Arrrgh, groundshare is back!!!!

[Steve101]

Yep, just when we thought it had gone forever. Im listening to Radio Merseyside today, when they interview two numpties who have come up with a new scheme to make it work. One is as red, the other blue (you couldnt make it up!!), and one of them is an architect, the other some sort of planner. They want to use our planning permission to build on stanley park!! Apparently, a simple shared bowl will never work as fans wont accept sharing seats, but they have 'another way', with no details of course. Worst thing is, when the news next came on it was anounced the 'grounshare is back on the agenda', with the usual 'it makes sense' **** spouted. hopefully it will dissapear again, why dont these dickheads just **** off?

[sinbad]

No chance of that.
Kirkby bound rats can keep scurrrying along to their tesco car park bowl.

[rage]

it'll never work for a number of reasons, a key one being that big club everton would not pay 50% of all costs.

[El Jefecito]

it'll never work for a number of reasons, a key one being that big club everton would not pay 50% of all costs.

Surely 50% of new anfield is less than 100% of kirkby or whatever's cost.

[rage]

i just remember the conversations last time, we were putting in more money if the groundshare was to take place. didn't seem right to me. as far as i'm concerned even if they paid 75% i'd not want to share with them.

[El Jefecito]

i just remember the conversations last time, we were putting in more money if the groundshare was to take place. didn't seem right to me. as far as i'm concerned even if they paid 75% i'd not want to share with them.

[CharlieMansonsSquint]

There's more chance of Dickie Mint going solo.

[Alpha]

If we are objective, a groundshare makes perfect sense for desperate blue****e chancers.

Two clubs in the same city with plans for a new stadium and the other who already have plans to share their stadium/supermarket.

Why not tell the bitter blue *******s to **** off?

[Red_Polo]

Because home is where the heart is. You don't share that with those you hate.




Edit: Well, unless you're married.

[Marshy]

I heard most of this interview by the BBC's Roger Phillips with Dave Backhouse (LFC fan) and Trevor Skempton (EFC fan). Now apparantly Trevor Skempton is a well known architect and bluenose who is bitterly against their Kirkby move, now I can understand his attraction to a groundshare if he hates the move to Kirkby that much but wtf is this Dave Backhouse bloke doing supporting Skempton when he full well knows most fellow reds would be against sharing our new ground despite the debt it will put us in? Mr. Backhouse spoke confidently as though he was representing the rest of us when he was clearly speaking only for himself. And why the feck did the BBC give them about 20 minutes airtime to spout their minority fantasyland viewpoint, easily 90%+ of reds would be against groundshare and at least half of blues (IMO) would easily prefer their own new ground in Kirkby than a groundshare.

I'm astonished in particular by Mr. Backhouse because he claimed he is a red but that he's written to the Secretary of State urging her to call a public enquiry over our new stadium and urge that she brings the two clubs together and facilitate groundshare instead - didn't sound a real red to me - more of a puppet of Trevor 'Keep Everton In Our City' Skempton. Has anyone heard of this Backhouse bloke?

[Johnny]

Maybe somebody should ask the Clubs,espiecially Liverpool if groundshare is back on the agenda before putting to fans on a radio station.

[wishiwasascouser]

Just found this really old article about DIC from December 10th 2006.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2006/dec/10/football.theobserver

I won't paste it all, except this part...

Schechter indicates that this could be achieved quite straightforwardly - by selling naming rights to the new stadium, for example, by renegotiating sponsorship arrangements, or even mortgaging future gate revenues.

Demographic realities mean that even with a bigger stadium Liverpool are unlikely ever to yield as much from corporate boxes as the London clubs. At the same time, radical cost-cutting options are available, says Schechter: 'If I were the buyer of Liverpool, the second phone call I would make would be to Keith Wyness, the chief executive of Everton, to suggest a ground-share.'

Sharing a home with the club's local rivals has been suggested and rejected before, but Schechter believes DIC would be well-placed to ignore traditionalist objections to such a plan. 'In Dubai, they're not hung up on the difference between blue and red,' he says.

[Kenneth]

It would be pretty funny, but tragic, in a way, if everyone's desperate for DIC and then they come in and build a shared stadium. There'd be fireworks all over again.

[barnes10]

I have thought about groundshare vs the 300mill debt since all this mess with the financing and tbh, I'd now opt for a groundshare of a 90k 'Stanley Park' seater with them. Trainline with a couple of stations on it and revamp of the whole area. I'd now choose that. I wouldnt consider it before but basically, I'm convinced our new stadium is going to be a white elephant and a serious problem for us in the years to come given the cost of it. plus its just never going to be anfield is it. particularly if it handicaps us from competing at the very top.

The new plans and new designs and new location of the stadium really are a complete break with the past I don't care what you say. Naming rights will mean its not just Anfield either. It'll be the Addidas Anfield or the Burj Al Anfield or something and the bottom line is that it'll never be the same. So its stay at anfield for me or leave it behind whichever way helps the club most financially.

If we're going to leave anfield and sell out to being a corporate entity - which we're now past the point of no return - why on earth do we not do it properly and let it have no effect on the finances of the club and get the strongest team on the pitch which, is what it'll always be about. i'd rather have a bigger shared stadium that we fans can all afford to get into rather than some expensive 'smaller but ours' one that too many people are priced out of because we're chasing the prawn sandwiches that just arent in the area.

There I've said it. I'd groundshare. If Milan and Rome can do it without them losing their history - the 4 of the teams are no less grand clubs are they - so too can Liverpool.

[wishiwasascouser]

I couldn't even see us filling a 90 thousand seater stadium, let alone them.