New Everton Stadium - Hill Dickinson Stadium

[Blue Neon]

Is that a fairly flat ish walk for a 71yr old at around 35mins? Always drove and parked Stanley Park for Goodison. Thinking now to get the train to Lime St Station.

 

[Drico]

Biggest shocker of the day, Dave actually went to a game (only kidding @davek, glad you enjoyed yourself)

Well, I'm still stunned he got his peanuts in...

 

[Abraders]

Haven't put that sign up yet. One to go on the side, too.

Ah, that's good news. Do we expect it to be ready for the first game against Brighton?

 

[kev]

Watched the first half in the south stand....

....second half in the west stand...

We watched the first game in East stand and second game in North stand

BTW, there's no way that was a full house today. Empty seats all over the place...blocks in some places.

Spot on about the attendance but I always thought that would be a stretch TBH.
Would we have ever have hit capacity at 39,000 Goodison for a pre season friendly?

 

[Abraders]

Is that a fairly flat ish walk for a 71yr old at around 35mins? Always drove and parked Stanley Park for Goodison. Thinking now to get the train to Lime St Station.

Couldn't say, but I do think Sandhills was closer than say Kirkdale to Goodison. About a 10 minute walk

 

[Dixie D]

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Dreams came true today!

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Dreams came true today!

Aww, bless them mate, it's a lovely pic
...Daddy did good today

They look like they had a great day pal

 

[Drico]

One thing I noticed - but perhaps those there can elucidate - was the "banners" on the high poles looked pretty nondescript and half-hearted. I was expecting something longer and bluer, but the excuses that they had up as banners were hardly worth the poles in the first place.

 

[Miked1e]

Aww, bless them mate, it's a lovely pic
...Daddy did good today

They look like they had a great day pal

First game with both my boys…. Youngest one isn’t eligible for a ST yet, but at only 3 he isn’t ready yet as we worked out today!

But eldest is Everton obsessed and is made up with his ST seat!

 

[tommye]

Teething problems aside, It is marvellous that stadium.

Second half I forgot Everton's predictably inept play and just spent the last half hour gazing at the roof and the sheer 'kin sheerness of that blue wall.

It's an incredible interior and the position of it on the banks of the Mersey with those backdrops is staggering. Simply world class.

A stadium that deserves a Real Madrid or Bayern Munich in. It's utterly 'kin sensational.

I'm just glad you made it past that enormous dock wall and weren't chopped to mincemeat by those wind turbines.
There is a God after all

 

[bobbylatch]

This.
I loved the Old Lady to bits but this stadium is absolutely fantastic.
Everyone associated with its design, build and planning needs to be throughly congratulated.
This is the future of Everton football club.
I had a great day out. Can't wait to see it bouncing under the floodlights

 

[davek]

I'm just glad you made it past that enormous dock wall and weren't chopped to mincemeat by those wind turbines.
There is a God after all

There's always next time...

 

[Blue Neon]

Couldn't say, but I do think Sandhills was closer than say Kirkdale to Goodison. About a 10 minute walk

Only problem I have is - Last Pennine Express Leeds train leaves Lime St around 11pm. Would have around 1 hour to get back after a night match. If can't would be well and truly stuffed!

 

[OneTrueLegend]

This is frying my brain. You scan your card, walk in, pick up what you want and just leave and you’ll be charged for what you take? How do they know what you’re picking up? And if there’s several people in there at once, isn’t there a danger YOUR card is the one that gets charged for an armful of goods that someone else picks up? I don’t get it.

It’s based off Amazon’s system, when you scan your card to go in, the security cameras tracks you, see what you pick up and charges you for what you take.
They also have a team of people in India watching the footage and double checking it.

 

[Dixie D]

Even our mate Moshiri was there today!

 

[davek]

We watched the first game in East stand and second game in North stand

Spot on about the attendance but I always thought that would be a stretch TBH.
Would we have ever have hit capacity at 39,000 Goodison for a pre season friendly?

Defo an over calculation of the attendance. Mind you I dont blame them as they had to hit over 50k to get the license.