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Other than a small rise capacity isn't the argument the club have put forward, it's corporate everyone whines about. If, 'ucking big if with this board, it was done correctly and with a strategy, additional expansion in capacity could be factored in. There are numerous occasions where external agencies have bent over backwards to help and accommodate Everton FC, but the one thing that has always been missing is the willing of the board to engage. Key word in all this is 'plan', the board don't have one other than wishful thinking and the occassional lucky dip.

The club have put forward all the reasons why they need to move. Poor corporate income at the current ground is only one of them. A new owner would assess and come to the conclusions of the existing board - a new stadium is needed. As I have emphasised in other posts, the club failed in not assessing the transport problem at Kirkby. The city has a mass-transit rail network, the biggest after London, with an abundance of mothballed lines strategically located - not to use it is total madness in an expanding city, and region, in numbers and economy. Liverpool is predicted by HSBC to be one of 7 super-cities in the UK in 15 to 20 years time. Manchester is not.

This all has to be taken into account when planning such a large important structure as a high capacity stadium. These structures heavily impact in many ways on the districts they are in as well as the whole city, and they are not to be taken lightly. What is good for the city will be good for the club(s).

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...itain-resurgence-HSBC-says.html#disqus_thread

The Super-cities:
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If we do ever redevelop Goodison the Leitch features should be incorporated in the design,just as the twin towers should have been part of the new Wembley stadium if not you end up with just another soulless Riverside jigsaw
 
If we do ever redevelop Goodison the Leitch features should be incorporated in the design,just as the twin towers should have been part of the new Wembley stadium if not you end up with just another soulless Riverside jigsaw
The arch is superb. It is lit up at night and can been seen from outside of London. An arch that also supports a sliding roof and lit up in a new EFC stadium would be superb. Saying we are Everton !!!!
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If we do ever redevelop Goodison the Leitch features should be incorporated in the design,just as the twin towers should have been part of the new Wembley stadium if not you end up with just another soulless Riverside jigsaw

Agreed. We've got something beautiful and unique at both the Bullens and The Street End. If we are to stay at GP and want to retain our individual identity then they need preserving. if that means they become the cheaper parts of the ground to get into then fine. Develop the Park End into a two-tier end with corporate facilities (like behind one of the goals at Villa Park and elsewhere) and improve the viewing aspects of the Main Stand (that stand was built over 40 years ago, surely new construction techniques and modern materials woulkd allow for some sort of roofing reconstruction that would mean not having to have the two central supports that so disfigure it now) then you've got a stadium that retains the uniqueness and the atmosphere of the old and elsewhere provides the modern required standards of the new. If you're going to rebuild all sections of GP then why stay there?

Costs? Who knows, but bear in mind that a club, whose name I forget, recently built a whole new 15,000 all-seater stadium for £20million. And if we're not going to do it now when guaranteed another £20m a year of TV money (for is it 3 or 5 years?) then when are we?

At the intended EGM the stadium issue should be dealt with and the Board forced to provide some proper answers on development options and their costings.
 
The arch is superb. It is lit up at night and can been seen from outside of London. An arch that also supports a sliding roof and lit up in a new EFC stadium would be superb. Saying we are Everton !!!!

Could do something similar now by a laser image of the badge beamed skywards.
 

Could do something similar now by a laser image of the badge beamed skywards.
Superb idea. Or we could go backwards and keep the wooden Gwlady's St and Bullens Rd stands. How the upper sections of these stands still have safety certificates is beyond me. They are from another era and nice to see, but I fear they would never be preserved. Arsenal did good job with Highbury:

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The arch is superb. It is lit up at night and can been seen from outside of London. An arch that also supports a sliding roof and lit up in a new EFC stadium would be superb. Saying we are Everton !!!!
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Agree the arch is a nice feature but they still could have found a place in the design for the towers.
 
Agree the arch is a nice feature but they still could have found a place in the design for the towers.
The towers were not made of stone, so could not be dismantled. They were made of reinforced concrete so had to be destroyed. The towers were a tribute to the lands and people of India. The site of the stadium was London's attempt at an Eiffel Tower, Watkins Tower. The foundations dropped under construction and the structure was abandoned and demolished.

The city of Glasgow gave £100,000 for the construction of the first Wembley stadium. For most of its existence, and what made it viable, was dog racing. After a few years they were considering demolishing the stadium after the 1925 world's fair. Dog racing saved it. Watkins Tower:
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inner city is right. we should look to the future not the past,
a club of many firsts should have something iconic down by the waterfront by the airport so boats.trains, planes, trams,and my personal fav mono rail{blue streak}could all get to are ground make it at destination in itself like the sydney opera house or prymids ,how about that the worlds first tri angle shaped stadium,just 3 sides imagine that,come on bill show us a vision we can be proud of.
 
If the GP site was just an empty lot and EFC put in plans to build a stadium exactly like it is now, with no wood in it, they would be rejected at the first approach and told they are mad.
 
As regards mass-transit rail access at the existing EFC & LFC sites, on the Canada Dock branch line two stations with two platform can be built with one near to each ground. One at Walton Hall RD for EFC and one at he bottom of Ince Ave for LFC. Fan can walk between the two via Cherry Land. EFC fans could walk through the cemetery to the bottom of Ince Ave. Have both used on match days, giving 4 platforms. The platforms can be double length to accommodate two trains at a time. Both leave at the same time. That is 8 trains waiting for the game to finish and at approx 950 in a six car train maximum, that is about 7,500 shifted immediately, then other waiting trains running onto the platforms. They could shift 30,000 per hour. The trains can run to Lime street (changing to Wirral Line and lines to St.Helens and Wigan) and Southport via Bootle, and also via Edge Hill junction to South Parkway via Mosley Hill and onto Hunts X. All of Merseyside is covered. Few would want to use cars or buses. Think London Tube.

Canada Dock Branch Line in blue. Via Edge Hill junction to the bottom it can run off to South Parkway in the extreme south of the city:
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As regards mass-transit rail access at the existing EFC & LFC sites, two stations with two platform stations can built near to each ground. Both used on match days. The platforms can be double length to accommodate two trains at a time. Both leave at the same time. That is 8 trains waiting for the game to finish and at approx 950 in a six car train maximum, that is about 7,500 shifted immediately, then other train running onto the platforms. The trains can run to Lime street (changing to Wirral Line and lines to St.Helens and Wigan) and Southport via Bootle, and also via edge Hill to South Parkway and to Hunts X. All of Merseyside is covered. Few would want to use cars or buses. Think London Tube.

Good stuff Inner city, that the Canada line you mentioned before? Plus get a few pubs by the station then that can ease congestion.
 

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