Drico
Player Valuation: £70m
Jaysus, I hope Gupta in Bangalore hasn't seen Dave smuggle his peanuts into the ground. Could be getting an unexpected knock on the door tonight.
Drico
Player Valuation: £70m
At least Mosh turns up to see us. That right, Friedkins?
Blue peter
Player Valuation: £35m
Is VAR involved?
Sam0697
Player Valuation: £750k
Does anyone know where the bar/specific beer points are in the south lower? I came in through entrance 10, and the one near me was a burger place that was rammed. The drinks were sorted quickly, but there was a fairly big hold up everytime someone ordered food. The throughpass next to it was not much better, the queue seemed crazy there.
Its probably the only real criticism I had of it, as everything else was great.
Its probably the only real criticism I had of it, as everything else was great.
Mashtray
Player Valuation: £30m
Would be ideal if everyone can wear blue. Make it a pit
Personally opinion, second time ive been and second time ive felt let down.
It supposed to be a £800m stadium and inside feels like the back end of a loading dock. Theres literally nothing to say whether its a Everton stadium or just your bog standard arena venue. Ale is overpriced, queues are absolutely ridiculous, £6.50 for a donut that was £3.50 on the last test event is absolute scum behaviour by the club.
The seats are cheap crap plastic that feel like their about to snap in half and club view is absolutely worthless. I was looking at the bench seats and even those looked cheap and crap as opposed to the fancy racing car seats you see at every football stadium.
the outside looks fantastic, the actual pitch area looks fantastic but it just feels like the areas that Everton have actually had input in to has just been made as cheaply as possible and i feel it really shows.
The ebars are 4 kiosk that server 1 individual drink instead of serving all 4. So all that happens is you get one gigantic queue for one drink and theres no space to leave once you have your drink so you have to push past the queue to get back out onto the concourse. As people are trying to push forward to get their drink.
I know people are excited to be in the new stadium and i dont want to rain on anyones parade. But for £800m i was genuinely expecting a state of the art stadium and i got half painted stairs and i couldnt even lean on a wall without getting dirt all over my top and the whole experience just felt really cheap to me.
I feel like that'll probably be the last time i get to the ground early. Id rather stay in a pub in town then walk down to the ground with a couple of cans and get there a few minutes before kick off, unfortunately.
The good things are the acoustics are genuinely amazing. The south stand started singing and it sounded like 100k people chanting. Then i actually saw a kick off for the first time in my life without a post in the way of the center circle.
Like i say i don't want to be a debbie downer but am just not happy with the stadium at all and i feel like once the novelty of it being a new stadium wears off alot of people will start seeing the flaws in it.
Fingers crossed this is all sorted before the first game
It supposed to be a £800m stadium and inside feels like the back end of a loading dock. Theres literally nothing to say whether its a Everton stadium or just your bog standard arena venue. Ale is overpriced, queues are absolutely ridiculous, £6.50 for a donut that was £3.50 on the last test event is absolute scum behaviour by the club.
The seats are cheap crap plastic that feel like their about to snap in half and club view is absolutely worthless. I was looking at the bench seats and even those looked cheap and crap as opposed to the fancy racing car seats you see at every football stadium.
the outside looks fantastic, the actual pitch area looks fantastic but it just feels like the areas that Everton have actually had input in to has just been made as cheaply as possible and i feel it really shows.
The ebars are 4 kiosk that server 1 individual drink instead of serving all 4. So all that happens is you get one gigantic queue for one drink and theres no space to leave once you have your drink so you have to push past the queue to get back out onto the concourse. As people are trying to push forward to get their drink.
I know people are excited to be in the new stadium and i dont want to rain on anyones parade. But for £800m i was genuinely expecting a state of the art stadium and i got half painted stairs and i couldnt even lean on a wall without getting dirt all over my top and the whole experience just felt really cheap to me.
I feel like that'll probably be the last time i get to the ground early. Id rather stay in a pub in town then walk down to the ground with a couple of cans and get there a few minutes before kick off, unfortunately.
The good things are the acoustics are genuinely amazing. The south stand started singing and it sounded like 100k people chanting. Then i actually saw a kick off for the first time in my life without a post in the way of the center circle.
Like i say i don't want to be a debbie downer but am just not happy with the stadium at all and i feel like once the novelty of it being a new stadium wears off alot of people will start seeing the flaws in it.
Fingers crossed this is all sorted before the first game
dachshund
Player Valuation: £6m
Nice one, made up for you!Loved it.
Took my Grandson and first thing we did was to head straight for his stone on Everton way.
I was as proud as him to see his name embedded forever at our fantastic new stadium.
The highlight for me however was to come just after that.
He said "Come over here Grandad, there's another one for you to look at."
My Son and Daughter had ordered a stone for me which I knew absolutely nothing about.
MerseySamurai
Player Valuation: £225k
Club view basically sounding more and more that it’s just a pre-paid meal ticket
OneTrueLegend
Player Valuation: £35m
Sandhills was fine, I got in early, around 13:15, but it was straightforward, lots of signage, even had a toffee girl there handing out Everton Mints
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Much of the £800M was thrown at reclaiming the dock for a football stadium. So, in other words, the cost of the stadium is in the unique position it has in the city and the remarkable views it'll generate for fans and tv broadcasters.
The big in-stadium issue for me today was the crush in the concourses: toilet queues snaking out and hindering movement in the walkway; stewards (loads of them) being utterly 'kin useless and just taking up even more space; people who reckon they should just stand where they are and let the world move around them like selfish gets.
Seats are seats are seats, I think. Leg space was a bigger issue for me in the south stand than the west stand. Not sure if you officially get more leg room there but it felt like it.
SweetHomeGoodison
Player Valuation: £500k
Arrived around 1.30, found our stone, made up with it. Got in just before 2pm, no pies left at level 2 SW corner, were they not expecting anyone?
No ale left at 209 stairs bar? Concourse's built for 60K crowd? bollocks, it was chokker! Long queues for toilets and drinks. Tannoy system ineffective at back of south stand, we could barely hear any announcements where we were sitting anyway (back) The climb up the stairs was punishing, i'll sleep tonight!
Despite that and not cheering a goal for the first team, we all had a great afternoon, can to wait for the Brighton match, COYB!
No ale left at 209 stairs bar? Concourse's built for 60K crowd? bollocks, it was chokker! Long queues for toilets and drinks. Tannoy system ineffective at back of south stand, we could barely hear any announcements where we were sitting anyway (back) The climb up the stairs was punishing, i'll sleep tonight!
Despite that and not cheering a goal for the first team, we all had a great afternoon, can to wait for the Brighton match, COYB!
Dixie D
Player Valuation: £8m
Wasn't it something like 100- 150 million, just to fill the dock? #Shoalway
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