New Everton Stadium - Hill Dickinson Stadium


WA Toffee said:
He is only high profile in here. You are right that most of us don’t know who designed Spurs stadium. Do you think Spurs fans have heard of Dan Meis (apart from the ones who post in here)
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I don't know but his stuff is being retweeted left right and centre by blues. Also he gets talked about in my work and that's full of blues, reds and none football types.

We need less talk and more action, clearly.
 
radiostar said:
Should have gone for stonebridge Cross with hindsight. Would be virtually built by now and ready to move in next season.
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How would you possibly know that?

You can't claim to be using hindsight about something that firstly you couldn't possibly be in a position to know, and secondly, something that clearly hasn't happenned yet. Or can you see the future or sonething?
 
radiostar said:
Should have gone for stonebridge Cross with hindsight. Would be virtually built by now and ready to move in next season.
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Stonebridge Cross would never have generated the extra revenue that is the primary objective of building a new stadium. It’s all about location.
Building a new stadium isn’t about providing fans with bigger seats, larger burger bars or extra urinals however worthy an aim this may be, its about building an arena that can work harder to provide the extra finance a club needs to have a chance of competing in the upper echelons of football and to do that you need somewhere that can open its doors for more than 90minutes of togger every fortnight and the occasional wedding do.
You need to build in a desirable location , like Bramley Moore Dock not on a peripheral wasteland such as Stonebridge Cross.
 

Eggsyblueskin said:
Stonebridge Cross would never have generated the extra revenue that is the primary objective of building a new stadium. It’s all about location.
Building a new stadium isn’t about providing fans with bigger seats, larger burger bars or extra urinals however worthy an aim this may be, its about building an arena that can work harder to provide the extra finance a club needs to have a chance of competing in the upper echelons of football and to do that you need somewhere that can open its doors for more than 90minutes of togger every fortnight and the occasional wedding do.
You need to build in a desirable location , like Bramley Moore Dock not on a peripheral wasteland such as Stonebridge Cross.
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The lads a RS pretending to be a blue , don’t bother with him or his few sad friends that post on here
 
GwladysBlue said:
I’m sure the board are working round the clock...trying to think of what excuse they can use at the AGM for no progress since the last one.
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It will be increasingly difficult for them to put an acceptable spin on things if the period from now till then yields nothing tangible. But I'm sure they'll manage it through a combination of waffle and omission.

If there was ever a definitive 'no' to BMD, and they knew it, I'm not sure they would ever kill the project outright in terms of at least attempting to keep peoples hopes up. In that scenario there would be endless periods of recycled requests for feedback and consulation amongst other things and ultimately at least in my opinion that would be far worse than the certainty of being told it had hit the buffers. Perhaps we would not end up with a flat-pack alternative being mooted, but certainly one that has been largely stripped of complexity and any design features that add cost, not to mention a modest capacity.

I think it has been telling for months that Keith Harris, the clubs directorial front for BMD, and not normally known for being tongue-tied, has had absolutely nothing to say on this since his appointment, preferring to delegate to Colin Chong. Perhaps if you have nothing to say, you say nothing, but that hasn't been the strategy and he is the vice chairman. The only thing that has altered is the appointment of Chong who was in-house anyway, whilst Anderson and Meis have been quieter simply because they have largely run out of things to say, other than the "keep the faith" comment from the latter. All along, the club should really have not been idle enough to let them lead this anyway, the clubs own flagship project.

The danger period is immediately post-brexit in a no-deal environment. If they wanted an opportunity to exploit, that would be it.
 
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Eggsyblueskin said:
Stonebridge Cross would never have generated the extra revenue that is the primary objective of building a new stadium. It’s all about location.
Building a new stadium isn’t about providing fans with bigger seats, larger burger bars or extra urinals however worthy an aim this may be, its about building an arena that can work harder to provide the extra finance a club needs to have a chance of competing in the upper echelons of football and to do that you need somewhere that can open its doors for more than 90minutes of togger every fortnight and the occasional wedding do.
You need to build in a desirable location , like Bramley Moore Dock not on a peripheral wasteland such as Stonebridge Cross.
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But why? BMD is basically wasteland, at the other place there's more space and surely better transport links for things like concerts. Getting to the dock road would be a nightmare for someone who's not from the city going to watch a gig who hadn't been before.

Don't get me wrong I see the benefit of having the waterfront stadia but I don't see why the ground HAS to be in a desirable location. You wouldn't call Walton a "desirable" location yet Goodison Park is one of the most iconic stadiums in world football. Same too Boca Juniors ground. Same too barcelonas.

It's not the location that really matters, it's what it becomes.

Everton could build a new ground on a landfill site but as long as it was 'Everton' it would be iconic.
 


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