Hello lads. I'm new to the GOT forums. I'm sure most of what I say below has already been covered, but here is my rant anyway. I'm 32YO and have supported Everton since birth. I am genuinely considering packing in supporting EFC. They bring nothing but misery and consistently ruin my weekends. Our problem is that our expectations are historically and unrealistically high for this club whilst we have such ineptitude and delusion at the top level .
The obvious fault is the board. Baxendale's previous CEO experience is with a small city-level charity, not a multi-million pound business in one of the most competitive sporting leagues in the world. A strong CEO with heavyweight experience at top level sport would have been my very first appointment if I was Moshiri. Kenwright is a theatre man and has delivered no success in the 20+ years he has been chairman. I have no idea why he clings to his position. Sharpe - obviously a club legend, but I have no idea why he has been appointed to the board. All three signal this nostalgic, romantic vision Kenwright seems to have of the club where we can only employ people who (1) hate Liverpool (2) are "SCOUSE AF" and (3) are bluenoses from birth (in that order). Football has moved on from the 1980s. One classic example I give of how badly the club is run: every single time I go to the game, there is a 90% chance that the food / snack / bevvy I am after has ran out before I get to the front of the queue at half time. The majority of people who go Goodison are season ticket holders and have probably been making the same order at half time for about two or three decades - how can the catering staff not have figured out by now the appropriate demand for certain products?
The fact that the likes of Silva has gone on to do so well at Fulham again hints that there is a much broader structural problem at the club and ANY manager who comes in to Everton is not set up for success. Why is he succeeding at Fulham but not at Everton? It's about executive decision making.
Coleman - great servant, why was he not shipped off to Celtic 4 years ago and replaced properly?
Davies - why did we not sell him to a championship club about 5 years ago?
Gordon - why did we not accept Chelsea's bid of 60m or whatever it was when we are being hamstrung by FFP? Absolute madness.
Richy - kept us up by the skin of our teeth, why was he not replaced?
Lampard - Everton now has the 98th worst form of any teams in Europe's top 5 leagues with one of the worst win ratios of any Everton manager ever. Again, a replacement should have been lined up about 6 weeks ago and he should have been removed at the start of this month.
Gbamin, Mina - why is our scouting / physiotherapy department not capable of avoiding high wage players who are massively injury prone? For a few years I've called it bad luck but it can't be. Again, there is a structural problem with our scouting and medical team for this to keep happening.
Strategic review - I have never in my life seen a strategic review that doesn't actually make any tangible recommendations for top level change. What is the point of it?
Anyway, rant over lads. Up the misery-inducing Toffees.