Install the app
How to install the app on iOS

Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.

Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.

 

The Everton Board Thread

Status
Not open for further replies.
Caolam said:
I can’t agree with you Davek my friend, the enemy has not been defeated, I think last weeks spin to the press has proven that. We are in a perilous position, any let up in the protests against this Board will be seen as a weakness and if they see anyway of remaining in power they will cling on. The protests against the owner and board must continue but support for the team needs to be a separate issue. Things are long past a change of manager or a couple of players, the club has been run into the ground by incompetent management, only a change at the highest levels will make things better.
Click to expand...
No. What you saw this week was the death rattle of a board of directors that haven't wielded significant power for over half a decade.

I've been through this before, as have many others on this platform. When Everton fans revolt, the target for their revolt are finished. I saw that with Johnson back in '98. When he led us into the jaws of relegation he and his board were done for. He hung on for a while longer after the Coventry game, but his card was well and truly marked here. The present board got away with last season's relegation flirtation because anyone could see they were not really in power making those onerous decisions; the owner was and that complicated matters...because he shook the money tree paying for the new stadium. But now the protestors want the board gone and they are all but out the door.

That should suffice for the moment, because anyone with their thinking caps on can see that this owner isn't about to ditch them mid-season and leave himself on the front line. But make no mistake: that board is the walking dead. And we all need to realise it before any further damage is done to our PL survival chances.
 
tommytowne said:
Thanks to the shenanigans of those in charge the portrayal of our club is in tatters.
Just been with my weekend gym buddies and them in full on piss taking mode leaving me drained as I try to put my opinion forward.
Even the bloke from Blue Room on Five Live this morning never commented on authenticity of the claims when he had the opportunity.
Click to expand...
Our enemies see us weakened and vulnerable.
 
Togger Blue said:
d - you do realise that the creation of an air of crisis has been developed by the actions/non-actions of the owner, board and employees of the club? To accept the staus quo and fail to challenge the under-performance which has created the crisis should not acceptable by any Evertonian. The club has not grown, just languished with a meandering level, sinking slowly but now deeper, and the fan-base has been let down time and time again, for years and years. Presently thousands of Evertonians, because they actually care about the club, wish to have their democratic right to voice their opinions and concerns. Do you wish to stifle those rights? Meanwhile, the grass roots supporters will continue to turn up, get behind the team and give their best, often when totally exasperated (even if some players don't deserve it on their multi-million salaries).

Headlockgate, as we all know, crassly entered the arenas as no more than an ill-judged smear on the planned peaceful protest post-match (yes, a few teenage mutants got a bit lippy, some like mad dogs chasing a car).

Nobody in their right mind wants relegation, but burying heads in the sand is not an option.

The club is crying out for effective, calm, truthful and realistic leadership; it is sadly lacking! The silence is now deafening by the hierarchy, albeit Moshiri tried to blame supporters for his own decision making last week- bizarre!
Click to expand...
The crisis was there at the end of last season. It never left the club after the Palace game and we all knew the owner had to be forced out. But the seduction of the stadium-build compromised that.

What we're seeing this season is a delayed reaction - a fight that has been fatally delayed, because a club crisis mid-season in a relegation struggle threatens are existence as a top-flight club. And the target is still mostly partial: most would be happy with getting shut of BK and DBB and keeping Moshiri because he's key to the stadium build.

There's been a lot of poor decision making along the way here...not just by the owner.
 
davek said:
Our enemies see us weakened and vulnerable.
Click to expand...
A few weeks back the enemies you mention were our friends.
I've said it many times but we're like a rotting carcase with the vultures circling over.
We're fair game to anybody with access to links to the media.
People say we're not a big club any longer but if the possible happens and we go down, see how much press that it generates.
 
tommytowne said:
Thanks to the shenanigans of those in charge the portrayal of our club is in tatters.
Just been with my weekend gym buddies and them in full on piss taking mode leaving me drained as I try to put my opinion forward.
Even the bloke from Blue Room on Five Live this morning never commented on authenticity of the claims when he had the opportunity.
Click to expand...
What gym is it TT and do you want me to come down there and crack some heads with a kettle bell?
 

tommytowne said:
A few weeks back the enemies you mention were our friends.
I've said it many times but we're like a rotting carcase with the vultures circling over.
We're fair game to anybody with access to links to the media.
People say we're not a big club any longer but if the possible happens and we go down, see how much press that it generates.
Click to expand...

The vultures wont have to wait too much longer if we tear ourselves apart like this.
 
davek said:
It's not appeasement.

The board is done for. That battle is won.

Now we have to secure PL status.

Anything less than full focus on the taskj at hand will sink us.

Even the Kopite tool everyone is quoting favourably, Hunter, is prepared to state this is a death spiral if we dont get a grip of the controls ASAP.
Click to expand...
The battle continues as the board are far from done just yet.
You’ve endlessly stated that they are powerless and an inconsequence but, they’re still there and therefore the absolute power you have stated that Moshiri wields clearly hasn’t been wielded or Kenwright & Co have him stymied.

Kenwright is cunning and the collective silence from the Gang of Four since last weekend suggests utter collusion to dig in and try to ride out the storm. There has been absolutely nothing said publicly from anyone In the next level down, and that again suggests they’ve been busy circling the wagons… ego, the battle is far from over.
 
AndyC said:
The battle continues as the board are far from done just yet.
You’ve endlessly stated that they are powerless and an inconsequence but, they’re still there and therefore the absolute power you have stated that Moshiri wields clearly hasn’t been wielded or Kenwright & Co have him stymied.

Kenwright is cunning and the collective silence from the Gang of Four since last weekend suggests utter collusion to dig in and try to ride out the storm. There has been absolutely nothing said publicly from anyone In the next level down, and that again suggests they’ve been busy circling the wagons… ego, the battle is far from over.
Click to expand...
Kenwright and Co are dug in like Hitler and his generals were dug in at in the Fuehrer Bunker. There's no way out for that lot.

And it's a fact they're powerless and have been for years. Tell me an important decision they've independently taken in the last 7 years.
 
davek said:
Kenwright and Co are dug in like Hitler and his generals were dug in at in the Fuehrer Bunker. There's no way out for that lot.

And it's a fact they're powerless and have been for years. Tell me an important decision they've independently taken in the last 7 years.
Click to expand...
Just the hiring and firing of managers with no plan in place.
 

JLW said:
Just the hiring and firing of managers with no plan in place.
Click to expand...
You think they made those decisions?

Moshiri and Usmanov made them. They bypassed the DoFs they also hired to do so.

Martinez and Silva for two would never have been ousted under Kenwright.
 
Last edited:
davek said:
You think they made those decisions?

Moshiri and Usmanov made them. They bypassed the DoFs they also hired to do so.

Martinez and Silva for two would never have been ousted under Kenwright.
Click to expand...
Don’t be fooled Dave Kenwright has his grubby paws all over the hiring and firing, Moshiri of course will have the final say but Kenwright will be in his ear.

No way Moshiri knows what a Frank Lampard is or a Sam Allardyce, all these names are fed to him by Bill
 
summerisle said:
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk

Everton chairman Bill Kenwright to be transfer "conductor" this summer

Everton boss Roberto Martinez yet to sit down with Farhad Moshiri over transfer targets
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk www.liverpoolecho.co.uk

Click to expand...
After which point Moshiri hired Walsh...who was also partially sidelined by Koeman who made a lot of the transfer decisions himself.

Kenwright has been an honourary chairman. That's all.

By all means pitchfork these people out at an appropriate point that doesn't destabilise us further...I've been advocating it for years for their crimes of the past....but let's not make up some alternative universe where the Everton boardroom have had any say-so in weighty matters for the last 7 years after Moshiri turned up. That's a falacy. And therefore the agitation to get shut of them is almost meaningless.

When the 27 minute group were formed my response was to ask why they were ignoring the fact that the only person who it made any sense to get out of the club was Moshiri. They continue to use a battering ram against the board and soft pedal on Moshiri.
 
davek said:
Kenwright and Co are dug in like Hitler and his generals were dug in at in the Fuehrer Bunker. There's no way out for that lot.

And it's a fact they're powerless and have been for years. Tell me an important decision they've independently taken in the last 7 years.
Click to expand...
Who do you think arranges/negotiates the R&M Funding ?
 

Status
Not open for further replies.

Welcome to GrandOldTeam

Get involved. Registration is simple and free.

Register
Back
Top