Topic: Who needs to move?

[Sam_Nyrie (Guest)]

I read with interest all the postings on why we should or shouldn't move.

I don't see any need to move - the last match I saw at Anfield the ground was almost empty!

Well, it was Man City playing the 2nd best team in Liverpool!

[kopite29 (Guest)]

Well it does say next to your name that you are a muppet, I shall not raise to the bait that you are dangling in the message. I will just say fuckoff you bluenose.

[Bob_Kurac (Guest)]

Funnily, enough, it says the same thing against yours   And will do until you make 50 posts on here ...

[kopite29 (Guest)]

Shit, I didn't spot that

[Sam_Nyrie (Guest)]

My My, that's the first time in my 52 years that I've ever been called a bluenose!

Koppite, didn't your parents ever tell you that the 2nd best team in Liverpool is Liverpool Reserves?

For the record: the match in question was on the morning of the last Premiership game of the season when the Reserves lost 1-0 at home to Man City in a game that kicked off at 10.00am in front of about 100 people.

[Bob_Kurac (Guest)]

Hehehe

52 - you arl get  

[Maudster (Guest)]

I am a muppet but I aspire to be a woolyback

[andy metherell]

how come Man City were playing LFC Reserves? man city relegated down to reserve level or lfc res. promoted?



better players playing for lfc reserves, unless man city are now ManU reserves...

[NewHampshire_Exile (Guest)]

Get ready for some over exposure and a general decline in football attendance. As the players get more money then the demands for cash on the fans will be higher including ticket prices. And attendance's in general may fall. I was all for a move from Anfield to a new stadium that could accomadate more fans but - THIS IS ANFIELD. Advantage reds. Good Atmosphere - could be better but lets not get sucked into that arguement. Lets attempt to expand the current ground a little bit further I reckon about 55,000 will do it. I look at baseball here - the number 1 sport in the USA. Many teams have moved into bigger grounds over the years and have been rewarded by having lots of empty seats. a lot of fans have been turned off by the ticket prices, the players wages, a players strike a few years ago and the saturation of Baseball on the TV. I have been to a game in Chicago where 24,000 people turned up for a match -  in a stadium that could hold 60,000. Crap. In boston there are plans for a bigger and "better" ground. However they constantly get a capacity crowd at their current staduim - albeit 'only' 32,000. And the atmosphere is great. It adds to the game and brings people back. Lets do the same at Anfield - expand the ground by a few thousand, keep the atmosphere and stay where the club belongs. there is no point in having a new staduim that isn't full and not paying its way - if anything that will hold the club back.
How many time do we see empty seats at the grounds in Italy that we were all raving about 10 years ago - and when it all goes wrong at Old Trafford then we can laugh at them with 20,000 empty seats. I dont dream about taking my boy to see the reds play in a new stadium - I want him to see them at Anfield. If we have to build anything in Stanley Park then lets build a huge carpark and ensure that anyone who drives there gets charged by the club  - and provide lots of new shops for people to spend there money at. Thats the way to preserve Anfield yet maximise the revenue for the club. (maybe a new moan stand as well!!)

[Mike_J (Guest)]

Also, it is in the interest of the club to have a capacity lower than demand. If a club, any club have  a massive ground so anyone can get in, sooner or later fans get complacent and can't be botherd going espically if ticket prices go up. A greater demand creates interest in getting hold of tickets. The way wages are going, the bubble could burst in England, and clubs could struggle to fill the stadia.

I remember an ex-colleague of mine (an Arsenal fan who lived for  a short time in Spain) told me about a small team who got promoted to the top league and then built a brand new massive stadium, it was also used in the World Cup '82. They didn't get teh crowds to pay for it, so were forced to sell their top players, got relegated and are still a lower division team with a fantastic if empty stadium.

It is not difficult to imagine the same thing happening over here, especially if the bitters built their Kings Dock stadium - ho ho.

[Sam_Nyrie (Guest)]

fao Andy.

Sorry mate should have made it clear it was Man City Reserves [though to be honest they didn't look any worse than their 1st team!], but as Bob says I'm an "arl get" and as a result am prone to "Senior Moments" and forget ......

Seriously though, it was good to see all the youngsters coming through the Reds Reserves  

[David_Neve (Guest)]

Shit! 50 posts before I'm no longer a muppet? I'll have to get cracking then.

This old / new move debate is going to run and run. Everyone knows my views so I'm not going to start posting here about it. Except to say.............