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.