joey_macmo
Player Valuation: £35m
That stand behind the goal at spurs should be boss, exactly the type of thing id love everton when we get our new stadium*
*lol
*lol
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Woolly Blue
Player Valuation: £80m
We're currently sat in 10th position and the Leicester, Stoke and Spurs games are all but sold out.
Our current situation re. Goodison is the equivalent of Tesco running out of turkeys today, which, hopefully, they havn't.
Our current situation re. Goodison is the equivalent of Tesco running out of turkeys today, which, hopefully, they havn't.
kithnou
Player Valuation: £70m
We get on a top 4 run and we'd be filling 50,000 I believe as a consistently top team. Even better if those 50,000 are at Goodison for me.
Dithering Dougie
Banned
Now I really don't mean this to be antagonistic in any way but I'm sure you're not a local(?), but have you spent much time on Merseyside?
kithnou
Player Valuation: £70m
No and No Dougie. Please feel free to enlighten me.
Dithering Dougie
Banned
Well what makes you so certain we'd fill a bigger stadium?
kithnou
Player Valuation: £70m
Ah. It was in response to @Woolly Blue's comment with us being 10th and have sellouts against "average" teams. The fan base is success-starved and craving a top team to follow. I think they would come to Goodison. Not to a Kirkby though.
Woolly Blue
Player Valuation: £80m
I agree mate. If we were top four, two things would happen :-
- Our "occassional" fans would come more often and ...
- We'd attract new people, glory hunters if you like, but bums on seats nevertheless
kithnou
Player Valuation: £70m
I think we'd fill more than 50k consistently at Goodison if we are a top 4 team challenging. Just my opinion. Hard to do yes indeed. But with the right people involved/in charge at the Club with the vision and backing behind them to achieve this, why not? Why always look for the cheaper, desperate options we are getting with this ownership and Board?
Dithering Dougie
Banned
We're situated in a very deprived city and have the most 'walk up' fans in the league. Presently we're not media sexy, never have been, or ever likely to be. I can't see a bigger stadium altering any of that sadly, it didn't alter much in 2004/05 when we finished 4th so I can't see it altering much if we did it now.
Woolly Blue
Player Valuation: £80m
To be fair to the current board ( and believe me, that's hard to type ), even five or six years ago, a redevelopment of Goodison would have had a significant effect on the overall revenue of the club while the redevelopment was being carried out. This is mainly because we don't have an awful lot of space around us, so, to redevelop, for example, the Main Stand, would have involved some sort of closure involving loss of seats during a season.
With the increase in TV revenues, the % of our income from bums on seats is less now, so that short term loss of revenues doesn't look such a ball breaker as it was in the past.
Woolly Blue
Player Valuation: £80m
Mate, we're filling Goodison more often than not, with people paying money to crane their necks round a post. The world of football, and it's fans, is massively different to what it was even ten years ago. A lot of those changes are, from where I'm sat, for the worse, but we can't deny they've happened.
kithnou
Player Valuation: £70m
One season wonders mean nothing. Consistently in the top 4 or 5 teams like Liverpool? Why can't we? Do they have more fans or wealthier fans in the city?
We have been rubbish too long. Give the fans a consistently finishing top 4 or 5 team and they will come.
But as you pointed out, I am an international supporter so maybe I am off on my own tangent here.
jal123
Player Valuation: £40m
Listen we've earmarked £2.5m for our build, it's not our fault if the local resident and Liverpool City Council don't want to put up the other £397.5m is it!? Scruffs, underclass, wasters.
Dithering Dougie
Banned
Woolly if we got an extension of 10,000 seats, how much would you expect to go to corporate/hospitality types? And do you think the current supporters would be happy to subsidise a rise in attendance with their own funds?