The Everton Board Thread (Inc. Bill Kenwright / Blue Union)

TheFinnFan · January 9, 2013

TomDixie said:
It's back, but no one is on it.

why??

edge · January 9, 2013

Ratkiller said:
The keioc lot on kipper didn't do themselves any favours. But the thread where the kippers set up profiles on plenty of fish was pure comedy gold.Kopites stood under the webcam in Mathew st wearing liverpool tops waiting for none existant birds will live with me forever.

think both sides were as bad as each other at times, some of the personal stuff was way out of order,..... the kipper invasions of random sites, were classic, the baiting that went on had me in stiches sometimes

efc1878efc · January 9, 2013

Fair enough, got to a point on there where you couldn't type anything as you'd get ****e replies back and random "inside click" words. miss it though, It got me through a painful three year part time job back in the day when I was studying

ford_uk · January 9, 2013

How come davek is banned?

edge · January 9, 2013

ford_uk said:
How come davek is banned?

dont know mate missed it, just popped over to kipper it had 7 people on it, shame really

Ihaters · January 9, 2013

edge said:
kipper did have its moments, but there were some decent debates on there loads of very clued up fellas on both sides of the fence, the relocation/ board forum, showed it at its best and worst to be honest, throw in an internet warrior into the mix with a random loon and just plain strange people and that was kipper for you, davek did used to pop up on there every now and again, and certainly kept up with the going on over there , thankfully it does not get as tribal or heated on here most of the time.

It did close down just in time to save Davros from a torrent of grief over his hero Hughes who he was massively convinced was better than Moyes.

I've found this place a lot more tolerant of opinion and open minded. Makes for a more enjoyable discussion if people are actually discussing.

Foot Long Hot Dog · January 9, 2013

Ihaters said:
It did close down just in time to save Davros from a torrent of grief over his hero Hughes who he was massively convinced was better than Moyes.

I've found this place a lot more tolerant of opinion and open minded. Makes for a more enjoyable discussion if people are actually discussing.

haha, Staveros is a troll, you can poke him on his own site - SOS1878, if you fancy pointing out the fact that he was talking out of his ****ter about Mark Hughes, you'll last about 3 posts before he bans you like.

kipper was never a site I liked, far too many net warriors & very little sensible discussion.

banno · January 9, 2013

Foot Long Hot Dog said:
haha, Staveros is a troll, you can poke him on his own site - SOS1878, if you fancy pointing out the fact that he was talking out of his ****ter about Mark Hughes, you'll last about 3 posts before he bans you like.

kipper was never a site I liked, far too many net warriors & very little sensible discussion.

Was Staveros also Peter Reid? I used to enjoy Peter Reids posts cos he would try and convince everyone that black was white. Very entertaining and very annoying at the same time.

Foot Long Hot Dog · January 9, 2013

banno said:
Was Staveros also Peter Reid? I used to enjoy Peter Reids posts cos he would try and convince everyone that black was white. Very entertaining and very annoying at the same time.

He was Peter Reid on kipper I believe, he argued that Fellaini was ****e etc etc. Nothing more than an attention seeking troll.

banno · January 9, 2013

Foot Long Hot Dog said:
He was Peter Reid on kipper I believe, he argued that Fellaini was ****e etc etc. Nothing more than an attention seeking troll.

Thanks for clearing that up but in a funny way I miss his posts soley for the entertainment factor.

quasi modo · January 9, 2013

Foot Long Hot Dog said:
He was Peter Reid on kipper I believe, he argued that Fellaini was ****e etc etc. Nothing more than an attention seeking troll.

He was a self important knob head, his rambling reminded of Brendan Rodgers.

By god I'm blue · January 9, 2013

banno said:
Thanks for clearing that up but in a funny way I miss his posts soley for the entertainment factor.

They were alright, I suppose.

Apart from when he kept telling people he had far superior footballing knowledge to them, which really just got boring very quick.

Not even a good wind up really.

By god I'm blue · January 9, 2013

edge said:
dont know mate missed it, just popped over to kipper it had 7 people on it, shame really

Serves them right completely.

In fact, has anyone got the photo of Steve Jones and that monkey?

njligernj · January 9, 2013

Dell Boy said:
What's laughable is that the same could be applied to certain elements of the Blue Union/anti-Kenwright mob. I wonder how many of those that marched against Kenwright are skilled in the business side of Premiership footy in the current era?

That's not really a productive question ... especially on a football message board. Would you like someone to chase you around GoT asking you if you are a professional football player (at the Premiership level) every time you've mentioned that you don't like it when Heitinga gives up another goal?

Also, team ownership is not a skilled trade. Most of them are skilled in another trade (to have the money and/or connections to obtain a club) but unlike the manager and players there is no element of football specific skill required. You could argue that a chairman/owner is the *most* reasonable person to critique (more so than players or managers). BK (by his own admission and based on listening to him speak with such wonder about basic accounting terms) is not especially skilled in business. Lots of great promoters (even wildly successful ones) are not great at business. They get people to run the business side and worry more about the production. There are people on this message board who handle larger and more complex businesses (hands-on) than BK. So I don't believe it's unreasonable for people to question some of his decisions.

I acknowledge there are some crazy types but I think a lot of the questions (for instance why our sponsorship revenue is so much lower than clubs with an equal or lower profile than us) are reasonable. It's not like people are saying "why don't we get as much as Man. U" ... we're asking why clubs like Villa, Sunderland, WBA et al are leaving us behind in many "off the pitch" areas.

If I had millions and in 1999 I saw a chance to get my club out of Peter Johnson's hands I would absolutely have done exactly what BK did. I don't care that he doesn't have billions -- at that time there wasn't a billionaire buying that Everton team. I don't have a crystal ball but I am reasonable sure we would have been relegated if PJ had stayed at the helm. So in that sense I give BK a lot of credit. So there's that and then there is "let's hire David Moyes." I'm not sure since "let's hire David Moyes" if he has done anything else which was noteworthy in a positive way. The absence of negatives (relegation/bankruptcy) are not really compelling positives. That's when you play a Chris Rock clip about how "that's what you are supposed to do -- you can't get credit for doing the things you are supposed to do." Has he done anything positive since then (aside from not screw things up as badly as Portsmouth or Rangers)?

The parts we object to are such slow progress with the business side (if not outright incompetence -- see: King's Dock which continues to haunt us and will for decades) and a perceived reluctance to sell. Hell, forget the business for a second, for being owned by a promoter I don't think anyone would consider EFC an especially well promoted club (either domestically or especially internationally).

Edit: Sorry ... forgot the time Stallone showed up with a scarf ... I take it all back.

Edit # 2: Wait ... Stallone came via Robert Earl ... I take back my take back.