New Everton Stadium - Hill Dickinson Stadium

davek said:
More rugby.

What an utter đź’©show.

Is that all you can do?
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Wonder what the profit levels are on a sporting event compared to a music event.

I guess the problem with music events is you need someone to take the plunge and demonstrate it as at least viable before it becomes desirable.

Surprised they’ve not attempted something on a smaller scale in the plaza though, there’s enough Evertonian musicians and promotors to put on a dance music event there at least I’d have thought, even if only as a proof of concept.
 
liamefc91 said:
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I heard it on a podcast the other day and fully agree

On that poster there it says..... Hill Dickenson Stadium, Liverpool

Now were its pretty obvious in todays times that we were going to get a stadium sponsor nowhere in that poster is the 'Everton' brand.

Now The Hill Dickenson Everton Stadium is an absolute mouthfull at the best of times, but it would of kept us popular and relevant for what the stadium is.....................as it stands again, it just feels like we are playing in a neutral venue

You look at original concepts........Everton everywhere, now this may of been just because they didn't have any idea of who would sponsor the stadium at the time, but names stick...................how many of us still call the M & S arena the Echo?

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Bedfordblue said:
Wonder what the profit levels are on a sporting event compared to a music event.

I guess the problem with music events is you need someone to take the plunge and demonstrate it as at least viable before it becomes desirable.

Surprised they’ve not attempted something on a smaller scale in the plaza though, there’s enough Evertonian musicians and promotors to put on a dance music event there at least I’d have thought, even if only as a proof of concept.
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New Stadium was to be...

  • the Fourth Grace
  • attract international music acts
  • provide a fortress for the football club
  • become a communal hub

Up to now it's been projected as a leisure centre backgrounded by a sewage facility, a venue for egg chasers, done all it can to deter people gettng into it, and been an utter failure of a home fortress.
 
Raino85 said:
I heard it on a podcast the other day and fully agree

On that poster there it says..... Hill Dickenson Stadium, Liverpool

Now were its pretty obvious in todays times that we were going to get a stadium sponsor nowhere in that poster is the 'Everton' brand.

Now The Hill Dickenson Everton Stadium is an absolute mouthfull at the best of times, but it would of kept us popular and relevant for what the stadium is.....................as it stands again, it just feels like we are playing in a neutral venue

You look at original concepts........Everton everywhere, now this may of been just because they didn't have any idea of who would sponsor the stadium at the time, but names stick...................how many of us still call the M & S arena the Echo?

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The H*** D******** lot clearly stated in their interview that they saw this as a facility for the whole of Liverpool - that's why they sponsored it.

This is why anyone with any sense or pride utterly opposes their colonisation of this club.

Anyone who doesn't leaves themselves open to the charge of tolerating our own stadium projected as a neutral venue.
 
Raino85 said:
I'm going to get pelters for this, but the wheelchair seating and massive entrance/exit really annoy me on the south stand.

Aesthetically it looks horrible
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Same. I've always said it.

The south stand lower should be a heaving mass of young scruffs who are jumping and singing and being as intimidating as possible, as close as possible to the players. Having wheelchair access in that location takes away that element.
 
Gardocki said:
Same. I've always said it.

The south stand lower should be a heaving mass of young scruffs who are jumping and singing and being as intimidating as possible, as close as possible to the players. Having wheelchair access in that location takes away that element.
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Yes, also, being less accessible and sometimes unable to move as spritely.....why put them somewhere were they are in danger of getting on the end of one of Beto's nutty shots

How are you going to be able to punch Lyon player while also holding your kids with a bunch of wheelchairs in the way.

Joking aside, i do agree, it needs to be almost a surge to the front behind that goals, and that area obstructs that
 
Gardocki said:
Same. I've always said it.

The south stand lower should be a heaving mass of young scruffs who are jumping and singing and being as intimidating as possible, as close as possible to the players. Having wheelchair access in that location takes away that element.
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I've only just looked at it closely, and it looks like a large proportion are sitting down during the match, and not just the front rows. If they'd had the German style rail seats, these seats would've been locked in the up-position and you wouldn't see most of the hand rails. It really looks half-empty. I can remember Richard Kenyon commenting that the club were surprised that during the consultation process, so few existing Gwladys St Lower season ticket holders said that they would be going in the standing section. They thought it would be almost a straight one for one transfer. The reality was that it was one of the last sections to sell in any quantity, which obviously also reflects the tenure issue, but it clearly looks like standing is not universally accepted/desired by those in there.... (unless we were getting beat when pic was taken).

Hopefully the vocal muscles will get a good stretching tonight.
 
The binman chronicles said:
One may look better on TV, the other works better if you are there in person. If you were sat/stood behind someone who is a few inches taller in the lower Gwladys then your view of the game was pretty poor.
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It’s more the placing of the vomitries, at spurs, anfield , Goodison (pretty much anywhere) they are a lot higher whereas in the south lower they are right down the bottom which places them directly in the tv shot

I imagine this is because we have the stand split which spurs and Liverpool don’t have in their main home end

I like that our stand is the steepest in the league, and it’s great for viewpoints, but would happily sacrifice a bit of that for one whole stand. It would still be far steeper than the Kop and the Gwladys

I think another issue is I’m pretty sure you can only have a certain percentage of your ground allocated to safe standing, and part of that has to be for away fans, therefore we couldn’t have a 15,000 all standing south stand. I’m struggling to find a source for this but I’m pretty sure of it, so that might be another reason why they split the stand. They also mentioned that the split mean that those on lower rows of the south upper can see over those standing

So it may have been planned to be one whole stand, with vomitries in the middle and back, but they could only have around 5000 safe standing so they had to split the stand

It’s different elsewhere. Dortmund have 25000 fans standing. It’s a shame our stand has been permanently designed when regulation could mean that at some point the whole stand could be safe standing
 
Raino85 said:
I'm going to get pelters for this, but the wheelchair seating and massive entrance/exit really annoy me on the south stand.

Aesthetically it looks horrible
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I think if I was a wheelchair user I’d disagree, but, could the north stand not have been used for a lowerbehind the goal accessibility section? Or a section to the side of the lower south like in the gwladys?
 

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