The Everton Board Thread

[Coggy]

Moyes was an absolute genius who staved off the fate we now find ourselves in for an entire decade yet he tried to sign one of our players one time so all the top blues now hate him. Beyond stupidity.

Could not agree more mate. Probably get pelters for this on here. However , it is absolutely true.

 

[ToffeeTim]

Exactly…so why wasn’t the vitriol directed at them?

There was more passion in the flaming ‘Je suis Lucas’ movement than there was in the 27 mins protest against the board ffs!

You're right but the reaction was not unexpected either

Anyway, I think people have finally realised where the problems lie. But I fear its too late.

 

[good times bad times]

Moyes was an absolute genius who staved off the fate we now find ourselves in for an entire decade yet he tried to sign one of our players one time so all the top blues now hate him. Beyond stupidity.

I'm not sure they do y'know. Given what has happened since he left, most reasonable people would accept that he did an excellent job while he was here even if they point out his failings (which all managers have). I wouldn't put too much store on the wham people chat on the internet.

 

[blulouie]

they won’t again now

EVER

 

[GoodisonRoadSupperBarWool]

Yeah the Pritzker Prize winning master piece that is the Park End.

Yeah the one who wouldn't buy Flo


Bill was on the board when we won that cup, so ge can have that one

Same bill on the board who’s been here during our longest trophy draught, told constant lies, most likely assisted in costing us our top flight status. Had us upto our own knees in debt in off shore wonga type loan Companies. Same man is also taken the mick out off me and you on a daily basis for pitting money into his fat bank account.

 

[Saint Domingo]

Could not agree more mate. Probably get pelters for this on here. However , it is absolutely true.

If people can’t see the credit in the body of work Moyes did here (especially considering what has followed) then I’d give their pelters absolutely zero credence as they’re a classless moron

 

[Lob]

 

[riddick]

Mate 22 million he made when he sold up no way he had anywhere near that before

He made wayyyy more than that. He owned more than 50% of the club, no? And he sold it to Moshiri for about 300ish?

 

[Blue83]

 

[Streetender1878]

I think our supporters from matchgoers to supporters clubs,fansites,tv radio bloggers everyone need to fill the vacuum now and show the footballing world that this is our club. There is no leadership coming from the boardroom infact it would be best for everyone if they just stayed away from Goodison. On match days especially from before,during the match and after with coach welcomes supporting the team to further demonstrations against the liars we need to show that we dont need that board. That things can carry on without them and they will be better without them. Make the matchdays an event again. We need to reconnect now with the players and new manager. Maybe our more media savvy blues could arrange an interview with the manager and maybe some players. All separate from official stuff. To meet some supporters and all get on the same page now. After tonight we know what weve got and what needs doing. Goodison needs to be at its finest.Snarling. Aim our anger at the opposition during the match. After the match and from then on attack the reputation of those boardmembers through social media and regular media. Make sure the media they used to try and smear the fanbase knows who,what,where and why. We dont need kenwright and the rest. The further away we can keep them the better.

 

[AdamEFC]

If they’d had a single brain cell between them interested in self preservation they should have kept or re-hired Rafael as most of you would have been too busy fulminating at him to see who the real villains of this whole mess have been.

Last summer a new manager started at Everton as the old one left us in the lurch. We got rid of James, Kean, Bernard and Siggurdson was unavailable. The board gave that new manager 1.5 million to replace those 4 players. How they must have laughed when they realised where Everton fan anger was directed.

What a perfect cover, so many boss blues so desperate to show what an absolutely top match going blue they were that they couldn’t put aside their blind hatred of an ex Liverpool manager to see for one second that the board had absolutely shafted us. They couldn’t even see through the red mist for a single second to an even easier thought that it might be more sensible to blame the people who hired Rafael in the first place than to blame the mercenary football manager who got offered 100k a week to work round the corner from his gaffe.

No, all far too busy trying to smash a pawn off the chessboard whilst the king and queen checkmated the whole club. Loads said at the time that the manager was largely irrelevant, nothing would change unless fundamental problems at the club were fixed: injuries, recruitment, FFP stranglehold, the lazy culture amongst the players. But no, the intelligent responses to this were just ‘fat fat sack sack’. Well we did sack him and wtf happened? Only exactly what people warned would….absolutely nothing.

The best thing Lampard did for Everton was finally lifting the fog. Here was the anti Benitez, a young progressive manager, 433, close to the players, a man manager, got the fans, got the club….and ended up in the exact same position if not even worse.

The same position every other manager before was headed for when Koeman got fired, when Silva got fired, when Allardyce got fired, where even Carlo Ancelotti (probably in the top few greatest managers of all time) was potentially heading. But when this was pointed out time and time again some on here just didn’t want to know because they couldn’t stop throwing darts at Benitez’s face for five seconds to see the bigger picture. Two managers later and a transfer window where we’ve bought no one and there’s still a few people on here more angry at him than the architects of the last 30 years of decline!

Moshiri should have re-hired Benitez instead of Dyche if he wanted to cover his own back as this thread wouldn’t have nearly as many pages and no one would be under threat of getting headlocked at Goodison (well apart from Benitez).

The sad sad truth however, is some of you couldn’t stop looking at the red rag for long enough to see the club destroying bulls behind it.

It’s not even just Benitez (before one of the inevitable top blues pipes up to prove the exact point of this whole post). The same was happening under Moyes. Season after season of having his best players sold, his squad decimated by injuries, rivals outspending him by massive amounts, and yet most Evertonians just couldn’t get away from ‘if he’d just gone for it a bit more we’d have won the Fa Cup’ ‘Hibbert and Osman right side though’ ‘yeah but no away wins at the top 4’ ‘dithering Dave’ . Such stupid small time thinking as Kenwright got away Scot free with undermining a brilliant manager who probably single-handedly saved our club from liquidation. Nah but all you hipster top footy fans knew better, a bit of 433 some passing coaching, and a can do attitude, and we’d be there, Roberto will deliver it…sin miedo….until he didn’t.


The sad thing is that Dyche is probably good enough to steer us away from relegation in the second half of this season, and if he does, most of the fans will go back to moaning about whatever Carragher and Neville tell them to moan about on sky sports rather than having any desire to fix the main underlying problems at the club.

In fact they’ll probably go back to their favourite thing of all to do which is moaning about Benitez…which is exactly what the board would want because it means you’re not moaning about them.

Fantastic post this mate, never really thought about the Benitez hiring in that light before.

 

[Mark barnett]

They will not say anything to us fans but will release a statement in a few weeks saying they tried all they could to get players signed and were on the verge of signing 3 or 4 players only for them to change there minds at last minute.

Not mentioning they should have done this at the beginning of the window rather than the last day when it would be much harder to recruit anyone.

 

[Ferguson1878]

He made wayyyy more than that. He owned more than 50% of the club, no? And he sold it to Moshiri for about 300ish?

Don’t mate I’m in a bad enough mood

 

[The_Street_End]

If they’d had a single brain cell between them interested in self preservation they should have kept or re-hired Rafael as most of you would have been too busy fulminating at him to see who the real villains of this whole mess have been.

Last summer a new manager started at Everton as the old one left us in the lurch. We got rid of James, Kean, Bernard and Siggurdson was unavailable. The board gave that new manager 1.5 million to replace those 4 players. How they must have laughed when they realised where Everton fan anger was directed.

What a perfect cover, so many boss blues so desperate to show what an absolutely top match going blue they were that they couldn’t put aside their blind hatred of an ex Liverpool manager to see for one second that the board had absolutely shafted us. They couldn’t even see through the red mist for a single second to an even easier thought that it might be more sensible to blame the people who hired Rafael in the first place than to blame the mercenary football manager who got offered 100k a week to work round the corner from his gaffe.

No, all far too busy trying to smash a pawn off the chessboard whilst the king and queen checkmated the whole club. Loads said at the time that the manager was largely irrelevant, nothing would change unless fundamental problems at the club were fixed: injuries, recruitment, FFP stranglehold, the lazy culture amongst the players. But no, the intelligent responses to this were just ‘fat fat sack sack’. Well we did sack him and wtf happened? Only exactly what people warned would….absolutely nothing.

The best thing Lampard did for Everton was finally lifting the fog. Here was the anti Benitez, a young progressive manager, 433, close to the players, a man manager, got the fans, got the club….and ended up in the exact same position if not even worse.

The same position every other manager before was headed for when Koeman got fired, when Silva got fired, when Allardyce got fired, where even Carlo Ancelotti (probably in the top few greatest managers of all time) was potentially heading. But when this was pointed out time and time again some on here just didn’t want to know because they couldn’t stop throwing darts at Benitez’s face for five seconds to see the bigger picture. Two managers later and a transfer window where we’ve bought no one and there’s still a few people on here more angry at him than the architects of the last 30 years of decline!

Moshiri should have re-hired Benitez instead of Dyche if he wanted to cover his own back as this thread wouldn’t have nearly as many pages and no one would be under threat of getting headlocked at Goodison (well apart from Benitez).

The sad sad truth however, is some of you couldn’t stop looking at the red rag for long enough to see the club destroying bulls behind it.

It’s not even just Benitez (before one of the inevitable top blues pipes up to prove the exact point of this whole post). The same was happening under Moyes. Season after season of having his best players sold, his squad decimated by injuries, rivals outspending him by massive amounts, and yet most Evertonians just couldn’t get away from ‘if he’d just gone for it a bit more we’d have won the Fa Cup’ ‘Hibbert and Osman right side though’ ‘yeah but no away wins at the top 4’ ‘dithering Dave’ . Such stupid small time thinking as Kenwright got away Scot free with undermining a brilliant manager who probably single-handedly saved our club from liquidation. Nah but all you hipster top footy fans knew better, a bit of 433 some passing coaching, and a can do attitude, and we’d be there, Roberto will deliver it…sin miedo….until he didn’t.


The sad thing is that Dyche is probably good enough to steer us away from relegation in the second half of this season, and if he does, most of the fans will go back to moaning about whatever Carragher and Neville tell them to moan about on sky sports rather than having any desire to fix the main underlying problems at the club.

In fact they’ll probably go back to their favourite thing of all to do which is moaning about Benitez…which is exactly what the board would want because it means you’re not moaning about them.

Agree with the general gist of the message here, but I think you do the fans a disservice.
Benitez was although not welcome with open arms, was given a chance to earn the respect. Fans still turned up in their droves, still supported the team.
He sold a few of our creative players - and by their admission, it was him who decided that.
His record became indefensible, same with Lampard recently.

100% with you on Moyes, he couldn't quite get us there, but was a really really good manager for us, and deffo masked Kenwrights failings - looking back with hindsight personally.

 

[Rooney_Tunes]

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