New Everton Stadium - Hill Dickinson Stadium

[Rita_Poon]

Just on this point, I took a photo of the development on the way up to the stadium on Saturday. Just the other side of the canal there'll be a river-front path leading down toward the Pier Head. That'll halve the congestion along Regent Road.

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Ofc this drone pic was taken from the safety of a remote digital device, no one on GoT would condone potential trespass or encourage entering a building site illegally. No one wants accident or injury to occur.

 

[davek]

Ofc this drone pic was taken from the safety of a remote digital device, no one on GoT would condone potential trespass or encourage entering a building site illegally. No one wants accident or injury to occur.

Eh?

 

[Tipp blue]

Ofc this drone pic was taken from the safety of a remote digital device, no one on GoT would condone potential trespass or encourage entering a building site illegally. No one wants accident or injury to occur.

it's clearly taken from outside the building site, you can see a shadow of someone holding a phone over head.

 

[Iana]

it's clearly taken from outside the building site, you can see a shadow of someone holding a phone over head.

It can’t be Dave’s shadow as the head is not a massive orange sphere…

 

[Rita_Poon]

it's clearly taken from outside the building site, you can see a shadow of someone holding a phone over head.

I see no shadow at all.

 

[The binman chronicles]

Yes, away fans are diehards who will nearly always have great unity. They meet the basic criteria of reaching that minimum engagement threshold everytime, simply by virtue of the fact that they'll all sing....

The corner position also means they sing across each other and up to expanses of barrel roof in both directions..... almost an amphitheatre effect. I was hoping our upper corner sections would have a similar effect for the South stand, and it has on occasion. Hopefully with time, that will come more often.

It just shows that we need to get organised. A questionnaire should be sent out to ask the match going fanbase; what they think of the atmosphere and do they consider themselves who would sing and make a noise but don't feel they can where they are sat at the moment. (must answer honestly)

The club can then use that info to look to get groups of these fans together, mainly in the South lower but also in groups of a few hundred elsewhere depending on where people are open to moving to. Where I'm sat I can hear a small group of fans trying to get songs going but they rarely catch. You get a couple of hundred like-minded individuals all grouped together and it might kick start the rest.

If we started to play some decent attacking football then it would probably happen organically, as that's a bit of an issue at the moment the FAB and 1878's need to be lobbying to try and improve it.

 

[arch stanton]

It can’t be Dave’s shadow as the head is not a massive orange sphere…

Dave casts no shadow, he's a top level shape shifter

 

[Iana]

Dave casts no shadow, he's a top level shape shifter

Perhaps that is the case but I still imagine him to be a distant cousin of Frank Sidebottom and have a massive orange papier mache head.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Is it true that we’re going to put Mannequins dressed in Everton hats and scarfs holding a jumbo sausage roll in all the empty seats on match days?

 

[lesbattersby]

Who did you murder Dave ? They always say serial killers always go back to were they bury their victims.

 

[Big Neville Southall]

It just shows that we need to get organised. A questionnaire should be sent out to ask the match going fanbase; what they think of the atmosphere and do they consider themselves who would sing and make a noise but don't feel they can where they are sat at the moment. (must answer honestly)

The club can then use that info to look to get groups of these fans together, mainly in the South lower but also in groups of a few hundred elsewhere depending on where people are open to moving to. Where I'm sat I can hear a small group of fans trying to get songs going but they rarely catch. You get a couple of hundred like-minded individuals all grouped together and it might kick start the rest.

If we started to play some decent attacking football then it would probably happen organically, as that's a bit of an issue at the moment the FAB and 1878's need to be lobbying to try and improve it.

Theres pitch led atmosphere and then theres fan led atmosphere.

Pitch led, the stadium is fine, roof is good, you dont worry about ticketing but it has a shorter life, and its intermittent.

Fan led, you need more factors. One person starts a song, they need to be surrounded by like minded fans to get some volume, then you need help from the roof to amplify theue noise to other fans. If their noise is loud enough then the rest can feel compelled to join in.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

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Who did you murder Dave ? They always say serial killers always go back to were they bury their victims.

Like Dracula maybe that cross is there to repel Dave.

 

[Drico]

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Nice to see Bill's ashes coming home to the club he loved...

 

[Barrowjohn]

That was just the initial render for a.60k stadium. If you look on the right hand side, it's 3 tiers on the West Stand.

They ended up putting the riser in the middle of the South Stand to enable safe standing in the lower tier and it not obstructing the view for those that sit in

Such a good point. That's literally my only bug bear about our new home.

We were promised a "blue wall", the largest mass of fans in one single tier in the whole country.

theSouth Stand was pitched to fans as a single tier blue wall, to be similar to Borussia Dortmund's Yellow Wall, albeit a smaller capacity. The only way to avoid the riser would have been to make it safe standing all the way. Take away the steepness of it, is it any different from the rest of the ground?

 

[The binman chronicles]

theSouth Stand was pitched to fans as a single tier blue wall, to be similar to Borussia Dortmund's Yellow Wall, albeit a smaller capacity. The only way to avoid the riser would have been to make it safe standing all the way. Take away the steepness of it, is it any different from the rest of the ground?

I know the super riser is a discussion point, however does it really make a difference? The lower South isn't making a lot of noise anyhow, if it was all one big tier presumably it would still be the same. If the 3000 or so fans who go to the away games made up the bulk of the 5k safe standing then it would feel like a pretty intimidating home end.

We've heard stories of people being told to sit down and keep kids quiet, it's that along with the poor performances that are making us question the design.