21 Apr 2015 21:56:23
Can someone explain to me what this Joe fellow is saying about EFC and Bill? Apparently there was a meeting of something? Anyone know what was said? Cheers,
22 Apr 2015 08:17:41
Go to evert once site, link to news now and financial details. Don't think we need new stadium.
22 Apr 2015 09:34:50
What is the evert once site? Looks like your post has been wrongly auto-corrected!
22 Apr 2015 10:12:23
I've had a look over it and don't really see what use it was. It was all assumption and manipulation of figures.
His assertion that Everton don't need a new stadium is ridiculous. He also sited that Arsenal increased it's external revenue by £111 mil in 10 years and we haven't. Well guess what, they have a relatively new stadium that is easily commercial compared to the cramped area and situation Goodison is in.
This alone totally discredits anything the man said as it's the most basic flaw for our club. He's just another doom monger that provided no viable alternatives to what he was moaning about.
If you have no alternative then your just a man with no ideas.
22 Apr 2015 10:45:22
There are lies, damn lies, statistics - and now there are Evertonians who can use figures - be they factual, false, or just fanciful - to make their arguments. I have no idea who's right - I wish I could just worry about the football and enjoy watching Everton on the field :-(
Can we at least agree on one thing? That is that Financial Fair Play (FFP) is not creating a level playing field for all clubs to compete on the field in terms of merit rather than money, but instead is preserving the cartel that is a small group of the same clubs with their Champions League, etc., income being creamed off every year.
And, for what it's worth, any new buyer of the club (or investor) would be out to earn a return now that Premier League clubs are awash with cash because the TV deal. Alongside those "speculators", it seems that it's the players and their agents who are walking away with most of the money.
It would appear highly unlikely that a sugar-daddy (or donor as BK might describe them!) is going to come along and fund a massive financial injection at Everton - not that FFP would permit that in all likelihood - so I've no idea what the club's options are.
Final thought: supposedly BK has a plan (he must have a strategy surely?) for the way forward, but I'm blowed if I know what it is - so, if it's not commercially sensitive, and it's revelation wouldn't jeopardise the club, and it's not a sinister plot that involves the black arts, etc., etc., please could he and the board say something to the fans to raise our spirits and bring some genuine (not RM double-speak!) positivity to this disappointing season?
Once a blue, always a blue - you can't escape, it's an addiction, a habit that can't be kicked no matter what Everton does to grind down your enthusiasm and commitment.
:-)
22 Apr 2015 14:45:45
I noticed that trend in the report, there's no need for a new ground as the people's club want to keep prices down for supporters to use the executive boxes and not have them just for national companies. Three things I'd say, we do need a new stadium, the attitude that we're not going for development and expenditure will not attract good players and just because we suddenly have 30 boxes doesn't mean we have to charge other clubs prices.
I'm just worried that everyone is getting cold feet over the development and just as in the Albert Dock Everton can't afford the costs involved. To that I'd say Arsenal. They spent a fair number of years paying for their new stadium rather than transfers but look at their balance available now that they have paid for the ground.
22 Apr 2015 18:33:34
I have read, with interest, what was outlined at last nights talk.From one point of view the analisis holds up, however, any kind of economic forcasts must always start with some basic asumption, change any one of these asumption, and the outcome can be VERY, VERY, diffearant.Here their is not time or space to chalange the induvidual asumptions, point by point,however, in broad brush terms, success breads success.The notion that everton cannot attract large corporates, is not well founded, everyone wants to be associated with success, bt,banks, insurance companies, etc, thus only the assumpion that we cannot achive success makes this assumption hold up. I know this is a classic chicken and egg problem, but someone brave enough to put the money in may get a very good return, thus a brave investour, rather than oil baron, might chang the outcome to a radically beter future than the one forcast by last nights speaker.
22 Apr 2015 19:44:56
We don't need a new ground? what planet is this guy on.Last saturday due to my fault with a cock up with our tickets three of us ended up in the upper Gladwys st in the very last row. Jesus what a joke.Two of us being over 6ft we had no chance at all of sitting down with there being no leg room at all. We spent the whole game sitting on the back of the seat loosing the use of our legs when standing up. I haven't been in this part of the ground since I was a kid. The facilities which I can only imagine must be like being in the bowels of the titanic haven't changed either.As much as I love the place where I've been going since 1970,apart from the park end the place is so outdated its become the millstone around our necks.
23 Apr 2015 01:57:07
Cheers lads, watched it. Am not convinced he's got it right. Figures seem rather "off"?