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

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.
 

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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So many assumptions being made there. Mine is that you will see more and more of this in the coming years. Investment in the women's team is a great way of offsetting PSR to the men's team. Expect a lot more teams to follow suit here and invest a lot of money into their women's set up, including stadia
 

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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Totally miserable viewing of this. They may well scale down, but it's still Goodison
 
COYBL25 said:
It’s also incredibly good news for the local businesses around Goodison, that depend on match days to survive.

It’ll more than likely stop a good few of them closing for good.
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Not many of them will survive if they’re relying on income generated from women’s match’s. Certainly not in the short term at least.
 

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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Who asked this guy?
 
Women’s sport is much bigger in general in USA than here, though still orders of magnitude behind men’s financially. TFG seems to see an opportunity to invest and create success in an area that will appreciate in value and attract more TV and commercial income in the future. They will give it a solid go for a few years, including some limited targeted improvements to Goodison, then take stock.

If the team is succeeding (winning trophies/playing in Europe/attracting more fans) and the women’s game is growing globally they will look like geniuses. If it does not happen they will have an underwritten extra costs (on team and stadium) over 3-5 years roughly equivalent to purchasing some random relatively inexpensive Albanian fullback from a mid table Austrian or Swiss team on a modest 3-4 year deal. It isn’t much risk for TFG to take seen in that context.
 
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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Wow, so much wrong in one post
 

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