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Cut the Club some slack
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I read the Toffeeweb Mailbag daily but have never been tempted to post before. What I can never understand is why so many people who spend fortunes following the Club seem to hate everything Everton with a passion. Chairman, Board, Administrators, Manager and, all to often, the players get layers of abuse showered upon them by people who seem to spend every waking hour agonising over the Club`s fortunes.
I have followed Everton all through the Premier years and have had little to show for it. But given that it`s forty years since we were `the millionaires` of English football, the Kenwright/Moyes era has shown a good return for limited investment. With excitement mounting over a return to Europe and the proposed ground move, is it not time that the arch critics that populate your pages cut a great club a little slack?
S.Norman Whitehead, Posted 22/06/2007 at 12:15:27
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Michael
It's simple, Norman: they want to make the club even better.
Dont we all Michael, but some when you read posts from the Moyes out, Stay at goodison brigade who also appear to have turned on Kenwright (do they not remember Peter Johnson, Howards 2nd & 3rd reigns, the 90s in general) we are progressing at a reasonable enough rate, of course we wanna see us up there year in & year out but no club just has the right! We’re gettin there mate.
I spend my money on the club I love not the lying chairman I despise or his money grabbing self interested chief exec, neither were there when I started out in the early seventies and neither will be there when I check out in hopefully many many years time, I’ve seen the good the bad and the ugly but the club not the current incumbents are my passion.
Firstly, cards on the table, I’m an ex-season ticket holder, I thought once I finally got round to making the commitment to the club I love that I would always have one. That I would take my young son to the watch the ’beautiful game’, however when my Upper Bullens seat went up 30+% they priced me out.
I still support my club, my lad wears the kit (and no doubt soon my baby girl will) but I guess I fall into Gavin’s camp - I remember when Kenwright took over the helm that we were promised a more open attitude to the running the club as compared to Agent Johnson’s tenancy.
Kenwright has put the club back on the right track, I wish he could take us further, but it is quite clear he cannot. I’m only thankful ’Joseph’s’ finished as I was getting into trouble every time Kenwright appeared - 24/7 my arse. I guess passion for your club can be a love/hate thing..
I still support my club, my lad wears the kit (and no doubt soon my baby girl will) but I guess I fall into Gavin’s camp - I remember when Kenwright took over the helm that we were promised a more open attitude to the running the club as compared to Agent Johnson’s tenancy.
Kenwright has put the club back on the right track, I wish he could take us further, but it is quite clear he cannot. I’m only thankful ’Joseph’s’ finished as I was getting into trouble every time Kenwright appeared - 24/7 my arse. I guess passion for your club can be a love/hate thing..
I’m currently in the same ’school’ as Alan ,in that I forwent my season ticket before last season started after 50 years plus of supporting and about 40n years with a season ticket. So I suppose I feel a bit of a cheat in some ways, but one of the reasons was BK and his fat cohort(the other being the nature of the EPL under Rupert’s malign influence). It doesn’t stop me loving and despairing in about equal measure.There was a good article in the Guardian a couple of Saturdays ago reflecting on the nature of the takeover at the Dark Side. It’s point was that LFC with a massive debt was bought because it was in the Premiership, but was made more attractive because it had planning permission for a new ground.The other clubs under foreign ownership have similarly developed their grounds already.I guess it’s the cynic in me that sees the parallel with EFC with a much smaller debt, in a respectable position in the premiership, being more attractive to outside investors if they are all signed up for Kirkby and this is why our custodians are so keen on the notion. EFC’s best interests at heart my arse, it’s about a nice big payday for BK.
Not only are we getting there, we are doing it by building a stable platform for the future. Remember it was only a few years back that we were about to be the subject of a hostile takeover by Gregg and his cronies. We were skint and in big trouble. In the following three years we’ve qualified for Europe (twice) brought in quality players like Johnson, Cahill, Howard, Lescot and Arteta, stabalised our finances and built a top half of the table club (as opposed to waiting until the last day of the season to see if we’d still be there next year). This is without paying inflated prices on transfers and wages which upsets the rest of the squad and causes unrest. The facts are the board have backed Moyes in the transfer market and he’s done an admirable job. OK we can all point out the odd ones who didn’t work out (VDM and kroldrup) but in comparison with the rest of the prem he’s done well. Sometimes I wonder what the knobs who slag the board and manager really want??? Would you rather BK mortgaged us up to our earholes again chasing the big four??? Leeds tried that a few years back and look what happened there. Spending money in pursuit of glory is one thing but it’s got to be done in a controlled manner. I know you guys love the club too but honestly sometimes it doesn’t sound like it.
Alan WIlkinson an awful lot of things aren’t good at Everton. Let me remind you Kings Dock, the Rooney Saga, John Lennon cock up, the apparent tickets freeze, the lack of information about the Kirkby move and so on...
Alan Wilkinson - what a load of tosh. I have supported Everton for 50 years now and I always will. So please give us supporters some credit when we criticise the way the club is currently run. It is blatantly obvious that Kenwright is incapable of running a business of this size and importance. He is unable to get any significant investment into the club and continually hides behind the fact he is blue through and through. Us older supporters have seen this club go to the dog box in the past 20 years and are sick of it. That is why we go on about it so please no more of your high horse.
Like most people on here I have invested 50years following our beloved blues and two things become obvious first we have a chairman that has already lied to us ie fortress fund ,24/7was also part of the dock fiasco so forgive me having doubts aboutthe Tesco stadium or the fact if it will be a fair poll.secondly if we sound to be complaining just think under the present custodian we have sold off all our assets with goodison park being the last piece of silver in the house getting ready to go .success on the pitch now is a standard of football not worthy of our stature not entirely Moyes fault as he can only work with what Kenwright allows now rumours are rife that there is no money to strengthen the team as all available cash is ring fenced for Kirby it does not bode well for next season
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