New Everton Stadium - Hill Dickinson Stadium

[18efc78]

It was a Test Event.

Things will get sorted over the next few games I expect.

Well maybe not the prices!

I dont think £6.75 a pint is too unreasonable for the environment

 

[Dooguk]

Something about this doesn't quite compute...

I shouldn't drunk post.

 

[MerseySamurai]

Anyone reckon Moshiri managed to find his stone?

 

[Bazlar]

I wish we could have stayed where we were. I don't know what it is. Maybe teething problems or whatever. After 50 years of Goodison for me this just didn't feel right

 

[davek]

Exactly, it's a £650 million stadium, right there!!

It's not like Tottenham's (a multi functional stadium)
...No cheese rooms

It's a proper English, top flight stadium, designed for football & football only!

There is literally not a bad seat in the stadium & it's gonna last us 100 years, at least!

It's a purpose built football, money making machine.

As others have said: there's just no bad seat eyeline wise.

It's way more than just a functional stadium though.

 

[Bluewolf]

Everyone will have a different opinion but I think things will improve as the months go on and some things may take until next season to be up to standard.

I went to the 2nd test event and felt a bit underwhelmed due to it being the U21s and at half capacity but today I felt like it was a great experience and other than a few minor negatives it felt amazing to be there and I love the new Stadium.

I hope thats the case and im just being a grump.

I would massively be happy if everyone loved the new ground and it was just me with a unpopular opinion

 

[Ragnar]

Personally opinion, second time ive been and second time ive felt let down.

It supposed to be a £800m stadium and inside feels like the back end of a loading dock. Theres literally nothing to say whether its a Everton stadium or just your bog standard arena venue. Ale is overpriced, queues are absolutely ridiculous, £6.50 for a donut that was £3.50 on the last test event is absolute scum behaviour by the club.

The seats are cheap crap plastic that feel like their about to snap in half and club view is absolutely worthless. I was looking at the bench seats and even those looked cheap and crap as opposed to the fancy racing car seats you see at every football stadium.

the outside looks fantastic, the actual pitch area looks fantastic but it just feels like the areas that Everton have actually had input in to has just been made as cheaply as possible and i feel it really shows.

The ebars are 4 kiosk that server 1 individual drink instead of serving all 4. So all that happens is you get one gigantic queue for one drink and theres no space to leave once you have your drink so you have to push past the queue to get back out onto the concourse. As people are trying to push forward to get their drink.

I know people are excited to be in the new stadium and i dont want to rain on anyones parade. But for £800m i was genuinely expecting a state of the art stadium and i got half painted stairs and i couldnt even lean on a wall without getting dirt all over my top and the whole experience just felt really cheap to me.

I feel like that'll probably be the last time i get to the ground early. Id rather stay in a pub in town then walk down to the ground with a couple of cans and get there a few minutes before kick off, unfortunately.

The good things are the acoustics are genuinely amazing. The south stand started singing and it sounded like 100k people chanting. Then i actually saw a kick off for the first time in my life without a post in the way of the center circle.

Like i say i don't want to be a debbie downer but am just not happy with the stadium at all and i feel like once the novelty of it being a new stadium wears off alot of people will start seeing the flaws in it.

Fingers crossed this is all sorted before the first game

I couldn’t agree more with some of this. The outside looks absolutely incredible, the views are incredible. The sound inside when people cheer and roar echos around and sounds amazing. But the inside is CRAP. And it does feel like you’re in a loading dock. The walls are just plastered, there was metal fencing up when walking up the stairs which looked ugly. There’s absolutely nothing that screams this is our home. It’s all just dull and warehouse looking.

 

[davek]

All I saw of it was a clip of Peter Reid coming onto the pitch - which I found quite emotional, but that turned to irritation when the stadium hoardings all went red and kinda ruined the moment. Didn't seem an Everton stadium at that moment.

We're forced to put up with such stuff as a commercial reality I'm afraid.

 

[Infernus]

Jesus. We deserve absolute nothing. Just liquidate this club. Starting to actually hope we get relegated now. People pouting like spoiled children over an 800 million quid stadium that some clubs would absolutely kill for. How did we get this reputation for having good fans?

 

[davek]

I couldn’t agree more with some of this. The outside looks absolutely incredible, the views are incredible. The sound inside when people cheer and roar echos around and sounds amazing. But the inside is CRAP. And it does feel like you’re in a loading dock. The walls are just plastered, there was metal fencing up when walking up the stairs which looked ugly. There’s absolutely nothing that screams this is our home. It’s all just dull and warehouse looking.

That sort of cosmetic stuff gets taken care of over years.

It has all the ingredients for being an absolute bear pit. That and the environment its in is all that matters to me.

 

[PhilM]

I couldn’t agree more with some of this. The outside looks absolutely incredible, the views are incredible. The sound inside when people cheer and roar echos around and sounds amazing. But the inside is CRAP. And it does feel like you’re in a loading dock. The walls are just plastered, there was metal fencing up when walking up the stairs which looked ugly. There’s absolutely nothing that screams this is our home. It’s all just dull and warehouse looking.

The club will ‘Evertonify’ it over the next few months.

 

[Daytripper]

I hope thats the case and im just being a grump.

I would massively be happy if everyone loved the new ground and it was just me with a unpopular opinion

You are not being a grump, it’s an opinion of your experience there. Feedback is important and you and those who feel similar should let the club know how you feel. It’s all about making things the best they can be which isn’t a negative, that’s a positive thing.

 

[Ragnar]

Jesus. We deserve absolute nothing. Just liquidate this club. Starting to actually hope we get relegated now. People pouting like spoiled children over an 800 million quid stadium that some clubs would absolutely kill for. How did we get this reputation for having good fans?

When people are paying £900 for a season ticket, and £12 for 6 chips and 2 pieces of chicken that they can’t even wash down with a water because we’re sold out, we’re allowed to moan

 

[18efc78]

Jesus. We deserve absolute nothing. Just liquidate this club. Starting to actually hope we get relegated now. People pouting like spoiled children over an 800 million quid stadium that some clubs would absolutely kill for. How did we get this reputation for having good fans?

When you're forking out £800 for a season ticket you expect to get in and served for a drink quicker than you would in a 100 year old stadium. Just because it's cost 800 million quid doesn't mean it's perfect. Aesthetically it's absolutely superb, but the rest needs vast improvement

 

[jackyboy]

What a tremendous stadium. Only really negative was the kick off with some fella in the upper South and a steward over trying to take ale to his seat. We're better than that