New Everton Stadium - Hill Dickinson Stadium

[Drico]

Maybe.

There's the consideration the club have to bear in mind, I suppose, about what happened to other major clubs that moved ground. It required the 'Arsenalification' of the Emirates with all the trappings of old stadium like the Clock End clock etc making the journey.

However, that was a soulless bowl and generic in comparison with ours.

It's not Goodison and we dont want it to be. We've sung for years about the Royal Blue Mersey and this is what it's like in reality.

Sing with me:

There's going to be no anomie for the EFC!

Well, I understood the "white strip" in the image above to be a strip of LED advertising boards. The Leitch stuff is referenced subtly around the stadium. That was a nice nod, but it's time to move on now.

 

[allen]

The new stadium web pages say this about the third test event - ‘Further information on a third test event will be communicated later in 2025’.

Has anyone heard any talk of what, and when, it might be?

Seamus Coleman testimonial surely has to be a possibility…

 

[Neiler]

It looks out of place to me, mismatched styles.

It is part of the character of Goodison, not BMD. There’s a nod to that heritage in the brickwork, which is classy. I think actively making it a very overt part of a brand new stadium would be too far and would be for nostalgia reasons only.

I don’t think it’s looks all that bad to be honest.

 

[Neiler]

 

[HalfTimeSayers]

It looks out of place to me, mismatched styles.

It is part of the character of Goodison, not BMD. There’s a nod to that heritage in the brickwork, which is classy. I think actively making it a very overt part of a brand new stadium would be too far and would be for nostalgia reasons only.

Agreed. The gentle, subtle references, like the railing tops and brickwork, are enough of a nod to it. Didn’t think it would be originally but for me it is. We won’t be trying to bolt all that barrel cladding onto the next stadium.

 

[John BCN]

That wall needs to blend in
Not stand out

Dark grey probably would blend in better than blue.

 

[gmb]

I'd paint the lattice work. Style will be fine. Banners will/ought to be hung over it as well.

 

[JimEFC_2]

That wall needs to blend in
Not stand out

Agreed. And the whole theme of the stadkum is blending in, not standing out. It took me a while to like it, even when the main structure was built i wasnt keen, but now its finished and with the heritage work on the BM dock and hydraulic building it does blend in nicely, and that's despite being 5 times the size of anything else nearby.

 

[PKwalnuts]

Big ask but get to pick tomorrow can someone show availability so I can have a look through tonight at blocks 001, 011, 012, 016 and 200 please? Also any info on Club View availability etc

 

[rochdaleblue]

That wall needs to blend in
Not stand out

Why did we have to have a wall anyway? I just think it spoils what would have been a continuous bank of blue seats.

 

[Zed Car]

Everyone can see the good things about the stadium, I was just pointing out issues that may affect people that they weren’t aware of. I’ll leave it now then.

He never meant to cause you trouble to be fair

 

[aboveusonlysky]

Few pics from my video last night test event

 

[Connor]

Nope

 

[Drico]

There's a cup for the Seamus testimonial now, is there?

 

[balggy]

The criticisms of the interior is doing my head in. The “you left Goodison for a soulless bowl” shouts.

It’s very rich coming from them across the park. Their stadium doesn’t retain a single original feature, with the centenary being the oldest stand dating back to 1992. The Kop isn’t original, and was rebuilt in 1994, with a McDonald’s bolted onto it until 2003.

The Gwladys and Bullens date back to the 30s. Their individual features are what makes Goodison unique. Any redevelopment of Goodison would have seen them both gone.

So even if we had stayed and redeveloped, we would have still been left with a modern 21st century stands replacing them. The very elements that make Goodison Goodison would have been lost.

It will be so sad to leave, because you can’t replace Goodison. But at the same time, we couldn’t have stayed and retained what made Goodison so unique. It would have just been modern stands plonked onto Goodison’s footprint.

That’s what them lot across the park have done, and kid themselves that they’ve somehow retained their heritage, when in reality it’s all been bulldozed over the past 30 years. Like comparing the old cavern to the new one.