New Everton Stadium

[Tom Hughes]

If yiu look

If you look at the west stand where the lazy boy seats will be just under the middle hospitality is, that area is even soaked, wouldn't want to be paying a crazy pr8ce for a season ticket if you are going to get wet in that area, I know a certain amount of seats are open to the elements but not that far back?

Precisely, it is a design flaw. A lot of the last generation of high-roofed stadia suffer similarly. We should've learned from them. The roof lines literally are just above the front rows. They should've been extended by at least 10m to reduce this effect. Bilbao had to retrofit an extended cable net roof, because the lower tier got soaked and the fans just filled the concourse spaces at their waterfront stadium. The next generation of stadia will be closed or retractable roof designs. At £750m we probably should've been too. A large proportion of the lower tier is far too over-exposed. I'm glad that there are corporate down to pitchside.... maybe that way, this will be addressed at some point.

 

[blulouie]

Great vid, as usual.

I know this has been asked before but, as LOR have officially handed over now, I'll ask again, is there going to be a screed or render on the flat roof areas? It just looks so incongruous with the bare concrete in comparison with the rest of the stadium. They've done it on the media centre, so I'm assuming it will be done.

They have started the base for the screed on the South East corner of the roof.

If was posted weeks ago there is a dark grey screed going over that & the rest of the stadium.
Not sure on the timeliness for it tho.

 

[Tom Hughes]

People got absolutely soaked on Sunday, it happens in swirling wind and rain

I didn't get wet at all....... but to be honest there shouldn't be thousands still getting wet in a modern stadium.... the roof should've been extended far further.

 

[TommyDavo]

I didn't get wet at all....... but to be honest there shouldn't be thousands still getting wet in a modern stadium.... the roof should've been extended far further.

Row B TB and the rain was hitting us. Get over yourself

 

[TheNinja]

Row B TB and the rain was hitting us. Get over yourself

Should potentially give the players rain macs to wear during the game too

 

[arch stanton]

Going to get my first chance to see it come Saturday. So looking forward. Posts like these just make me even more excited.

have a great time Belg, take lots of pics, post them up, tell us your thoughts

 

[The binman chronicles]

Precisely, it is a design flaw. A lot of the last generation of high-roofed stadia suffer similarly. We should've learned from them. The roof lines literally are just above the front rows. They should've been extended by at least 10m to reduce this effect. Bilbao had to retrofit an extended cable net roof, because the lower tier got soaked and the fans just filled the concourse spaces at their waterfront stadium. The next generation of stadia will be closed or retractable roof designs. At £750m we probably should've been too. A large proportion of the lower tier is far too over-exposed. I'm glad that there are corporate down to pitchside.... maybe that way, this will be addressed at some point.

If the Friedkins really mean business they'll retro fit a retractable roof and dig down the pitch area to create a space for it to fold away into. Our stadium then becomes the largest indoor arena in England, available every other weekend (mostly).

 

[Tom Hughes]

Row B TB and the rain was hitting us. Get over yourself

Strange, I was in the front row TB on Sunday.... don't remember feeling a drop, even when it went wild, certainly didn't get soaked. My son was in our normal seats Park End row P didn't either. Several predicted this when the first cross sections were revealed. No reason to get over anything.

 

[arch stanton]

Going to get my first chance to see it come Saturday. So looking forward. Posts like these just make me even more excited.

are you going the Forest game Belg?

 

[Dutch Toffee]

If the Friedkins really mean business they'll retro fit a retractable roof and dig down the pitch area to create a space for it to fold away into. Our stadium then becomes the largest indoor arena in England, available every other weekend (mostly).

Or the retractable roof changes into four massive traffic cones when it's retracted.

 

[PhilM]

If the Friedkins really mean business they'll retro fit a retractable roof and dig down the pitch area to create a space for it to fold away into. Our stadium then becomes the largest indoor arena in England, available every other weekend (mostly).

Don't you mean, they'd retrofit the stadium so the pitch fits? Or is that an issue any more?

 

[Drico]

Don't you mean, they'd retrofit the stadium so the pitch fits? Or is that an issue any more?

I just want them to fix the leak...

 

[TommyDavo]

Strange, I was in the front row TB on Sunday.... don't remember feeling a drop, even when it went wild, certainly didn't get soaked. My son was in our normal seats Park End row P didn't either. Several predicted this when the first cross sections were revealed. No reason to get over anything.

In the high number seats and the rain hit us. Doesn’t happen often

 

[Toffefc]

Even the directors area is wet, looks design fault to me, can't have the directors getting wet. Looks they have messed up with the roof to me.

 

[The binman chronicles]

Don't you mean, they'd retrofit the stadium so the pitch fits? Or is that an issue any more?

You do know how many Christmas dinners are going to be thrown against the wall when that rumour spreads tomorrow