Mayor's Bramley Moore Dock Open Letter To Evertonians

[SerenityNigh]

His point is that the track has to be so big to work, so naturally the stadium has to fit the whole 800m thing.

So it's simply a matter of space. If an 800m track can fit inside Goodison, whether temporary or not, that means we're cutting corners in terms of atmosphere and proximity to do it.

In short, I'm calling BS on that 'open letter'.

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[ijjysmith]

I hope you're right, but there is no way a stadium with a four stand structure could accommodate a track (they take up a lot of space) and I would worry about the rake of the stands as well as the slope would have to be quite gentle to accommodate a suspended or platform based track. I just don't want a stadium where the noise just disappears up the stands and out of the top of the stadium. I want teams to be scared of playing at BMD.

I understand the concern mate. But the line about 'not wanting to make the same mistakes as others' gave me enough to know it won't be West Ham's stupid ground.

Plus Liverpool might not even get the games so best to wait and see.

 

[ijjysmith]

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I let that bit slide.

 

[Ruairi77]

yea, I think they'll be able to work out something. If you have a raised deck covering half of a lower tier or 1/4 the stadium, you'll have plenty of room for a running track, reducing the capacity from 60k to 45k while still availing of corporate facilities.
I would imagine it will also help with the planning process, winning over lots of non evertonians/football fans.
The timing also makes sense as the city will have three big arenas.

 

[SerenityNigh]

I let that bit slide.

That'd be almost as much distance between supporters and pitch as West Ham have got

 

[Tubey]

I'm calling just wait and see rather than make massively uneducated guesses. Pointless worrying about it as there's a million things we don't know about and it might not even happen.

Not really uneducated mate - our pitch right now is 100x68m. We couldn't fit an 400m track in it (no idea why I said 800m before...)

I might be wrong like but seems unlikely a new stadium will have intimacy as a first thought if we need to adapt it for athletics.

 

[windymiller]

I understand the concern mate. But the line about 'not wanting to make the same mistakes as others' gave me enough to know it won't be West Ham's stupid ground.

Plus Liverpool might not even get the games so best to wait and see.

I don't think it will be the car crash that West Ham have ended up with but I do fear that we may end up with something like Hampden Park which is a bit soulless at times.

 

[Paul Cook]

Just pleased that construction will be well underway in 12 months time. Time to start a new fashion "believing in the Everton Board". Im pleased also that the Grand Old Lady of Goodison Park will play a role before the developer move in.

 

[devogue]

didnt man citys stadium have an athletics track at one point? I could be wrong but the Etihad isnt that bad of a stadium.

 

[Goat]

I trust Dan.

 

[Ruairi77]

I don't know much about this but I'd imagine the biggest space requirements are at the goal ends where the track curves. You could keep the home end steep and close to the pitch while shifting the whole track towards the river and over what will be a shallower away end. I would imagine Meis will put a lot of glass at the river end so that's probably where the away fans will end up.

 

[Toast]

Had far too much good news this week, something was due to come out to damper that feel good factor down

At least i can bed wet over something again

 

[Duncan Disordely]

How about we just float it in the Mersey instead?

Would rather we don't do this but you know it was insisted upon as part of the financial negotiating.

They're doing that with the swimming pool apparently!

 

[ijjysmith]

I don't think it will be the car crash that West Ham have ended up with but I do fear that we may end up with something like Hampden Park which is a bit soulless at times.

We can only go off what they say though. That Dan Meis guy says he knows it the stands need to be next to the pitch. He said literally that.

How it would work with a track I have no idea, but it's a football stadium foremost.

 

[ijjysmith]

Not really uneducated mate - our pitch right now is 100x68m. We couldn't fit an 400m track in it (no idea why I said 800m before...)

I might be wrong like but seems unlikely a new stadium will have intimacy as a first thought if we need to adapt it for athletics.

That's 2 people who have way more say in it than we do saying they know the pitch needs to be near the stand. That's all you can go off.

How it will work, not a clue. But they know it's a football stadium for 100 years plus. Not a stadium for a one off event.