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  9. Bolton (Away)

    in Match Days

    Posted · Edited by Sprooly

    we will win 1-0

     

    ill go with this team

    -------------Howard--------------

    Hibbert--Neill----Heintiga---Distin

    Gosling---Rodwell--Cahill---Baxter

    -----------Saha------Yakubu-------

    SUBS

    Nash

    Coleman

    Mustafi

    Wallace

    Fellaini

    Jo

    Agard

  11. Clarence Dock Stadium Plan

    in General Everton Discussion

    Posted

    Well MATE!!! The waterfront at Melbourne , which is very different in layout to Central Docks, could have been a lot better. I know people in Melbourne and they say the stadium does little for the place. The stadium is a success because it is a well designed stadium - it would be a success in any location.

     

    You said yourself the docklands is crap. It could have been far better without the concrete lump in the way.

     

    In Liverpool we can have both. A vibrant dock area - a World Heritage Site - and a superb stadium in great location that takes minutes to get to from all over Merseyside.

     

    Putting a stadium in Central Docks is akin tom putting nuclear powers station there. At leas the power station does not attract litter.

    of course people are gonna say the stadium does very little for the place but the docklands is a success because of the stadium

     

    for 6 months of the year about 50-100 thousand people travel to Etihad stadium which makes the docklands better because of the amount of people traveling there...

     

    I like the docklands but if it wasnt for the stadium it wouldnt be as good because the place has been cleaned up alot

  12. Clarence Dock Stadium Plan

    in General Everton Discussion

    Posted

    That says it all. Stadium is great, but destroyed a waterscape that could have been vibrant and a great attraction. We have partially done that in the south end docks with the arena. And footy fans want to do the same in Central Docks as well. Duh!

     

    If the city makes the same mistake twice the UN may revoke the World Heritage Status. They has meeting with the city about 18 months - 2 years back about how they were applying the WHS. They were mumbling about Liverpool being the first to have the WHS revoked.

    i actually think etihad stadium makes our docklands so much better mate

     

    if that wasn't there then the docklands would be a crap-hole mate!

  15. Man Of The Match V Wolves

    in General Everton Discussion

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    I was watching in that first half and i thought wolves were constantly fouling billy that wasnt winning free kicks and that sort of got to him a bit

     

    was great to see him get a goal and baines bloody hell i thought it was going in for a second

     

     

    When that wolves player got sent off in injury time it took about 1 min out of stoppage time but it wasnt put back in?

  17. Its Rafas Fault!

    in General Football and Sport Discussion

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    George Gillett has claimed that Rafael Benítez is to blame for Liverpool’s failings on the pitch – rather than the owners – after stating that the club is in “extraordinarily” good financial shape compared with Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester United.

     

    By Rory Smith

    Published: 7:30AM BST 06 Oct 2009

     

     

    “In the last 18 months, we have invested £128 million on top of what has come in. That means it should be getting better,” Gillett said.

     

    “Now if it’s not getting better, it’s not Gillett and Hicks, it’s the manager, it’s the scouting. You have to make sure you balance out your *****ysis. There was plenty of money, so if you have any complaints, take a look at the ins and outs.”

     

    Gillett made the comments in an ad hoc interview with a representative of the fans’ union Spirit of Shankly at Liverpool’s Kirkby academy prior to the Premier League match with Hull last week.

     

    During the conversation, the Colorado-based businessman, who was showing the Saudi prince Faisal al-Fahad bin Abdullah bin Saud around the facility, denied declaring in the aftermath of his takeover of the club that work would begin on a new stadium in Stanley Park “in 60 days,” suggesting Hicks was responsible for the statement.

     

    “I have never talked about that,” he claimed. “Hicks was the one who said 60 days. In that period of time, the world’s credit market collapsed and he ended up with big egg on his face. I do not talk about absolute dates when we are talking about credit markets.”

     

    Footage of the press conference held after the Americans’ 2007 takeover of the club, however, shows Gillett insisting “the shovel needs to be in the ground in the next 60 days or so, and we expect to follow that”.

     

    Of more immediate concern to the club’s supporters, though, is Gillett’s insistence that “the £30 million [from the sale of Xabi Alonso] went straight back in” to Benítez’s coffers, as well as “£22-23 million as part of our budgets”.

     

    Gillett’s statement that Benítez is to blame belies the fragile peace between boardroom and boot room at Anfield. Benítez has been noticeably coy on the subject of the club’s owners this season after two years of almost constant conflict, but relations remain strained, particularly on the subject of transfer budgets.

     

    Gillett insists the £20 million average spend predicated in investment do*****ents leaked last month is “an estimate, not a cap” and is adamant “we spent more than the £20 million in the off season,” denying that he and Hicks “took any money out to pay down debt”.

     

    Yet Benítez, who made a late £12 million offer for Gareth Barry in early June as he opened negotiations for the £18 million purchase of Glen Johnson and privately examined the possibility of signing David Silva, the Valencia midfielder, two months later failed to find the funds to sign Michael Turner, then with Hull, for £12 million.

     

    Such turmoil was said to be the result of Hicks and Gillett’s refinancing of the £350 million loan with RBS and Wachovia used to buy the club, although the latter insists “the club has the lowest debt to each dollar of earnings of any major club in the sport”.

     

    “The club is in extraordinarily good financial condition. Far better than Manchester United, Chelsea or Arsenal.

     

    We have invested massively, we have put more money in than anyone other than Manchester City, with the craziness they have got,” Gillett said.

     

    Gillett insisted the “debt on Liverpool is very sound” and denied suggestions the club would struggle to meet interest payments without Champions League football. “The budgets are done very conservatively,” he said.

     

    “They are based on a very limited success in the Champions League. Even without that, we have enough cash flow to pay the minimum interest and give Rafa what he needs to make us competitive.”

     

    Gillett's key points

     

    On Benítez: “We have invested more money than our competitors, in keeping with the history of the club, which means it should be getting better. Now if it’s not getting better, it’s not Gillett and Hicks, it’s the manager”

     

    On finance: “The club is in extraordinarily good financial condition. Far better than United, Chelsea or Arsenal.”

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/liverpool/6263268/George-Gillett-blame-Rafael-Benitez-for-Liverpools-failings.html

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