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Offline Percy McCarthy

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #13695 on: July 17, 2026, 08:16:40 PM »
51k or whatever being fine is not a problem. Everton have just built an entire brand new stadium with that capacity.

Spot on. It’s cost us £100m plus whatever it costs only having 37k next season.

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #13696 on: July 17, 2026, 08:28:44 PM »
51k or whatever being fine is not a problem. Everton have just built an entire brand new stadium with that capacity.

They're expanding to 62,000 by Euro 2028.

Edit: they might not be, seems to have just been talk that they were going to.

I was chatting to an Everton season ticket holder the other day. He was telling me that they can expand the North stand to duplicate the South stand, which is the plan to take them to 60k when the time comes.

He also said that they’ve been prevented from hosting concerts there because of fears of getting fans on the pitch out in an emergency. A bit of a silly oversight, if that’s true.

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #13697 on: July 17, 2026, 09:15:11 PM »
51k or whatever being fine is not a problem. Everton have just built an entire brand new stadium with that capacity.

They're expanding to 62,000 by Euro 2028.

Edit: they might not be, seems to have just been talk that they were going to.

I was chatting to an Everton season ticket holder the other day. He was telling me that they can expand the North stand to duplicate the South stand, which is the plan to take them to 60k when the time comes.

He also said that they’ve been prevented from hosting concerts there because of fears of getting fans on the pitch out in an emergency. A bit of a silly oversight, if that’s true.

Yep, I will be surprised if they are allowed to have any more then 50k unless they knock down the "sea wall". Just did a google streetview and there are nine smallish gate areas all onto Regent Road. I suspect there is a promenade option to get there as well but not sure how many people can get there without some bottlenecks near the dock gates.

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #13698 on: July 19, 2026, 09:08:29 AM »
I think a regularly full 50k is where we are at for this stage of our development…if we do manage to maintain/improve then of course look at but it has to make financial sense. I’m looking forward to seeing and hearing the atmosphere we will create when the NS is done. Exciting times.

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #13699 on: July 19, 2026, 09:20:14 AM »
Everton’s ground is already vaguely scary to get out of because of the hemmed in thing. Can they really add another 9k safely?

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #13700 on: July 19, 2026, 10:48:45 AM »
51k or whatever being fine is not a problem. Everton have just built an entire brand new stadium with that capacity.

They're expanding to 62,000 by Euro 2028.

Edit: they might not be, seems to have just been talk that they were going to.

I was chatting to an Everton season ticket holder the other day. He was telling me that they can expand the North stand to duplicate the South stand, which is the plan to take them to 60k when the time comes.

He also said that they’ve been prevented from hosting concerts there because of fears of getting fans on the pitch out in an emergency. A bit of a silly oversight, if that’s true.

Yep, I will be surprised if they are allowed to have any more then 50k unless they knock down the "sea wall". Just did a google streetview and there are nine smallish gate areas all onto Regent Road. I suspect there is a promenade option to get there as well but not sure how many people can get there without some bottlenecks near the dock gates.
Perhaps they could get round it by requiring pitch ticket holders to produce a 50 metre swimming certificate

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #13701 on: July 20, 2026, 01:12:17 PM »

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #13702 on: July 20, 2026, 02:31:16 PM »
Trinity looking good. Would have liked a more lingering, closer-up shot of the lower tier.

I should get down there as I haven’t located my plaque on that wall at the back of the houses yet. I was there a couple of weeks ago but wifey got fed up of looking because it was so hot.
« Last Edit: July 20, 2026, 02:35:53 PM by Percy McCarthy »

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #13703 on: July 20, 2026, 06:09:12 PM »
Everton’s ground is already vaguely scary to get out of because of the hemmed in thing. Can they really add another 9k safely?

Surely they could get 'da ferrrry, cross da mersssey' to alleviate such issues?

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #13704 on: July 20, 2026, 06:12:06 PM »
Everton’s ground is already vaguely scary to get out of because of the hemmed in thing. Can they really add another 9k safely?

Surely they could get 'da ferrrry, cross da mersssey' to alleviate such issues?

If I was an Everton fan (from Liverpool) I wouldn’t do a single fucking thing that Gerry & the Pacemakers told me to.

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #13705 on: July 20, 2026, 06:15:29 PM »
Everton’s ground is already vaguely scary to get out of because of the hemmed in thing. Can they really add another 9k safely?

Surely they could get 'da ferrrry, cross da mersssey' to alleviate such issues?

If I was an Everton fan (from Liverpool) I wouldn’t do a single fucking thing that Gerry & the Pacemakers told me to.

It's a solid service, supported by a rigourous communication system that I installed.

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #13706 on: July 20, 2026, 06:21:04 PM »
Feel a bit sorry for the North Stand now it has been stripped. ,  for christ sake get a grip man

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #13707 on: July 20, 2026, 06:41:23 PM »
Everton’s ground is already vaguely scary to get out of because of the hemmed in thing. Can they really add another 9k safely?

Surely they could get 'da ferrrry, cross da mersssey' to alleviate such issues?

If I was an Everton fan (from Liverpool) I wouldn’t do a single fucking thing that Gerry & the Pacemakers told me to.

It's a solid service, supported by a rigourous communication system that I installed.

Excellent, noted. Luckily (in more ways than one) for me, I’m not an Everton fan.

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #13708 on: July 20, 2026, 09:01:34 PM »
Everton’s ground is already vaguely scary to get out of because of the hemmed in thing. Can they really add another 9k safely?

Surely they could get 'da ferrrry, cross da mersssey' to alleviate such issues?

If I was an Everton fan (from Liverpool) I wouldn’t do a single fucking thing that Gerry & the Pacemakers told me to.

It's a solid service, supported by a rigourous communication system that I installed.

I thought my Mrs was taking the piss that they played that when the ferry comes in, till one lunchtime we wondered down there and it turns out she wasn't as I could hear that dirge going. And little did I know it was all you fault.

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Re: Villa Park Redevelopment
« Reply #13709 on: Today at 06:06:28 AM »
Just thinking of our illustrious neighbours, how will they fill their shiny new 62k capacity stadium in the Championship?

 


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