brackets were there during construction. They're not there now. I mentioned at the time that I had never seen a swept back angle at a corner for such a difference in rake of adjacent sections, and that it looked like it could create some impaired views, for all the obvious reasons, and probably the same reason why the initial Meis design had a parallel wall. I've sightline surveyed/modelled dozens of stands, but even if I hadn't, it's nonsense to suggest that I (or anyone else) needs to be part of the decision process to mention what I think was a design flaw. Just as is the case with those areas at the visitors section.