New Everton Stadium - Hill Dickinson Stadium

[Bryan+]

Well people wouldn't know it was Everton as our name hasn't been mentioned in commentary

I’ve literally just found out England ladies where playing at HD reading this post.

 

[BullensRoad]

0 mention of the stadium/club and staff that gave them the excellent hospitality and welcome.

 

[davek]

From The Guardian just now
<< More than 30,000 tickets had been issued for this game but the attendance has been confirmed as 26,065, so that’s at least 4,000 no-shows. It’s becoming a common occurrence for Lionesses games, even those that are sellouts, for thousands not to take up their tickets >>

Read a lot recently about the English women's domestic game attendances declining by about 7%-8% last season and that Arsenal's women's team do most of the heavy lifting in terms of vastly outperforming all other WSL clubs attendance-wise.

Everton need to be getting multiple music events each summer instead of rolling out the red carpet to a declining women's footy industry and rugby weekends that are struggling to sell out.

In short: Everton are rubbish....at pretty much everything.

Hand them a brand new stadium and they'll turn it into a patchily attended embarrassment.

 

[BullensRoad]

This is likely to be Aramark that have messed this up rather than Everton. Be interesting to see if it was all over the ground or just one area that they've under resourced and not had the common sense to move supplies/staff up there on the night if other sections are ok.

Ultimately, we're paying them to take care of this so we don't have to and they're supposed to be the experts.

Either way it won't reflect well on the club in terms of getting future games I'd imagine.

The Aramark contract was the result of the financial difficulties and desperations during the uncertainties of ownership

Hopefully those who were involved in the agreement will be sacked off.

 

[BullensRoad]

Read a lot recently about the English women's domestic game attendances declining by about 7%-8% last season and that Arsenal's women's team do most of the heavy lifting in terms of vastly outperforming all other WSL clubs attendance-wise.

Everton need to be getting multiple music events each summer instead of rolling out the red carpet to a declining women's footy industry and rugby weekends that are struggling to sell out.

In short: Everton are rubbish....at pretty much everything.

Hand them a brand new stadium and they'll turn it into a patchily attended embarrassment.

When the Irish women's get a game at the stadium it will be a sell out?

 

[adsmad]

I was in block 007 in the South Lower and it was a shambles at HT. Went down on 42 mins and finally got served 2 mins after the 2nd half kicked off.

Farcical how little they had open, people complaining left, right and centre, terrible first impression for what is likely that first match at the stadium for a lot of the crowd.

Talk about shooting yourself in the foot

 

[9LeagueTitles5FACups]

Whilst I certainly don't think the England women's game was promoted well, perhaps a partial explanation for the disappointing attendance could be the lack of players from our own women's side appearing in the squad.

Yes, our women's side are far from perfect and the only English player who would probably have warranted a call-up was Ruby Mace (WSL POTS nominee), but even having a sole representative from our women's side may have helped drum up interest within our own fanbase.

This is also my experience with the England men's side, in that my interest dips considerably outside of major tournaments when there are no outfield players from us involved.

 

[witchdoc187]

Well people wouldn't know it was Everton as our name hasn't been mentioned in commentary

Tbf radio 5 kept saying "let's go over to Everton"

 

[bigmountainfudgecake]

Bar the blue seats, you'd never know that was our ground the way they kitted it out with England logos etc. And that's intentional - they want it as generic as possible to attract more events. The "Evertonisation" people are expecting ain't happening any time soon

 

[James Patrick]

I’ve literally just found out England ladies where playing at HD reading this post.

You weren't inundated with emails from the club ?

 

[Brisan123]

City have shown how you make the most of your stadium and your surrounding area.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpvp9v0ge2lo?xtor=AL-71-[partner]-[bbc.news.twitter]-[headline]-[news]-[bizdev]-[isapi]&at_bbc_team=editorial&at_format=link&at_link_id=0861E5B0-609D-11F1-A280-943FAD993FC3&at_ptr_name=twitter&at_link_origin=BBCWorld&at_campaign_type=owned&at_campaign=Social_Flow&at_medium=social&at_link_type=web_link

Unless we get hold of Nelson dock and find room to expand it's curtains I'm afraid.

The club could do something similar with a Beatles theme
Serve scouse as a main course

 

[MikeyMike]

Bar the blue seats, you'd never know that was our ground the way they kitted it out with England logos etc. And that's intentional - they want it as generic as possible to attract more events. The "Evertonisation" people are expecting ain't happening any time soon

There was a podcast with the head honchos from Hill Dickinson where they said they were sponsoring a stadium not a football club. The two things are being kept separate. We, Everton, are simply the main users of the facility, it's not "our stadium" in the way Goodison Park was, and it never will be. There will never be any permanent signifiers that its Everton inside the ground, only flashing lights showing impressions of the Leach design and the odd TIFO. Plus of course those laughably tiny Everton crests on the outside.

 

[davek]

When the Irish women's get a game at the stadium it will be a sell out?

If they play there there'd be more local interest than for England.

 

[davek]

Whilst I certainly don't think the England women's game was promoted well, perhaps a partial explanation for the disappointing attendance could be the lack of players from our own women's side appearing in the squad.

Yes, our women's side are far from perfect and the only English player who would probably have warranted a call-up was Ruby Mace (WSL POTS nominee), but even having a sole representative from our women's side may have helped drum up interest within our own fanbase.

This is also my experience with the England men's side, in that my interest dips considerably outside of major tournaments when there are no outfield players from us involved.

Greenwood, Park, Kelly - all ex-Everton.

The club's own website was showing a sell out barring 1,500 tickets or so two days ago.

There's some utter bare faced lying going on over attendances at this stadium.

People cant trust what they're being handed out in terms of info. Loads may have decided to go a few days ago and then put off by the 'few tickets available' that the club website was indicating and then left it.

A shambles...and not for the first time either.

Never mind all the HT queue for food, if you cant get ticketing right then you're utterly snookered.

I doubt England will be using that facility again.

 

[Seathestars]

I read the women’s match report on both BBC and Sky Sports and not a single mention of Everton or our stadium.