The Durban thing was a complete red herring. LCC and LCR wanted to bid for it anyway, regardless of the Durban financial situation, just for a later year, Durban just pushed it forward and they used the potential of a new stadium within their bid. Some people just have very little idea as to how long it takes to actually get a project like this off the ground. For projects of this size, it tends to sit as an idea for an age. I've worked on projects, and still do, that are in idea stage for 10 years prior to anything of note. This wasn't that long, but I'm not convinced Moshiri bought Everton cause we had Tony Hibbert at right back. He knew what could be built. The Stonecross thing was a lever on which to pressurise Peel L&P, the City council already had a verbal agreement with a purchaser for the land (who have incidentally since pulled out).