Goodison park or New Stadium.

[bullensview]

Poll? And Goodison btw

 

[blueblue]

Developing Goodison is more than just increasing capacity.
It is about increasing the facilities to allow the club to generate the kind of money being
earned by our competitors.

If the capacity were to be increased by 15, then the facilities have to be built to properly cater for the existing 40,000
supporters and then the additional 15,000 as well and the facilities that exist at present are not even close to being up to standard.

 

[Dario Terracotta]

Never been to Ibrox but the stadium looks brilliant on tv and in pictures. Exactly what Goodison should have become in the last 20 years, shame on the board.

Er Yeah,nice ground and all that,but look at the state they're in!

 

[sbbefc]

Is there nothing in modern structural engineering that could make staying at Goodison viable, i.e safely removing the obstructed views and redeveloping for an extra tier.

I know nothing at all about engineering or construction so I ask this genuinely?

I'm sure all these ideas have been discussed before at boardroom level and obviously it must be unfeasible.

It could be done but Goodison is like an old car. Needs a new clutch, breaks, tyres etc all can be fitted but its just far more cost effective to buy a new car. You don't have to use your bike while your car is getting fixed either.

 

[sbbefc]

Er Yeah,nice ground and all that,but look at the state they're in!

Well yeah if we were to do it all now it would cost far too much, but had we started back in the early 90s with the taylor report, had the foresight to add another tier on the park end and increase our corporate facilities, when we had the chance, it would have been more than achievable and cost effective.

 

[Dario Terracotta]

Well yeah if we were to do it all now it would cost far too much, but had we started back in the early 90s with the taylor report, had the foresight to add another tier on the park end and increase our corporate facilities, when we had the chance, it would have been more than achievable and cost effective.

I take your point,Goodison today is basically Goodison(with the exception of the Park End)from the early 1970's with seats!!it is disgraceful that the board have been so shortsighted over this period.

 

[roydo]

I asked Sunderland fans this a while ago on RTG. Here is the thread. Quite interesting.

http://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/when-you-moved-from-roker-park-to-sol.904114/

 

[blueblue]

Interesting reponse.

 

[West]

new stadium for me a good design and we will make it goodison v2

 

[roydo]

Interesting reponse.

I thought so. Especially some of the younger lads saying they hardly remember Roker Park.

Perhaps we should bear that in mind when we discuss this. Just a thought.

 

[Ruairi77]

It could be done but Goodison is like an old car. Needs a new clutch, breaks, tyres etc all can be fitted but its just far more cost effective to buy a new car. You don't have to use your bike while your car is getting fixed either.

Yea, it would be like scrapping your vintage classic that everyone (except the RS) has a fondness for and buying a Toyota corolla.

 

[Brennan]

New stadium, anything else is just nostalgia based fantasy.

 

[ste d' indica]

I asked Sunderland fans this a while ago on RTG. Here is the thread. Quite interesting.

http://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/when-you-moved-from-roker-park-to-sol.904114/

Somewhat mixed but generally the right move seems to be the majority view. It was interesting what one lad was saying about atmosphere being killed off a bit by designated seating, think he may have something there but its hard to see that changing these days, maybe could be trialled in some parts of the ground though?

They seem a civilised bunch over on the SMB from what I've seen, good choice of forum software as well!

 

[roydo]

Somewhat mixed but generally the right move seems to be the majority view. It was interesting what one lad was saying about atmosphere being killed off a bit by designated seating, think he may have something there but its hard to see that changing these days, maybe could be trialled in some parts of the ground though?

They seem a civilised bunch over on the SMB from what I've seen, good choice of forum software as well!

They are sound. The do have a rather disconcerting welcome to new posters, especially from other clubs though!

 

[ste d' indica]

They are sound. The do have a rather disconcerting welcome to new posters, especially from other clubs though!

Yeah, a mate of mine down here is a makem, he's all over that forum. He's mentioned that your likely to get called a mag and ripped to pieces on signing up, if you can ride that out you'll be okay though. Never had the guts meself so well done to you mate!!