£131 per game isn’t that bad if you consider your getting food, drink and parking for each game. Not that I’m interested, I don’t go the game for a three course meal and a skin full of ale but the price isn’t that bad broken down game by game.
There would probably still be height planning constraints due to the proximity with the historic Stanley Dock Warehouses. At a shareholders meeting, Colin Chong intimated that he thought that these "might" be less onerous for an established venue...
Don’t think you’d need the lounges for friendlies, and there is still a third test event to be played, whether they use that as the traditional home pre season friendly I don’t know, but it would seem a little late given the PL would start a week...
the norm is that everton leave announcements till the last minute, if its not going to open till end of sept hopefully they will let people know , but what about friendlies, they are probably already booked