New Everton Stadium - Hill Dickinson Stadium

[UltraVires]

Was it actually £6.50 for a donut? I started to queue and gave up so didn’t get close enough to see the prices of food and drink

 

[Benicetoourboys]

It was a Test Event.

Things will get sorted over the next few games I expect.

Well maybe not the prices!

 

[TraffordBlue]

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

Everyone will have a different opinion but I think things will improve as the months go on and some things may take until next season to be up to standard.

I went to the 2nd test event and felt a bit underwhelmed due to it being the U21s and at half capacity but today I felt like it was a great experience and other than a few minor negatives it felt amazing to be there and I love the new Stadium.

 

[davek]

Wasn't it something like 100- 150 million, just to fill the dock? #Shoalway

I think it was mate...there goes your racing car seats!

 

[Paul E]

Was it actually £6.50 for a donut? I started to queue and gave up so didn’t get close enough to see the prices of food and drink

Yes, same one was £3.50 at the last test event. Hot dog was £9.50 last time too and now that's £11

Found some of that a bit distasteful today to be honest.

 

[OneTrueLegend]

Is VAR involved?

It’s similar to VAR, but it works better and there’s less corruption

 

[davek]

Yes, same one was £3.50 at the last test event. Hot dog was £9.50 last time too and now that's £11

Found some of that a bit distasteful today to be honest.

Seen a burger priced at £12.50.

I just laughed.

 

[Street end man]

@Noggsy blue could make a killing dropping saugage rolls off at half time from 399ft to fans who will now refuse to queue

 

[chrismpw]

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.

Were you irritated by the stadium advertising showing a big red Budweiser ad every now and then? Corporate seems to not be reading the room there.

 

[davek]

Were you irritated by the stadium advertising showing a big red Budweiser ad every now and then? Corporate seems to not be reading the room there.

Yes! Red Bud adverts all round and surrounding a tiny royal blue scoreboard.

 

[Street end man]

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.

Good point re the cost of recaiming the dock. Must have eaten up a huge portion of the spend.

 

[Dixie D]

I think it was mate...there goes your racing car seats!

Exactly, it's a £650 million stadium, right there!!

It's not like Tottenham's (a multi functional stadium)
...No cheese rooms

It's a proper English, top flight stadium, designed for football & football only!

There is literally not a bad seat in the stadium & it's gonna last us 100 years, at least!

It's a purpose built football, money making machine.

 

[PhilM]

Good point re the cost of recaiming the dock. Must have eaten up a huge portion of the spend.

The location of the stadium and the complexity (filling in the dock) meant we paid a premium for the foundations.

If we wanted a stadium of the calibre of Spurs, in terms of fit out, we would have either had to pay a lot more, or build it elsewhere.

 

[davek]

Good point re the cost of recaiming the dock. Must have eaten up a huge portion of the spend.

Yep. Sacrifices inevitably were made elsewhere. I think Bluewolf has a point, but it's easily understandable why there's certain interior drawbacks.

To me that's secondary to aesthetics of the stadium. Others will go for creature comforts...which is their right.

 

[chrismpw]

Yes! Red Bud adverts all round and surrounding a tiny royal blue scoreboard.

All I saw of it was a clip of Peter Reid coming onto the pitch - which I found quite emotional, but that turned to irritation when the stadium hoardings all went red and kinda ruined the moment. Didn't seem an Everton stadium at that moment.