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

[D410]

lets pick it up on monday, i will have the figures from the last company house report to throw something together as an example.

 

[nigelcoyb]

Thanks for such a civil reply Nigel. I know this is a delicate issue and I am wary to inflame it.

A lot of arguments are that it's more financially lucrative and safer for the board to under spend and have the club finish lower down the table than it is to spend and try and win things. It is of course safer to do this. As mentioned earlier, we have a pretty sizeable wage bill at the moment as it is and we're still only really finishing in the top 8 on a regular basis. There is no guarantee that if more money was spent we would finish in the top 4. To say that it's more beneficial for Kenwright if we finish 17th than 4th every year though is nothing short of madness. Look at Arsenal. They have had regular Champions League football for years and have a decent bank balance that they simply refuse to spend. Ofcourse it would be better for any club if they always finished in the top 4 of their domestic league.

If Kenwright is really using the club to aid his other businesses then surely it would be better for him if we were in the Champions League all the time? Ignoring the financial rewards, the boost to the clubs reputation would really assist in his outside endeavours would it not?

Look at the owners of Rangers for proof of this. They spent money they didn't have so they could win a number of SPL Titles. Their owner was using the clubs success to get into positions of authority in both business and political world. Meanwhile, Celtic were selling their best players and being finanncially prudent. Their fans were complaining constantly. Ever read Dominik Diamonds book "Celtic and Me"? Every other paragraph he complains about how the board weren't spending when Strachan was winning stuff hand over fist. This was before Rangers collapsed. I'm sure he feels differently now.

The comparisons to Leeds don't really work either. Their board spent money they didn't have in order to qualify for the Champions League. When that didn't happen, it all went to hell. If they had been a bit more conservative in their spending, they may never have gone down in the first place.

I'm not saying I'm a Kenwright fan but I think he may as well have hooves for all the scapegoating that's going on.

Very fair points Mikey, I own a small business and there does come a time when you plateau you know if you worked a bit harder took one or two more chances you could grow the business problem is you get a bit older a bit more settled with what you have and you don't.

Bill is no spring chicken and his public comments indicate he's quite happy, he sounds a bit like me saying I'd like a top of the range BMW 7 series. Probably I could do a few things that might get me there but y'know what it's all a bit pie in the sky because I'm quite content with what I have - whereas my son in law 20 yrs my junior in exactly the same biz bought one last year! Sometimes it's down to ambition mate.

 

[D410]

new start, new owner, and sadly a new manager

 

[ianefc]

Would love to crack Kenwright straight in the face, using my full body weight, his smug look when the cameras focus on him win lose or draw really irritates me

 

[Neiler]

Has anyone said clap, clap, clap yet.

 

[D410]

Would love to crack Kenwright straight in the face, using my full body weight, his smug look when the cameras focus on him win lose or draw really irritates me

I,d settle for him dropping his price, telling the press and giving the job of selling the club to a third party with no connections to the current board.

13 YEARS...NO Silverware, NO progression, It,s time to move on Bill for the good of our club.

 

[jayden28]

Its a fcking shame that moyes is getting murdered after todays game but that fat slime ball is getting away with it once again.

 

[D410]

Its a fcking shame that moyes is getting murdered after todays game but that fat slime ball is getting away with it once again.

for the first time I think both have to go for the good of the club, leaving one behind will only extend the problem.

 

[TheBlueGibbon]

for the first time I think both have to go for the good of the club, leaving one behind will only extend the problem.

Kenwright will go when Moyes goes, the only thing keeping Kenwright from bad press is Moyes' ability to find bargains. If Moyes goes there'll be a hell of a lot more pressure on Kenwright to sell.

 

[Dell Boy]

Its a fcking shame that moyes is getting murdered after todays game but that fat slime ball is getting away with it once again.

What a ridiculous thing to say. Today's terrible performance has nothing to do with Kenwright! Are you really so blinkered?

Moyes screwed up. Moyes out.

 

[D410]

What a ridiculous thing to say. Today's terrible performance has nothing to do with Kenwright! Are you really so blinkered?

Moyes screwed up. Moyes out.

it,s 13 years mate not 1 game. they both should go.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

We would have lost today regardless. Spending money is worthless if the players can't play together and don't have the stomach for a fight. See, QPR

 

[D410]

Kenwright will go when Moyes goes, the only thing keeping Kenwright from bad press is Moyes' ability to find bargains. If Moyes goes there'll be a hell of a lot more pressure on Kenwright to sell.

Bill won,t fall on his own sword...you wait and see he will do anything to cling on which sadly he can,t see past his ego that it,s best for all that he moves on.

 

[Dell Boy]

TODAY IS NOT ABOUT KENWRIGHT.

MOYES SCREWED UP NOT THE BOARD.

ON THE DAY WE WERE SMASHED BY A TEAM COSTING A FRACTION OF OURS.

 

[D410]

We would have lost today regardless. Spending money is worthless if the players can't play together and don't have the stomach for a fight. See, QPR

It,s been 13 years mate. I said it before and I will say it again this owner when he came in had nothing about him that would bring us a roadmap to silverware.

He will leave this club a failure, with not a pot on the table other than debt and the smell of something well past it,s sell by date.