New Everton Stadium - Hill Dickinson Stadium

[SJB]

But once all that cleared up you think they had an immediate emotional attachment to the place , or do you think these things take time , and things like identity, character etc, by there very nature are developed over time and through experiences and that goodison gained all this character and emotional attachment by having over 100 + years of history

It was a muddy field and jumpers for goalposts in them days.

Regarding the move, I absolutely agree Phil. It's gonna take tlme, memories made and new heroes to step up. I really miss Goodison but I love our new ground.

 

[BullensRoad]

Sort of undermines the gravity of the situation when they're making a big deal about taking a packet of KP Nuts off someone.

It really doesn't. I normally laugh and shrug off your bait, but those minimum wage agency staff are being trained and told what to do and some people find it weird that they get searched or checked.

It's not a "if" it's a "when" the next incident happens sadly - and currently the fan zone is a current potential target.

 

[If You Know Your History]

The big problem with our new home is that we can't just pass our season ticket on to someone else at the last minute.

That will leave us with serious attendance issues going forward.

 

[If You Know Your History]

I really miss Goodison but I love our new ground.

This.

 

[If You Know Your History]

The talk about the atmosphere, while fans need to participate, it was dead at Goodison for the last few years at times.

I saw a clip on YouTube of a match Sheff Weds v Forest opening game 84/85, can't remember who won the league that year, they wore blue. Anyway my point is the crowd was vocal and loud.

I remember games at Goodison games like Man U and the RS it would be raucous pre kick off too.. Now it's so lame.

Fans have changed. Can get up for it but it's not an every game. Fans create atmosphere. Sing! Get new songs. Get a singing section. Get away blues together because they know how to f kin sing.

But the football has to improve.

Yup. As supporters, we have been rubbish for years.

When we do get behind them, we are like a 12th man - like the Palace game.

Our new home has been louder than Goodison was towards the end, but that really isn't saying anything.

 

[If You Know Your History]

The club need to allow people to buy tickets without having to buy a membership.

They also need to allow people to buy tickets in the 3 hour window before a game.

They also should allow people readily transfer tickets.

Do the above, and you won't have empty seats and the premium will be in more demand.

100%.

 

[perth_blue]

They're searching for ale mate.

Incorrect.

 

[Leylo]

it is a result of 'martins law' that resulted from the Ariana Grande bombing, the law now stipulates that bodies organising large public attended events such as EFC need to do more to protect people from such attacks than they were doing
It is a minor inconvenience getting slowed down and/or searched on the way in, and annoying if they are preventing people taking in grub that they used to take into goodison.
There are anti vehicle measures on the approach
I'd rather that these measures are implemented than get blown up

Fair point but getting through is terrible at times and one of the worries is say the likes of a derby game people start pushing might miss start of game someone is gonna get hurt imo.... getting treated like cattle like the eighties... never blocked goodison or the likes last year just a quick check at the turnstile .by the way the stewards are brainless

 

[The binman chronicles]

I'm not making any point about corporates as much as I am about a fall off in take up of tickets elsewhere, which is now clearly impacting attendance in the last two home games.

We're on 51K+ now and some way off capacity, which is not a great look for a new stadium opened 5/6 months ago.

The solution is easy enough: sell more tickets for cut-prices and /or hand them out to the community.

No shame in that. The reverse in fact.

You're getting me wrong. The seats available are likely to be ST holders that cannot/do not want to go to that particular game.

If they can't shift to friends and family, they add it to the resale platform but if you don't do that soon enough, members who want to go have got their tickets through the ballet or picked up some that were put on resale early on.

If someone from Joe public wants to go to a game as a random one off, they have to fork out at least £35 for membership on top of 70 quid for a ticket. Imagine it's a dad and a lad and you are shelling out £170+ before you've even included travel, food etc. That's what the current system is blocking. You might go for £100 all in, near double to sit and watch a bog standard league game when we are playing so crap...not much appeal.

 

[paultheblue]

The risk of a terrorist attack is currently at severe and for good reason.

Hill Dickinson and its fan zone is sadly a prime target.

Just get searched and move on.

If they were worried about a terrorist attack i might have been better searching him.
Just saying

 

[blueconverse]

I feel the club looked at the last few years and thought "these loyal idiots will still turn up every week no matter what so there is no rush to improve on the pitch". Well with no connection to the new stadium yet they are finding out sorting out on the pitch should have been number one priority.

 

[Harryflashman]

The risk of a terrorist attack is currently at severe and for good reason.

Hill Dickinson and its fan zone is sadly a prime target.

Just get searched and move on.

So genuine questions about this , what do the detectors on the way in work for ? Is it metal because not everyone sets one off , I’ve not set one off in weeks and I have keys , phones & a power pack . So is it for show ? If you set it off what level of searching would you say it is ? I mean if you’ve seen it you know it’s not a search at all .

If you’re looking to prevent a terrorist attack do you search one in what 30 people ? That’s not how boarding a plane or entering a secure building works.

If it’s security /anti terror do you stop any searching when the queues get busy to assist reduction and move the crowd ? Because that’s what happened at the Brentford game .

The street furniture HVM on regent road to prevent vehicle access then yeah I can see they’re to protect the public and that’s great but let’s be honest about the searching .

 

[Harryflashman]

Fair point but getting through is terrible at times and one of the worries is say the likes of a derby game people start pushing might miss start of game someone is gonna get hurt imo.... getting treated like cattle like the eighties... never blocked goodison or the likes last year just a quick check at the turnstile .by the way the stewards are brainless

Im worried about the derby but for different reasons. The RS fans walking unrestricted into blues on regent road is a recipe for disaster .

There was a kick off after the Newcastle game with their fans singing and celebrating that didn’t end well . I have real concerns when we play them , a big result either way and I think we’ll have issues . Especially when you consider at goodison they’d restrict access to home fans along bullens road to prevent such incidents and it appears they’re will be no measures in place at BMD.

 

[anton66]

Do the FAB have any say in anything regarding tickets?

 

[jaybx1878]

Im worried about the derby but for different reasons. The RS fans walking unrestricted into blues on regent road is a recipe for disaster .

There was a kick off after the Newcastle game with their fans singing and celebrating that didn’t end well . I have real concerns when we play them , a big result either way and I think we’ll have issues . Especially when you consider at goodison they’d restrict access to home fans along bullens road to prevent such incidents and it appears they’re will be no measures in place at BMD.

Who knows how many of them will be in our end on seat unique tickets aswell, nothing to stop them if they pay the stupid price is there?