The Everton Board Thread

[Nymzee]

So he bothers his arse for this one just not Goodison.

 

[Drico]

As I've explained, they did that because they knew that the board weren't making calamitous decisions and the person who was making those decisions needed to be kept in place to deliver the new stadium.

The inconvenient truth here is that we DONT need to change the board right now because they are not an impediment to our survival chances. We need to get rid of the owner, but not now. That wont take place before May, so we better recalibrate the protests because presently the course being steered endgangers us.

I find myself in a pretty conservatibve position here amongst all the pithcforking demands. But I just see thngs in terms of what's doable and what's smart to do given the relegation threat we face. The board and the owner need sweeping into the Mersey, but we have to be calculated about when that happens. It's ceratinly not a case of striking while the iron's hot.

I don't disagree with you. I just think that enough good Evertonians are beyond any kind of thought process now that involves putting up with the charlatans that run the club. People have been patient for long enough - and many others are still being duped.

I would dearly love us to win today. I would dearly love us to stay up and live to fight another day. But I think my emotional investment in all of this is diminishing rapidly. At some point, fans have to protect their own mental health. Fighting the good fight now when your own intelligence tells you it is holed under the bow and finding your intelligence laughing at you when the game finally plays out is not something people want to expose themselves to for mental health reasons. Put simply: I don't believe in an Everton future with this board in situ. I understand that Moshiri is needed for the stadium. But I do not accept that we need to endure Kenwright and co. If he stays, there will be no future.

 

[davek]

The parasite has weathered multiple storms for well over a decade, with a whole litany of lies, scheming, failures and debacles to his credit. Don't underestimate his resilience and ability to rouse the happy clappers..... especially if we miraculously survive.

Amazingly, there has been no "pitchforking" before or during the games. The protests have been remarkably restrained. A few kids chasing a couple of cars is nothing compared to the stench that these characters have created.... not to mention the years of managed decline preceding it that have weakened this proud institution, to the point of making us mere make-weights.

Support the team with everything we've got.... but we must never lose focus and strike while the iron is hot.

The attempted 'cure' is worse than the disease in this instance.

Kenwright was an issue when he was majority owner. But since mid-2016 he hasn't been a significant player, and he's not likely to become one again anytime soon. He's more of a pantomime villain than anything more substantial. The fact we never had a professional board is down to Moshiri. That's because he didn't want a CEO of note, he didn't want a chairman of note. He wanted control of everything. There has been no delegation of power at this club. It's centralised control. Removing this board in the coming weeks would achieve the square root of f.a. in the near term...which is what we should be focussed on.

 

[davek]

So he bothers his arse for this one just not Goodison.

Bad news for Frank.

He only jets in to fire managers.

 

[PhilM]

So he bothers his arse for this one just not Goodison.

I have a feeling the reasoning may be that if we lose, he'll sack Frank.

 

[Nymzee]

Bad news for Frank.

He only jets in to fire managers.

I doubt he's jetted in mate. He'll have been in London anyway.

 

[davek]

I doubt he's jetted in mate. He'll have been in London anyway.

Well, he's here regardless, and he's not in the UK that often. Something is afoot.

Big changes by tonight if we dont get the win.

 

[davek]

I don't disagree with you. I just think that enough good Evertonians are beyond any kind of thought process now that involves putting up with the charlatans that run the club. People have been patient for long enough - and many others are still being duped.

I would dearly love us to win today. I would dearly love us to stay up and live to fight another day. But I think my emotional investment in all of this is diminishing rapidly. At some point, fans have to protect their own mental health. Fighting the good fight now when your own intelligence tells you it is holed under the bow and finding your intelligence laughing at you when the game finally plays out is not something people want to expose themselves to for mental health reasons. Put simply: I don't believe in an Everton future with this board in situ. I understand that Moshiri is needed for the stadium. But I do not accept that we need to endure Kenwright and co. If he stays, there will be no future.

Mental health plummets much further with relegation. There is no scenario where slipping out of this league is a salve for mental well being.

 

[Nymzee]

Well, he's here regardless, and he's not in the UK that often. Something is afoot.

Big changes by tonight if we dont get the win.

I mean if we lose and he sacks him he'll look a right fanny after his statement/Talksport interview last week.

 

[davek]

I mean if we lose and he sacks him he'll look a right fanny after his statement/Talksport interview last week.

He said we have two games against S'ton and West Ham, and the focus would be on that.

He's left it open ended.

 

[roy vernon]

As said, I dont see the urgency to turfing them out. It definitely shouldn't be at the expense of keeping a united front against relegation.

I have nothing but contempt for the board and we need that body professionalised under any new ownership regime. But I dont see them as being the fundamental cause of why we're in two successive relegation battles.

They are the fundamental cause as to why we will continue to be in relegation battles untill we go down. Also the atmosphere around the club cannot be repaired now with this board in place. Things have come to a head in the past few weeks and they really have to go now to give us any chance of moving on. It's all gone too far, they took a massive risk last weekend and they nearly got away with it. However, they have been well and truly sussed now and the rest of the country are beginning to realise what we have known about Kenwright and co. for years.

 

[davek]

They are the fundamental cause as to why we will continue to be in relegation battles untill we go down. Also the atmosphere around the club cannot be repaired now with this board in place. Things have come to a head in the past few weeks and they really have to go now to give us any chance of moving on. It's all gone too far, they took a massive risk last weekend and they nearly got away with it. However, they have been well and truly sussed now and the rest of the country are beginning to realise what we have known about Kenwright and co. for years.

It appears we may have a new manager in soon.

I think that will be extent of Moshiri's axe-weilding.

Possibly that brings unity for a period too.

 

[Goat]

It appears we may have a new manager in soon.

I think that will be extent of Moshiri's axe-weilding.

Possibly that brings unity for a period too.

Nope.

 

[Efcjake]

What I will say is that they're good writers who have been hung out to dry by poor subbing and a rush/need to be 'first out'.

The Athletic's subs are absolutely dreadful. They miss out errors, they miss out facts, they must not actually sub work. And for that headline to go out the way it initially did caused problems.

It's alright for Ornstein - who, btw, is a good guy - but his name on stuff doesn't really matter when he's not the journalist for the club. Greg got it in the neck, and so did Paddy who wasn't even working at the game.

Now, where the lads did IMO let themselves down, but it doesn't at all condone any abuse (and that's what the club wanted, division in the fanbase, and at the end of the day they are fans) is that follow-up piece in midweek where they, seemingly without challenge, let the unnamed source - that's fine, most sources are unnamed but we should all have a pretty good idea of who it is - double-down on the Baxendale thing.

None of us actually know if it's true or not. My gut feeling is that something might have happened that wasn't actually an issue at all at the time. However, certain people at the club - and again, we should all know who this is - have saved for a later date and to weaponise.

The club have got it outstandingly wrong. The Athletic's editors and subs did with that initial headline and piece, which they subsequently corrected, and their writers then did by not challenging their source enough, IMO.

Do you feel Greg and Joe should publish official retractions and apologies because I do.

Everything that's been said to them was brought on by themselves for running the story on the word of a single unnamed source who we all know.

I can't be arsed hearing the pleas for sympathy from them and their mates. They failed to do their jobs properly. It's not personal abuse it's professional abuse for doing a crap job and it's well deserved imo.

This "we trusted the club official and we aren't to blame" line they're peddling is just an attempt to distract from the fact they rushed to run a story without doing their due diligence. That's why they're getting it in the neck and I hope they learn from this.

 

[PhilEFC]

I mean if we lose and he sacks him he'll look a right fanny after his statement/Talksport interview last week.

He can blame the fans again mate.