haters of the BOWL

[Huyton Layne]

Brick facades...?

More so that it looks similar to Goodison from the sky and from a distance

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

They arent Bowls, just cos they've filled in the corners with a radius doesnt make them a bowl.

They are Bowls

 

[Elong]

Wellington, NZ, has a bowl, The Caketin, it's bloody lifeless. No way.

 

[Huyton Layne]

Sat in a bowl stadium at Green Bay. Holds 80,000. I thought it was terrible. I was about halfway up the stand and the field was tiny and it was very difficult to see which players were on the field or judge perspective

 

[EFCNIK]

I dont think bowls look better at all.

I would love our new stadium to be modelled on Koln's stadium or Ibrox.

 

[deipnosophist]

I SO much prefer rectangular stadia

 

[L4Everton]

Is there a basis for this general dislike. Are these bowls as bad as many say? Watching Ajax game and their bowl is looks and sounds good

Or is this "bowls are poo" just a fashionable thing to say?

Theres a lot of bowels full of poo, but then theres a toilet bowl running into a sewer on the other side of Stanley park.

How much cash have city wasted trimming down the commonwealth games track?

 

[ste d' indica]

Not all bowls are created equal I guess. Nou Camp is sort of a bowl and the atmosphere when I went there was fantastic, and Emirates is a lovely ground even though it's a little bowlish. I think the worry a lot of us have is that a bowl design might end up being a cheap way to something really generic, lacking real identity. But I've been to grounds with stands that are pretty dull as well.
I remember Noel Gallagher saying after the City game last season that he'd never been to Goodison before, and he couldn't believe how close everyone was to the pitch, and it was really intimidating. He said something like "They're right on top of you, I thought Christ we're gonna be lucky to get out of here alive."
How we're going to preserve that in the design of a new ground is going to be the difficult part.

 

[Woolly Blue]

Is there a basis for this general dislike. Are these bowls as bad as many say? Watching Ajax game and their bowl is looks and sounds good

Or is this "bowls are poo" just a fashionable thing to say?

Bowls aren't awful, but you a lose a bit of identity and soul with them. A new stadium with seperate stands would "bed in" quicker with supporters. It'd take longer to happen with a bowl.

 

[TheFinnFan]

Bowls aren't awful, but you a lose a bit of identity and soul with them. A new stadium with seperate stands would "bed in" quicker with supporters. It'd take longer to happen with a bowl.

Weve got used to separate stands and Im very suprised if they would go for the bowl...famous Goodison "feel"...tradition...It wont be bowl.

 

[The Cowboy]

We need something like the Lucas Oil Stadium (not really, but its an excuse to show a mental stadium):

 

[RaleighBlue]

We need something like the Lucas Oil Stadium (not really, but its an excuse to show a mental stadium):

I think CenturyLink Field would be more my style: