The Everton Board Thread 2014/15

[blulouie]

This always annoys me, how is there possibly none better? He loves Everton that much that in 15 years he has invested sod all and sold any star we have had (Jeffers, Rooney, Ball, Barmby, Lescott, Arteta, Fellaini).

He has sat there for 15 years and just taken the Sky Sports money. If he loved us that much he would have sold us for a reasonable price. You're telling me we're the only club that couldn't get bought? He is a fraud, the day he and the rest of the money grabbing board leave, is the day Everton will start to see some real progress.

Not like any other club sells their star players eh.
Liverpool.....Suarez
Manu.....Ronaldo
Spurs......Bale
Arsenal.....far too many to list
This summer will see plenty of "stars" leave their respective clubs.
.Its the way football works fella,no good beating up the board about it.

 

[blulouie]

Great article..... This point was interesting to me..."And when you consider that in nine of Bill Shankly’s 15 seasons in charge Everton had the bigger attendances, it underlines just how many of today’s Liverpudlians are actually the sons and grandsons of Evertonians".......where did it all go wrong....I certainly wouldn't let my kids become red.

Wow.....how come all them grandkids became Norwegian

 

[joey_macmo]

Problem with this mate is you sound like you take it for granted that there is not only a buyer for Everton out there but if he comes in Everton will automatically progress. Its not that simple. Yes im sure if he sold us off cheap, or for a "reasonable price" he might be able to sell the club with ease, but the type of person that is likely to pick us up at whatever that price might be isnt really what we want for Everton. The buisness world is full of shysters like Mike Ashley and the Venky's looking for a bargain to milk, its the last thing we want.
A buyer that will take us forward is what Everton needs, not someone who will take a punt on a football club going cheap.

Id argue a board with a Plan and a vision for the football club is what's required. Not a Board/owner that goes from failed stadium moves to failed investments to failed hospitality projects all the time

 

[joey_macmo]

Not like any other club sells their star players eh.
Liverpool.....Suarez
Manu.....Ronaldo
Spurs......Bale
Arsenal.....far too many to list
This summer will see plenty of "stars" leave their respective clubs.
.Its the way football works fella,no good beating up the board about it.

Wow

Liverpool have spent about £1/4 billion under Rodgers alone
Utd Spend have just spent something like £200m in 2 years
Spurs Spend big money most summers including over £100m the summer they sold Bale
Arsenal sold players to build an unbelievable stadium and they are now spending mega bucks every summer

Yes every single club in the world sells players, but the ones you've mentioned don't do it to survive thats the difference.

 

[GwladysBlue]

Problem with this mate is you sound like you take it for granted that there is not only a buyer for Everton out there but if he comes in Everton will automatically progress. Its not that simple. Yes im sure if he sold us off cheap, or for a "reasonable price" he might be able to sell the club with ease, but the type of person that is likely to pick us up at whatever that price might be isnt really what we want for Everton. The buisness world is full of shysters like Mike Ashley and the Venky's looking for a bargain to milk, its the last thing we want.
A buyer that will take us forward is what Everton needs, not someone who will take a punt on a football club going cheap.

So what you're essentially saying is that because we'd be valued at our value, we'd likely be bought by someone who is really only there to make money?

What have we actually done under Kenwright? Failed NTL deal, failed King's Dock Stadium, failed Kirkby Stadium, failed office space on the corner of Goodison Park's land, failure to invest in the squad, failure to attract investment, failure to win any trophies (he has oversaw the worst period in our entire history) and the selling of star assets.

Aren't those scenarios what you're afraid might happen if a new owner comes in?

We're going nowhere with him, I don't trust him to deliver anything.

 

[GwladysBlue]

Not like any other club sells their star players eh.
Liverpool.....Suarez
Manu.....Ronaldo
Spurs......Bale
Arsenal.....far too many to list
This summer will see plenty of "stars" leave their respective clubs.
.Its the way football works fella,no good beating up the board about it.

The difference being them clubs have boards that will actually invest in their clubs.

Also, if you notice ALL of them clubs are playing in better stadiums than us, with Spurs and Liverpool investing heavily in expansions/moves.

This board is an absolute joke, if you can't see that now then you never will.

 

[blulouie]

Wow

Liverpool have spent about £1/4 billion under Rodgers alone
Utd Spend have just spent something like £200m in 2 years
Spurs Spend big money most summers including over £100m the summer they sold Bale
Arsenal sold players to build an unbelievable stadium and they are now spending mega bucks every summer

Yes every single club in the world sells players, but the ones you've mentioned don't do it to survive thats the difference.

Not a political point fella.
Just a fact"clubs sell their best players"

 

[blulouie]

The difference being them clubs have boards that will actually invest in their clubs.

Also, if you notice ALL of them clubs are playing in better stadiums than us, with Spurs and Liverpool investing heavily in expansions/moves.

This board is an absolute joke, if you can't see that now then you never will.

I expect Ings to leave Burnley this summer...Turf Moor is a cracking stadium.
Austin will leave QPR.....another great state of the art ground.
there goes your rhetoric.

 

[sageyefc]

The only way we're are ever going to see a change at board level is when Bill is in the afterlife.

While hes alive hes going nowhere

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

The clamour for a new more progressive owner is fine, but some of the views on what an owner should be doing for the club are both naive and delusional.

Our current lot might not have put any of their own cash in, but neither have they taken anything out.

Some appear to want a sugar daddy who'll pour his kids inheritance at it for love, let us know when you find one.

An owner who's prepared to INVEST, will ultimately be looking for a return at some point down the line, and there's been more who've come a cropper than have succeeded. Not reason enough to maintain the status quo but we should always keep in mind that there are worse out there than Kenwright.

 

[blulouie]

The clamour for a new more progressive owner is fine, but some of the views on what an owner should be doing for the club are both naive and delusional.

Our current lot might not have put any of their own cash in, but neither have they taken anything out.

Some appear to want a sugar daddy who'll pour his kids inheritance at it for love, let us know when you find one.

An owner who's prepared to INVEST, will ultimately be looking for a return at some point down the line, and there's been more who've come a cropper than have succeeded. Not reason enough to maintain the status quo but we should always keep in mind that there are worse out there than Kenwright.

Cracked it mate.
No Sheik,No Oil Baron,No Billionaire....no sale.

 

[Nobby Nobbs]

To use your phrase, 'what grinds my gears' - and about one of the only things that does - is that our 1980s team was one of the greatest of all time. Not a question mark over that: it knocked seven shades of sh1te out of 'the best English team ever' (that Liverpool team of the 80s), and yet it's other teams that accomplished barely the same or even less - like that Arsenal team with the SKY moniker 'The Invincibles' that get the plaudits and even a Villa team that beat about one decent team to win Big Ears one season - that get the OTT documentaries about them.

It's very wrong. It should be addressed and corrected as a matter of urgency.

But on the more substantial point of 'being in their shadow': that's not even seriously worth considering. It's what others can and do think, yes. But that's confusing notoriety with achievement and standing in the game. They have won loads (mostly in past generations...let's have THAT right too) but they will always now be known for much more than football. They can keep that. I support a football club recognised to be of high status and renown by football fans everywhere. That's enough for me. They can keep the baggage.

Couldn't agree more with you on your first paragraph that 80s team never got the credit it deserved. On the 2nd part of your answer, we are in their shadow there's no getting away from that,( certainly not in the eyes of fellow blues), but certainly by the rest of the footballing world, we can see their notoriety but everyone else just sees their achievements and nothing else. All teams successes are in the past even ours but that can't detract from them successes or no one would have a history to talk of. You say they will always be known for much more than football, well I'm sorry but they wont because no one highlights their failing, only them who see under the mask know them for what they are.

 

[Eggs]

......Mike Parry did the newspaper review on radio early today. When asked was there anything to report on Everton he said a big story breaking in the next few days. Just saying.

 

[summerisle]

......Mike Parry did the newspaper review on radio early today. When asked was there anything to report on Everton he said a big story breaking in the next few days. Just saying.

New recipe for Everton toffee ?

 

[Moomin]

I think we should stick with what we've got to be honest a lot worse out there.

Just last week I employed a joiner to put some decorative shelves on the kitchen wall. I checked the shelves with my spirit level and they were not straight at all and the finish of the wood was rough to say the least. I was not happy and my wife was angry until I said " Lets be grateful for this cowboy, for all we know if we get someone new in to sort it we could get the likes of Peter Sutcliffe in who will hammer me to death then brutally rape you and beat you to death. Let's be grateful for this shoddy workmanship"