New Everton Stadium

[chicoazul]

Goodison is used approx 20 or so times a year dependent on cup runs/draws.

New stadium could be used 365 days a year.

Thats the difference.

If they want to position it as an arena then they are up against a very option sat right on Liverpool's waterfront in the heart of town.

Which ironically was meant to be our stadium. I still fume over that.

 

[Brennan]

I think this is the general consensus of most Blues, cynicism rules, and given what's happened in the past, rightly so.

Unless / until a new stadium is opened and we're actually playing there and know how much it's costing us up front and what debt's needed to service it then it's hard to get too excited. Given what appears to be going on behind the scenes and the general environment around Premiership footie, it does look like something is much more likely to happen this time round.

A new stadium's only part of the jigsaw though in terms of us pushing on, it's the other pieces which concern me.

Like banning Chico ?

 

[Brennan]

If they want to position it as an arena then they are up against a very option sat right on Liverpool's waterfront in the heart of town.

Which ironically was meant to be our stadium. I still fume over that.

The Echo arena isn't big enough to attract the kind of massive acts that play at places like the Etihad though. It only holds 12,000 people, so the two could co-exist very happily. There's lots of groups that wouldn't want to play at the Echo and there's lots of groups who couldn't fill a new 50,000 seater stadium.

 

[FTY]

I don't understand this stuff.

Can someone bullet point it for me?

 

[Billefc]

The dream is coming, a Stadium we lease to go with the training ground. Once we have a team full of loan players we can celebrate.

This won't happen, we should do a poll for the excuse why it doesn't get built.

It only allows us to 1 thing tho.

I think we will basically be like Arsenal, spend all our "profit" on paying off the stadium.

I think its another reason in the sharp change of direction into picking up younger players and tying down all our better players to long term contracts.

Think we are gonna be sell to buy for the next few years.

so business as usual then????

 

[danefc98]

Lille's new stadium only cost the club €7.5m over 31 years. Mostly paid for by the regional government and the city of Lille.

 

[Kiwi]

Well no, it couldn't be.

I'd link you to the York community stadium stuff and the Lille stadium too but I cba'd finding the links.
The Lille stadium had a fold over pitch where half the pitch folded over the other half leaving a Basketball pitch/concert venue possie, while the york stadium was a whole community center in one, ideal for the kind of redevelopment of the area the council was looking at.
It is doable.

 

[chicoazul]

The Echo arena isn't big enough to attract the kind of massive acts that play at places like the Etihad though. It only holds 12,000 people, so the two could co-exist very happily. There's lots of groups that wouldn't want to play at the Echo and there's lots of groups who couldn't fill a new 50,000 seater stadium.

Aye fair point that like.

 

[Bluesnapper]

What has any of this got to do with the current discussion ?

Follow the trail back and you will see why.

 

[Pat's Van]

There's a massive car park at Walton Hall Park Leisure Centre, the proposed site of this new stadium - I've parked my car there for the last 15 years and walk from there to Goodison. The road itself is a straight run from there to the Showcase and the East Lancs Road, and on to the M57. It's easier to get away from there than it is from Goodison.

There was talk of re-opening the Walton & Anfield Railway station on the Canada Dock Branch line. The line is still active but used for goods trains. It would be situated opposite the Taxi Club. Existing Platform foundation still in place 150mts long. 5 mins walk to stadium. Next to local Police Station (less chance of vandalism). Exits onto Walton Lane dual carriage way.

It would be viable given Anfield will be 60000 capacity and the proposed new stadium 50000. That's an extra 30000 people travelling to games.

If they reopened the line, this is how it would be routed. You'd be able to get a train from the city centre, from Bootle, and from all the current places, such as Sandhills and Kirkdale. It would be ideal:

what's the "spellow" stop on that route ? Is it the one up by county road ?

 

[Del]

Well no, it couldn't be.

Have a U2 concert on straight after the match lad

 

[PhilM]

what's the "spellow" stop on that route ? Is it the one up by county road ?

Very same one. Station straddled both sides of County Road.

 

[Billefc]

Lille's new stadium only cost the club €7.5m over 31 years. Mostly paid for by the regional government and the city of Lille.

Them payment terms sound right up bills street, would just be like signing a player !

 

[Brennan]

I'd link you to the York community stadium stuff and the Lille stadium too but I cba'd finding the links.
The Lille stadium had a fold over pitch where half the pitch folded over the other half leaving a Basketball pitch/concert venue possie, while the york stadium was a whole community center in one, ideal for the kind of redevelopment of the area the council was looking at.
It is doable.

My point is that you can't say Goodison is only used 20 times a year but that a new stadium could be used 365 days a year, as it's not true. Goodison is used far more than 20 days a year and any new stadium would have to have restrictions on use so that the pitch would actually be in a half decent condition for playing football matches on.

 

[Brennan]

Have a U2 concert on straight after the match lad

Half time would be better surely. Like the Superbowl.