It's amazing me how wide it looks from East to west for the stand corners when the stand corners north to south, ie the length of the pitch look a lot closer together. Maybe it's not the stand corners ' seeing but the concourse etc.?
Toffeelover
Player Valuation: £80m
The size of the cranes and other construction equipment is just mind boggling.
Completely agree. Even if we never win anything again in my lifetime (very probable) then even if "going the match" and all that entails is improved by a better stadium I turn up to a couple of hours before the game and leave a couple of hours later having had a pint or two in decent surroundings, then I'll be very happy to move to BMD. It might not change the scorelines but I think BMD will make for a better day out. That will have to do me, I suppose.
Gardocki
Player Valuation: £8m
Watching the Palace v Arsenal game last night just re-inforces to me that having 60k as opposed to 53k is a secondary issue.
What we need is a stadium with atmosphere. Loud, raucous, intimidating. One where the fans actually have decent chants/songs that they know the words to and belt out at the top of their voices. Selhurst Park seems to have the best atmosphere in the league and that's an absolute dump with a capacity of, what, <30,000? It's because their fans decided to make it into the best atmosphere.
Look at Fenerbahce or Galatasaray. Modern stadiums with similar or smaller capacity than BMD. Incredible venues.
It's not the number of seats we should be focussed on. It's how do we, as a fanbase, turn BMD into an iconic stadium with a world-beating atmosphere?
'It's a Grand Old Team' should be left at Goodison.
What we need is a stadium with atmosphere. Loud, raucous, intimidating. One where the fans actually have decent chants/songs that they know the words to and belt out at the top of their voices. Selhurst Park seems to have the best atmosphere in the league and that's an absolute dump with a capacity of, what, <30,000? It's because their fans decided to make it into the best atmosphere.
Look at Fenerbahce or Galatasaray. Modern stadiums with similar or smaller capacity than BMD. Incredible venues.
It's not the number of seats we should be focussed on. It's how do we, as a fanbase, turn BMD into an iconic stadium with a world-beating atmosphere?
'It's a Grand Old Team' should be left at Goodison.
mightymoyes
Player Valuation: £70m
been to selhurst park once and the atmosphere was worse than goodison.
if we were beating arsenal 3 nil at home in a night game the atmosphere at goodison would be great too.
I’d much rather we didn’t try and instigate a manufactured atmosphere at Goodison because some watch Serie A and just let Evertonians do their organic thing.
Mrtallywacker
GOT spiritual advisor
God bless you Mr TW.
Earwigjoe
Player Valuation: £10m
Used to be a Turkish lad who used to come into work. Big Galatasary fan he often told us their ground was the biggest in the world, hed argue with your numbers though - he said it seated 100 million and was always full. Lol
Gardocki
Player Valuation: £8m
Palace have done a good job of manufacturing the best atmosphere in the Premier League over the past two or three years. We aren’t talking about creating a boy band or playing music after goals here.
Mrtallywacker
GOT spiritual advisor
Don't need to lecture us about singing lad, we were formed from a lads choir lad.
God bless lad.
We are talking about trying to turn Evertonians into jarg ultras though mate, which they’re resisted countless times before.
Gardocki
Player Valuation: £8m
We are talking about atmosphere. When Goodison has it, it is rocking. Unfortunately the atmosphere is often rubbish.
We all love it when Goodison is rocking, but when people criticise when the atmosphere isn’t good, people get all defensive and say ‘thats not Everton’ or ‘singing is kopite behaviour’ or a new one ‘we don’t want to become jarg ultras’.
Whilst also trying to turn them in to next years Eurovision Song contest finalists.
It's about time somebody put Everton words to Johnny Todd. That would be brilliant.
