ToffeeWeb - Season 2007-08

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Ground move

Although I don't live in Merseyside any more, having supported EFC since 1966 means it is in my blood as much as anyone (ask the wife on a Saturday if we get beat!).

I feel we've been railroaded into picking Kirkby by a board who couldn't go out to the marketplace and find a big invester to help pay for a stadium IN Everton.

When we got into the CL a couple of years ago, before a ball was even kicked in that campaign they should have been out scouring the planet for someone to take us forward.

Instead they sat on the arses and basked in the glory that went pear shaped and left us with nowhere to go.

I think the 'new' stadium at Kirkby looks like a poor mans excuse for a stadium, done on the cheap. Even if we do move there, we will be playing in a non descript lump of concrete that has no soul.

A new Goodison should be an iconic building, I hate to say it looking at the sketch for the RS new ground, that looks impressive, thats what we should be aiming for.

If we have to move then make it to a stadium worth moving to, not something that will just 'do'.

I still feel the board (who are only employees and will probably move jobs as soon as it goes wrong) have used all true Blues and BK is guilty of letting it happen, despite his so called love of the blues.

They are making in sound like all doom and gloom if we don't move, right now, to Kirkby, but if the vote goes against them, will they honestly not move. Looking at the EFC website, it says somewhere that the board will have the final decision on the move 'guided' by the vote, only GUIDED !!!

Looks like its all cut and dried to me. It also looks like this vote is being pushed as the be all and end all of it, WHY ?

Why can't we say NO then go though a proper look at alternatives? I'm sure another year or so at Goodison won't break the bank and it would give us the chance to stay in Everton, not Liverpool or any other suburb, EVERTON !
Russ Quinlan, Aberdeen Posted 07/08/2007 at 08:22:16

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