New Everton Stadium - Hill Dickinson Stadium

[Rita_Poon]

Just to remind people, if we had 7k extra seats that would equate to just over 6.5 million each season in ticket sales. That's if they all go for £50 average, which may or may not be the case with concessions and the fact these seats would have the worst views.

The extra availability could have a knock on effect on the price of the rest of the seats, although maybe it equals itself out through more F&D income. Then again that goes mostly to Aramark..

Anyhow given the layout of our site, space for the extra people would require a bigger footprint or loss of hospitality areas. Either way it would be expensive, and once interest is added, if you don't see a return on the extra outlay for these seats for 12-15 years, it doesn't help fuel ambitions, it could easily have the opposite effect. Especially given our financial circumstances at the time we built it.

Is the idea that...

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This section is wanted to be expanded and extended so it overhangs Nelson dock quite significantly? Or has another area been selected by the online architects as prime real estate for alteration?

 

[maccavennie]

Is the idea that...

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This section is wanted to be expanded and extended so it overhangs Nelson dock quite significantly? Or has another area been selected by the online architects as prime real estate for alteration?

That wouldn't overhang Nelson Dock, it would overhang United Utilities

 

[Rita_Poon]

That wouldn't overhang Nelson Dock, it would overhang United Utilities

Are we splitting heirs?

 

[COYBL25]

Are we splitting heirs?

What`s happened to the Casino and the Burlesque theatre that Dave had promised us ?

 

[Rita_Poon]

What`s happened to the Casino and the Burlesque theatre that Dave had promised us ?

Must be practicing his shuffling and getting the last of the Mounjaro down him.

 

[matty1878]

Must be practicing his shuffling and getting the last of the Mounjaro down him.

so if i see a lard ass saying moyes out southgate in its dave

 

[The binman chronicles]

Is the idea that...

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This section is wanted to be expanded and extended so it overhangs Nelson dock quite significantly? Or has another area been selected by the online architects as prime real estate for alteration?

It's a way of expanding with out drastically changing the roof. That will only yield 3-5k though and for 60+ million, is it worth the effort to the club?

 

[Barrowjohn]

What is preventing your membership being used by someone else? We don't have photo recognition at games now do we?

I have form for talking stupid and being stupider. If as is highly likely I'm talking rubbish, just laugh and I'll get the idea.

No not at all, valid point. No one should have to try and work around it all. The solution is to have a back up of friends and family who are able to take the ticket, but fans should be able to gift tickets to anyone without them having to join Forever Blue, after all the seat is paid for the Season. In CV there are pockets of empty seats appearing because not everyone has a list of friends and family who can take the tickets and for some reason you cant put CV tickets on to the resale platform. Then of course theres the empty seats from unsold Seat Unique tickets.

 

[Roger Milla]

They have been open from the start. Rarity creates demand. The better we get, the more people want to come, the more they can charge per ticket.

Not particularly agreeable, but will create more revenue.

Crap for producing future Evertonian. So it's good short term?

 

[blueloon]

It's a way of expanding with out drastically changing the roof. That will only yield 3-5k though and for 60+ million, is it worth the effort to the club?

They showed a good external view of Cardiff City’s stadium the other night, it showed how their extension looked in relation to the rest of the stadium . I think they added 8,000 seats in total taking them from 27k to 35k, a considerable leap for them. It shows that changing a continuous roof can be done, although not everyone will like it . It may be that the East stand lends itself best to in terms of adding extra numbers and not being so disruptive to the internal workings of the club as a West stand expansion would be .
As I said , it won’t be for everyone but here’s how Cardiff’s stadium now looks.

 

[Blue Neon]

My daughter wants a mansion 12 times the size of that stadium. Does she have more ambition than BCFC?

YES ! You go girl !!! But make sure she draws up a Prenuptual.

 

[Blue Neon]

6 league games in in our new 53k stadium and apart from the opening game there's been loads of tickets on the resale site every game for the ones unsuccessful in the ballot. There's been people who were successful in the ballot shitting themselves when the money gets taken because they didn't really want to go and they try and spin their ticket. Loads of season tickets holders flogging tickets and some not sure on renewing next season. SIX GAMES IN. If you think we need a bigger stadium you're living on cloud cuckoo land. Its sound as it is.

£70 + £75 tickets are killing it also. PLUS travel / parking. Scandalous!

 

[MickA]

That’s the assumption that most if not all NFL games will be played in the UK.

Are there any enough of those games to justify this ?

It's an interesting one. NFL this season have used London, Dublin, Berlin, Madrid and Sao Paolo. Only Tottenham have had more than one game and I think during their build they drew up an agreement with the league though may be wrong on that.

Is it at saturation point is a question I suppose for the US supporters who are missing out. I do know the NFL are actively seeking to expand their exposure hence the international series but whether Birmingham entices them ahead of Tottenham and Wembley who knows?

 

[muckers]

It's a way of expanding with out drastically changing the roof. That will only yield 3-5k though and for 60+ million, is it worth the effort to the club?

It certainly wouldn’t be worth it to the club if those figures are correct.

Where has the £60 million cost figure come from?

 

[The binman chronicles]

They showed a good external view of Cardiff City’s stadium the other night, it showed how their extension looked in relation to the rest of the stadium . I think they added 8,000 seats in total taking them from 27k to 35k, a considerable leap for them. It shows that changing a continuous roof can be done, although not everyone will like it . It may be that the East stand lends itself best to in terms of adding extra numbers and not being so disruptive to the internal workings of the club as a West stand expansion would be .
As I said , it won’t be for everyone but here’s how Cardiff’s stadium now looks.

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The thing about Cardiff's stadium was it was built in mind to be able to do this, modular in construction, with a very simple roof and the back of the stand is right where another can be bolted on.

I did do an illustration a while back showing the problem, the supports for the back of the current terracing angles into where there must be vertical columns through the East stand, whether that can be utilised to take up some of the weight of the new teir/and or concourse, like I added in below, who knows.

It would also eat into the plaza and might stop the large events that could be held there and more importantly, we've already maxed out the rake of the upper tier, usually the rake would increase with each one, so it's possible the view wouldn't be great.