New Everton Stadium - Hill Dickinson Stadium

[Gwladys St. Glory]

119 seat reduction....fffffuuuuuu***************, whatever will we do?

PSR shot to now!!

(for all da' wet wipes)

 

[Noggsy blue]

 

[Bluesnapper]

Maybe they future proofed the amount of turnstiles and the size of the concourses to account for 61878 attending.

This recommends one turnstile per 1250 attendees (50 turnstiles for 61878 capacity).

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[The binman chronicles]

This is why they didn't put the D in, we all know they would have got the K in and then rain/wind would stop play for a month with Hill Dick on our roof.

 

[AndyRJ]

This is why they didn't put the D in, we all know they would have got the K in and then rain/wind would stop play for a month with Hill Dick on our roof.

Was thinking that.

Hopefully it's the last letter they paint on, last thing we need is to give the childish kopite whoppers even more ammunition.

 

[RomanReigns]

119 blue seats > 99 red balloons

 

[teppic]

From the very first reveal of the stadium capacity to today, it's blatantly obvious that 52,000 was a laughable capacity in every context. It should have been 65,000 all day long.

 

[BlueStevie35]

From the very first reveal of the stadium capacity to today, it's blatantly obvious that 52,000 was a laughable capacity in every context. It should have been 65,000 all day long.

There was no way of doing 65k in that location as was

 

[Toffeeslam]

There was no way of doing 65k in that location as was

I think the most the site could support was 60k I read somewhere.

However if TFG do purchase the dock next door that changes doesn’t it ?

 

[Noggsy blue]

Premium seat customers could reserve their seats from tonight for Roma game, £25

 

[Davideeyore]

There was no way of doing 65k in that location as was

On what basis?

The original St Lukes and Buro Hapold was 60,000.

There's a lot of conjecture saying it can't be this it can't be that, ultimately the people at the club decided they weren't going too big capacity wise. Theoretically there's room. There always was.

 

[Haydn]

Seen various comments saying that the stadium design allows for extension, to provide a capacity increase. That is never going to happen.

The stadium as built, is it, for the long-term foreseeable.

If demand rises to a point that the current capacity is regularly deemed inadequate, ticket prices will go up. Eventually a sweet spot will be found, where maximum ticket sales are still achieved at higher prices.

It would be a very long time, if ever, before this simple and hugely profitable demand control mechanism was substituted, for expensive construction work to modify the stadium.

 

[mrsnugfit]

We traded off a higher capacity with good expandability options in a poor location (Stonebridge Cross) for a lower capacity, almost zero expandability in a good but not perfect location - perfect would have been staying at Goodison, levelling the area around it (RS style) to create a 65,000 monster!

How many of you would have preferred Stonebridge Cross even if it was 60,000 and easily extendable to 70,000? Not me.

 

[Acrobat]

So many builders and architects in here, who thankfully, have never built anything in their lives.

 

[If You Know Your History]

From the very first reveal of the stadium capacity to today, it's blatantly obvious that 52,000 was a laughable capacity in every context. It should have been 65,000 all day long.

I'm old enough to have seen crowds of over 70,000. However, those sort of numbers were always going to be difficult to attain in this location. It's a brilliant location and a brilliant home for the city's first club, but I agree that it's a paltry capacity.