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2019/20 Bill Kenwright

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Bill has done a job, unfortunately he's the ultimate kid that can't let go of his toy,
Thank you Bill but you've overstayed your welcome.
It would be ideal for everyone if he went gracefully but he won't.
 

I blame kenwright full stop, he eventually sold to Moshiri, because imo he knew that most of fans were starting to turn and the abuse would have been off the scale.

Look at city they first sold to shinawatra(spelling) didn’t quite work out but they then got the Arabs. Liverpool got hicks & Gillette. Again didn’t workout but FSG are starting to prove decent owners.

So had kenwright sold and it hadn’t worked out, I’m sure we could have sold again.

All kenwright fans trot out the same line, we could have been a Leeds or a Blackburn.

He would have had plenty of offers over the years , With the right people around him, I’m sure he would have got the right person , but he wasn’t interested in selling even though he said he was looking fir a buyer 24/7. How can anyone trust a man that has lied to his fellow blues time and time again.

Once the kings dock fell through, because he couldn’t find 35mil, most of us knew nothing was changing while he owned the club.

I love how easy you make it all sound. City got lucky with Shinawatra, Liverpool got lucky with Hicks and Gillette, there are also countless clubs who were not so lucky. Even buyers with good intentions have caused havoc at clubs.

The Kenwright "fans" thing is interesting. Why does having a sense of realism mean you are a fan? You keep saying you are "sure" things would work out, but you cant be sure, it doesn't work like that. We would have had plenty of offers, how do you know that? And even if we did, how many of them would have been good ones that would have been beneficial to the club?

The abuse he received has never been full on. It was and still is an element of fans, not everyone. I do find it to be a bit more pronounced on here for some reason compared to other groups.
 

The day he finally leaves is the day I’ll start to feel optimistic about this club.

He’s a cancer to this club. Utter fraud and it sickens me that he’s still around.

That mysterious ‘illness’ he had when the fans were starting to put the pressure on him seems to have been cured. Nothing like some deflection tactics.

Our very own Kim-Jong Un.

It wasn't a mystery illness at all. And it still effects Bill. You're another one who won't let facts get in the way of your cowardly abuse of another human being from behind a keyboard. By all means 'have a go' at Bill, but please use facts and not hearsay,pub rumour and downright untruths.
 
Running a football club is essentially running a multi million pound business but with a social / community element to it as well. Bill has ran the business side of Everton like a family business were he is the patriarch who has just kept it going at all costs, gradually weakening it by taking short term decisions to keep it going rather than potentially relinquishing control by looking for ways to grow the business, like accepting outside help. You can make judgements about whether this is due to his personality, love of Everton or some sinister reason but in my view running a multi million pound business is not easy and the vast majority of people will make the wrong decisions, rather than the right decisions that will grow the business and lead to it thriving. His cosy relationship with Moyes is an example of this - Moyes the equivalent of a highly capable General Manager or MD in the family business that is very capable, can control costs and can deliver consistent results each year, with the occasional very good year, but isn't going to try to rock the boat and push to take big risks to grow the business. In that sense I don't think Kenwright is the nefarious character some make out, just that he is out of his depth, terrified of making the wrong decision and prolonging the inevitable - as most of us would be in such a situation.

It demonstrates the point that only a handful of Premier League clubs have managed to be truly successful at the business side of the game and a few of them have received massive cash injections to do it. Moshiri is more ambitious than Kenwright but is finding out now how difficult it is to make the right decisions in football, whatever your background. On the community side it is well documented that he has done good work and kept the club much more active and successful in that sense than a lot of our peers, which is commendable and should be celebrated, but neither that or commercial success (if there were any) are substitutes for success on the pitch and on the pitch we haven't been successful by any real measure during his tenure.

With that in mind it is fair to say that Kenwright doesn't deserve a stand named after him, or to be lauded as a hero or a villain, just to be remembered as the teams during his tenure will be - hardworking but limited, punching above their weight on occasion but ultimately never pushing on and just being, well, average. With hindsight everything is easy, but to be successful Kenwright would have needed a mix of money, luck, incredible business acumen and foresight to anticipate the changes in football in the last 20 years and to capitalise on them. In reality he had none of those things, but in his defense only the best people do, which means that if we take Nil Satis Nisi Optimum seriously as a club motto Kenwright isn't good enough and never was, and we should be looking to move on from him to something better, rather than lionise him as something he's not.
 
Given his track record, had BK been a foreigner, or a red like Peter Johnson , he'd have been chased out years ago like Johnson himself was.

He's cynically promoted his Blue credentials over the years to gain support and many have fallen for it.

Fans of any of the top clubs wouldn't have put with him for 20 long years. The day his influence finally ends will be the day we can begin the long road back to being a big club again.
 
Honestly rather have him running the show than Moshiri who’s lurched from one disaster to another.
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