Last game at Goodison Park and the first game at the new stadium

But then the Premier League are so corrupt, we should be able to bribe them to do whatever we want. Oh, hang on, that would need lotsa money.

I just hope that last home match, if scheduled against Forest, doesn't turn out to be a relegation 6 pointer!

Danny, with you all the way, I am dreading the final game.

Chips will be 6d... as will programmes, the beer and music will also be excellent.

School of Science, the Golden Vision and Holy Trinity will be well to the fore, Derbies will be won on a regular basis and, on occasion – lost, Sandy OG will still hit the roof of the net...this is Everton after all!

So yes it'll be sad, but as the song says 'Dragons live for ever, not so little boys' and whether you like it or not, you can only go forward.

And we need to, So BMD it is.

Goodison will have its Long Goodbye and then, like we all eventually will - sleep The Big Sleep.

The spirit of Goodison has seeped into the wood, steel and concrete. That spirit though comes from the people and the people will take it with them.

But somewhere down the track, one night under the new lights, we'll put some jumped up gang of sky flavours of the month to the sword and if he's honest – and some are – their manager will reflect ruefully about how "it's always hard to come here when Everton and the crowd are up for it".

Then you'll know.

You never really left!

I don't really care who we play on the final day of next season providing it is at home. As to the first game at Bramley-Moore Dock, I'd have a 4-way tournament, us, Vina del Mar, Kharkiv, and the winners of the Gaza Premier League.

The things you do as kids, me and my mate actually sawed a tree down over three days coming home from school with one of those knives, so I'm sure you will easily be able to get your seat!

You can sit on it in the Harlech before you carry it home and put it in your bedroom!!

You'll never have to sleep in your bed again.

Looks as if it's in MP4 format. Anybody know how I can post that on ToffeeWeb?

New stadium, new beginnings.

As to the identity of the first opponents, there are several candidates. Bayern Rapid & Vienna from our European past, Celtic for the historic cultural, links, and Everton Chile for a celebration of “Everton” - we could also invite representatives of the other Evertons from South America – four in Argentina and one in Uruguay (the six clubs have a combined age of 659 years). The main plus here is that “Everton” are guaranteed a win.

Whoever is chosen for the honour of opening the BMD I hope profit is not the main driver and that some input is sought from our fanbase.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lO-IgndH8A

I hope Derek, 6, is right when he says:
"The spirit of Goodison has seeped into the wood, steel and concrete. That spirit though comes from the people and the people will take it with them."

Perhaps I'm too much in love with Goodison, but I have my doubts about whether the atmosphere will be as good at BMD. Certainly need to keep Z Cars.

As for first ever game at BMD, I'd love to see the Chilean Everton. There was a crowd of almost 26,000 for a midweek pre-season when they played at Goodison in 2010, so the interest is there.

As for the last game at Goodison, I think I'd like to see the Tractor Boys. Help me drag that floorboard home.

I hope Derek, 6, is right when he says:
"The spirit of Goodison has seeped into the wood, steel and concrete. That spirit though comes from the people and the people will take it with them."

Perhaps I'm too much in love with Goodison, but I have my doubts about whether the atmosphere will be as good at BMD. Certainly need to keep Z Cars.

As for first ever game at BMD, I'd love to see the Chilean Everton. There was a crowd of almost 26,000 for a midweek pre-season when they played at Goodison in 2010, so the interest is there.

As for the last game at Goodison, I think I'd like to see the Tractor Boys. Help me drag that floorboard home.

Totally agree about Z Cars, but I wouldn't shed tears if we ditched Grand Old Team.

I can perhaps see a case for using Grand Old Team and Forever Everton a little less, they do feel a little dated sometimes.

These are perhaps linked with eras, a fashion of a time, as has become Spirit of the Blues now (although an old song).

Z-Cars however, to me, is the soul, and that's timeless. Change culture has pervaded about everything in recent decades and I'm replete. Take the soul away and you are left with only business.

Z-Cars to open at Bramley-Moore.

I agree with Will, 24, it's part of the heartbeat of the club. It's been a constant over the last 60 years, good and bad.

In fact, I would suggest it's perhaps even part of the "brand", as perceived by outsiders. For it seems that the MotD producers love to play it in the commentator's introduction to the highlights of our home games.

And there is not a more appropiate place to play Z Cars than a Liverpool dock, bearing in mind it was based on a folk song with the following lyrics:

Johnny Todd, he took a notion
For to cross the ocean wide
And he's left his own true love behind him
Walking by the Liverpool tide

For a week, she wept with sorrow
Tore her hair and wrung her hands
Till she met another handsome sailor
Walking by the Liverpool sands

Danny doesn't need the refreshment kiosk from the Upper Bullens – we just need them to replicate it at the new stadium in the form of a mural. Then Danny can guarantee never to be served!

I always start a debate, but she just gives me a look in that Scouse female way, so you have to admit defeat and pick your battles!!

A square foot of the pitch for the back garden perhaps, me I would look for one of those Llittlewoods clocks! I wonder what happened to them?

That sounds remarkably low. It would put the Goodison maximum ST numbers at 31,658. So, 7,900 non-ST, of which 3,000 would be away fans. So, 4,900 non-ST home fans. That many?

And I can't see a Premier League rule that sets that 80% maximum. The Premier League Handbook states only that clubs shall R.6.9. promote the availability of tickets by reserving a reasonable proportion (at least 5%) of them for sale to non-season ticket holders.

Anybody with knowledge on this?

Just hearing the first few bars always sends a shiver down my back, the joyous expectation, memories of great times recalled, the momentary delay until the first blue clad warrior appears.

Z-Cars is and always will be Everton
COYB

Like I mentioned in an earlier post a few weeks back, the stadium will be up and running well before our final ever game at Goodison, so with everyone descending on Goodison, it would make sense to open the new stadium for testing for the final match, and show the match on the two big screens at Bramley-Moore Dock, offering those on the season ticket waiting list a chance to test the new ground out and help keep large numbers without tickets away from Goodison.

As for an opening pre-season, how about playing an Everton legends 11, could include Baines and Jagielka, to give them a send off they deserve, plus a chance for fans to see Rodriguez and others which covid denied us seeing.

Keenair at Liverpool Airport have a goal frame from Goodison outside their entrance door. Now that's a souvenir. I forget the vintage, early '90s I think.

Not many of those available, but I too would love a cushion/missile, or anything else.

Said fan having posted as much on these pages some years ago. Don't recall his name though.

I think I will have to settle for one of those imitation copies you put on a desk.

I think judge Russell has set the final verdict on Z-Cars with his ringtone evidence!!

Brian, I think that is a great idea. Open up the new stadium and put the match on a big screen. They have to test it a few times and that would be an opportunity.

I've said before when I got taken around the Tottenham stadium, they explained they were playing an U21s match with 20,000 present as a test before the grand opening. There's another idea.

And we want to see how Z-Cars sounds!

As well as the U21s, I wonder if we could conduct our pre-season at the Everton stadium? Host a tournament maybe?

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I do have this lingering thought that we are just going to become another Sunderland or Middlesbrough, moving over to a new stadium, but nothing changes at the football club.

I don't think we'll end up being a Sunderland or Middlesborough.

Firstly we are much bigger than them and have far greater potential once we realise it.

Secondly, those clubs built those stadiums in an era when they all looked the same with different coloured seats. Sunderland, Middlesborough, Southampton, even Leicester.

The Everton Stadium at Bramley Moore Dock looks special even though it isn't finished yet. She's going to be iconic.