Homepage Article Goodison Park to become the permanent home of Everton Women


tommye said:
Goodison IS the hub for the local community and has been for over 100yrs. It shall now continue to be so.
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No. It’s not just having Goodison the bricks and mortar that matters. It’s what brings people into Goodison that makes it a hub. If we had a less than half empty Goodison over the last, say, 30/40 years the local community would have struggled far worse than it currently is. I fear that’s exactly what will happen with this new plan.
 
Tom Hughes said:
The previous plans were primarily generated to boost the planning application. As far as I know, they never got off the m drawing board beyond the concept design, nor attracted the required investment. We've heard nothing about it for several years. There is no reason why the Everton in community element cannot still be included.
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I’m not saying they were, just answering the point in context. The idea that local businesses who were reliant on the income generated by 19-25 games with 40,000 attendees are going to be saved by 11-15 games with (very generously estimated) 10,000 people of an entirely different demographic is fanciful in the extreme. Regeneration of the area would clearly have been the better for those businesses, it’s disingenuous to pretend otherwise.
 
kenada_blue said:
£70+mill asset, use it, pump revenue and sponsorship through it for 3 odd years. See what it does.

If not, it gets sold for millions.

Its a win win.

The only objection I see is from people who feel that no one should ever walk into Goodison ever again after Sunday and would rather it be a block of flats...or an Asda
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Oh the duality of GoT :)

Regardless of motivation, football will still be played at Goodison.

How many Asda supporters are there?

I haven't really seen a legitimately logical reason why the club wouldn't do this thus far.
 

Tom Hughes said:
It costs a lot to rent Haig Avenue and WHP too. We will already have maintenance staff for both BMD and Finch farm, so maintenance costs in terms of staff needn't be significantly more. Especially for smaller crowds (initially). The fact is the Women's team need a larger stadium than WHP. That wouldn't be free or cheap, and we might not even own it. We have a world famous alternative!

Aside from that, I think there is also massive opportunity for Goodison to become a world-class working Heritage Football stadium and museum.... the Everton Collection, renowned for being the largest club collection in the world, could be permanently housed and exhibited. Where could be better than the site of the world's first purpose built football stadium?

We also maintain that presence in our historic heartlands and preserve that famous face-off across Stanley Park.

There could be any number of reconfiguration options to repurpose the stadium for the Women's and Youth teams. The Old Leitch stands could be partly or completely preserved as the finest collection of his work still in existence. Much of the mainstand could be redeveloped to include major community facilities etc with the enclosure, Boxes and corporate lounges still available for Football supporters. Maybe even the Top Balcony could become a multi-screen community cinema..... who knows? The possibilities are almost endless.

As I've said before.... I think this is a WIN WIN WIN decision.
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Disagree. Any museum should be at the new stadium which is going to be a tourism honey pot. No way will serious numbers go out their way to Walton to see an Everton collection, never mind the Leich stands, which apart from a few older and sentimental people deem an attraction.
 
Lanolin said:
Kind of makes a lot of the stuff about sunday completely redundant now, but other than that great.
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It’s Goodison, it won’t be THE Goodison that we are leaving.

They are gonna have to change so much of it that it probably won’t be recognisable.

I’m delighted, it’s a brilliant idea, wally hall park is practically a bloody leisure centre, Everton women deserve better.

I may even get us women’s season tickets now.
 
JohnyH said:
Let’s face it. The new owners newly in the door didn’t have time to put a legacy project together so have fudged it by “giving it to the women’s team”. This is completely inappropriate. The crowds no where near enough to fill the stadium at the recent derby half of two stands were only half full.
Why should the men’s team enjoy fantastic state of the art facilities and then women have to put up with ancient substandard ones?
Let’s face it over 3-6 years a decision will be made to demolish. They are just kicking can down the road. Are the really going to plough money into altering/changing the facilities no of course they are not.
Makes selling the seats having the big fan fare Sunday and the high demand for goodison tours all feel a bit like we’ve been Dupted. This to come out 4 days before the last game is poor.
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I completely agree. The legacy project was going to be funded with the soviet money, they've bottled it and decided to keep it and people are not seeing the bigger picture that it's just a way to not invest in the area.

The buy your seat, but the plastic ones you only get the bottom half screams to me this has been planned as they're the ones they want to keep.

The farewell goodison shirts being sold despite them knowing it's not going is also a bit shameless, as well as the "last game at goodison programme" and the tracksuits they've sold.

The women should build their own legacy, if it's at goodison then build something new, as I bet you they'll knock it down in a few years when the maintenance costs and the further pillars required to hold up the old stands comes in to play.
 
NathDogg said:
It’s Goodison, it won’t be THE Goodison that we are leaving.

They are gonna have to change so much of it that it probably won’t be recognisable.

I’m delighted, it’s a brilliant idea, wally hall park is practically a bloody leisure centre, Everton women deserve better.

I may even get us women’s season tickets now.
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Agreed. Men's premier league football will never be played at Goodison Park again after Sunday. For me, non of the impact is lost due to this announcement. It is still going to be an extremely emotional and significant day
 

Some proper misery holes here, and some really bad takes.

Cheer up you cryarsing gits, Goodison is still having football even though the first team are moving to BMD - that fills my heart with joy, if it doesn’t yours then I can’t help you.

As another poster superbly said it - We don’t demolish, we build.

We continue to build this city and we look after our community.

We’re Everton, and we’ll be Everton forever.
 
NathDogg said:
It’s Goodison, it won’t be THE Goodison that we are leaving.

They are gonna have to change so much of it that it probably won’t be recognisable.

I’m delighted, it’s a brilliant idea, wally hall park is practically a bloody leisure centre, Everton women deserve better.

I may even get us women’s season tickets now.
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No I get that.

It clearly does change the situation around Sunday, quite a lot I’d say. It’s still going to be emotional and an end of an era etc, and for me it’ll still be the last time I do the old routine and walk up the steps with my dad and all that so it’s not different in that sense.

There’s been a lot of people saying they needed to make a pilgrimage on Sunday though and say goodbye and all that despite not going in. Those people who’ve been saying they’re definitely not doing it just because of wanting to soak up the atmosphere and FOMO and just really need to see the place one more time to say goodbye now don’t need to do they? Because they can just go to a load of games there next year instead. That’s quite a big change I think.

I’d say if they’re going to be playing there from next season it’s definitely going to be recognisable, there’s no way they can do anything that dramatic before then and no indication they intend to that I’ve seen.
 
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