New Everton Stadium - Hill Dickinson Stadium

[allen]

Castore owns the Umbro name?

They have the rights to it, yes.

On 25 March 2024, it was reported that GL Dameck had sublicensed the Umbro brand to Manchester based Castore, the latter became the sole licensee for Umbro Professional Team Sports apparel, enabling them to distribute the Umbro brand across several key European markets.

Umbro - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Exeter_Gently]

They have the rights to it, yes.

Umbro - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Uwer...never knew that.

 

[Kevsleftpeg]

Easier to heat. Environmentally friendly in line with our green ambition?

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We were discussing aesthetics.

 

[Kevsleftpeg]

Easier to heat. Environmentally friendly in line with our green ambition?

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Hungry people always buy more food than they need. Cold people always buy more clothing. Let's not bother heating the place so everyone is compelled to buy a stadium coat as soon as they enter.

 

[Connor]

Frustrates me, though, that our kit manufacturer owns the Umbro name and we still don’t get the logo on the retro kits.

Because Castore don't manufacture these retro kits. Score Draw have the rights.

I refuse to buy any of the SD stuff because of it.

 

[SLAVEN BILIC]

Frustrates me, though, that our kit manufacturer owns the Umbro name and we still don’t get the logo on the retro kits.

But the retro kits aren’t made by Castore, it’s Score Draw, so it wouldn’t be possible. Castore would have to give permission to Score Draw and even then it’s only the kits that were originally made by Umbro.

 

[Drico]

Working for a building contractor who does lots of design and build projects,
I can tell you that the first thing to be 'value engineered' out of a building is always the ceilings. An easy win to save some money hence why more and more public buildings have exposed ceilings now.

Agree completely. To be honest, I suspect a touch of my disapproval is linked to the perception that Kenwright and Moshiri were behind all of this back in the day - and it nearly sank us.

I suppose I expected cut corners with those gentlemen (perhaps unfairly).

 

[Drico]

Each to their own but a low ceiling makes the place feel unnecessarily cramped and dinghy to me. The warehouse look is way better.

I'm not insisting on a low ceiling. Any ceiling would have done me.

Actually, scratch that. I'm outraged we haven't had our version of the Sistine Chapel.

 

[BullensRoad]

Are people being serious asking for a car park?

It’s not America, don’t be a fat lazy slob.

I saw on X Americans are waking travelling blues to joint their talegate parties outside the stadiums in the car park.

F that.

 

[Lob]

Bollox to the interior design. More concerned about the prices.

 

[marnie]

 

[Bedfordblue]

They've kept that quite hush hush I don't think they know what to do with it. I'd have thought some kind of museum but maybe not

They’re offering it as an event space so I suspect they won’t be putting a significant amount of static museum type stuff on display in there.

https://www.hilldickinsonstadium.com/venue-hire/our-spaces?_cb=1753188121593

 

[Liam-EFC]

Certainly sounds like a normal day at Everton.

 

[Blue Alert]

I hear the footballs you can see on display in the shop are the ‘Pro’ versions. They’re spherical, and can be filled with air - features intended to make the fan experience as close to the players’ own as possible. Retail price is £500.

Always mindful to give Evertonians a choice of balls, though, the fan replica balls (not displayed) are cuboid, filled with custard and lacking any means to drain it out. These retail for £14.99.

 

[Connor]

Certainly sounds like a normal day at Everton.

It's not run by Everton, it's run by Fanatics though

And the club did a release on what was happening, so can't say "they didn't say anything"

Parking was mentioned on the website ffs