Bill Kenwright

[MisterJ]

Yeah because more and more is coming out about how the club is run him dbb moshiri ect all have to get balmed. The amount of bs we have heard from bk and he has left the club like this. You have to be angry it is us fan suffering still, honestly no idea when this nightmare will end. Just psr breach After another and he has played his prt destorying this club with claims of being a true blue

Ok, for those of us not keeping up, can you please summarise what's come out so far?

 

[BNJ1878]

Trevor birch will be next to come out the woodwork

Whatever anybody comes out with, it would be completely unsurprising.

Bill Kenwright FC.

Clap! Clap! Clap!

 

[Dublin blue 75]

Bump. Points deduction #2 down to his appointing a board that is revered and looked up to. What would Everton do.

 

[Blue Willy]

Worst chairman we have been unlucky to have.

 

[Cork Evertonian]

Another points deduction. Kenwright may be gone but his legacy lives on

 

[Gwladysstreetlad]

Are you happy clappers that applauded this evil old scumbag happy now?! Well done you gang of 'kin clowns.

 

[PKwalnuts]

Legacy

 

[Cork Evertonian]

He's dead lads leave it be, he was a blue he had the clubs best interests at heart etc. I'd say one of those shitgibbons will be along any minute now.

 

[GoldenToffee]

Fat-headed bellwhistle.

 

[Cork Evertonian]

I'll never slag Kenwright off. I remember one night in Autumn 1995 when I was working in Stockport, and I went along to the small Garrick Theatre near where I was working to check out a rock musical about the whole Arthurian legend thing - which sounds cheesy, but was alright in its own way. Anyhow, Kenwright was there, checking it out in case it was worth looking at a West End treatment (it wasn't!), and I got talking to him about the recent cup final etc. I liked him, and when I took my seat it turned out by sheer coincidence that he was sat next to me, so I ended up taking to him quite a bit.

No matter whatever else you could say about him, the impression I took away was of a genuine man who absolutely loved all things EFC. I was in no doubt that had he not been on the board he would have been in the ground anyway.

I don't care about winning things with a bunch of hired hands and mercenaries, I'll leave that to the shower across the park. I want us to win things, of course - but I will never, ever criticise someone, in these days of the soulless and eviscerated game we see so much, who has his heart and soul invested in the club and who wants that success as much as the fans do.

Everton, that. And I'm proud to stand by that belief.

Hmm one of the worst posts i've ever read on this forum. Kenwright might have been nice if you got on his good side, but he was a bigger disaster than Heysel in terms of damage caused to this club.

 

[mccole]

Good Times

 

[mahermi1]

Whatever anybody comes out with, it would be completely unsurprising.

Bill Kenwright FC.

Clap! Clap! Clap!

Don't worry the Echo will be there to staunchly defend him, the cowards.

 

[Lord Byron]

I don’t like to speak ill of the dead but if you read the two Independant Commission reports it is obvious that the club has been run incompetently for at least the last 3 seasons. Chairman Bill and Moshiri were at the helm during that period ….

 

[smileychap]

I'll never slag Kenwright off. I remember one night in Autumn 1995 when I was working in Stockport, and I went along to the small Garrick Theatre near where I was working to check out a rock musical about the whole Arthurian legend thing - which sounds cheesy, but was alright in its own way. Anyhow, Kenwright was there, checking it out in case it was worth looking at a West End treatment (it wasn't!), and I got talking to him about the recent cup final etc. I liked him, and when I took my seat it turned out by sheer coincidence that he was sat next to me, so I ended up taking to him quite a bit.

No matter whatever else you could say about him, the impression I took away was of a genuine man who absolutely loved all things EFC. I was in no doubt that had he not been on the board he would have been in the ground anyway.

I don't care about winning things with a bunch of hired hands and mercenaries, I'll leave that to the shower across the park. I want us to win things, of course - but I will never, ever criticise someone, in these days of the soulless and eviscerated game we see so much, who has his heart and soul invested in the club and who wants that success as much as the fans do.

Everton, that. And I'm proud to stand by that belief.

That's a very respectful note. I never met BK was but did note an ability to understand people and also the time he put into community projects, too. Phil McNulty on BBC alluded him to being a romantic that wanted the best for his club, that I do believe he did love. But also a failure to translate that into on-field success or financial stability, for various reasons including his own personality. As a Chairman I believe it's the least successful spell of any owner in the club's history. The route to the new Stadium may have also imperilled the club further, we'll see. Its a sad epitaph but that's life.

Ultimately, I sort of think neither part to the guy's legacy takes away from the other:

+ He loved the club, he loved being it's master also. The club in his time was often referred to as an example of how to work in the community
- He didn't make it better over time, but with luck his dreams may come to fruition with better leadership - that we are yet to find.

 

[Yarrgh]

Bill Kenwright is to Everton what an iceberg was to the Titanic.

Right now it's like we're rearranging tge deckchairs and listening to the band play the final song as the water sloshes above our ankles.