Leaving Goodison - feelings

[peteblue]

Will be sad to leave the old lady

Memories include
Boys pen
Taking a milk crate into the paddock of the then new stand so I could see over the wall at the front and a flask with me dad
The 70s so much hope but never came to pass
The semi circle walls behind the goals I miss them
Being in the gwladys street roaring on the boys standing at the back then suddenly half way down as the crowd moved
The 80s still get a lump in my thought thinking about those times at the old lady unbelievable days too many to mention
Seats arrived the atmosphere stayed the same
Ups n downs in the 90s till now
The grand old lady will be missed but memories will stay forever
Your born a blue and goodison is part of you

We now can look forward to a new stadium
And new memories .......but she's not gone yet and there maybe just maybe a fitting memory that will forever stay with us about our last days at the old lady

This really.......

 

[Ashtonluke]

It will be a sad day for sure. There's something just so special about Goodison which will be difficult, if not impossible to recreate in the new ground. As some above have said though, we do have to move on and taking the club onto the banks of the Mersey is of course a fantastic thing.

I was lucky enough to be club mascot when I was 8 and I just have so many great memories of Goodison (even though I was born in 1986 so my childhood memories were the 90s!).

I have a 2.5 year old boy and another boy due in May and there is a part of me that is gutted that (certainly the youngest) won't really remember Goodison at all. I will definitely take them both there before we play our final game which will in itself be a special thing but its strange to think they will have a completely different experience to what I did as a child growing up watching Everton.

There are parts of the ground (paddock and top balcony) that I've never sat in as well so I am definitely going to make sure I take a cup game in each stand over the next couple of seasons!

 

[Kenshin]

You just can't replace it. no matter how boss the new stadium will be you just can't replace Goodison. No matter what, how many of us remember our first match there? Have out own seat with mates you only see at the match? Pre Match rituals years down the line? You can't get rid of that, so no matter what, for the generation of fans who have decades of goodison memories, nothing would come close to it.

I just hope a new stadium means a new Everton, one that is challenging the top by then so we can make a shiny new ground home to a successful club, after goodison was home to one for decades before the premier league.

 

[4737carlin]

There are parts of the ground (paddock and top balcony) that I've never sat in as well so I am definitely going to make sure I take a cup game in each stand over the next couple of seasons!

Good call that, only Lower Street end for me, but from a lot of accounts im not missing much!! Im tempted to go the Lower Bullens again once since I went there for Bayern Munich

 

[Dario Terracotta]

Good call that, only Lower Street end for me, but from a lot of accounts im not missing much!! Im tempted to go the Lower Bullens again once since I went there for Bayern Munich

Been in every section pre seats and with seats,barring the old Park End Standing section,never got in there,and it's never gonna happen now is it?lol

 

[degsy]

Good call that, only Lower Street end for me, but from a lot of accounts im not missing much!! Im tempted to go the Lower Bullens again once since I went there for Bayern Munich

was a different world when there was standing

 

[4737carlin]

was a different world when there was standing

Thats why Ive never done it, only ever stood in the Paddock at Goodison, the street end as it is has never appealed to me but when I was a kid it looked hardcore!

 

[toffeeblue9]

Bit premature this. I'll come back to it in a couple of years when I'm sure we really are leaving

Having said that, I just booked the stadium tour on my birthday, just in case I never get to do it again

 

[Dario Terracotta]

Thats why Ive never done it, only ever stood in the Paddock at Goodison, the street end as it is has never appealed to me but when I was a kid it looked hardcore!

If you thought that was hardcore carlin mate,you should have tried the Boys Penlol

 

[paulospi]

I'm not from Liverpool and I've only had chance to go to goodison on a few occasions and I can't express how incredible it is..especially when the blues score. I first visited with my lad and he loved it as much as me.
Of course we need to move to a new stadium that's fitting of a progressive forward looking club but I'll sure to get to some matches before it happens

 

[4737carlin]

If you thought that was hardcore carlin mate,you should have tried the Boys Penlol

I am now, but back then i was always a few years late with my clobber

 

[Khalekan]

I have never seen that before.

Thank goodness the w wife us out and I am on my own.....I am literally crying here.

COYBB


(oh....and sod BMD....I want to stay in Goodison )

 

[Khalekan]

Posted this last night in the Oldies Thread in the Ale House...

Whilst we'll all look forward to taking our seat in a state-of-the-art riverfront stadium, part of me really, really, really wants to see us win another trophy before we depart the Grand Old Lady.

To see an Everton team parade around Goodison with silverware in their hands and medals around their necks would be a fitting finale to over 125 years at the place we call home.

Come on you Blues, give us at least one more tear-laden celebration before we start to write new chapters to our history.

What's wrong with you, Andy

Only "part" of you wants to see us win another trophy before we leave home?

Why does the rest of you not want the same thing

 

[kev]

I have never seen that before.

Thank goodness the w wife us out and I am on my own.....I am literally crying here.

COYBB


(oh....and sod BMD....I want to stay in Goodison )

Dry your tears, puff your chest out with pride and turn the volume up on this one mate

 

[VentureBrosEFC]

As I'm foreign and younger(broke-ish) I've only been once in 2005. It was the friendly against Udinese. I know not many will care about or remember this name but Simon Davies scored in the last minute. As I celebrated wildly (like the game actually meant something) I glanced down a bit and the older gentleman in front of me (probably heard my family's accent) just turned his head slightly and gave me a wink. I'll never forget that face/that day.

As @Dutch Toffee and @TheFinnFan have said I'll be there but I won't be trying for a ticket that should go to a Liverpudlian.