Final game at Goodison - confirmed Sunday 18 May, 12PM

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My sentimentality has completely gone for GP. Other than derby win last season and a few other games, how many times in last 10 years have I left GP genuinely proud of team. This season's derby and derby game 2019, were good, but could of been better. Chelsea in 2015 and 2016 was good, City in 2016 and 2017 were good, but other than that we have been awful. I always think how embarrassing it must be for older fans, who watched great sides of past, watching clowns like Jack Harrison and Dourcore to be involved in last lap of honour. Watching Ipswich do most basic things better than us, like actually trying to have a shot on goal was a sad last game at GP for me. Most of the players and pretty much whole of upper echelons of club don't deserve the tremendous support our fans give them. My sentimental memories will be almost entirely focused of how great our supporters have been over years. I've have no love for most of the players or scummy bellends who have ruined club for years. Our club would be nothing without our loyal supporters and I hope players and higher ups recognise that.
 

JelavicBrate2 said:
My sentimentality has completely gone for GP. Other than derby win last season and a few other games, how many times in last 10 years have I left GP genuinely proud of team. This season's derby and derby game 2019, were good, but could of been better. Chelsea in 2015 and 2016 was good, City in 2016 and 2017 were good, but other than that we have been awful. I always think how embarrassing it must be for older fans, who watched great sides of past, watching clowns like Jack Harrison and Dourcore to be involved in last lap of honour. Watching Ipswich do most basic things better than us, like actually trying to have a shot on goal was a sad last game at GP for me. Most of the players and pretty much whole of upper echelons of club don't deserve the tremendous support our fans give them. My sentimental memories will be almost entirely focused of how great our supporters have been over years. I've have no love for most of the players or scummy bellends who have ruined club for years. Our club would be nothing without our loyal supporters and I hope players and higher ups recognise that.
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I partly agree with you . My overwhelming memory of the past few seasons has been looking from my seat in MS3 and seeing away fans celebrating victory. Utterly sick of it. On the other hand I will miss standing outside the fanzone and seeing countless thousands of Blues marching down Goodison Road. I will miss the familiar faces around me in the stand and hope we will meet again at BMD. As you say ,our fans are tremendous and have more than played their part in keeping Everton in the PL .
 
My feelings for the place are all bound up in family and friends - going there with my dad at the end of the sixties and into the 70s, then with my mates in the late 70s onwards, and now in the Upper Bullens not far from where I first sat with my dad. The current players, with the exception of Seamus, don't even feature in my feelings for the place so - in a way - I don't care what the result is at the last game.

I've seen some great times there, but not in recent memory - the current highlights being escaping relegation, which was exciting but not what I expected from the glory days of when I first went to Goodison. I'll give Bramley Moore a go, but I travel a fair distance these days for the match so I'm prepared to knock it on the head if the football I'm watching is as dire as it has been over the past few years. Footie at the top level is pale imitation of what it was before the big money got involved - we all know which teams are going to finish in the top 4 before the season even starts, and the same with the FA Cup and Champions League. Still, I'm excited about the new place, but it's not going to have the Goodison vibe, so the pressure is really on for us to produce some half decent football for a change or it could be a hollow experience.

So, Southampton will be full of emotion for me, but none of it will be about the actual game. I really couldn't give a monkeys what the score is, because it won't take away the great memories, but nor will it make the recent memories any better (or worse). I mean, you don't judge a funeral by the scran in the pub do you? It's all about saying goodbye to an old friend.
 
There is a little bit of revisionism that goes on about how great things were back in the old days.
‘The league isn’t competitive anymore, it’s all sanitised and predictable’..

Well guess what, you could predict what teams were likely to challenge for the title before the Premier league started too.

You would also have crowds of 14,000, racism in the stands and violence outside the ground. Much of the football was agricultural and TV coverage minimal.

I’ve always loved football, Everton and Goodison, but I’m realistic about it.
 

MikeyMike said:
My feelings for the place are all bound up in family and friends - going there with my dad at the end of the sixties and into the 70s, then with my mates in the late 70s onwards, and now in the Upper Bullens not far from where I first sat with my dad. The current players, with the exception of Seamus, don't even feature in my feelings for the place so - in a way - I don't care what the result is at the last game.

I've seen some great times there, but not in recent memory - the current highlights being escaping relegation, which was exciting but not what I expected from the glory days of when I first went to Goodison. I'll give Bramley Moore a go, but I travel a fair distance these days for the match so I'm prepared to knock it on the head if the football I'm watching is as dire as it has been over the past few years. Footie at the top level is pale imitation of what it was before the big money got involved - we all know which teams are going to finish in the top 4 before the season even starts, and the same with the FA Cup and Champions League. Still, I'm excited about the new place, but it's not going to have the Goodison vibe, so the pressure is really on for us to produce some half decent football for a change or it could be a hollow experience.

So, Southampton will be full of emotion for me, but none of it will be about the actual game. I really couldn't give a monkeys what the score is, because it won't take away the great memories, but nor will it make the recent memories any better (or worse). I mean, you don't judge a funeral by the scran in the pub do you? It's all about saying goodbye to an old friend.
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Good post mate, much the same as myself, my feelings and memories for the old girl are tied up mainly in 60s and 70s going with my dad, grandad, brother, cousins and moving on to my sons and grandson's.
I've lived in Scotland since 1980 though that hasn't diminished my love for the blues.
My last visit to Goodison was for the Hammers game and there was 6 of us that came down for the weekend and had a great day on the day of the match.
I hope Bramley Moore and capture some of the old magic, a lot of which will be dependant on investment and the standard of players we can attract.
I'll probably wait until the fervour of the new season settles down and aim to get to Bramley Moore about 4 or 5 games in.
I sincerely hope everyone going to the Saint's game has a great day and gives the old girl the send off she deserves, I shall be shedding a tear from a distance.
 
MACCA75 said:
There is a little bit of revisionism that goes on about how great things were back in the old days.
‘The league isn’t competitive anymore, it’s all sanitised and predictable’..

Well guess what, you could predict what teams were likely to challenge for the title before the Premier league started too.

You would also have crowds of 14,000, racism in the stands and violence outside the ground. Much of the football was agricultural and TV coverage minimal.

I’ve always loved football, Everton and Goodison, but I’m realistic about it.
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I think it applies to human condition, different times, different problems. There was never a perfect past, nor will there be a perfect future. Because things have been rubbish at Everton for years, people look back on past times with fond memories. I can remember when we had decent wingers and Coleman and Baines overlapping putting crosses in. Of course you've always had teams who were favourites, however it's never been this boring asbit has in recent years. Have a look at 1988/1989 season, how many teams took points off Arsenal and RS. That's what people mean, when they talk about league being boring. Even Barcas great side of 08/09, drew plenty of games. Premier League has been awful to watch in last few seasons.
 
My lad and I will up at the crack of crack to catch the boat from the IOM which will deliver us to Liverpool just under 2 hours before kick off. Quick few beers, then the match and goodbye to the Old Lady. 52 years ago I also sailed into the fair city of Liverpool, from Douglas, for my first visit to Goodison, aged 15 on a day trip with 3 mates. This time EasyJet will whisk us home in 25 minutes. Progress eh? Some things have changed; the boat fare, the colour of my hair, and where the Blues sit in the league. Some things haven’t; my love of Everton, the thrill of Z Cars and the Scouse humour. I now have a season ticket for the new stadium. New home, same club, same passion. Farewell Goodison. Thank you and sleep well.
 
MACCA75 said:
There is a little bit of revisionism that goes on about how great things were back in the old days.
‘The league isn’t competitive anymore, it’s all sanitised and predictable’..

Well guess what, you could predict what teams were likely to challenge for the title before the Premier league started too.

You would also have crowds of 14,000, racism in the stands and violence outside the ground. Much of the football was agricultural and TV coverage minimal.

I’ve always loved football, Everton and Goodison, but I’m realistic about it.
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Some of this is true.... but our gates only really dropped that low in the early 80's, when the arse fell out of the economy and everything looked pretty bleak (particularly in Liverpool). We had massive crowds in the 40's, 50's, 60's and early 70's too. Also, the agricultural footy seemed to comfortably wipe the floor with the rest of Europe for several years before the ban, so I wouldn't be too derogatory on that score either. Yes, there's a lot of blue-tinted glassed views about some of those days, but there was certainly a lot of history before the dark days of hoolies and empty stands too.

We seriously missed the boat considering that we were one of the initial main drivers for the Premier League..... and especially considering that we had comfortably the least to do to convert GP to a 40k seater stadium of all clubs, and still be fully compliant with all of the Taylor Report directives.

Our decline was caused by serial incompetence, impotence and at times in-fighting at board level. That's why I don't get all of this blaming of Goodison by association, when it was simply just another victim of the same incompetence, inaction and managed decline perpetrated by the same regime. As all around us built for the future, our leaders rested on the laurels of their forebares who had always tried to do their best regards stadium development, and instead did the absolute bare minimum for decades. Years of dereliction of duty and failed/ill-conceived move proposals led to where the club and our famous old stadium were barely sustainable.

For me, that doesn't detract from the place's rich history, nor from what it all means to me. I refuse to let it!
 
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Are the club going to bother telling us what the plan is for the final day or won’t there be one?
 

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