New Everton Stadium - Hill Dickinson Stadium

[Timbucktoo]

Good to hear the stadium still getting fulsome praise in SKY's coverage of the game yesterday.

Just a shame the team look clueless.

 

[Johnniepk]

The Great Howard/Leeds Street junction needs to be a yellow box junction. Sometimes not a single car gets through on the green light because cars going in the different direction are blocking the road.

Thats a brilliant idea. I hope someone in charge sees that

 

[Vaughan]

We park in the same place as we did for Goodison. It’s a horrible 30+ mins walk from BMD especially after a poor performance, but at least the rain had stopped.
The upside is once we get to the car, we’re well away from the stadium traffic. All in all, probably takes us the same time to get home from the final whistle but more walking and less time crawling along in the traffic.

a 30 minute walk is about half of the basic minimum requirement for general health and well being

unless you're old or disabled you need to get a grip if you're complaining about walking for half an hour

 

[davek]

yesterday they seemed to have sorted out the seating issues a little bit

there were no large pockets of gaps like in other games

There always seems to be that 'wedge' of seating in the corner between east and south stands - just over the corner flag going upwards - that's a baldy section of seats.

It's right smack in the eyeline of the tv cameras and it looks poor from the club that they're consistently empty.


That wedge there.

 

[davek]

Just a shame the team look clueless.

Yep.

We have a couple of narratives that the 'industry' looks to use to sell Everton games to the watching public: Jack Grealish and the new stadium.

 

[mikel_88]

Disagree just becuase sat before in gwladys at goodison you should have got tickets in the north. Agree that is wrong to complain about people standing becuase that was the point. Just think most home games in modern football is not loud support anymore.

 

[davek]

All the stuff about the north stand and how it should exclude this and that demographic group etc for atmospheric purposes: once the safe standing law comes in and its activated at stadiums then that'll take care of those issues.

Until then, just let people sit where they want - free of condemnation from anyone else.

 

[toffeeblue9]

Disagree just becuase sat before in gwladys at goodison you should have got tickets in the north. Agree that is wrong to complain about people standing becuase that was the point. Just think most home games in modern football is not loud support anymore.

I don't mind where you sat at Goodison, but if you're buying seats in the South stand you should be aware that it's the end we are counting on to create the atmosphere. If you're just going to moan about people standing up or giving side eye at anyone trying to sing etc then you're in the wrong end.

 

[Jacko93]

The first couple of games was a ballache to get in with the ticket inspections and metal detectors at the wall.
They weren’t there at the Palace game, but the metal detectors were back yesterday, but no one checked our tickets.

At the moment it feels all forced. The stadium is designed for inconvenient access, so you can’t leave the pub 20mins before kick off and be in your seat for z cars.
Instead they want you on site consuming their food and beer.

Tbf, the Central access gates are mostly empty the vast majority of the time. If we all spread out properly, it'd make it all so much quicker.

Also, it'd make life a lot easier if they could drop the bollards to get us through the gates quicker at full time. Also, a controlled filter would help. E.g. If your going left, go out of gates 1&2, gates 3&4 if your going right. Then once you leave out of gate 3, create a gap to let people out of gate 4 rather than just walking into a wall of people at 90 degrees.

 

[Ed_Winchester]

a 30 minute walk is about half of the basic minimum requirement for general health and well being

unless you're old or disabled you need to get a grip if you're complaining about walking for half an hour

Sorry, should have been more specific - for me, it’s the route rather than the actual walk.
We have a stadium where you can only get away from on one side. Bottlenecks of people, roads with limited safe crossing places once you get a bit further away from the stadium etc.

 

[mickefc]

I'm in the South Upper, relatively central, just sort of in line with the 6 yard box towards the east stand box and I'm about 2 thirds of the way up. Been relatively lucky with my neighbours. Fella who sits in front of me seems sound, but what has surprised me a lot is the number of 60+ year olds around us. Firstly, that stand is meant to be the new Gwladys Street, why would you want to sit there if you're not one for any singing etc, and secondly it's really steep - not the best for anyone not brilliant on their feet anyway.

We haven't had anyone moaning about singing or telling people to sit down etc, but the demographic of the stand is off. I'm not saying we need every scal in the ground there (well, actually that would help), but I really think that there's a sizeable number of people who made questionable decisions about where they wanted to sit.

Upper Gwladys was full of arl fellas, the Upper South is the equivalent stand.

 

[toffeeblue9]

Upper Gwladys was full of arl fellas, the Upper South is the equivalent stand.

True, but I genuinely don't ever remember "sit down" shouts up there etc

 

[PITA]

Be careful guys getting off the train at sandhills I got fined today €100 because I didn't print my tickets out the machine even though I paid for the journey online I didn't realize you had to print the tickets the stewards were very aggressive on this ruined what was a brilliant first visit to the stadium

Why €100 and not £100?

 

[Charlie Sweet]

a 30 minute walk is about half of the basic minimum requirement for general health and well being

unless you're old or disabled you need to get a grip if you're complaining about walking for half an hour

Well said - walking is so easily dismissed.

 

[Charro]

a 30 minute walk is about half of the basic minimum requirement for general health and well being

unless you're old or disabled you need to get a grip if you're complaining about walking for half an hour

Mad how many times I keep hearing about how grim the walk is going to be.

It’s 30 minutes to town, 15 to Sandhills.

The wall to town is significantly better than the walk up county road, or to Kirkdale station.