Women's team to play games at Goodison.

It will not be profitable for the club that's for sure and it certainly won't be viable to maintain old stands with 35,000+ empty seats for every match, so i'm guessing it will all be knocked down and cheap, smaller stands put in their place on one side a bit like the tiny stands some clubs have at their training grounds or at non-league clubs. Whatever it is it is not 'Goodison' as we would like to remember it so difficult to get excited about.
 

davids said:
Probably ending up with another points deduction further down the line.
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radiostar said:
I can't see it being cost effective at all to retain Goodison Park for women's and u21 matches.

Whole stands would have to be closed down, the place would look empty for every game with seats missing all over the place, the electricity, water etc costs would be high to maintain a ground like Goodison with next to no income for it.

As much I would like it to stay, I just see a sad end for it that way. If we are going to leave - leave on a high.
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It'll be a short term measure. They'll simply open a small section of the Park End or Main Stand for u21s/women just like they did in the past. No need to be maintaining other areas.
Simply a stop gap measure till they decide what they want to do long term. The bulldozers were never going to be moving straight in.
 
radiostar said:
I can't see it being cost effective at all to retain Goodison Park for women's and u21 matches.

Whole stands would have to be closed down, the place would look empty for every game with seats missing all over the place, the electricity, water etc costs would be high to maintain a ground like Goodison with next to no income for it.

As much I would like it to stay, I just see a sad end for it that way. If we are going to leave - leave on a high.
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Got billionaires on the board. Any money they pump into the club can be seen as infrastructure towards the women's team.

It'll be a fiddle that they can utilise.
 

i don’t know why everyone says its not sustainable

club owns that land and stadium, they don’t own the others

not to sound snobby but it’s hardly an area that’s ripe for turning into luxury flats or anything that would bring a big buyer in

it will likely be renovated to be smaller, that will come at a cost but the club has huge investment

slap a sponsorship deal on it and it becomes a revenue maker. it also can become a legacy venue. keeping our history relevant to the game

there will be lots of fans, myself included, who’ve never been to watch a womens game, but will go cos its at goodison. could inject a real following behind the team
 
Vaughan said:
i don’t know why everyone says its not sustainable

club owns that land and stadium, they don’t own the others

not to sound snobby but it’s hardly an area that’s ripe for turning into luxury flats or anything that would bring a big buyer in

it will likely be renovated to be smaller, that will come at a cost but the club has huge investment

slap a sponsorship deal on it and it becomes a revenue maker. it also can become a legacy venue. keeping our history relevant to the game

there will be lots of fans, myself included, who’ve never been to watch a womens game, but will go cos its at goodison. could inject a real following behind the team
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Venue for concerts, boxing etc?
 
Just by playing at Goodison, there's going to be far more people interested in going. Not enough to support regular 20k+ crowds atm but probably double what they get now, its only getting more popular year on year aswell. Alot if not all travelling fans from abroad will take in a gane if it falls around one of our home fixtures.

Add in a sponsorship deal, tours, ability to still host conferences & private parties in the lounges and then potentially using the stadium to host events too small for BMD or while something clashes there, it could finance itself, even create extra revenue for the club.
 
kenada_blue said:
Would be 100% true and very clever.

They'd have another multi million pound asset on the books, generative another revenue stream they can manipulate.

I really hope they do it
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You know what, why shouldn't we do it?

It's everything I hate about football, but if every team is trying to bend rules, why not do it ourselves?

The ground remains in their name. They get money to pump into their asset and we all get to keep some memories of Goodison.
 

Throwing this out there, but something I feel that has gone under the radar with this news/rumour, is that until the recent years, Goodison Park had the highest attendance for a women’s football match in this country. Along with the fact that it’s (possibly) going to do us a favour with PSR, it’s also somewhat fitting that our women’s team get to play at the ground that has a historical link to women’s football.
 
Turning Goodison into an empty lifeless, morgue is good for nobody. It won't help the womans team or the under 21's to play at an almost empty stadium, it would likely be very demoralising very quickly. Even if attendance rose purely on the basis of it being at Goodison you'd still only looking at 10k at best. Is a three quarters empty Goodison Park just limping on really what we want? Like I've said before, if we're able to build a new, smaller and purpose built stadium for this on site and use the rest of the land for Everton in the community purposes then that would be the ideal outcome.
 
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