11 reasons to give up on this EFC board

If you want rid then let them know on Saturday. This has to stop as we are becoming a laughing stock.

I totally agree with a previous poster that man that should be in front of Sky?s cameras to explain our total lack of investment in this future of this club/company/business is the man entrusted with making sure Everton FC can compete at the present level.

The complete failure of Bill to get any interest in a buyer for the club is very worrying my personal opinion is that he doesn?t want to let go and give it up. I have never, ever agreed with Phil Thompson on anything but last Saturday he actually made sense for once when he stated that Everton were one of two clubs in Britain that should be top of the list for potential buyers (Leeds in the Championship being the other)/ He?s right, absolutely! A great worldwide following, great manager, good squad, great youth set-up etc ? just need one thing, money, and even then not mega-millions

How is it that Blackburn get the chicken farmers, Villa, Birmingham, West Ham, QPR, Man.City all have had new investment since we finished 4th in the Premiership?

Move outta the way Bill, the club?s far bigger than you & will be around long after you?re gone?

It has been a really miserable January. I have come to hate the transfer windows.

I have been voicing my loathing for what BK has done and continues to do to my Everton for at least 5 years.

I have at times taken a lot of stick, told to behave, the man is a blue, watched from the Boys Pen etc. Moyes needs to grow some balls and tell it how it is. Hang the fucker out to dry before he does it to you Davey Boy.

After the last two days, I am in total despair for Everton. Kenwright has got to be made to realise that we will not take this anymore. After today that man can have no love for Everton Football Club. Now will you believe me!!!

I wish I knew what the answer is, I just know that Kenwright has got to go. I just hope I never bump into him because I would probably be done for assault. God I hate that man.

I have watched right through this transfer window and saw players like Sturridge loaned out to Bolton and almost every club showing activity. Our club is a pathetic shambles and DM has been made to look a stupid liar by promising us at least two or three loan signings plus a statement that Pienaar would be made to see out his contract. Both statements have been false and now I see that about 6 players have been loaned out.

The best way to actually protest is a one match boycott... BK knows he needs bums on seats as this fact remains both in theatres and football stadiums. We will not shake this man unless we demonstrate properly and not just pen articles and parade around with posters.

Our club is being allowed to die and we are expected to suffer.

I'm going to get skinned alive here, but I didn't rate Pienaar as high as most. He could make a pass and cross a ball fairly well, but had no shot on him and was always sulky and went down at the slightest touch. Was happy to see him go but wish we had have sold him six months earlier to get more out of him.

1. Most, if not all clubs are in debt.

2. They have tried on several occasions spending millions in the process but failed on both occasions for different reasons.

3. We have no money, and EFC have employed Mr Harris to sell EFC... he is one of the most respected in this trade yet he has found nobody.

4. That?s your opinion not a fact.

5. Very true but maybe they are realistic about our situation and understand the facts that we spend more than we get in.

6. FA Cup game only, PL still holding up in and around average.

7. We had no choice; we had to do this to generate income to back record buys and record wage deals to the players.

8. The board backed the manager and on paper gave us the best squad in years with massive pay rises, isn?t that good Management?

9. Frustration is probably more appropriate and nobody seems interested due to the amount of cash that is needed to restart the old lady and team.

10. I agree, brings no added value at to the party.

11. EFC has never won this cup in our history so difficult to blame that on the current board.

Subs, EFC got snubbed by LCC on several occasions, Bellefield is an example of lost revenue; yes, both sides should have been chatting more, but I hold LCC just as much in contempt as EFC.

Blaming the board is easy: Yes, they have made errors but, when your future is held up by credit and loans, you don?t have the ability to make decisions on a long term basis without sold guarantees of which we have none.

The Grantchesters had the wealth to back us on KD and didn?t, they have the wealth to clear our debt, they even have had on several occasions the chance to buy out shares that would leave BK with no option but to stand aside and they have chosen to sit and do nothing. Maybe people should direct their anger at people who can actually make a difference it would be far more productive. COYB

Stop WOWing, stop crowing when we get a good result and don't let your manager say we need 3 loan signings when we clearly were never going to get even one.

Bill is letting all of us down, Richard, that includes you as well.

FUCKING get behing the team!!!!

Everton, comparatively a major trophy winning and successful club, have a waiting list of... zero, in fact it is probably minus zero, taking in to account the number of people who are not going to renew for next season.

Their average gate this season is a couple of thousand behind Everton's, their capacity approx 5,000 less than Everton's, why is there such apathy around Everton, when a team like West Ham generate such commitment from their local support?

I mean they have hardly been successful regarding the PL, have been relegated and only had an FA Cup final, the same as us?

An empty stadium (apart from the away support and Bill and his mates!) would be the most graphic way of demonstrating to the board that we are being mismanaged? and on a bigger scale to the wider footballing community that the fans of clubs still have the power of their feet and if pushed too far they can turn the circus which football in this country has become, on it?s head.

I?ve said for a while to my mates that a stay away (or now even better the first 15 mins) at televised games against the Sky 4-8 by home crowds would send a clear message to Sky and the FA (they?re not getting off scot-free!!!) that they have ruined OUR game. It?s the sort of protest which would snowball as fans from other non SKY 4-8 clubs with proud histories (but brushed aside by the media) are not happy with the Status Quo (quite apt being Utd fans!). At Uni in Nottingham 1995 Utd fans chanting ?You?ve never been in Europe!? to the back to back European Cup Wining Forest fans?. that level of ignorance is only fueled by the crap these morons are fed by the media!

Don?t even get me started on the ridiculous figures paid yesterday and the wages being paid weekly?! It has to stop, it?s just obscene. We can?t just moan about the bankers' bonuses when players are receiving substantially more?. In essence, FOOTBALLERS ARE A LOAD OF BANKERS!!!!!!!

Sorry, got a bit carried away there! Start on about the board, ended up a state of the nation speech.

Villa, RL was a fan of Villa before he bought plus left with no debt from DE. Blackburn, obviously the Asian connection plays a part but I think it?s fair to say that it?s too early to say if they are quality owners at this point; also, the purchase price lower plus no added investment in stadia required for both teams so whatever investment will be made will most likely go to the playing side.

In the last 5 years, EFC on the playing front have achieved more, and I think Villa have spent £100 million plus over this time, too, which hasn?t yet yielded them any prizes, plus attendances down on both clubs recently too.

Gavin, EFC are a casualty of modern football and EFC problems are not exclusive to us or BK. That?s not an apologist comment more an observation of the crap we are in. I, like you, wish is was so, so different but tonight I will be at Arsenal hoping we can get 3 points ? pro or against BK doesn?t change the fact that we belong to EFC and it's special to us. COYB

If you know different then please explain it, but this was Everton's publically stated position to the Secretary of State.

If you are privey to information that Keith Harris was employed to look for both, as you tell, Gavin, then perhaps you should have been called before the enquiry.

For example, if you own stock in a company with 1 million shares trading at £10 each, and the company decides to issue another 1 million shares, you?re holdings would be ?diluted? by those new shares. Since the company hasn?t done anything to increase its value, the stock would drop to £5.

Selling your shares on the other hand is just that, you sell your shares and get whatever the going rate is. So in effect, they were saying they wanted to sell rather than take on investment by the sounds of it.

Mr Kenwright says he is "looking for investment 24/7" but this would then dilute his holding, which his counsel says he doesn't want to do... (?!) For once... I'm not trying to be a smart arse or have a go at anyone, I'm genuinely confused.

Alan Williams 34# .... can you refer me to what you've read, heard or are quoting from ref: "it's both depending on the bidder".

The 'purpose' of a board is to build a business so achieving success. The business side of EFC is in a mess, in utter chaos. Before we can build a team, we must build a business. I accept that, in trying to back David Moyes, the board has spent but actually I do not think it is thinking wisely in where that money comes from, namely borrowing.

EFC's statement at the time has no bearing on any other deal such as share purchase or complete selling of the club, what it does tell you is the board is/was united to this fact. Don?t forget that inquiry was 18 months ago and is only valid at point of issue, the board and shareholders have the option to change direction as and when is suits them to do so.

Quoting this hearings statements has no recall to today?s board and is not a statement of intent in either direction, they are free to run EFC Co Ltd as they choose within English law. COYB

Yes, you can increase the turnover by better marketing of the club but, let's face it, you're either an Everton fan or you're not ? no amount of marketing will attract any new support unless we're doing it on the pitch.

You say our current business set-up is utter chaos, perhaps you could explain? And maybe tell us how you think it could be done any differently than what we're doing at present.