Everton announce new Fan Wall initiative

A fan wall paid for by the fans. Sending in a cherished photo of a cherished player is payment enough. The club should be fucking grateful to get them.

Then, the minute they put forward an initiative (which I think is a great idea), you slaughter them. You can't have it both ways, and fans can choose whether to participate or not, nobody is forcing them.

It's not necessarily the commercial outlook that I am in your word "slaughtering" Steve, it is what it is being trained on in this particular instance.

I have argued for as long as I can remember on here that it was our lack of commercial, marketing, management, and entrepreneurial hands-on know-how at the dawn of the PL era that set up back the best part of two decades (and probably more with the narcissistic liar in charge who always put himself first).

I blame Carter and his cronies for that. If we had exercised Chelsea/Spurs/Man-U/shite (etc.) astuteness and forward creative commercial thinking we would not be in the position we find ourselves in today.

A £45 fee for this is a fucking disgrace, not least because ultimately it is a pin-prick for our commodity and customer controllers.

Even the savviest commercial capitalist entrepreneurs can see cynical value in a good-will gesture now and then.

According to the poster, as part of the first phase, Everton FC will be in touch with supporters week commencing 21 October and will state what length of time that the club believe an individual has been a Season Ticket holder; if the individual disagrees with the club, they will have the opportunity to rectify the situation.

Phase 3 On Sale: In December, the club will then release the dates the season tickets will go on sale and in what increments it will be. The season tickets will go on sale in early January, very similar to away games:

22+ years will be Window 1 and have 5 to 9 January to purchase.
20+ years will be window 2 and have 10 to 14 January, etc.

You have to pick your seat online (they will do face-to-face sales at Goodison, but they are not encouraging this) and at this point, when you click on the seat you want, you will get a view from your seat.

If you pay in one hit you then proceed to payment and it's done.

If you do the direct debit, you will then sign up for that, but you have to contact Premium Credit or your seat will be released, which is different to how it works now.

It will be in max groups of 6 at a time, they are trying to increase this but it can't be promised.

If you have 5 people in your group on 23+ years and 1 at 19+ years and you all want to sit together, the whole group will have to wait for the window of the 19+ if they want to guarantee 6 together.

If you have a child in your group, you have the option to sit in the Family Enclosure. You can only sitt here with an under 18. Also if you have an under 18, you can't sit in the lower South Stand, this will be an over 18.

Also,if you do have an under 18 in your group, their tenure is being worked out differently. It's their tenure vs their age. So if a kid has had a season ticket for 5 years but their age is 10, they will be in tenure of 10+ not 5+.

Interesting if true or even close to the truth, but like all things, whatever the club decides, it won't be able to please everybody.

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Unfortunately that link didn't work, the post is on New Everton Stadium thread page 7631.

I'm a bit concerned about choosing a seat without actually seeing it, the access, the actual view and not some CGI view. I was hoping that we would get the opportunity to visit, with your pals, and choose your seat.

I can see the logistical problems but ,with a desire and a bit of thought, it could be done. There's a couple of months so allowing fans in in a ‘seniority' queue, it could be done.