Groundshare Debate on TalkSport Now

[bluemeanie]

Outside of England, we would become 'Aren't you that team who use Liverpool's ground?' it would be the end of the club I think.

 

[Clint Planet]

The council are skint.

A mere detail.

 

[EFCNIK]

It would be like Bayern and 1860.

It's very much Bayern's ground that 1860 use.

 

[chrissyjack]

Imagine if this groundshare DID happen, and we won the League before them..

 

[Titus Bramble]

This debate came up on soccer Saturday a few years ago when Peter Reid and Pinocchio were on the panel. Pinocchio said that there would have to be red and blue in the stadium to keep both fans happy and Reidy said "Yeah, blue seats and red toilets".

The ensuing fume was delightful.

 

[Royal]

If we're going to do a groundshare, it should not be with another football team.
Why can't Waterloo Rugby Union just get their **** together and be top tier, and we can groundshare with them or something.

 

[zed]

i`d rather take my chances finishing possibly forever a mid-table outfit than share a ground. besides its no guarantee of success. please shut yer trap on the subject now moylsie.

 

[Cena]

Absolute myth that if we ground-shared we would have a world-class stadium that would host CL football.

We don't NEED a world-class stadium, we need an upgrade thats it, honestly how people are seeing that re-development or if need be the football quarter is the way to go is beyond me,

Still absolutely flabbergasted fans would even consider sharing with them just because 'it would bring in more money' - sad to see modern day football turning fans business savvy

 

[chicoazul]

I would like a revamped Goodison. Don't want us playing anywhere else, I've pondered this for many years and come to that. Sack turning into Middlesbrough or whatever. We're Everton and we play at Goodison and when she's angry she's beautiful.

 

[EFCNIK]

We can't do Goodison up though because of the houses. ONly stand that could possibly be done is the park end. And it's our least tatty stand.

 

[Brennan]

We can't do Goodison up though because of the houses. ONly stand that could possibly be done is the park end. And it's our least tatty stand.

Nik is right, basically.

 

[Cena]

I would like a revamped Goodison. Don't want us playing anywhere else, I've pondered this for many years and come to that. Sack turning into Middlesbrough or whatever. We're Everton and we play at Goodison and when she's angry she's beautiful.

Nailed, absolutely spot on.

People going on about our finances and we can't do it build a stadium on our own. We have an asset their in Goodison which we can make into a stadium that is fit for a Premier League team. It is possible and it doesn't need loads of money, as I say just an upgrade. Newcastle upgraded their ground on less of a footprint or at least that is what I've read, than Goodison.

If you wanna build a new ground on the edge of a motorway, which will be a soulless dome that looks like every other new stadium in the country, just because it brings in some extra money from the prawn sandwich eaters in corporate boxers then thats up to you.

If you wanna share with them, and become second-rate in 'their' stadium and end up like 1860 because it brings in more money, again that's up to you.

Everyone having a pop at me saying about history & tradition because i believe in those values and want to keep them, because they made Everton what we are today, then swerve singing 'and if yer know yer history' next time we do a Chelsea or Man City at Goodison because those words obviously have no meaning to you.

 

[Cena]

We can't do Goodison up though because of the houses. ONly stand that could possibly be done is the park end. And it's our least tatty stand.

Myth.

 

[zed]

Nik is right, basically.

the park end stand is designed to be modified/extended. it could be moved back 50yds and the street end brought forward to take the church out of the equation.

 

[Brennan]

the park end stand is designed to be modified/extended. it could be moved back 50yds and the street end brought forward to take the church out of the equation.

This:

Whilst we are at it we might as well consider the concept of adding another tier to the Park End stand. In my view if we ever got to that point you could assume we have reached near-desperation. It would be a last throw of the dice, similar to Manchester City’s asymmetrical solution for the old Main Road Kippax Stand, Arsenal’s design mistake with the Clock Stand at Highbury, and Newcastle’s design “solutionâ€￾ at St James Park – the first two eventually and rightly abandoned for much better grounds. Yes, it is possible to put another tier on the Park End. But, once again, what FOR? Merely to stay on a finally restricted site and have a ground that looks exactly like a cobbled-together lopsided stadium that STILL has obstructed views on three sides, limited capacity and ageing and potentially dangerous wooden stands? In short, it is not a long-term solution at all. It is a mere gesture to nostalgia for a ground that long ago lost its status in the game and has now reached the end of its useful life. It is time to move on, not apply a bandage to an open wound.