The Everton Board Thread 2014/15

Is it time for change?

  • I'm happy with the way thing are. Kenwright and the Board should stay.

  • Kenwright and the board need to go. We need change.


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I think there might be a big reckoning soon for this lot. I dont think Evertonians respond, by and large, too well to co-ordinated movements for change, it just happens very quickly and decisively.

A couple of straws in the wind indicate that a revolt could be at hand.
The thing is Davek most match going Evertonians,dont see anything wrong at the club,they get information from regular media sources,look in the Echo do you see anything thats critical of the club?
Listen to mach day commentary,all praising Kenwright for being a great chairman,ask supporters of other clubs what they think of the board and they will as a whole say a well run club,truth of the matter we are now portrayed the same as Coventry,Saints, and all the other clubs that make up the numbers a great job done by the board
 
For me, the question is, where is all this TV money, and why isn't it being invested into the team?

P.S, the Arteta money is behind @Woolly Blue's settee, so that's not an issue.

To be fair, we did spend £34m last summer without selling anyone, with multiple people expressing surprise at 'where did this money come from?'. I am almost certain it was the new TV money.

Once again though, it's not 'investment' into the club, it's just using existing revenues that everyone else gets too.
 
To be fair, we did spend £34m last summer without selling anyone, with multiple people expressing surprise at 'where did this money come from?'. I am almost certain it was the new TV money.

Once again though, it's not 'investment' into the club, it's just using existing revenues that everyone else gets too.
Yes, and I don't want us to simply spend cash for the sake of it, but that shouldn't really be limited to a one-off summer. We should be able to compete and buy Lukaku level players year in year out.

£34m is a lot, but we should be able to do it, either more often, or over and above that amount.
 
Yes, and I don't want us to simply spend cash for the sake of it, but that shouldn't really be limited to a one-off summer. We should be able to compete and buy Lukaku level players year in year out.

£34m is a lot, but we should be able to do it, either more often, or over and above that amount.

Absolutely, I agree.

I bet you we won't even spend more than £20m this summer, not unless we sell someone to fund it.
 

Absolutely, I agree.

I bet you we won't even spend more than £20m this summer, not unless we sell someone to fund it.
Exactly. Well done to them for getting our man Lukaku.

But that needs to be followed up this summer with more.

I hate the amount of money in football, but if we need to spend that to move up again, then so be it
 
To be fair, we did spend £34m last summer without selling anyone, with multiple people expressing surprise at 'where did this money come from?'. I am almost certain it was the new TV money.

Once again though, it's not 'investment' into the club, it's just using existing revenues that everyone else gets too.
Perhaps the Fellaini money too?
 
I think there might be a big reckoning soon for this lot. I dont think Evertonians respond, by and large, too well to co-ordinated movements for change, it just happens very quickly and decisively.

A couple of straws in the wind indicate that a revolt could be at hand.


As a group of supporters, we have never co-ordinated ourselves at all. It's probably because anyone with an opinion is accused of either being a pro-board Kenwright lover or an anti-board Blue Union type. There are no shades of grey. While we are so divided as a fan base, we will never have a united voice and the board will continue to take p!ss. Do we think this third stadium failure will see the end of this board? Hardly, because they answer to no one. There could be another 3 stadium failures and the board would still be untouchable.

The only time I ever recall any sort of revolt was after we sold Dunc and that was a spontaneous show of anger and was hardly co-ordinated. It did however mark the beginning of the end of Peter Johnson's reign
 
To be fair, we did spend £34m last summer without selling anyone, with multiple people expressing surprise at 'where did this money come from?'. I am almost certain it was the new TV money.

Once again though, it's not 'investment' into the club, it's just using existing revenues that everyone else gets too.
One window in isolation doesn't tell the story. The previous windows saw us sell Felli, Anichebe, Jelavic and others which basically funded the Lukaku fee. The fact is over a representative period of say 5 years, we have hardly spent a penny more on players than we have brought in from transfers
 

As a group of supporters, we have never co-ordinated ourselves at all. It's probably because anyone with an opinion is accused of either being a pro-board Kenwright lover or an anti-board Blue Union type. There are no shades of grey. While we are so divided as a fan base, we will never have a united voice and the board will continue to take p!ss. Do we think this third stadium failure will see the end of this board? Hardly, because they answer to no one. There could be another 3 stadium failures and the board would still be untouchable.

The only time I ever recall any sort of revolt was after we sold Dunc and that was a spontaneous show of anger and was hardly co-ordinated. It did however mark the beginning of the end of Peter Johnson's reign
After the Coventry game Johnson was doomed. 30,000 people screaming in unison "We want Johnson, we want Johnson out". He was dead in the water just before that game and that outpouring clinched it.

I think most will grumble still, but this mixture of no trophies and no stadium progress is toxic when taken together. The board are going to be like that frog who jumps in the pan of cold water and dont notice the incremental rise in heat until it reaches boiling point and it's too late.

That's how it works with us. No formal organisation, just a point reached when - as the banner said - enough is enough.
 
I don't think the board give a damn about the fans. The value of their investment has gone up about five times over the years and will continue to do so as long as the club remains in the Premier League and gets broadcast payments.

From their point of view, putting their own further money into the club is risky and unlikely to give returns as high as the TV money. So really there is not much point doing so. If they can increase the club's value with other people's money, they will, otherwise don't expect anything. Elstone and Kenwright are cheap and handy foils for the occasional outburst of fan anger - even if the fans disposed of them, nothing changes
 

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