Season 2011-12 Fan Articles

Just Rebuild One Stand

By Derek   Turnbull  ::  24/11/2011   58 Comments (»Last) The ultimate problem at Everton seems to be the stadium issue; it's been like a millstone around our neck for years... it will also be a problem the next owners will inherit, whenever that will be. The same arguments will arise, it will drag on and on.

So far, 15 years or so has gone by with us getting nowhere on this subject; nothing is imminent either, and in that time the club has done nothing. I wouldn't be surprised if we're still here in 15 more years time with nothing but more failures under our belt, totalling 30 years wasted. There's no guarantees new owners will succeed in this matter either, is there?

Personally I'm sick of it. Perhaps we need to scale down what we need, whether it's with Bill or someone else, or done with our own initiative, because we're going round in circles.

Just concentrate on one new stand, and then just put this to bed and get back on with the football.

Have four detailed reports for each stand: costs, constraints, high specs, low specs the lot, include the cost of inactivity which is 15 years and counting at present, include the costs of rebuilding by using extra land, and without. Give us these quotes. Tell us how much a new Main Stand would be with two full lines of corporate boxes would be. Tell us how much it will be to buy the land and businesses and houses needed in the Park End / Main Stand corner so the Stand doesn't cut in.

We've won nothing recently, and we're not going to win anything the more this carries on, so the only risk is relegation, but that's a risk if we don't act now anyway.

Sell whoever we need to fund if need be. Would we have missed the Lescott money if we used that for example?

Perhaps re open the idea of the idea of the Everton Trust that was on here a couple of years back?

So what, we finish 17th instead of 7th, that season will be forgotton as quick as the Arteta money will be.

Just get that one stand built and get back to the football.

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