We have terrific supporters who live outside the city... but nowhere near enough of them. I dont really have an axe to grinde with LFC anyway. It's just me mates and family who support them that piss me off.

I was never for a groundshare but unfortunately we have to be realistic in today's financial climate. Harris is right, modern technology can build a stadium and pitch to take games every week. My problem and grave doubt would be that, if a shared ground was agreed, how would we come up with our share? The RS want a ground estimated at £400m. If we have to pay a share of that I think we would have a big problem.

I really believe if DK is - God forbid - given the go ahead, we would shit ourselves when Tesco ask us for the £78 - 100m.

Money talks. New investors may really push a groundshare forward; Bill won?t.

Personally I wouldn?t dismiss the ground sharing option too quickly. In an ideal world we would be able to redevelop Goodison and restore our wonderful stadium to it?s former glory ? and our neighbours would be able to restore our former home. However, we do not always live in an ideal world. The costs of new stadium have increased over the last 10 years or so. I think the cost of the Arsenal stadium doubled over the course of the development.

I know that to many, sharing would be "a bridge too far" so to speak. However, looking at Italy, several famous clubs share stadiums and it does not appear to have had affected the individual identity of these clubs e.g. Milan and Inter, Juventus and Torino, Lazio and Roma etc. It may be that independently both ourselves and Liverpool can build very good new stadiums ? but together develop a shared stadium that is one of the best in Europe.
As regards the rivalry, as an Evertonian for 44 years, I regard them over the Park as our biggest rivals ? but in terms of hatred, well I would rather not have a Celtic-Rangers type of rivalry with them. I have friends and indeed family members who are Reds ? I am sure many Evertonians do ? I don?t think hatred is part of the equation or should be.

Interestingly enough out of necessity (due to bomb damage and Highbury being used by the military) I gather there was a ground sharing of sorts for a limited period in the 1940s and 1950s. Man Utd used Maine Road for a few seasons after WW 2 and indeed played some early European Cup games there as OT didn?t yet have floodlights and Arsenal played at White Hart Lane for a short period after the war I think. Different eras I know ? but let?s not dismiss the idea without looking at it as a serious option.

Of course, banter is part of such team sports, and being more competitive is essential. But think about it, our histories are so intertwined. As a region, two clubs separated only by Stanley Park, the history of the Merseyside clubs together takes some beating. Few can rival it.Together, we have 27 championships, numerous FA cups, shared two all Merseyside FA Cup finals etc. Which area can clam the same richness? Not the North London rivalry. Not the North East rivalry. Certainly not the Manchester rivalry.

It?s time to look beyond just the rivalry, but the collective heritage that these two giants of English football bring to the world. By the way, I?ve been an Everton fan for 24 years. Just in case some of you are wondering if I am some Reds fan in disguise.

Of course one could design it in order to respect the historical traditions of both, and enabling it to reflect the partisanship on match days. It could also facilitate the need for increased capacity but with a note of realism required, as to what that capacity should be. After all, how often would Everton OR Liverpool require a capacity beyond 60,000?

BOTH teams would need to be very successful and economic circumstances in the area would need to change significantly in the future to even dream of 60,000+ each home game. After all, Everton are struggling to get anywhere near present capacity even for the biggest games in their season such is the dire standard of football currently on offer.

Whatever the arguments about the Kirkby fiasco, there is no doubt that, should it go ahead, Everton would be hosts in a stadium that in not too many years would be no more than a poor "time-conditioned" excuse for a prestigious stadium. Go for the joint stadium. Let the city itself be the hosts. Let them invite the two clubs to parade their wares each week and let the area be proud of a venue that is a real symbol of our ability to rise above narrow parochialism whilst retaining a healthy civilised rivalry.

Taking into consideration that neither club is rich, that both clubs need a new stadium and neither can afford one, we both said that we have our own club's best interest at heart and that in an ideal world we could maintain our individuality by building separate grounds. However, we digressed a little.

Again taking into consideration the global "credit crunch" and also what we had said about having our club's best interest at heart, we came to the conclusion that ? regardless of whether we like it or not, at this very moment in time, and with the best interest of the clubs at heart, the ideal situation would be to groundshare... halving the cost and doubling the potential for profit for both clubs.

In future, there may be an opportunity to build separately, if we can wait that long. Can we afford to wait though? I think it?s about time that Liverpool as a City, that Everton and Liverpool as ambassadors for the city show the world of football that a shared stadium and togetherness can be done. You can hate the kopites on derby day all you like. You can moan about a redshite sitting in your seat when it?s their "home" game. What the fuck do you care because you won?t be there watching, will you? Just like they won?t be there when we?re at home.

I?m not going to go into the asthetics of the stadium but I just wanted to say that we have the opportunity to progress, just as much as the RS have. We shouldn?t look at it as helping Liverpool as a consequence that happens. We should look at this as helping ourselves. If you want look at it from the RS point of view, as a consequence of sharing a stadium, they help us... so it?s a win-win situation.

As much as you hate the idea of them winning, in this case it might be the only way we can win to????

I think it would be great for the city to have a mega stadium that could be used for a lot of other big events that we would normally not be able to hold. The stadium itself would rid some of the bitterness that exists and the statues of former greats could be place alongside each other to help form a unity that existed pre-85.

LCC should take this on their shoulders and go for it as it seems strange anyway that joe public got asked to vote for a ground share when normally they would ignore us. There would be plenty of of organising problems but people paid to sort these things out. We live, work and socialise with the RS and should not allow the vile atmosphere that goes on elsewhere to exist between us. I personally, love Everton too much to let them or their results bother me.

Failing a ground share, we could move back into Anfield until we have the cash to move forward. You can all see in my writing and that of others that DK is scaring us all.

How long does Goodison Park have left as a viable stadium?
Is the re-development of Goodison Park a viable option?
Quite often we don?t sell out Goodison Park, if we go to Kirkby where are the extra supporters going to come from?
Is there really a huge amount of money to be made from conferences etc?

I have been opposed to Kirkby for what are really sentimental reasons so I would appreciate someone who can provide hard facts.

Would they play a bit part in it all? Yes, I feel... having less than a third of the possible required costs, if even that? It would never be a 50/50 deal.

So while there is still more than a crumb of hope that the Kirkby idea will fail after the inquiry, I will hang onto the thought that Goodison can and will be redeveloped or as someone above said, re build across the road on Stanley Park. It will be buggered as a public park anyway if and when LFC build. So, why not two stadiums? If what the builders for DK say, Goodison as a site for a modern stadium would never be considered now, then maybe the EFC board need to get a bit more broad thinking, pro-active and aggressive with LCC and put a plan forward (like they should have done 10 years ago).

The world financial markets are in decline right now but, sure as night leads into day, they will eventually come up again and maybe both clubs need to consider this and cool off until then. Goodison, despite what some stupid people say, is not going to collapse for a while yet. We've put up with it for this long, a few more years really wont make much difference and later on, if the current board still need them, then.

Tesco could buy Goodison (a horrific thought I know), build their damned supermarket there and regenerate (?) Kirkdale in the process, if it meant the club stayed where it belongs, I for one could just about stomach it.

A massive NO to DK, it's just so wrong !

For Merseyside?s senior club to be forced out beyond the city limits whilst the 20th century upstarts are rewarded with such a historical site to play is morally unfair.