New Everton Stadium - Hill Dickinson Stadium

[The binman chronicles]

Will we get that window replaced in time? I guess the people putting up the signage broke it.

If we can't we should look to hang a banner/flag over it, the Famous EFC one perhaps...

 

[Daytripper]

Well at least there is some attempt to grow the club commercially.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Where's the...

Arteta*
Hill Dickinson*
Budweiser*
Blue tomato sauce*
Willy Wonka suit*
Pepsi max*

...money Bill?

I don't understand who thought fake accents and 'chicken and a can of coke pepsi' would be a humourous way to advertise the opening weekend? I can't tell if it's done tongue in cheek, who's the official chicken partner? Bernard frigging Matthews?

 

[LABlue2]

You are joking?

 

[davek]

The only saving grace is that the lettering for Hill Dickinson is smaller than it is for Everton.

However, the whole idea surely is to get some Everton identity into the stadium given that there's none that represents us on the exterior of the stadium, apart from some badges on the outer most of two stands?

The club are bending over backwards for a no mark law firm and handing over a £800M stadium to them for the sake of about £4M a year.

 

[Bluesnapper]

Well my issue with the Grab and Go food area has been resolved I was overcharged for goods I did not take . The company running the operation have given me my money back plus the cost of what I bought. My thoughts are the operation is still flawed. I had no explanation as to why but I’ve heard it maybe because I picked up something then realised it was not what I wanted and put it back. So be careful when you go in . Know what you want and take it. There’s no room for error .The only reason I followed this through was to find out what went wrong but that has not been explained

If you pick up something and then decide you dont want it you are meant to put it back in the same place as you got it from.

 

[davek]

If you pick up something and then decide you dont want it you are meant to put it back in the same place as you got it from.

How do you know he didn't do that?

 

[The binman chronicles]

Even the flags on the seats say Hill Dickinson stadium FFS!!!

(not actually that bothered but the Hill Dickinson on the tunnel wall is a bit much, also the way railings holding up their logo on the outside of the stadium need to not be white)

Of course the flags are going to have the stadium name on it, just as the scarf had Goodison.

 

[Bluesnapper]

How do you know he didn't do that?

I dont.

 

[Bernard]

Yes, I got the same email and it worried me a bit as it looked like I had committed to £1200. How can the club get that so wrong?

I just got a new email saying to ignore last night's .phew.

 

[Marius57]

I dont blame Peter getting a few quid. Good luck to him.

But this is about as far away from Everton culture as can be.

Everton culture of failure for more than 30 years? Maybe a change is needed.

 

[davek]

Everton culture of failure for more than 30 years? Maybe a change is needed.

A change on the pitch is needed, yes.

 

[MikeyMike]

Yes, I got the same email and it worried me a bit as it looked like I had committed to £1200. How can the club get that so wrong?

Just had another email telling me to ignore the first email. Very disappointing, I thought I’d been upgraded due to my loyal support throughout the recent miserable years of being an Evertonian

 

[BullensRoad]

How d'you know this ? Surely they've gone in there because they wanted to stand ?

From general comments here and there. Some aren't away it's rail seating to encourage standing.

 

[Tom Hughes]

Were double decker stadiums ever archetypal though? Lots of grounds had single tier home ends...some with just a shelf. That's also a tradition.

Maybe to Everton eyes double decker seems natural.

Back then, most grounds were very basic single tier affairs that had barely changed for generations. The majority of fans stood on the terraces, many without a roof, and only a few percent sat in the stands, which themselves were often basic single tier affairs, probably fronted by a standing terraced paddock (which invariably got wet when it rained, because the roof didn't quite cover them). The Double-decker was a major leap forward in terms of offering far more capacity for footprint, and offering a much better and broader range of views..... but they were also massively expensive to build. A stadium with one double-decker was normally considered to be one of the better grounds in the country and were a status symbol for those clubs, and usually a reflection of their success or size (WHL, Roker, Villa Park, Ibrox etc). While one with two double-deckers was considerd a very high quality stadium, clearly belonging to one of the league's giants (Highbury)..... We had FOUR of them! Hence the reason why in 1966 Goodison was the obvious choice to host a semi-final. So in comparative terms, we were historically the club with the most advanced, most complex and more expensively acquired stadium. A stadium that was not too dissimilar to many of the large American ballparks of that time.....literally a true "stadium". Yet here we are now, with some referencing the relative simplicity of our new stadium as a "traditional football ground," in comparison to its larger, more complex contemporaries elsewhere, which some are saying are more reminiscent the large NFL stadia in the US. Tbh, they are more like the large European football stadia, and few would argue against their "football stadium" credentials.