Women's team to play games at Goodison.

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

What's happening to WHP then?

 

[barneygumble]

What's happening to WHP then?

Id assume it'll go back to the Liverpool FA.

Or everton will keep control. Logical move is let Lower Breck use it, as they've just been promoted to the NPL West.

 

[mrsnugfit]

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.

As I said earlier it makes no sense financially to play womens games with attendances of 2,500-5,000 with 35,000+ empty seats - and let's not kid ourselves the attendances would get much higher than that. One major advantage of knocking down the old not-needed stands and replacing them with much smaller, easier to maintain single-tier stands is the football match atmosphere for the womens team might become like the old days (VERY old days) - it will be nice to see the tops of terraced houses and back yards while a game is actually going on.

 

[dockroad]

As I said earlier it makes no sense financially to play womens games with attendances of 2,500-5,000 with 35,000+ empty seats - and let's not kid ourselves the attendances would get much higher than that. One major advantage of knocking down the old not-needed stands and replacing them with much smaller, easier to maintain single-tier stands is the football match atmosphere for the womens team might become like the old days (VERY old days) - it will be nice to see the tops of terraced houses and back yards while a game is actually going on.

...and a bit more daylight for the residents of Gwladys St .

 

[James Patrick]

...and a bit more daylight for the residents of Gwladys St .

Until a ball goes through a window !

 

[Tony’s Carp]

What's happening to WHP then?

Believe the 21s will be playing there instead of Southport.

 

[kenada_blue]

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.

I'm sure they'd do stuff to it. But the idea would to still keep it a stadium and be able to host other things with it.

All depends on the viability. If they see it as an asset that adds another £70mill value to the club that can lease, add sponsorship etc to and also be one of the main clubs pushing the women's game further...it's all upside.

Unless emotionally it's not.

 

[Gwladysstreetlad]

I'm sure they'd do stuff to it. But the idea would to still keep it a stadium and be able to host other things with it.

All depends on the viability. If they see it as an asset that adds another £70mill value to the club that can lease, add sponsorship etc to and also be one of the main clubs pushing the women's game further...it's all upside.

Unless emotionally it's not.

What could we possibly host with a 40k stadium that couldn't be done elsewhere in the city? I just don't see anyone desperately willing to pay the club to let them use the shell of Goodison. People with those kind of pockets will want to use the new place. I just don't see any potential beyond the woman's team and the U21's playing in front of 5 to 6k and attendance like that wouldn't cover the cost of the turnstile operators.

 

[Baxtinho]

People in this thread being very patronising, saying 500 in the stands and stuff.

I don't get why Everton have the lowest WSL attendances, even the RS get ~ 7,500 - are people being snobby? Do they think it's not cool?

The Lionesses have sold out Wembley, Arsenal have had 50k loads of times.

Every women's game I've been to has been a decent laugh, really family friendly and the players made a real fuss over the kids.

I'd be all for a trip to GP with my daughter for an Everton game, sure many would as has been said.

 

[Tony’s Carp]

People in this thread being very patronising, saying 500 in the stands and stuff.

I don't get why Everton have the lowest WSL attendances, even the RS get ~ 7,500 - are people being snobby? Do they think it's not cool?

The Lionesses have sold out Wembley, Arsenal have had 50k loads of times.

Every women's game I've been to has been a decent laugh, really family friendly and the players made a real fuss over the kids.

I'd be all for a trip to GP with my daughter for an Everton game, sure many would as has been said.

The venue probably does have a lot to do with it, it's a little bit chicken and egg I guess. WHP may well be fine for the attendances they currently get but the message putting them on at somewhere as small and crap as WHP is that it's going to be a substandard / inferior product and no one's going to be there. So that itself is going to limit attendances.

Putting them on at a bigger and better venue wouldn't make attendances rocket overnight, but it sends the message it's a bigger and better product. And even if you just get a few more folk along, put on something they enjoy and they'll come back, bring a friend or two, you can create good growth.

 

[kenada_blue]

What could we possibly host with a 40k stadium that couldn't be done elsewhere in the city? I just don't see anyone desperately willing to pay the club to let them use the shell of Goodison. People with those kind of pockets will want to use the new place. I just don't see any potential beyond the woman's team and the U21's playing in front of 5 to 6k and attendance like that wouldn't cover the cost of the turnstile operators.

Wouldn't look at it as what it would cost day to day. Would look at it as an near £100mill asset on the books.