The Everton Board Thread (Inc. Bill Kenwright / Blue Union)

[Bluesnapper]

Nope.

Relocation began in 2002, but financial difficulties delayed work until February 2004. Emirates Airline was later announced as the main sponsor for the stadium. Work was completed in 2006 at a cost of £390 million.

What does London matter?

The top 5 Premiership spenders since 92 are 2 clubs from Manchester, 1 from Liverpool, 1 from the Midlands and 1 from London.

Everything else you stated is utter rubbish.

Correct and as for land, they pay London prices.

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

Which is why I introduced the multiple.

As a business EFC isnt keeping up because the people we have in place are not good enough, not savvy, too comfortable and dont have a mid term plan or indeed a long term plan for the business.

Dead easy to create a business plan for a new stadium when you know you've 20,000 new punters sat on a waiting list eager to part with a grand a year to fill it....

The multiple is just the result of that fact

 

[Groucho]

Sorry..all I was trying to do was move the debate on reasonably, as requested quite rightly by Groucho...unfortunately after a while it got personal. Hopefully we can keep on track.

So let's draw a line and leave it, yeah?

 

[Bluesnapper]

Dead easy to create a business plan for a new stadium when you know you've 20,000 new punters sat on a waiting list eager to part with a grand a year to fill it....

The multiple is just the result of that fact

I dont get this.

Why would a club that had 35000 at Highbury week in week out and with 20000 ST promisers only build a stadium with a capacity of 5000 more @60000?

 

[mythbuster]

I dont get this.

Why would a club that had 35000 at Highbury week in week out and with 20000 ST promisers only build a stadium with a capacity of 5000 more @60000?

Err, think you might find the answer in the question there mate.

 

[Chang Elephant]

Err, think you might find the answer in the question there mate.

They didn't want spare capacity to grow their core support ?

 

[mythbuster]

They didn't want spare capacity to grow their core support ?

They still made 5,000 more seats that they could not realistically expect to fill for every game.

Also, I'd be pretty amazed if they are not in a position to expand if they need to.

 

[Bluesnapper]

Even Kenwright wanted to build in Kirkby a stadium 15000 bigger in capacity than the evidence at GP showed.

As I said it doesnt make sense.

 

[Bluesnapper]

They still made 5,000 more seats than they could not realistically expect to fill for every game.

Also, I'd be pretty amazed if they are not in a position to expand if they need to.

All that 5k and more would be snapped up by away supporters.

 

[mythbuster]

All that 5k and more would be snapped up by away supporters.

Depends on the game.

 

[bourneblue]

I dont get this.

Why would a club that had 35000 at Highbury week in week out and with 20000 ST promisers only build a stadium with a capacity of 5000 more @60000?

Me neither i make it 25000 extra seats from those figures you quoted ?
Baffled !!

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

I dont get this.

Why would a club that had 35000 at Highbury week in week out and with 20000 ST promisers only build a stadium with a capacity of 5000 more @60000?

At 60k that's 70% more seats than they had, taking it beyond that in one jump might have been deemed to be too risky.

 

[Bluesnapper]

At 60k that's 70% more seats than they had, taking it beyond that in one jump might have been deemed to be too risky.

But you reckon they were guaranteed to sell 55k with only a miniscule 5k for travelling away support, walk up, corporate and the new style overseas based weekend trippers.

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

But you reckon they were guaranteed to sell 55k with only a miniscule 5k for travelling away support, walk up, corporate and the new style overseas based weekend trippers.

I didn't 'reckon' anything, the waiting list was a fact. The same as it's over 40K now. So you'd better ask Dein why he didn't have bigger balls mate.

 

[The Esk]

If I remember correctly the capacity of the Emirates was limited because of the local transport issues with both tube stations over capacity on match days. It was a planning decision not a decision of the Club.