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I have just been to Goodison for tickets for the 'Big Game' on Saturday. There was no queue. I took with me my 4-year-old daughter and my 20-month-old son. I had promised that she could ride her bike whilst I queued (bit optimistic of me in the current player crisis) but as there was nobody waiting I left her bike in the boot.
I reached the ticket office and requested one adult and one child ticket (for whichever one wanted to go on saturday morning) in the Family Enclosure, however, I was told that there were no seats next to each other. The only seats available were two in the corner by the Gwladys Street stand and due to the installation of new electronic advertising boards (ooooh) they would be restricted views. In the end, I managed to get 2 tickets for the Upper Bullens (I just hope my little girl ? who by this time had decided she wanted to attend her first Goodison match ? is not scared that high up.
My point here amdist this boring summary is that despite the lack of players, despite the hope of signings, despite Moyes not signing his contract, despite Kenwrights 'lies', despite the fact that I had to pay £19 for a 4 year old, I and my fellow supporters still come in our numbers to support our beloved Blues.
This will be the first game I have attended for 3 years. After having a season ticket in the lower Gwaldys from the ages of 13 to the age of 28, I had to give it up due to work. I now have weekends off so my aim now is to go to games with my little girl before her cousin turns her into a red. Again, I have a point to telling you this.
Despite all the doom and gloom around Goodison, I still have that buzz about the new season and I think that is what being a Blue is all about, we are different to other supporters. A good example of completley the opposite is Blackburn, as the lad at the ticket office said they have not taken their full allocation, which is a disgrace considering how close they are and the fact they have a new manager.
I still have hope and when Saturday comes, I know you will too.
Anthony Jaras, Posted 13/08/2008 at 11:56:05
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Was it this one?
"For a loyal supporter of one team, there isn?t the alternative of going to see a better quality, more successful team instead".
That?s why the board gets away with it, time and time again, as they know we?ll keep flocking back for more. Forget the broken promises, mismanagement, lack of funding, often poor quality ?entertainment? on offer but we have to be there, because if you?re not then you?re not a real blue. Of course, if crowds go down when we?re playing poorly then we get managers / players / owners saying that it?s important that we have a full house and that the fans get behind the players so that they can act like a 12th man (which is odd as when someone gets sent off and a team struggle to break down 10 men we?re told that sometimes it?s harder to play against 10!!)
Nothing or Nobody is bigger than our great club...
We were here long before the current shower of inept shite that run it, and will be here a long time after they have departed...
Goodison for ever....
If your answering Peter Laverty question your way off.
Peter said last time we failed to sellout our first game not when we had maximum capacity.
Arsenal (h) 2.00pm Premiership (Sky TV) L 4-1 Carsley Attendance 35,241
Sorry, my mistake!!
Sat 13 Aug 2005
Man United (H) 0 - 2 ? 38,610 19th Sky
Sat 19 Aug 2006 Watford (H) 2 - 1 Johnson, Arteta (pen) 39,691
Sat 11 Aug 2007 Wigan Athletic (H) 2 - 1 Osman, Anichebe 39,220
We hardly ever sell out!!!!
Aren’t the board always claiming we’ve got too many restricted views as it is, hence the need to move to Kirkby? So who made the decision to install these new advertising hoardings which add more restricted views?
Bizarre!!!!
People would have problems looking over the hoarding in the front row?? Haha!!
You have to ask yourself what muppet a) allowed the hordings to be that high and b) thought it was a good idea.
I can understand a pillar as it holds up the roof and is necesary but a removable hoarding? LOL!!
It’s pretty well known that that advertising revenue from these boards is far higher from the animated boards than it is from stationary ones, as moving adverts are more eye catching. Somebody worked out that the extra revenue from the boards is greater than the revenue lost from the extra restricted views.
http://www.evertonfc.com/news/archive/change-clothes.html
£190 is the price of an under 16 ticket for 2008/09 ? that works out at just £10 per Premier League match!
Or £190 could be the only money we have available to buy players at the moment !!
Whether or not they generate cash is irrelevant.
If you can tell me any other ground in the prem that has them and that the people sitting in the entire front row cannot see the game properly i’m all ears.
They should be the best seats in the house not the worst.
They’re about three foot high, and are behind the goals, not sure if they are installing them all around the pitch, but a view from the family enclosure is hardly going to be impeded by a sign behind the goal?
They were brought in so more revenue can be made from advertising as they rotate sponsors throughout the match.
Well the front rows of all stands (excluding Park End) are at least a 1ft below the pitch level meaning that there will now be 4ft between pitch level and stand ground level.
Sitting down I would imagine would then result in a restricted view?????
The guy in the bof office seemed to think that the front row of the family enclosure would have the view restricted, maybe he meant for kids, and the vertically challenged????
They are on the mainstand side too, but not the Bullens.
They could have lowered the perimeter pathway a few inches, and avoided this. The TV cameras would have still seen them, which is why they’re not on the Bullens side. The pitch is also at a slight gradient towards the Park end which doesn’t help. The Pitch should have been levelled and lowered by a foot or so years ago.
Certainly, given the standard of some of the unobstructed views at Goodison (I had one once with a pillar 4 feet directly in front of me, blocking half the pitch - could see both goals though, so "unobstructed") you can’t complain about them.
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