Everton Stadium now 'structurally complete'

To call it a white elephant is putting it mildly. It should never have been built, and according to Everton, that's where the overspend was. We couldn't afford it unless Usmanov funded it completely.

The perfect storm has happened regarding our club, every bloody thing that could go wrong has, and building a near billion-pound stadium has added to our demise, you couldn't make it up.

If you wrote a book about what's happened to us, the publisher would say it's too far-fetched, no one would believe that story.

Any new stadium of Everton's should have been built in Stanley Park, not next to a sewage treatment plant.

Steel helmet on, publish and be damned.

However, I always felt that expanding the current footprint and redeveloping Goodison Park one piece at a time was the more feasible option. I wonder whether we might have been better off following that option instead?

the whole area will smell of roses once we start playing there, will completely overpower the sewage works.

'twas a big bite we took, in a time of optimism... but take it, we did. Now we must chew.

The Goodison option appealed to me too, but...

Nonetheless, we don't ever take the easier route do we?

Stanley Park was the answer. The red shite had it given to them by the council, they would have used the whole park, right up to our end.

If we had asked for it, they would have had to say Yes, what Everton fan would say No to a stadium in the park?

a dream idea, I'd agree.

If that had ever been a route though, you just know it would have suddenly become an area of outstanding beauty or similar.

Stanley Park is known for dividing the home grounds of rival Merseyside football clubs Everton and Liverpool. However it was also the original home to a fledgling Everton Football Club in 1879 before the club moved to nearby Priory Road and then Anfield Road.

Yes, we are struggling. But we just got 4 points back. We are now 5 points clear of Luton. We only have to finish 7 points above the Bottom 3 and we are safe.

In fact, 6 points would do it as our goal difference is far superior. We can sell a couple of players in the summer and carry on.

I'd trust Sean Dyche to reach 50 points earned next season. If we have to sell an Onana, so be it. But it'll (hopefully) be the last season where we're in the shit on PSR. The last of the mega wages disappear this summer (Gomes, Alli, maybe Michael Keane if we can raise a few million quid).

With the end of the PSR nightmare, maybe Sean Dyche can finally have the chance to work with Thelwell on players for the now, rather than on making the patchwork quilt of a squad work under the constraints he has since coming on board.

Beat West Ham on Saturday, and suddenly, things look a lot fucking rosier than they have for some time.

This says everything, Bobby. We know who those players would likely be, don't we? The very players that could help us escape the position of... having to sell players.

Dyche could steer a team minus Pickford and Onana etc. to safety, but not 50 points. And I haven't seen anything to suggest the brakes could be taken off on the spending front.

Agreed on the West Ham front though. Very much a winnable game, and we're very much due a win.

As for the sales? Onana's almost definitely leaving. Pickford isn't leaving. He's settled, happy, and appears very loyal to the club. That being said, if we were forced to sell, Joao Virginia deserves a chance as a No1, having put in very commendable performances this season when called upon.

And to start selling off our best players at this stage is very premature. For a start, we have naming rights and commercial income coming from the stadium and we need to beef the squad up – not start tearing it apart.

A big rights issue will sort some of the debt out and selling the old girl off should give us some extra cash too.

We should look forward with optimism as I believe we have reached the trough and it wasn't very nice. The only way is up. Coyb!