Tony Hibbert “gobsmacked” by James Garner’s performances this season

Now sign him up!!!

I'm really hoping I'm wrong on this one but it doesn't look good.

He's one of the lowest earners on around £30k pw, unless they have the option of another year?

Articles used to have 150-200 responses on an average. Now, it is mostly single-digit or low double-digit responses. The owners need to act fast, otherwise this wonderful website will be lost forever!

That said, Ajay, this is still bigger than what we have today, and small wonder when we now have threads on Garner again, Roma's new stadium, and Scott McTominay that does not even qualify as a rumour.

Too many editorial posts of little substance; the absent member official posts; the small numbers posting on most threads.

Worrying times for anyone like me who wants ToffeeWeb and Michael to succeed.

Something needs to be done. The new proprietors need to stop their Friedkin and Kenwright shareholder meetings impressions, and actually talk with us.

Michael was left alone to respond to concerns about the new footy betting site and that was wrong. Some geezer called Harry Diamond selling watches under his coat apparently appended his name to the relevant thread a day later but did not add a word.

We need this Diamond and Mr. Roy and anyone else in this French operation who own us now to have an open and frank discussion with us about the new format and direction.

It's been nine months and this is sorely needed and it would be a most welcome gesture that would be inclusive and might well help to boost participation.

Ajay, the one thread that was old ToffeeWeb strong was, of course, 'A Message From the ToffeeWeb Team' aka Michael Kenrick, that at this moment has 288 comments.

I think that this tells us something.

It’s the negativity and personal vendettas that piss me off.

I don’t think I’m the only one.

In fact I know I’m not.

Thanks for your continued interest in 'the project'. It's a bit like running a low-budget airline. The plane still flies, whether it's full or half-empty.

But there's no escaping the fact that the changes to ToffeeWeb have alienated many of our more frequent posters, and I'm sure that will have had an effect on overall traffic using the site. I'm not monitoring those numbers, nd never have, to be honest.

Nice parallel with lack of engagement from the owners, but I'm not quite sure what you hope to learn. They have preserved 98% of the old ToffeeWeb... it's just that the new 2% they injected dominated the new Homepage and caused a huge reaction amongst the regulars.

I don't agree with your characterisation of the articles we are putting up. The aim is to report on daily news that we think may be of interest to Evertonians. Some days, there simply isn't any. We are trying to put more news stories and articles up to keep readers engaged but the International breaks, as you noted, are a challenge in that regard.

We would obviously love more articles from readers and fans but these have never been prolific, and people would seem to prefer to post comment rather than author something original or just picking up on a theme of the day. I fully understand that.

We'll keep doing what we've always done, more consistently and for longer than anyone else has done. Either that still works to garner a group of regular visitors and posters... or it doesn't. Only time will tell.

We have passed over a week of no football, I don't count international games, so I expect the post will pick up between now and Tuesday morning — especially if we lose… not so much if we win, which I think has often been the case.

I also expect and hope that some of the regulars will come back in time.

Give yourself a pat on the back for your endeavours in the last few trying weeks — you've earned it and even Tony would agree with that!

A good win on Monday night should see more reflective numbers on the match reports. (Probably even larger numbers if we get beat tbh)

I think when anything changes then some will take exception, and I think most are always sceptical of change, until it becomes the norm.

I had difficulty logging on but now everything's fine. Also this site was always quiet during International breaks. I hope the ones who haven’t posted for a while come back as the more posters the more interesting the site is.

Regarding James Garner and his contract, Moyes has praised him to the hilt so I can only imagine James is weighing up his options and therefore we will have to wait till January to find his position clearer.

The 'Message From the ToffeeWeb Team' post was from myself, which was an attempt to explain the changes which have sadly alienated some.

Behind the scenes currently is a lot of work to fix the teething issues from the website change. The transition from an outdated platform to the new one was (and still is) a challenging process. I'm hopeful that the daily meetings we are having can fix the issues as soon as possible.

Much of the focus has been on solving those issues, leaving Anjishnu and Michael to carry the content load. We also sadly lost Angus this week to a new full-time role.

The plan does not change and that's to keep TW as the go-to for Everton content. I'm back on the hunt for new freelancers and hope our regular users can continue to post their thoughts and opinion. It's much appreciated.

The international break has been both a gift and a curse, to be honest. It's allowed us a break from Everton to fix some of the technical issues, but also comes without much news-worthy content. I'm hopeful in the coming weeks we'll get back to our best on that front.

In terms of the commercialisation decisions, these come from above myself but I'm happy to have a conversation with any user about them. My inbox is always open and I'll try to be more present on these threads.

Thanks,

Harry.

Neville said he was on £1.7M a year and he asked Rooney how much he was on to which his reply left Neville and Carragher gobsmacked. Rooney revealed he was on £17M a year,

Carragher said, "Did you say £7M or £17M?" To which Rooney said "£17M."

Now seeing it's quite a few years since Rooney played, you have to ask what are these top players earning now?

What's annoying is seemingly minor aesthetic issues that offend the eye when reading the content.

The quotation marks
Skew wiff 'Conditions of Use' (skew wiff log in seems to have been sorted last time I had to use it.)
Edit function not working
Edit button obscuring posts
Flag this comment obscuring posts

These to my untechnical eye seem pretty simple basic things to fix and should have been apparent on any beta testing (if any was done?). They were also functioning perfectly before so it doesn't seem that it's new sophisticated technology that is the issue here.

So really it's down to the readability and functionality of the site I have issues with.

I'm sure the content will take care of itself and regular users will be back for their fix but when they do so it would be nice for them to see the aesthetics have improved and not be subject to the same 'teething problems' a month later.

Good luck!

As one of the reasons for the new changes was to quote "New i-gaming revenue streams will also ensure the necessary income for a sustainable and secure future for ToffeeWeb... will allow us to expand our network of writers to bring new voices and opinions to the site."

Does this mean those of us writing articles for ToffeeWeb will not get paid for our submissions or is that solely reserved for writers who are just interested in a story about Everton and not those with a passion for the club?

Thanks for that, it's appreciated.

The biggest challenge has been that the old version of TW was on a completely different platform to the new, so transferring previously workable features from old to new was not as straightforward as perhaps first anticipated.

The tech team are noting every issue flagged and working their way through them, but we just may have a (hopefully very short) period of teething issues.

I'll pass on the feedback you've sent. With any other issues, please send them my way. We'll work through them to ensure the new version of TW is as good as it can be.

I guess I have to be more patient.

Good luck again.

While we wouldn't be able to offer a fee-per-submission model due to budgets, control and potential quantity issues, if there are any users with an interest in working in the industry, I'm happy to have a conversation with them.

Thanks,

Harry.