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[Football] Everton New Stadium







Eeyore

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Deathtrap corridors, cramped concourse and shite/restricted views.

Good riddance.
That may be as written, but it's still a famous part of football history in England and means a lot to Everton fans. Onwards and hopefully upwards for them (not at our expense, obviously)
 


dazzer6666

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Quickest thing to do, for those able, would be to take the 40 minute walk to Lime Street. I supsect fans will work it out. It's a bit like Twickenham after England matches. The station can't cope, but a 20 minute walk and there are other options. Fans always find a way. If I went to the new ground I would definitely walk back to Lime Street. You could get a train an hour after the match ends.

EDIT: Sandhills is almost a 20 minute walk from the ground. May as well just avoid.
Completely agree - like loads of other grounds - beats me why so few are prepared to walk a bit, makes the travel so much easier (and usually quicker - accepting there are those that can't). I usually walk, for example, from Arsenal to St Pancras (around 45 mins), walked from OT to the Trafford Centre (past basically stationary traffic all the way - under an hour), Etihad back to the hotel in Ashton (similar) and as I drive to most away games usually aim to park 30 mins or so walk away back towards the 'escape route' to miss the match traffic. I also park 35 mins or so from the Amex - as a result I know more or less what time I'm going to get home.
 


Is it PotG?

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That may be as written, but it's still a famous part of football history in England and means a lot to Everton fans. Onwards and hopefully upwards for them (not at our expense, obviously)
Soon to become a new mixed-use regeneration scheme consisting of ten new development blocks in Liverpool.

Not that nostalgic really.

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RandyWanger

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Looks impressive, a 'proper' football stadium and not an events venue used for football. I wanted them to go down for the lolz but will be a nice away trip next season.
 




Eeyore

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Completely agree - like loads of other grounds - beats me why so few are prepared to walk a bit, makes the travel so much easier (and usually quicker - accepting there are those that can't). I usually walk, for example, from Arsenal to St Pancras (around 45 mins), walked from OT to the Trafford Centre (past basically stationary traffic all the way - under an hour), Etihad back to the hotel in Ashton (similar) and as I drive to most away games usually aim to park 30 mins or so walk away back towards the 'escape route' to miss the match traffic. I also park 35 mins or so from the Amex - as a result I know more or less what time I'm going to get home.
Wise. Twickenham is an example. The queues are horrendous, but walk the twenty five minutes to Whitton and get on the first train. Next stop Twickenham with its frustrated crowds going back along the high street. I'm a simple bloke, so I just used to scratch my head and think that my plan was safe for a while longer.

I've walked home from the AMEX to Queen's Park. Hour and a quarter. Good exercise. I used to do the same to the Goldstone. Twas a ritual.
 




dazzer6666

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Wise. Twickenham is an example. The queues are horrendous, but walk the twenty five minutes to Whitton and get on the first train. Next stop Twickenham with its frustrated crowds going back along the high street. I'm a simple bloke, so I just used to scratch my head and think that my plan was safe for a while longer.
Yep - usually walk to Strawberry Hill, have a couple of pints and then jump on a train there. Better than queuing at Twickenham for 90 mins + :shrug:
 






Motogull

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The new Everton stadium looks brilliant in so many ways. Hats off to the designer.

However, when Beaky sorts his vanity project out, it will be so awesome that Bramley Dock will be more reminiscent of Goodison Park.
 


Lady Whistledown

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The new Everton stadium looks brilliant in so many ways. Hats off to the designer.

However, when Beaky sorts his vanity project out, it will be so awesome that Bramley Dock will be more reminiscent of Goodison Park.

Ah yes, the famous New Main Stand, to be situated amid the sheds on the other three sides of the ground. Who was it who once said "You can put lipstick on a pig, but..."?
 




Notters

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Sandhills is a small train station and will be rammed when they open properly.

And you thought Falmer was crowded.

It is walkable from Lime Street though - a couple of miles but mostly downhill or along the riverside.

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I doubt it's mostly downhill given that you're starting at sea level! But yes, people just need to get off their arses and stop whinging. Perhaps they could somehow give priority to elderly, disabled, young kids, but everyone else can bloody walk surely?
 


Terry Butcher Tribute Act

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Indeed it does.
They've built a "holding pen" outside Sandills train station, festooned with queuing barriers to control people before they can get to the (single) platform there. The station is totally inadequate. It struggled to cope with 10k last night, imagine when they've got crowds of 53k.

Many of them are hoping for fleets of soccer special buses to take them back to the city centre. This doesn't take into account whether the extra buses - or drivers - even exist just for matchdays.

When you consider the hoops we had to jump through to have an integrated transport system in place alongside the plans for the Amex, this aspect of the Everton project seems to have been done on the back of a fag packet.
To be fair, it seems unlikely that the massive shuttle bus operation they have at Goodison won't be available at the new stadium. That would be mad.
 


Nobby Cybergoat

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Goodison being kept for the ladies team


Can you imagine what amazing news that must be for an Everton fan? Far from an exact comparison, but imagine if the Goldstone was still there and you could still watch Albion women play.

Well done to the Everton board.
 




Greg Bobkin

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May 22, 2012
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Goodison being kept for the ladies team


Can you imagine what amazing news that must be for an Everton fan? Far from an exact comparison, but imagine if the Goldstone was still there and you could still watch Albion women play.

Well done to the Everton board.
I broadly agree, but I hope there will be a bit of investment to update/modernise, to quote that article, 'one of the UK’s oldest football stadiums'. Otherwise there is a *little* bit of 'this shithole isn't good enough for the blokes anymore, so you might as well have it' going on.

For all the talk of the club '“planning targeted investments” to adapt the ground for the women’s game', we know how these things can pan out...

But yes, apart from that reservation, well done the Toffees!
 




Wozza

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Goodison being kept for the ladies team


Can you imagine what amazing news that must be for an Everton fan? Far from an exact comparison, but imagine if the Goldstone was still there and you could still watch Albion women play.

Well done to the Everton board.
Weren't they selling off the seats to fans?

Guess they won't need 40,000 of them...
 


Greg Bobkin

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May 22, 2012
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Weren't they selling off the seats to fans?

Guess they won't need 40,000 of them...
'Everton will drastically reduce its 39,000 capacity – with upper tiers of the ground likely to be taken out of action after season ticket seats are sold off to fans at the end of this season. But there are no immediate plans to change its structure in the short term, according to the club which added that it was “planning targeted investments” to adapt the ground for the women’s game.'
 






Bodian

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May 3, 2012
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'Everton will drastically reduce its 39,000 capacity – with upper tiers of the ground likely to be taken out of action after season ticket seats are sold off to fans at the end of this season. But there are no immediate plans to change its structure in the short term, according to the club which added that it was “planning targeted investments” to adapt the ground for the women’s game.'
My experience was that the view from the upper tiers was vastly superior to that from the lower tiers - so maybe they should do it the other way round?
 


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