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I want my season ticket refunded

I work all year and save up for my Park End season ticket (I am 19 by the way and a full time student), I then commute from Carlisle every Saturday and last year I went to Germany, and Amsterdam, and also racked up 8 away games all on my part time job...

The point of all this was to watch the blues. However, when i see that the club has done nothing at all in return for all my hard work, it gets me kind of annoyed...

I am sick to the stomach of this summer and the awful things that have been happening at Everton. It has now got to the point were I am ashamed when I speak to other people who support other teams...

And furthermore, with the stadium proposal been called in you can guarantee we have no money whatsoever, and the only money we may spend this summer is what we get from Johnson. People who still believe we will sign Mouthino or anyone else of that calibre are just dreaming...
Lewis Abbott, Ormskirk Posted 06/08/2008 at 21:33:49

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Mark Pendleton
1 Posted 06/08/2008 at 22:32:32

Knee jerk reaction this. I’d still pay good money to watch Lescott, Arteta, Cahill, Howard, Yobo, Jagz, Yak, Pienaar etc.

If on 1st September you still have the same opinion then that’s your right but until then, you’re doing the other players and manager a disservice.

Scott Gemmill
2 Posted 06/08/2008 at 22:18:06

It’s not easy to stay grounded when both the floor and the sky seem to be falling apart around us but I beg of my fellow blues - continue to get behind the team and the players we do have. As problems continue to pile up off the field the rest of the league will be rubbing their hands with glee at the opportunity to take points off us knowing that if they make things a bit difficult for us the mounting pressure from disgruntled fans will likely cause the team, already stretched to breaking point, to buckle. I’m sure those who are allowed to attend will let all hell loose towards the powers that be at the EGM. The time to panic will be if Moyes leaves or more players (i.e. anyone bar VDM!) are sold.

Paul Hennessey
3 Posted 06/08/2008 at 22:39:43

Is he doing a disservice to the board though, somehow we are going to start the season off with even less of a squad than we finished the season with - minus Carsley and Johnson - with no new winger, no new holding midifelder (thhe only one we had has now gone!) and less options up front - we are going nowehere at the moment and for some of us, this is the best Everton team we?ve ever seen and for us not to build on it is absolutely criminal.

As for the ground move....it's an absolute disaster at the moment, we can't afford to go anywhere, buy anymore players without selling or progress really until someone comes into buy us... please let's just hope someone does and has the best wishes of the club at heart (longshot!!?)

Nick Wall
4 Posted 06/08/2008 at 22:30:31

I don’t believe for a minute that there is no money. But in a way that makes it worse. Moyes and Kenwright have had several weeks to get the players in who they knew were needed. The final judgement on their efforts will come at the end of the transfer window. But at this stage, with the big kick off only days away, their failure to deliver has contributed to an atmosphere of crisis around the club. I entirely endorse Lewis’s sentiments. It’s hard to look forward to the new season with any optimism, and that’s not how things should be.

Whatever the reasons, the repeated assurances from the club that new faces will soon be on their way have come to nothing - the latest being Kenwright’s signing within 24 hours. It’s not just the lack of new players. We’re not even making many hard bids. If we were, the papers would have quickly picked up on it. Has the club given up on Moutinho ? Who’s on the wishlist to replace Carsley, Fernandes and Johnson ? I’ve got no more idea than I did on July 1st.

Moyes’s new contract no longer seems to matter so much. If he doesn’t turn things around quick, it could be all too easy for the new CEO to get rid of him.

terry maddock
5 Posted 06/08/2008 at 22:54:05

Lewis..and this is not a criticism...,I am going to assume that Yakubu..earns est 50,000 a week...so every penny you spent..he probably enjoyed ,by his standards...a fairly mediocre night out.

So " all your hard work"..the same work I have been doing for the better part of(with my money) for 30 years..goes to the players..EFC dont make a profit..BK dont make a profit....and now we are left to fester in our own wound...well its a bit like Oxfam..you give because you feel guilty not to..even though you know that the government..takes most of your donation ..and most of it never reaches the
people that matter//

terry smith
6 Posted 06/08/2008 at 23:04:43

Lewis----See you at the Blackburn match and the rest of the other home games.Everton is a bit like marriage.I see you are 19 but you may understan when you do get married. As much as you hate her you just keep going back.UP THE TOFFEES

Nick Entwistle
7 Posted 06/08/2008 at 23:11:32

The team have done everything for the fans since Moyes has come in and they are looking for something from the board the same as you! Don’t give up on them because I don’t know if anyones forgot, but we have a decent squad who are loyal and honorable.

Ann Adlington
8 Posted 07/08/2008 at 02:21:27

Last July, we secured the signing of Yakuba on the back off the the television monies for 2007/2008 season. Forget the shite about Earl standing as guarantor. Earl is not even a shareholder.

Logic dictates that the club can also borrow from next season’s tv monies. This hasn’t happened. Why? It’s probably ringfenced for Kirkby to deliver a Â£52 million windfall fot Kenwright, Woods and Earl. Had Kirkby gone through, Earl would have walked away with a circa Â£13 million pound profit without having put a peanut into the club. This Â£13 million would have bought us Moutinho.

Wake up Evertonians. I haven’t got a problem with major shareholders making a profit from their shares, but I have a major problem with a shareholder and a nominee cleaning up on the backs of genuine Evertonians, WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED.

Simon Skinner
9 Posted 07/08/2008 at 05:29:48

Ann

Do you have any evidence at all to back that up? How exactly was Earl going to make a profit?

Mickey Mouse
10 Posted 07/08/2008 at 06:53:18

Ann,

A £52 million windfall for Kenwright based on the strength of next season’s TV money? I dont think its going to be that much.

And the money for Yakubu (and the potential deal to sign Fernandes permanently) came from Green, not Earl.

Shaun Brennan
11 Posted 07/08/2008 at 08:03:56

Mate, i travel from london every week for the everton games, and guess what i am no longer a valid age for a young persons rail card! you think you have it bad, train fares are eating into my beer money.

Jeremy Benson
12 Posted 07/08/2008 at 08:20:16

Re: Scott Gemmill

get your old boots out of the closet, we need you in midfield this season!

kevin davies
13 Posted 07/08/2008 at 08:35:31

terry smith,

that is the truest and funniest statment i have ever seen on toffeeweb ! ! !
COYB ! !

Mrs Smith
14 Posted 07/08/2008 at 10:56:30

You’re right supporting a football team is like a marriage : you wait all week in eager anticipation only for some little prick to not perform.

Oh by the way I’m leaving !!!

Nate Griffin
15 Posted 07/08/2008 at 11:54:06

Terry, I’m gay. I can safely say supporting Everton is more like a civil partnership. Until your team starts sleeping around, gets bad aids and gives it to you. Oh wait, that was just my partner Ignacio Fface.

Mrs A Flanagan
16 Posted 07/08/2008 at 12:51:49

Andrew Darling, as your wife I love you, but as a person you are a scrotum.

Andrew Flanagan
17 Posted 07/08/2008 at 13:13:07

Shut up you whore, do the dishhes or I’ll get nasty on yo arse and pop a cap in you face, biatch! Aiiih.

Chris Perry
18 Posted 07/08/2008 at 07:50:01

Well after some 30 years of supporting Everton I am well and truley depressed by the constant self-imposed disaster merchants at Everton. Never have I know a club to dither over transfers, lie to the fans like BK and Bully.

Just how fucking long does Kenwright want us to "watch this space" for! Does he not realise the TV no longer closes down with a warning and the little dot eventually disapears each night! What he fuck has happened to the money generated by the sale of Rooney, McFadden, etc etc. What about the 36,000 that turn up every other week paying anaverage of £25, thats £900K, then there is the club merchandise, the sponsorship, the corporate deals etc etc.

Piss poor management of the club, the wrong people and peple who do not care. Ok look to the future with some of the youngsters that we have, but in all seriously, do we really have a future, I cannot see them kicking there way out of the Championship, which is sadly where we will end up if this fucking abortion is not resolved.

Peter Howard
19 Posted 07/08/2008 at 14:32:58

It’s not like marriage it’s more like the "Hotel California "- you can check any time you want but you can never leave !

Terry Hanley
20 Posted 07/08/2008 at 14:54:36

Our biggest security this season is that the three teams promoted will be relegated again at the end of the term? So hurry up the Everton academy players and reserves and grow up fast and skillfull because their should shortly be a first team place for you, if you can make the grade and quick!!!!..