New Everton Stadium - Hill Dickinson Stadium

[BigDunc'sFod]

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Well put BedfordBooooo

 

[ForeverEverton]

 

[ForeverEverton]

 

[Rita_Poon]

Haha. It's cheap to be sponsored by a local law firm with deep roots in the city. Wish we'd been sponsored by some dodgy crypto company in Africa. That would be the classy organisation that we'd eant to link ourselves to.

Just goes to show how many people would happily pull their kecks down for any old shyster with a bit of cash.

Blood Mine Diamond stadia.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Hill Dickinson Park does read better. I wouldn't personally go for anything with "Dock" in it though.
In this case it would have been shortened to Dick Dock.

(cancelled now 'cos of who's on it I reckon)

 

[Portoman]

They're a finer grain of salt.

Thick and lumpy

 

[Portoman]

(cancelled now 'cos of who's on it I reckon)

Whereas "Hill Dick" sounds better

 

[LABlue2]

Mea Culpa @LABlue2

Good find and big man admitting it!

 

[Marius57]

That is actually pretty cool if you ask me.

And they are paying us tonnes of money

 

[Bedfordblue]

But aye does seem slightly odd that a legal firm would wax up to 5-10% of their turnover on the kind of global brand promotion that they probably don’t really need.

Anyone else smelling some PSR washing?

I’m not so sure.
They’re clearly growing and expanding in the Far East, and other shipping centres.

The biggest law firms are £billion affairs, maybe they have aspirations of joining them and desire the exposure.

I do agree it does seem a lot of their revenue / profit, but if they continue growing as they have for the last 5-7 years, it becomes a much smaller % figure year on year.

 

[den]

Well, that’s just like your opinion, man.

 

[BullensRoad]

With all the speculation about the money amount, I hope people understand that even the lowest estimate of £5M would literally be one of the most lucrative naming rights deals worldwide. £10M is basically a pipe dream amount, and we somehow may actually end up making that much off it. It's weird how many crap sponsors we've had over the decades and people are getting upset about this one, who are giving us a potentially well above market level* amount.

I've posted before way back in this thread about how our financial predicament was largely based upon financing and building this thing the way it was, and that getting it done would not necessarily solve our financial problems in the next decade or so, given the financing costs ending up counting against PSR and the difficulty of finding a sponsor who'd get near that £10M figure. The Friedkins have within six months completely fixed the issues, and if you start doing the maths between tickets+hospitality+massive reduction in interest charges+HD sponsorship+finishing four spots higher this year than we would've hoped, you're going to start expecting a pretty significant net spend this summer.

*Given HD's history and specialty, they really do seem specifically to be a firm that would value this higher than other businesses, due to both the maritime setting and being in the city, so they aren't necessarily setting money on fire here from their perspective. That being said, it's not Everton Football Club's problem if HD are just setting money on fire.

It's £10m pal. No question.

 

[BullensRoad]

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@theesk you gonna take this pal?

 

[BullensRoad]

Yes it will.

When it's constantly called the Hill Dickinson stadium on all media platforms, it won't.

 

[Blue peter]

It's £10m pal. No question.

How do you know it’s £10m. Andy Hunters article said it was up to £10m