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Finch Farm @ Halewood

With little in the way of communication from Everton, are the plans still in place for the 1st team squad to report for pre-season training at the new facilities in Halewood? If my memory serves me right, Moyes and Wyness had indicated that the state-of-the-art training complex and academy would be ready for Summer 2006. I also believe that many of the old pros were given the opportunity to say a final farewell to Bellefield.

Living close to Bellefield, I will be sorry to see the old place go, it's almost become synonomous though with a bye-gone era. I'm sure that the souls of Labone, Ball, Catterick and even Shankly will live on in this quiet suburban corner of West Derby, times change and who can stand in the way of progress?

The old corrugated roof on the indoor pitch looks rusty and an ageing relic of the 1960s that is now Bellefield, but I'm sure the old place (like the grand old lady that is Goodison) has many a tale to tell. From Catterick to Kendall, the now-departed Mick Heaton, legends like Ball and Labone.

I'm hoping that Finch Farm is replaced by a name more befitting, the School of Science would do me with a Hall of Fame proudly evident to today's professionals of those that have graced the name of Everton before them with such esteem.
Peter Laing, Liverpool Posted 06/06/2007 at 00:36:13

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Pete Moore
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I understand via email from Anthony Bloch (Assistant Club Secretary) that the move is planned for some point in July this year but exact date is not finalised yet.