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

[JLW]

No mate I don't think so. Sunday is a massive chapter that is closing. Goodison as we know it watching the Men's team will be no more.

This is the stadiums next stage of life, a new chapter and a new beginning. I can 100% separate the 2 things because I'm absolutely gutted I can't be there on Sunday and I don't think I'm going to cope very well with that tbh. But I can look forward to seeing the stadium have a different kind of lease of life, knowing I can get back there again I'm just absolutely buzzing with that.

Dunno mate, its good that people can still go and the ground wont be going anywhere soon.

I know its not the same feeling going to the womens game as it is for the mens.
Its not that im not happy im actually a bit meh about it, its just feels a bit weird for me with all the build up to everyone thinking this is the last ever time they will do their pre match ritual and then set foot in the ground again.

Maybe the timing of the announcement could of been next week.

 

[Willie Thorne]

Give it a couple of years till the land value rises.

 

[Lanolin]

No mate I don't think so. Sunday is a massive chapter that is closing. Goodison as we know it watching the Men's team will be no more.

This is the stadiums next stage of life, a new chapter and a new beginning. I can 100% separate the 2 things because I'm absolutely gutted I can't be there on Sunday and I don't think I'm going to cope very well with that tbh. But I can look forward to seeing the stadium have a different kind of lease of life, knowing I can get back there again I'm just absolutely buzzing with that.

It’s obviously still a massive thing but I don’t think there’s any doubt it dilutes it. Not even saying that’s a bad thing, but it definitely does. Everyone’s been gearing themselves up for the last time they’ll ever set foot in the place, and now it turns out they’ll be able to go again in 3 months, how can it not dilute it?

 

[Gwladysstreetlad]

The Bullens should be preserved. It's literally a historical time piece for football stadium architecture - from 100 years ago and in particular, it a rare surviving Archibald Leitch stand.

It might not be as majestic as the old Goodison Road stand nicknamed the Mauritainia after the Liverpool ship (like the Titanic) due to its size, but it should be preserved. Just like art deco, or Georgian buildings etc.

Marvel at its architecture.

How much of this ground can be preserved though? We can't realistically keep the place as is. Its just not workable. The park end is the obvious choice to keep as is with mew seats. Everything else needs to be reduced and/renovated. It'll just be a great big empty mausoleum otherwise.

 

[Lanolin]

I'm really not sure what regeneration of that area looks like. It was left deliberately vague at concept because if we're all being honest, L4 isn't exactly high up on the priorities of developers.

Realistically it would've been sold for 3 odd million and a couple estates get added on, not exactly going to make businesses boom

Yeah again I’m not saying this is a bad thing or the regen would be amazing, I was just replying to the post at face value.

 

[Blue peter]

Doesnt this kinda dilute the goodbye for this weekend.

Like this is the last time you will ever step foot in here and all the emotions that are going with it, and now you can still go to watch to watch Everton (womens)

For me its a little bit weird the timing of the announcement.

I wonder if they go for the cheesy during the official goodbye where they roll the former players / legends out and then ‘handover’ to the women

 

[Moomin]

The "cheapest" thing to do is to keep the women at Walton Hall Park or disband the team altogether.

Is this cheaper than building the women a new stadium? Perhaps, but I doubt there will be anything cheap about renovations and the like.

They're investing in the women's team, they think there is a return there. I'm not sure being cheap has much to do with it.

Maybe looking to flip on a cheap investment.

 

[JLW]

It’s obviously still a massive thing but I don’t think there’s any doubt it dilutes it. Not even saying that’s a bad thing, but it definitely does. Everyone’s been gearing themselves up for the last time they’ll ever set foot in the place, and now it turns out they’ll be able to go again in 3 months, how can it not dilute it?

This is my take on it also.

Its now closed for the summer but you can still go to your little sisters new home in August, the one we are all saying an emotional goodbye to at the weekend.

 

[Brett Angell Delight]

Absolutely class. Never expected they’d do it, but made up they have. Made up to get the chance to see a few more games there, and all. There’ll be a lot of people whose introduction to the women’s game will be because they didn’t wanna say goodbye to Goodison yet. Great move all round.

 

[TowerToffee]

Love it !

 

[MichaelEFC96]

It’ll be absolutely mental having two operational stadiums that we own going from one to the other, like absolutely MENTAL.

Mental in a good way like.

 

[Davideeyore]

At what point does scaling, altering, renovating Goodison make it no longer Goodison? If they knock down and rebuild each stand is it still Goodison? Any minor decision to alter/change the ground will be fraught with opposing views on all sides. gonna cause unnecessary distraction as we try to pave a future in our new home. In reality, the only thing down will be to replace the seats. Long term it is not going to be economical to keep it running. May help PSR in the short term.

If it was all flattened and built like Marine a non-league ground, it would still be Goodison. Only like 1892 version. Still Goodison Park then. Get it?

 

[TexanToffee]

Personally, this news is great and also doesn't dilute the importance of the final men's game one bit.

My original sporting love was baseball. My local team got a new stadium a few years ago, moving out of the stadium I grew up going to and had a ton of nostalgia for. The stadium still exists and actually hosts a couple teams. I went to a rugby match there after the baseball team left and just felt, weird. I was in the stadium I loved and had all these memories of, but it just didn't feel the same. I don't even mean that in a negative way, but it's not the same, and I'd imagine a similar feeling may come over those when they go to a women's match at Goodison.

The game this Sunday is MASSIVE. I'll probably have a few tears watching the last game, because it truly is an end of an era, regardless of whether the physical building remains.

 

[MichaelEFC96]

The media types are definitely highlighting the PSR benefits of this decision.

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Isn’t PSR getting replaced by Squad Cost Ratio in the next few years though?

 

[trueblue84]

Doesnt this kinda dilute the goodbye for this weekend.

Like this is the last time you will ever step foot in here and all the emotions that are going with it, and now you can still go to watch to watch Everton (womens)

For me its a little bit weird the timing of the announcement.

Probably to dissuade the fans from gutting the place.