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Thoughts on Everton's new ground?


Canny ground, decent outside. We used the shuttle bus which was decent right next to our hotel and car park. Not many toilets at all, some lad lifted his son onto the sink to piss in it 🤨

Steep stairs, seen about 30 unfit blokes getting dragged up the stairs to the top 😆 literally
 
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Some tremendous shithousery on show walking to the ground from the north side , someone in one of the factories was playing YNWA on the exterior speakers.
 
Thought it was great but it needs to be Evertonified

We were in the upper tier and it was a lot of bare concrete

Assume that will happen over time like our concourses

Not as good as the Spurs stadium but very nice all the same
 
I like Everton as a club and have always had a soft spot for them but here’s an honest opinion from today for me and the bairn.

Inside the bowl the stadium is class, but unfortunately that’s where it ends.
It’s in the middle of nowhere with absolutley nowt around it. Everyone has to walk for miles and there’s basically 1 way in and out so it takes hours to get away.

Getting a drink or gannin to the bog is a nightmare. For a new stadium it’s really really poor.

It feels a bit soulless compared to goodison which is really disappointing.

There were a lot of people in our away support who are not normally there so I don’t think our support was as good as it usually is also.
 
i thought it was one of the best of the 'new' grounds and certainly better than spurs. the bit outside with the bars/food places were good even though we never bought anything. we walked round the ground and it was great to see both sets of fans mingling-like it should be tbh (apart from them lot up the road)
whilst it was impressive i enjoyed looking at the older buildings around like the clock tower over the way behind the south stand and that big brick building in the middle of the fanzone. might be a bit sad but whenever i see old brick buildings like that i think of the tradesmen who built it, all the craft and work that went into it. don't know what it was or used to be but it was beautiful. @EverBlue86 might be able to tell me about it?
as for inside, we had cracking seats. the music was far too loud and only heard the home fans a couple of times. all in all, the best out of the three new grounds this last week i've been to.
 
garyeaststand said:
I wonder why architects dont design roofs on new stadium's to come downwards like older school grounds that helps keep the noise in rather that it disappearing, spurs the same , seems they depend loads of time on the rake etc and forget it’s the noise that is the importsnt thing in a footee stadium , the fulwell and many others the roof would pitch upwards then downwards again which seems to help bounce the crowd noise down onto the pitch area, and could they not have roofs to overhang more past the pitch line? With tech the roof materials could still let sunlight in , or even retract when the game is not going on, I probably think about that in too much depth tbf
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Nominative determinism though with a name like yours.
 
I thought it was overall a very nice stadium and I quite liked the design which is different to the previous generation standard bowls like ours.

Negatives

The size of the toilets is genuinely very crap for a new stadium.
The food bars werent up to much either although the concourse itself was decent sized (in upper section which is normally home fans)

For food and toilets I think SoL is far better to be honest.

Also a minor thing, the food vans outside were just modern stuff which is good in one way but I just wanted an old fashioned burger with onions on!

Big screens were top drawer as well
 
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I was lucky to get a corporate invite with my old man so was in the west stand heated seats just next to Peter Reid. Corporate was really impressive but from a sound perspective I was between our fans and their big wall - and Sunderland made 10 times the noise throughout. The only point their steep stand made a noise was the goal but it was massive. Imagine on a day when they are up for it a bit more the atmosphere would be amazing.
 
Really good views of the stadium from about 5mins into this - the surroundings, concourses, views etc. Watch out for the Paul Bracewell tribute :)

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Did anybody see the Everton fans leaving after they missed their second penalty? How the hell can you leave during a penalty shootout.

Ended up saving all of 2 minutes.
 
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