Everton vs AS Roma: Preview and predicted lineups

I think that could well be a positive!

Aznou can play right back and it'd be interesting to see how he'd manage on the that side.

On Dewsbury-Hall, it will depend on what the manager and his staff think. Maybe they feel he's played enough over the summer. He could well feature, maybe start.

It will also be interesting to see if Branthwaite plays a part. If he doesn't, then I can't see him featuring against Leeds, having not played all summer.

After everything we have been through as Blues these past 6 years or so, moving into the new stadium feels like a new dawn - hopefully not a false one.

Profligate spending, wasted opportunities, a fracture (but no headlock) between the board and the fans, Benitez, the Sigurdsson non-event, seduced and abandoned by Ancelotti, the Russian invasion, points deductions, relegation battles and …Neil Maupay.

At one point I thought the stadium project would falter or that somehow the RS would hijack it.

But we have arrived.

The way the stadium development has engaged the fans as part of it is special. I've got a memorial to my Dad on the Everton Way and three photos on the Wall.

Half a century an Evertonian so I am going to thoroughly enjoy tomorrow.

COYB!

It's a historic entry to a new stadium, the should be playing Act IV of Rheingold not trying to screw a couple of quid out of a few hundred supporters who will probably not get a decent stream anyway.

It feels like the Kenwright era never ended. The era when screwing the fans for bugger all financial return was the order of the day. The era of the small minded accountant.

Most excited to see Baines and Pienaar again in the legends game though.

You have learned nothing!!!! Especially after fans saved you so many times and have done nothing but be there for you.

Shame on you, Everton Football Club.

It's £7.99 as were the Accrington and Blackburn matches, although you could get the latter 2 together for £9.99.

Not available in Italy due to broadcasting rights.

For decades, we fell way behind in revenue generated as others sailed past us. And a lot of us complained about it.

I think TFG has told the marketing department to up it's game.

I would have thought that at least Blue + members would have received access to the pre-season streams though. And at least a reduction for different age groups.

Other clubs have their own TV channels, but they are on Sky, so incurs an additional charge on the monthly subscription. And obviously, you would have to have Sky.

Amazon would be the same. I pay a monthly subscription, but if Everton went there, it would be an additional charge.

If you worry more about the price of a pint than being part of the Club's revival, stay home and watch the cricket!

The minute they start to show some, there's nothing but moans!

For years I've read people on here writing we need to up our game, we need to get our marketing together… then, when we do, they moan.

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Probably be there by Sunday.

Moyes said last week he expected a few signings this week; so far, only Dewsbury-Hall has come in.

I wonder whos bright idea was it to have the legends game after the game? Surely for commercial reasons wouldn't it have made more sense to let them play 30 minutes each way before the main game?

I expect that there won't be many left for the end of the legends game.

He uses my Peacock login which gets all of the Premier league games. $10/month each.

Or is your being able to watch for free more important than the culmination of years of work and £hundreds of millions?!

Did you imagine TFG was a charitable institution?

Does anyone know if it's a sell-out crowd?

If you're tired of moaning, you're tired of life. The day supporting Everton puts a bounce on my step is the day I will walk away!

Second. Free? Totally agree.

Third: But we all want to see it

Forth: So cannot miss a quid

Fifth: Perhaps many of us old ones just need to accept that we now support expenditure headlines and the type of ground we have.

Sixth...and last... in the end it is all about slagging off Patterson should we be naive enough to talk about soccer..sorry.....football!

But they know better.

‘To those moaning about not being able to watch for free; this is a vital test event for which they must have 50k ticketed spectators safely on site. If they haven't had a game where they made that number, they can't play in the stadium in the Premier League. Simple as. Or is your being able to watch for free more important than the culmination of years of work and £hundreds of millions?!'

I've read this a few times now Chris and it makes no sense to me at all.

What has being able to watch for free got to do with having 50K ticketed supporters on site. Or should I not want to watch it for free online because if I do some folks might decide not to go to the game?

Could you explain the precise relationship between wanting to watch the match for free and the culmination of years of work and also to a sold-out ground?

https://www.evertonfc.com/news/2025/august/07/travel-hub-updated-for-final-test-event/

COYB

Come on your Bank

Unless you are genuinely on the breadline you've got little to complain about.

Life's not fair, don't know who told you otherwise. Why you expect to get for free what others are happy to pay for, I don't know.

What are you used to getting for free these days? I've had to pay for every Everton game I've attended. I pay a TV subscription because I know a percentage goes to the club.

I'll pay my £7.99 even though I may not even get the chance to watch the game. I'm happy to give some of my disposable income to a variety of ‘worthy causes'.

If you don't give something without automatically expecting something back, then you are nothing special.

Supporters who don't know the meaning of the word.

The weather is forecast to be mainly good, so many people won't mind walking a good distance tomorrow.

However, I know a few older Blues who are quite concerned about getting to and from the new stadium because they're not as good on their legs as they used to be. Even the walk from Sandhills International to Bramley-Moore Dock is a worry to a couple of them, especially as they also have to walk around to the West Stand.

I think the biggest problem tomorrow may be congestion on the roads as those using their cars look for parking places.

But while it will hopefully go fairly smoothly tomorrow, I am sure subsequent games will prove to be tougher tests.

Transport is the Achilles heel of the new stadium.

The feeble-minded might believe you but there is no evidence anywhere that there is a huge untapped audience who are going to tune in to watch this ‘historic' game if it were broadcast for nowt and who are going to buy a load of merchandise on the back of it. 3 pm in England isn't 3 pm everywhere in the world. You'd probably be doing Roma more of a favour than us.

What certainly exists are thousands of global Evertonians who are interested enough in this event to pay the £7.99.
Why give up one of your bread and butter income streams just to chase pie in the sky?

Apparently there will be buggies on the east plaza which will be able to ferry people with walking difficulties around, and I believe there are also shuttle buses available from Sandhills station.

I am sure some people would be so relieved if there are such things provided.

I hadn't seen anything about either.

There is no evidence there is a huge untapped audience
How do you get those numbers without doing something Savvy!?

We aren't in any European competitions. Nor likely to be for some time. Nor likely to win any. Nor a cup or the league.
So I know, fleece the thousands of worldwide fans you say we have.

It's an idea. It's a suggestion. You know, like Everton have just been to America, how did the PR go over there? Did the club mention it? Because with thoughts of doing nothing then that's just what the club's been doing for decades.

And if you create a demand, hmmm let's say a free game with incentives, I don't know, maybe you start to tap the untapped.

But as you know it all. That's why they never. So thank you Professor Si MBA, DBA etc.

Have you ever heard of a top-level professional football club -- or any team in any sport for that matter -- doing such a promotion? I haven't. If so, I'd be interested to know how it worked out.

Personally, having surfed the Everton Direct site and found the pro home shirt on sale for a coronary-inducing US$173 (replicas for US$120), I'm not sure even 20% off would have been sufficient to generate big-time kit sales, but who knows.

The Sandhills shuttle bus is for pre-booked disabled passengers only.

Personally, I think it's a major oversight. It may only be a 15-minute walk (for fit people) but in wet weather you'll get soaked through.

I only heard it on Toffee TV this afternoon, and didn't hear if it was for disabled passengers only. I think the buggies around the footprint of the stadium is a brilliant idea as well.

It simply won't create a demand like you insist it will. There aren't millions of people lying around thinking “I've got £50 burning a hole in my pocket but I've no idea what to spend it on. Oh, hang on, this football team I've no affinity for are showing a game I have no interest in but are offering deals on merchandise I have no need of so I must have a look at that!”

Not even this generation with its faith in influencers will go for that.

I get dozens of adds every week popping up on my screen offering me deals on stuff the algorithm reckons I'm interested in and I have no problem ignoring it all.

You don't create demand for something by simply offering something, you find out what the demand is for and offer that.

Why do you use the word ‘fleece'? They are simply charging the going rate to people they know are motivated to pay it. Anyone who thinks it is truly excessive won't pay it.

Self interest here. I live in Oxford, do not have a season ticket, but do have a supporter number and account via the official site.

I know somebody based down in Southampton who does have a season ticket which he can't always use and which he kindly said he'd be happy for me to take if the chance ever arose. I'm doing the Yorkshire 3 Peaks on Friday 12 September and he can't go to the Villa game on Saturday 13 September. This should or ought to be easy, but it's not...

The official site still says nothing more than that there will be a resale site for season ticket holders who can't go, but no sign of that existing yet.

Can this person sell or pass me his ticket, or is that somehow completely off the table now?

I will only ever be an occasional, casual match-goer due to my location. I'm desperate to see a game at the new ground, but all the talk here, and on another forum I'm on, is that the club is making it virtually impossible for people like me ever to go...

Can somebody who has worked this out please explain in simple terms what I can, or cannot, do?

Public money is all but minimal unless you're close to London, and has been for most of my 70 year-old life, so it's no surprise at all that the Koppite Rotherham and the questionable Anderson completely failed to implement anything even close to adequate public transport access to our stadium situated in what is starkly obvious as an oasis (on the pitch alone, hopefully) amid a desert of industrial decrepitude where fan access is a mega trial.

Did he even go to any of the matches in America?

He could have dropped in on a suite in Atlanta with no announcement and never be spotted.

Your friend just needs to go to the club website and register you under his friends and family network. Then he can transfer. It's very straight forward.

Don @53,

Inevitably, London has always received priority investment in things like public transport infrastructure. It probably has one of the best, if not the best in the world. The interesting dynamic is that there is actually a north-south London divide, especially with the underground network. It is far more extensive north of the Thames than south of the river.

For those who've been, Twickenham is an absolute nightmare.

That said, it Transport for London (TFL), still struggles with capacity. Totally rammed carriages (and I mean tins of sardine like rammed), during commuter hours. A city, or greater region with a population of 9m, add the tourists, football, sporting events and concerts, and it creaks.

I think Manchester hasn't faired too badly over the years and the investment has reaped benefits for them.

Today will tell us more, although probably what we're already been predicting. A lot should more should have been done by now or at least started sooner.

It won't take away the occasion. I had an interesting conversation yesterday. I can see quite a few not hanging around for the legends game, myself included. As the dock gates and plaza will be open from 12pm, Maybe it would have been a better idea to have the legends match as the early kick off at 1pm, followed by the main event?

Enjoy the match if you can attend in person, like others I wonder how easy/difficult it will be for me to get a ticket this season, as I'm excited to visit the new gaff but live 220 miles away.

COYBB!

To me, it's a big health and safety issue. Not enough room for so many different food outlets.

Or did you want the concourses to be a bit longer, maybe out across the River Mersey or something?

You can't take personal food or drinks in unless you prove medical grounds.

I couldn't make this one but was fortunate in the ballot to get a ticket for the Brighton game, first home league game for the stadium, so I am buzzing.

I had a brief taste of the stadium's delight at the second test event, enough to leave me in awe and craving the prospect of a capacity-filled visit. COYB

May the trains run
May the traffic flow
May the parking be convenient
May the WiFi work
May the beer taste good
May the ground shine like a beacon
May the team actually play some decent football

Just try to love every minute of it, you only get one first time.

I was about to ask the same question! Surely with such an inaugural event and involving both of his clubs, you would have thought so.

On thing I do know, he won't be sitting next to me if he is :-)

I said to my kids - do you want the money when I die, or do you want the memories while I am alive. Palace (and a few others) is currently £150 for a Premium Seat (in a corner) including £10 food voucher (Whuppity-do!). So I think that is less than £100 extra to make sure you get a visit this season.

And decided to not park at your station but go to Port Sunlight as the parking there is free.

Let's be honest: as bad an owner that he was, today wouldn't be happening without him.

I have a bag of rotten eggs and tomatoes, with his name on them, I need to dispose of ! :-)

I'm a member plus but I'd pay that if I can't get a ticket for a game I'm up for. Are they general sale or are memberships priority?

MetLife Stadium here in NJ charged(s) $14.99 for a pint of basic domestic beer, I was paying $16.99 for pints of Kona (Hawaii ale)… 🍺 so those Everton prices sound pretty fine to me 😎😂🥲! COYB!

But it's motivated me to finally understand IPTV services and pay a similar amount for today's game and a lot more content. Including next week's fight which clearly shouldn't be a PPV but I am pretty keen to watch.

There was also a social division back in the day.