Stadium upgrades - what is your view?

[bizzaro]

This is a poll after the recent publication by Robert Elstone of some controversial comments about the viability of Walton Hall Park and Everton's revenue generation capabilities. Plus their views on funding.



Look at what Tottenham Hotspur are doing right now. These are our rivals. Is no one concerned?

This under the current financial rules (such as restrictions on TV money use for squad wage increases; 4 Million TV Money per season) will increasingly put Everton under more pressure as without commercial revenues (sponsorships etc) and the stadium we will not be able to finance player acquisitions competitively with clubs that are massively increasing their own capacities.

This in the medium term (3 years) is a real and present danger to Everton Football Club.


QUESTION:

If the club does not show significant progress on a VIABLE stadium capacity/quality/revenue generation proposal (e.g. Walton Hall Park site) WITHIN SIX (6) MONTHS

- should Robert Elstone and/or the board go?

i.e. be forced out if necessary.

 

[sageyefc]

Should be already. Certainly the perma tanned tw#t

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

Elstone should pedal off into the distance at the end of todays game anyway, he treats the job as if its of the same size as Hull KR was.

 

[Basil Fawlty]

Martinez should make a board request for a stadium upgrade and if its turned down he should leak it to the press. That usually shames them into doing it. We are playing football manager here aren't we?

 

[Woolly Blue]

Define progress.
Also, bear in mind there's already both a stadium and a board thread.

 

[Kiwi]

I think if they continue to fanny about and are happy to keep this club where it currently sits, then they need to go.
Ultimately, if you don't progress you are swallowed up by the chasing pack.
And we aren't progressing. So either the board makes changes and steps to progress, one of those being either stadium redevelopment or development of WHP, or they have to go.
We haven't won anything under this board, and if they aren't prepared to bring change and a vision to do so, we will continue to not win things.
Walton Hall Park is their last chance for me, if they won't invest and are happy keeping things as they are then they need to sell up.

 

[bizzaro]

Define progress.
Also, bear in mind there's already both a stadium and a board thread.

There is no - cut and dried poll - about what people would start to say this is a red line being crossed.

Progress as in - a definitive plan is in place that we by X date will be either increasing the size of goodison or will be in Walton Hall Park by Y date.

Because frankly I am looking at what is happening and am thinking I want this lot gone unless something clear is in place - as early as the end of this summer.

 

[DanEFC92]

Forced out how like? Another strongly worded thread post?

And who replaces them?

 

[peteblue]

*sends Bill my resignation letter.........

 

[Eggs]

.....I'm just hoping something is happening, perhaps the club have learnt from the past not to communicate until it's a done deal. Who knows.

 

[Joey66]

The Kings dock was the biggest loss to me - typically the location that is now thriving in L1 - Bah - The future you cannot update the old lady as you can not sadly polish an out of date cramped for room stadium - also the lost income on doing it unless we had a billionair who could do it super fast - the thing is we need a multi Billionmair now BK has held out far to long imo! the attempt for KD the waste etc fills me with no confidence!

 

[sd_1992]

I have never been a great detractor of this board (and Bill K's ownership of the club), and I still believe that certain members of this forum who are dead set on the club being sold would happily have us sold to the likes of Mike Ashley and the Venkys.

However the ludicrous increase in TV cash is a watershed moment, if the current board can't get our finances in order with all that money coming into the club then they need to go.

 

[davek]

I find the Elstone statement strange, tbh. I'd have banked on this WHP stadium fantasy to be drawn out for a lot longer - using it to infer that any incoming cash will be earmarked for that rather than new signings. But this statement blows that apart.

I have no idea what the timing of it represents. You'd think season ticket sales would need a bump of some sort, but this just makes us look dead in the water on the back of a very mediocre season. Is it a message to LCC that cash needs to be coming our way? Maybe. It talks about 'unlocking significant monies' by the local authorities, but that seems to be swept away by the later comment regarding the dangers of any move and the margins we could expect.

Baffling. There's obviously a method to this madness and it was a message delivered, but I'm not sure I can decipher what it is.

 

[colin hughes]

Walton park won't happen, read between the lines of what Elstone said "we won't jeopardise the future of the football club to build a stadium" that is not somebody who is fully committed to making it happen. It's a disgrace a club like us (one of only 7 permanent fixtures in the premier league) have not redeveloped our existing ground or moved. Every other club that hasn't moved to a new stadium has enhanced capacity and modernised their existing ground.
All we have done is demolish the old 6000 park end in 1994 and replace it with another 6k stand.That is small time and why the media still see us as a Leeds or Notts Forest type of club, Successful in the past but nobody now.

 

[Seamus Colemole]