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4 minutes ago, nufcjb said:

Just read Everton are not going to demolish Goodison and instead giving it to their women's team. Not sure how to feel about that for their fans.

 

Supposedly saying their emotional goodbyes to the ground on Sunday but hey, just in case you miss it, you can always come back and watch a game, only that it would be the women's game though.

 

How long until another Aluko starts piping up to say the lads get a big, shiny, brand new stadium to play in while the women only get a broken, 100 year old ground? That is, if they properly maintain it too.

 

I mean, it's good to see the ground will be preserved and still be in use but rarely you get these situations where you get a new ground and the old one still functions as one as well.

 

 

 

 

I'm really pleased it's staying, great bit of history and my first away ground. But I see what you mean about how it affects moving on.

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4 minutes ago, nufcjb said:

Just read Everton are not going to demolish Goodison and instead giving it to their women's team. Not sure how to feel about that for their fans.

 

Supposedly saying their emotional goodbyes to the ground on Sunday but hey, just in case you miss it, you can always come back and watch a game, only that it would be the women's game though.

 

How long until another Aluko starts piping up to say the lads get a big, shiny, brand new stadium to play in while the women only get a broken, 100 year old ground? That is, if they properly maintain it too.

 

I mean, it's good to see the ground will be preserved and still be in use but rarely you get these situations where you get a new ground and the old one still functions as one as well.

 

 

 

You’d think they normally sell the land for property like Roker, Highbury and Upton Park. They’ve properly pissed all over Sky’s big teary send off.

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2 minutes ago, Nucasol said:

You’d think they normally sell the land for property like Roker, Highbury and Upton Park. They’ve properly pissed all over Sky’s big teary send off.

That was the original plan. The owners did a feasibility study and they decided to keep it after all.

 

Sky probably knew about it and let TNT take the final match there this Sunday :lol:

 

 

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I can’t see how it stays in its current guise.

The facilities are old and past their shelf life. It will just get more and more expensive to maintain in future.

Unless they gradually rebuild it stand by stand, it just looks short sighted.

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23 minutes ago, James said:

We should do this for our woman’s team

No, we shouldn’t. If we build on Leazes, the current ground has to become parkland. 
 

Share the stadium as much as possible with the Women’s team. 

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4 minutes ago, Stifler said:

I can’t see how it stays in its current guise.

The facilities are old and past their shelf life. It will just get more and more expensive to maintain in future.

Unless they gradually rebuild it stand by stand, it just looks short sighted.

This. It will just cost them more justbto maintain and replace parts of the stadium. The report on the BBC website says it will be the biggest dedicated women football ground at 39k so doesn't sound like they'll downgrade the capacity. I don't know how much the Everton ladies regularly get through the gate at their matches but 39k seems a bit high? 

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2 minutes ago, nufcjb said:

This. It will just cost them more justbto maintain and replace parts of the stadium. The report on the BBC website says it will be the biggest dedicated women football ground at 39k so doesn't sound like they'll downgrade the capacity. I don't know how much the Everton ladies regularly get through the gate at their matches but 39k seems a bit high? 

Everton fans on Reddit seem to think the upper stands will be closed off, then dismantled. They think they will then try and rebuild it stand by stand.

 

If you expect woman’s football to be hitting something like 39k attendances, then you are best off just doing what Atlanta do for some of their games, put some giant blinds up on the upper tiers and just use the men’s team stadium.

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Just went on their forum to see how they feel bout it. Generally, they're happy it's still going to be there and that the women get to play there. Some think this is some kind of Chelsea-styled PSR shenanigans by the owners. Some also said Sunday is now a massive anti-climax, not a goodbye but just a celebration of moving into the new house while renting out the old one.

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Can Everton sell Goodison back to themselves. It makes absolutely no sense giving it to the lasses. There’s something afoot.

 

 

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So this big goodbye to goodison isn't even a goodbye after all[emoji38]

 

They'll be done for criminal damage taking their seats and ripping the penalty spot up now

 

Why the fuck they just announcing this now

 

 

 

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Shame, after mostly miserable visits to Woodison over recent years I was looking forward to the blasted place ceasing to exist.

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1 hour ago, LFEE said:


Is this not going to end up being some PSR accounting trick down the line? What am I missing?

Aye. Looks like it. Their fans seem to think so and are happy they're doing the shit.

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Eh, so, there’d be a standard league and there could be a huge outright winner and then it goes to playoffs for the trophy?

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2 hours ago, nufcjb said:

Just read Everton are not going to demolish Goodison and instead giving it to their women's team. Not sure how to feel about that for their fans.

 

Supposedly saying their emotional goodbyes to the ground on Sunday but hey, just in case you miss it, you can always come back and watch a game, only that it would be the women's game though.

 

How long until another Aluko starts piping up to say the lads get a big, shiny, brand new stadium to play in while the women only get a broken, 100 year old ground? That is, if they properly maintain it too.

 

I mean, it's good to see the ground will be preserved and still be in use but rarely you get these situations where you get a new ground and the old one still functions as one as well.

 

 

 

 

100% it'll be a PSR stunt when they then sell their womens team AND ground to themselves when they need the funds

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23 minutes ago, The Prophet said:

Interesting idea.

 

Utter Woke Nonsense.

Football is a meritocracy, if one team romps to the title every season with ease, too bad!

You can't just change the rules cause you're bored of the same team winning all the time, what are they gonna do when PSG start winning the 'Final Four' all the time?

 

 

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21 minutes ago, The Prophet said:

Interesting idea.

 

Is this not just the same as the new Champions League format whereby the Super League teams get an extra chance to win if they have a bad campaign

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