rubecula Posted April 13, 2017 Report Share Posted April 13, 2017 If they put a track around the pitch I seriously think that unless we can move the seats inwards we would need 80,000 + and that is unlikely on a game to game match day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevO Posted April 13, 2017 Report Share Posted April 13, 2017 Just a big fat no to the running track. Â If we are to wait for the commonwealth games it would really slow down the move wouldn't it? rubecula and Romey 1878 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted April 13, 2017 Report Share Posted April 13, 2017 Just a big fat no to the running track. Â If we are to wait for the commonwealth games it would really slow down the move wouldn't it? Â Why would we have to wait if the track option was built in? Opens as a football stadium and then can have a track facility implemented as and when needed. Don't see why it'd slow anything down. rubecula 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romey 1878 Posted April 13, 2017 Report Share Posted April 13, 2017 I'd have no problem at all with an athletic track if it means the price is subsidized and there's the possibility for generating extra revenue going forward (concerts, etc.). There are several ways to accommodate a track without affecting the atmosphere of the place. Easy for you to say when you'll not be in attendance often, if ever! Â And why would an athletics track be needed to have concerts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted April 13, 2017 Report Share Posted April 13, 2017 Easy for you to say when you'll not be in attendance often, if ever! Â And why would an athletics track be needed to have concerts? Â Mo Farrah's close to retirement, he's planning on a new career as DJ MoFa, doing a couple of laps before a gig would wow the punters! Â Could happen . Romey 1878 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubecula Posted April 13, 2017 Report Share Posted April 13, 2017 if you pay me and I would give it a bloody good go lol DJ Rubes is on the case lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevO Posted April 13, 2017 Report Share Posted April 13, 2017 (edited) Mike, that's fine if it's a removable track. But if like Eastlands it's built with a track and then converted we would have to wait until after the games. Â I'd rather it just be built for football anyway. With Dan Meis talking about it being square rather than bowl shaped I don't think it will have a track. Â I also don't see Liverpool getting the commonwealth games either. Edited April 13, 2017 by StevO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted April 13, 2017 Report Share Posted April 13, 2017 Mike, that's fine if it's a removable track. Â Goes without saying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddock Posted April 13, 2017 Report Share Posted April 13, 2017 Easy for you to say when you'll not be in attendance often, if ever! Â And why would an athletics track be needed to have concerts? Exactly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louis Posted April 13, 2017 Report Share Posted April 13, 2017 Essentially, it boils down to whether it's like Man City's Commonwealth Stadium (good) or the London Olympic Stadium (bad).The Commonwealth Games is a two week event. Personally speaking, I've rarely watched it and can only remember watching the bowls at Glasgow in 2014. It's not worth hamstringing a new build football stadium for a two week event.I'd rather Birmingham won the hosting the rights if it meant no athletics track. rubecula and Romey 1878 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romey 1878 Posted April 14, 2017 Report Share Posted April 14, 2017 http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/everton-stadium-architect-dan-meis-12893292 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddock Posted April 14, 2017 Report Share Posted April 14, 2017 Just no running track FULL STOP is the best idea. Fuck this running track idea right off. rubecula and Romey 1878 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aidan Posted April 14, 2017 Report Share Posted April 14, 2017 Just no running track FULL STOP is the best idea. Fuck this running track idea right off. They're fucking horrid, aren't they? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddock Posted April 14, 2017 Report Share Posted April 14, 2017 They're fucking horrid, aren't they? Yep, purpose built football stadiums should not have running tracks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornish Steve Posted April 14, 2017 Report Share Posted April 14, 2017 Then would you like to cough up the extra 100 million or so required when you turn away subsidies? In practice, this would mean a smaller and less impressive stadium. We can't have it all ways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddock Posted April 14, 2017 Report Share Posted April 14, 2017 Then would you like to cough up the extra 100 million or so required when you turn away subsidies? In practice, this would mean a smaller and less impressive stadium. We can't have it all ways. I already pay into the club and have done for decades so I'm entitled to an opinion on it. Â I don't want a stadium where the fans are far away from the pitch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EFC-Paul Posted April 14, 2017 Report Share Posted April 14, 2017 Just no running track FULL STOP is the best idea. Fuck this running track idea right off. This for me  Surely a "floating" track would be costly impractical and unsightly and hamper the design of the lower seating it would be a design and structural nightmare tbh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aidan Posted April 14, 2017 Report Share Posted April 14, 2017 In all honesty I'd rather stay in Goodison Park if it meant we had to have a track. Waste of a stadium. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted April 14, 2017 Report Share Posted April 14, 2017 People forgetting our history of being innovators, we have too may firsts to list. Â Why can this not be another one? The first football stadium that can morph itself into another revenue stream while still being first and foremost Goodison 2.0 (or whatever). If we can push the boundaries I'm all for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EFC-Paul Posted April 15, 2017 Report Share Posted April 15, 2017 People forgetting our history of being innovators, we have too may firsts to list.  Why can this not be another one? The first football stadium that can morph itself into another revenue stream while still being first and foremost Goodison 2.0 (or whatever). If we can push the boundaries I'm all for it. I'd be all for it myself Mike I just can't see us having the money to create a stadium we all want ie close to the pitch acute tier angles etc and incorporating a track as well, it'll be a hard middle ground to accomplish imo  Ideally we'd have retractable lower seating/tiers that would be over a track but as said it'll be very costly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louis Posted April 15, 2017 Report Share Posted April 15, 2017 Â Â The designers of Everton's new ground are at the crucial stage of deciding where the bank-rolling corporate hospitality seats should be situated. The middle ring of boxes around the ground at Wembley is seen as diluting the atmosphere and the preference now is for restaurant hospitality to go with the corporate ticket rather than boxes. Â http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-4412978/Doubts-arise-600m-TV-deal-FA-Cup.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddock Posted April 15, 2017 Report Share Posted April 15, 2017 I want it to be intimidating, loud and fierce. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chalkpie Posted April 15, 2017 Report Share Posted April 15, 2017 I want disco lights - originals from the 70's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnh Posted April 23, 2017 Report Share Posted April 23, 2017 I think we should stay at Goodison and put a running track in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnh Posted April 23, 2017 Report Share Posted April 23, 2017 (edited) The above post was obviously in jest, but I remember my granddad taking me and my brother to watch baseball at Goodison. It didn't catch on and the highlight on the day was a guy, a few rows in front of us, being hit on the head with the baseball. This would be about 1947'ish. Any other odd sports taken place at Goodison? Edited April 23, 2017 by johnh rubecula 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete0 Posted April 23, 2017 Report Share Posted April 23, 2017 The above post was obviously in jest, but I remember my granddad taking me and my brother to watch baseball at Goodison. It didn't catch on and the highlight on the day was a guy, a few rows in front of us, being hit on the head with the baseball. This would be about 1947'ish. Any other odd sports taken place at Goodison?A Spaniard tried to introduce his native sport tiki taka. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louis Posted April 25, 2017 Report Share Posted April 25, 2017 Stonebridge Cross has a new development in store.    Stoford Developments and Gallan Group have announced that the 1.2m sq ft redevelopment of a key employment site at Stonebridge Cross in Liverpool. The announcement comes after Everton FC’s decision to build its new stadium at an alternative site, Bramley Moore Dock.  http://www.shdlogistics.com/news/site-earmarked-for-everton-fcs-new-stadium-to-be-developed-for-warehouse rubecula 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duncanmckenzieismagic Posted May 2, 2017 Report Share Posted May 2, 2017 http://www.liverpoolexpress.co.uk/work-begin-22m-road-scheme/ Â Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shukes Posted May 3, 2017 Report Share Posted May 3, 2017 Does it carry trains though? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romey 1878 Posted May 5, 2017 Report Share Posted May 5, 2017 http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/evertons-new-stadium-plans-pose-risk-to-liverpools-prestigious-unesco-world-heritage-status-a7718451.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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