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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bizzaro said:
Davek keeps saying Naismith 'isn't good enough'.

Then when you challenge him about it he backtracks. Joke really.
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The thing is he isn't really good enough. You wouldn't find him plying his trade at spurs let alone arsenal or the RS. Oh he'll do a job but it's players like Naismith and our reliance on them that will keep from breaking into the top 4.
 

Praising the board for choosing to spend part of the extra 100 million pound that we will receive in TV money on squad improvement is a bit like praising a parent for putting food on the table. It isn't praise worthy, it's the bare minimum that is expected. Anything less would be disgraceful.
 
Dymak said:
Praising the board for choosing to spend part of the extra 100 million pound that we will receive in TV money on squad improvement is a bit like praising a parent for putting food on the table. It isn't praise worthy, it's the bare minimum that is expected. Anything less would be disgraceful.
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Eh?
 

roydo said:
Yeah, so you would you like the next 2 years, non-guaranteed, income to be spent?
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I haven't actually advocated doing that. But the money is going to be spent one way or another, and the practice you are talking about is hardly a foreign one to the current custodians of Everton FC. If you're really looking for a reason, then I would argue that investing in the squad now may give us a better chance of breaking out of this mid-table, decade long, groundhog day that I fear may continue for the next 10 years.

But my main point is that praising a chairman for spending some of the massive increase in TV money on the playing squad isn't really praise worthy at all. We are a Premier League football club, we are SUPPOSED to invest in our playing squad. That's his bloody job!
 
Dymak said:
I haven't actually advocated doing that. But the money is going to be spent one way or another, and the practice you are talking about is hardly a foreign one to the current custodians of Everton FC. If you're really looking for a reason, then I would argue that investing in the squad now may give us a better chance of breaking out of this mid-table, decade long, groundhog day that I fear may continue for the next 10 years.

But my main point is that praising a chairman for spending some of the massive increase in TV money on the playing squad isn't really praise worthy at all. We are a Premier League football club, we are SUPPOSED to invest in our playing squad. That's his bloody job!
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Yeah, I apologised for not reading your post properly mate.

I am pleased serious cash has been spent, and important players tied down on longer contracts. But I tend to swerve this thread, as the detail some lads know bewilders me. But chanced on your post after some (not yours) were reported.

All good mate.
 

banno said:
There is no hard fast rule. Common sense tells me that sponsorships, Gate receipts and other commercial activity should be coming in to make the club tick along whereas money coming in from transfers should be used for transfers. If we are not making money from our name and sponsorships then surely the board have failed to promote us worldwide. What is there job exactly and are they doing a good job or bad job?
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So...how many clubs 'tick along 'simply by using money from sponsorships, gate reciepts,and other commercial activity? I'll hazard a guess...probably three, maybe four.TV money is essential to the survival of many clubs, including many in the Prem. Only the top four , or three richest clubs survive without it. Clubs that do not have a multi million/billionaire 'owner' who can buy players out of his/their millions in loose change, all rely on TV money and a balanced transfer policy. Overspend on transfers, and the likelihood is financial trouble.
 
davek said:
Thanks Everton's board.

15 years:

increased debt
two failed stadium schemes
selling physical assets like training grounds...and renting one instead
outsourcing contracts that take the piss for 10 years
zero investment into the club
selling star players periodically
a pathetic commercial arm that couldn't sell hot cakes to starving navvies
no trophies

Thank you Messrs Kenwright, Woods, Earl (and Green). And thanks to Mr Wyness and his successor Mr Elstone.

What a fine job you've all done.
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GOT Hall of Fame inclusion for me!
 
Kev The Rat said:
The state the squad is in is down to the boards underinvestment pure and simple.

We have the increasing liabilities that are the 37 year old Distin alongside 33 year old Jags coupled with first choice reserves of 33 year olds Osman and Pienaar.

Due to the boards refusal to invest a penny of it own cash we were reduced to picking up man utd crocks (Gibson) in exchange for flogging true quality (Arteta).

The squad actually needs to be overhauled and tbh we've only signed about half the players we need to in this window.

Eto'o himself is no more than a symptom of a desperate attempt to give us a bit of a competitive edge this season. A short term solution to a long term problem of the boards making.
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Some home truths there...
 
bizzaro said:
Davek keeps saying Naismith 'isn't good enough'.

Then when you challenge him about it he backtracks. Joke really.
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bizzaro said:
We have nothing to fear and Naismith has scored 2 in 2.

If he carries on scoring people like you deserve a minus 100 rep penalty
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Neither of the above has got anything to do with this thread.
Quit trying to get a reaction just for the sake of it.
 

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