kingsdock2

I find the argument that because the ground is going to be in Kirkby no one is going to go bizarre. I lived right in the centre of the City on Catherine Street and I went the match. My family moved to Skem, and we still went the match. I moved to Staffordshire with work, and I still went the match...and now I live in Oxfordshire with my wife, and I still go every home match. It's either in your blood, or it's not, and if 4 miles is enough to make you not go, then it's obviously not. Remember we had a falling out last time we moved, a long, long time ago....and we all know what become of the ones who refused to move...... It's done, and the futures as bright as we want it to be.

O.K, I've been reading the stuff on the ground move for ages, and I just had to stick my 2 pence in. I think loads of things are really clouding this debate. Everyone loves Goodison, we all have our special memories of her (and we defo know our history)...but we've got to move. Rebuilding Goodison isn't going to happen, the costs, site, infra structure and upheaval during any type of renovation are unimaginable. We need modern facilities, we need to attract investment (imagine...."Hello mister rich businessman come and look around our 100 year old stadium which needs replacing to the tune to 250 million...oh by the way would you like to invest in us?") and most importantly we need a threatre to match our aspirations to be back amongst Europe's elite. All these things are only going to happen on a new site. So if you're voting "NO" on the basis of your memories from your 20 year season ticket in the upper bullens then you're voting for a misty memory (beautiful though it is) and not the future of the club, or your kids and grand kids. I was at B.Munich and I want my kids to have that too.....and when the German's come back, I don't want them to say, "we went to this shitty old stadium in the shadow of a shiney Mac dome...but jesus the fans were mean bastards" , I want them to say "Jesus there fans are mean bastards....and that's a club that means business, you should see the shit hot state of the art Stadium they have just built." So if you believe we need to move to progress, we get to the next point.....where is it built? Well since I was five I've been drawing pictures of what Everton's dream ground should look like, and where it should be. It held 250,000, was built where dale street is now (I flatten most of the centre), with car parking over Anfield and a park and ride that passed in front of the town hall for when we bring the silverware home. Pretty cool eh? But I bet your saying what a load of bollocks? Well when we are picking out our nice alternatives to Kirkby this is what we are doing. The club has been trying for YEARS to find a way of make this a reality, BUT WE DO NOT HAVE MONEY. That is the reason the club is pushing Kirkby it is because finally they have found a way to make it happen FINANCIALLY. Everyone is bleating on about the exclusivity deal. That deal was there because Tesco and Knowsley said, it you agree to work with us we are going to work our bollocks off to giving you what you need and make it happen, so do us a favour and in the meantime don't shag around, what do the say? Well considering we'd being trying to get metaphorically laid for years without success, I'd say "yer, lets see what happens". And they've delivered. So what's next.... you don't want to move to Kirkby because it's outside Liverpool...bollocks, Kirkby IS Liverpool, and anyone who says they won't go the match anymore because of four miles is not worth arguing with. If someone like your mum who you loved, moved to Kirkby would you phone her up and say, sod this mum you've betrayed me, we've all forgot about you know you live down the road, so I won't be visiting anymore eh? So then it must be the green eyes because of the red shite... It just naws away at you doesn't it? Is it some tit you work with that tells you it will be called the Tesco dome (fuck*r's never been the match like) "WE DON'T CARE"...we sing it all the fuck*ng time, so why don't we start living it? So this leaves the design of the stadium...is it so bad?...what did you want? A wembly loop over the top? the 250,000 capacity? We have the opportunity to breakout to a site with the possibility to do ANYTHING we like in the years to come. Does Goodison look like it did when we moved in all those years ago? So what do you think is going to happen when is ten years time (please god) we bring the Champions league trophy home after doing the double? Think by any chance we might turn around and built a nice new triple tier stand with a hotel in the back to accomidate the Brighton Businessmen who want to bring their customers to see us? If you've been to any of the best stadiums in the world, San siro, Neu camp... they don't sit back to back with cobbled streets, they are in purpose built locations, away for the old town centres, and they have EVOLVED into the palaces they are today. So all I have left is that you don't trust anyone at Everton in anyway at all. Peter Johnson (like a cheating wife) turned you into a bruised, and damaged individual, so you will never trust any leadership at the club ever again to do anything in the interests of the club. Well I can't help you with that, but it means not matter what the club does , or whom is at the helm, (of course unless it's an oil sheik from huyton who played and managed the club for 20 years, and drinks in your local, so you can sound him out about every detail of the running of the club) you'll always be angry and suspicious. You'll probably be getting angry tomorrow, shouting abuse at the board before the game, when you should be feeling those butterfly's with a big fuck*ng smile on your face as you sink your pre match Chang. I have faith, I believe this is a step forward, I want to build new memories in our new ground. Shit I want to be there in 30 years when I tell my grandchildren how it was a real wrench leaving Goodison but we never looked back as we sit in worldclass stadium (where three sides don't even look like the pictures anymore, and the Tesco is gone to extend our car park - what was next to Goodison when it was built all those years ago?) and it was all possible because we bit the bullet and moved to our new site. I want to be there, and I want you to be too. I'll expect the slating now but I hope at least a couple of you agree with the sentiment. Hope to see you tomorrow. 2-0 AJ and Arteta.