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New Everton Stadium


The binman chronicles said:
If the answer is Bob Elstone and the question is not 'who has done the bare minimum for the entire time he has been CEO?' or 'who talks a good game but then doesn't deliver?' then I shudder to think.
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Maybe the question is, "who is the patsy that will take the blame when the stadium starts sinking into the poorly drained dock and it all falls apart due to the substandard grade materials?"

Because the answer to that probably looks very suntanned.
 
GwladysBlue said:
I’m bored of this debacle now. Only Everton could drag a stadium on for so long to the point were even their own supporters start to become not arsed.
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Can you imagine how riveting it will get if plans get released, and we start obsessing about sub paragraphs in planning and construction regulations? Because that's the next stage. We'll be looking back at this as the good ol' days of the new stadium thread.

Groan.
 

Yarrgh said:
Can you imagine how riveting it will get if plans get released, and we start obsessing about sub paragraphs in planning and construction regulations? Because that's the next stage. We'll be looking back at this as the good ol' days of the new stadium thread.

Groan.
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At least we'll have a design to look at, a capacity, something to say that this will be going ahead.

I've been quite confident it will for a while, but they've been saying that finance deal with the council is 'close' for nearly three months.

These stupid workshops with Meis haven't even begun.
 
I saw a post on the Anfield thread on Skyscraper City where some guy was whinging that Liverpool hadn't yet revealed any images of their extended Anfield Road end. I think the club only confirmed that they were looking at the options about 2 weeks ago.

Try 2 years buddy lol
 
navidson said:
Had an interesting conversation today with a colleague - Long and short of it was that Elstone has essentially gone (No surprises there) - but he was insinuating that his leaving has massive repercussions in regards to the stadium going ahead

Any ideas why this would be the case?
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Elstone has been heavily involved in the Stadium side of things for as long as BMD has been an option. Him leaving will have inevitable consequences in terms of the hard work that has already gone in to it, the strong contacts that will have been made between the club and other organisations involved, and most importantly the knowledge he has gained from being heavily involved.

None of that is enough for a whole Stadium Project to fail just through him leaving though and it seems like a quite ridiculous assertion to me. If Robert Elstone leaving the club caused the collapse of this Stadium proposal with so many people invested in it, and the huge impact it will have on things outside of Everton FC then we may as well give up as a Football Club.

Moshiri didn't get to the position he is in now, with billions at the back of him from letting minor changes (in the overall scheme of things) like this ruin his ambitions.
 
GwladysBlue said:
I’m bored of this debacle now. Only Everton could drag a stadium on for so long to the point where even their own supporters start to become not arsed.
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It is frustrating but the fans need to be patient. If given the option between:

A) The club coming out and bragging about how we will be doing this and that and getting our hopes up and it failing

Or

B) Them playing it safe, and not revealing too much until everything is certain, but it takes longer for the fans to find out

What would you prefer? In an ideal scenario everything would be sorted, there would be no possibility of disappointment and building would soon be starting. But Stadium projects don't tend to work like that unfortunately. This is not unique in that sense. Chelsea and Wembley are 2 high profile recent examples of Stadium issues and we don't even know if there are major issues at this stage.
 
EFC78 said:
Elstone has been heavily involved in the Stadium side of things for as long as BMD has been an option. Him leaving will have inevitable consequences in terms of the hard work that has already gone in to it, the strong contacts that will have been made between the club and other organisations involved, and most importantly the knowledge he has gained from being heavily involved.

None of that is enough for a whole Stadium Project to fail just through him leaving though and it seems like a quite ridiculous assertion to me. If Robert Elstone leaving the club caused the collapse of this Stadium proposal with so many people invested in it, and the huge impact it will have on things outside of Everton FC then we may as well give up as a Football Club.

Moshiri didn't get to the position he is in now, with billions at the back of him from letting minor changes (in the overall scheme of things) like this ruin his ambitions.
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surely if it was even a possibility of it falling apart because he hasn't honoured his contract then there would be huge legal ramifications for him

I assumed the press just assume it would cause problems as they don't realise how incompetent he actually is, and getting a replacement who was semi capable would more than cover anything required of him haha
 

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