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New Everton Stadium

Gardocki said:
The stadium has had absolutely nothing to do with the situation we are on on the pitch. No footballing decision has been dictated by or impacted negatively by the stadium. Funding for building the team has not been compromised in any way by the stadium. If anything, it has helped attract people we wanted to attract by demonstrating the club's ambition.
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Ambition is shown by building a competitive team, not by bricks and mortar. Our ambition has been non existent in recent years because they have refused repeatedly to overhaul the abject squad. Now we are in a position where all our past mistakes have caught up with us.

You don't focus on a stadium when you are failing on the pitch, unless you don't care enough about winning.
 
We're the epitome of mutton dressed as lamb.

Regardless what happens this season, moving into a new ground does not, and will not change the shambles on the pitch - that starts from the top. We don't suddenly become thus highly competitive team because we've a new ground; that foundation should have been in place prior.

That said, its still the only positive we've got - which says all that needs to be said
 
ToffeeTim said:
Ambition is shown by building a competitive team, not by bricks and mortar. Our ambition has been non existent in recent years because they have refused repeatedly to overhaul the abject squad. Now we are in a position where all our past mistakes have caught up with us.

You don't focus on a stadium when you are failing on the pitch, unless you don't care enough about winning.
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How has the stadium stopped us focussing on building a better squad? We have spent fortunes on trying to build a better squad. It. Has nothing to do with the stadium that the squad overhaul has been an abject failure.
 

ToffeeTim said:
This should never have been priority. The last thing we need if we are relegated is a lot of stadium debt. I couldn't care less about the stadium because winning matches is what matters.

The minute the focus shifted onto the stadium, we lost perspective. No football club will ever be successful when an off the field project is the priority. We should have been settling for staying at GP until such time as we had a competitive team. The board and owner need to explain why they saw a stadium build as priority.
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ToffeeTim said:
This should never have been priority. The last thing we need if we are relegated is a lot of stadium debt. I couldn't care less about the stadium because winning matches is what matters.

The minute the focus shifted onto the stadium, we lost perspective. No football club will ever be successful when an off the field project is the priority. We should have been settling for staying at GP until such time as we had a competitive team. The board and owner need to explain why they saw a stadium build as priority.
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No. Not this again! Guess what? We did nothing to the stadium for decades and won zero trophies. So that's theory blown out of the water. I understand nobody wants us to get relegated, but this stadium isn't just for the next few season. There will be players playing at BMD in 100 years time whose grandparents haven't been born yet. Anybody know our last 10 results at Anfield? No, me neither. If we get relegated it will have nothing whatsoever to do with BMD.
 
ToffeeTim said:
I am very worried about how this effects us if we go down. I'm worried generally about our finances if we go down.

The stadium project has been priority for the board and owner in my opinion. And that is not what football is about. I find it ludicrous they started the build at a time when we had reached our FFP limits and couldn't spend.
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Can't think of a better time, as it happens.
 

ToffeeTim said:
Ambition is shown by building a competitive team, not by bricks and mortar. Our ambition has been non existent in recent years because they have refused repeatedly to overhaul the abject squad. Now we are in a position where all our past mistakes have caught up with us.

You don't focus on a stadium when you are failing on the pitch, unless you don't care enough about winning.
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The ambition has been huge. We just pissed £500 million against a wall, that's all.
 
The stadium will be finished one way or the other. Relegation or not its happening. We're far to deep into the project for it just to be stopped now. It won't really make any difference to the club in the long term though. The people who run our club aren't fit to run a school tuck shop, never mind a professional football club that used to be one of the most successful outfits in the sport. Having a nice new stadium won't make them any less incompetent.
 
ToffeeTim said:
I have huge concerns about our finances if we go down. This is the worst time. Saying its the best time makes no sense

Goodison is the only good thing we have and its about to go. There is nothing to celebrate in leaving Goodison
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All about opinions, to be fair but I'm excited about our future at BMD. I'll be sad to leave GP, obviously, but see no future in staying in put. Just my opinion.
 
Dr Baxter said:
All about opinions, to be fair but I'm excited about our future at BMD. I'll be sad to leave GP, obviously, but see no future in staying in put. Just my opinion.
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Building a £500m stadium in the championship could be disastrous. It's been a complete distraction, and now we find ourselves with diabolical squad that could well get relegated.
 

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