Season 2011-12
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An Open Letter to Bill Kenwright
A response from Everton.
28 Comments: Below is the response from Everton to my ?Open letter to Bill Kenwright on 13th January 2012.
I have removed the name of the employee who responded as I didn?t think it was fair to publish his name and email address. However, I have made it clear to Everton that I intend posting any and all responses from them as I receive them.
(I don?t want anyone to think that I am publishing confidential correspondence.)
From: xxxxxxxxx(Everton) Sent: 24 January 2012 11:42 To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxSubject: FW: Please forward this to Bill Kenwright Dear Mr Flavin,
Thank you for your email on January 14. Your passion as true Evertonian comes through loud and clear.
Mr Kenwright is also a true Evertonian who, like you, wants absolutely what is best for the football club. This football club operates on the basis that every penny we receive from each and every source goes back into our football club. Those revenue sources include: ticket sales, commercial deals, TV money.
We know how hard it currently is with the economic conditions our country is currently going through. We know how our seasonticket holders have been so supportive of us in recent times. We know you have a choice as to whether you decide to renew your seasonticket or not. If you decide to do so, you are helping the Club guarantee one source of income which will help us attempt to remain competitive in a league which is increasingly
From: xxxxxxxxx (Everton) Sent: 24 January 2012 12:37 To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxI have sent another email asking for my letter to be sent to Mr Kenwright.Subject: FW: Please forward this to Bill Kenwright Sorry Mr Flavin, I will continue!
Increasingly?..high-finance league.
We don?t for one second take the support of our 21,000+ seasonticket holders for granted. It is clear that you passionately support the Club you love.
I can assure you that everybody from the Chairman down is doing all we can to provide the manager with funds to strengthen the squad and also find the investor or investors required to take EFC to the next level. We always need to be careful that whoever controls the football club is of the correct calibre ? as we have seen so many football takeovers turn sour.
Fans of clubs such as Portsmouth, Leeds, Birmingham, West Ham, Coventry, Swindon, Preston, Derby, Cardiff, Crystal Palace, Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield United can testify to this.
Whatever you decide with regards to your seasonticket renewal for next season, we hope to see you again at Goodison for the rest of this campaign.
Regards, Xxxxxxxxxx
Steven Flavin, Posted 26/01/2012 at 19:49:49
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Aside from the seasonticket instead of season ticket, it's just a load of shit.
Fact is this, we have no money to spend, and we have sold all our best players. That is a fact. It's not due to the current climate, it's due to a bunch of fucking idiots at the club who have absolutely no clue what they are doing, and are taking the fans for granted.
So more of the same bullshit, plus some emotional blackmail on the side.
Watch this space..............more like waste of space.
Can't wait for Moyes's patented "we'll go with what we've got" line when no-one else signs before the window closes.
NSNO
Investor / Investors line yet again..... what about Buyer / Buyers?? Sick of the same ole, same ole...
Still don't want to let go of the trainset, FFS!
The joy of templates eh?
Hello Paul.
I mean no disrespect to you but, my letter was to Bill Kenwright, not to you.
Please send me a direct email address for him or please forward it to him as requested.
Alternatively, tell me he has received it and doesn?t wish to correspond with me and I will then know where I stand.
Incidentally, I take exception to 2 of your comments from your reply:
1. We know how hard it currently is with the economic conditions our country is currently going through.
My issue has nothing to do with the economy, it has everything to do with the current state of Everton football club.
2. We always need to be careful that whoever controls the football club is of the correct calibre ? as we have seen so many football takeovers turn sour.
Fans of clubs such as Portsmouth, Leeds, Birmingham, West Ham, Coventry, Swindon, Preston, Derby, Cardiff, Crystal Palace, Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield United can testify to this.
We are already being run like some of them clubs were in the past and we are heading in the same direction as them, and that was the point of my letter.
Thanks for your reply Paul.
Does this not confirm that we are looking for investors rather than outright buyers??
I'm here all week...
But, it seems that although your letter asked a lot of terrific questions, the response boils down to this:
1. If you renew your season ticket that's great. Well done. If not, then so be it.
2. BK is not trying to sell the club but wants to find some idiot to put more money in so that BK can keep on running it his way.
3. The global economy is causing the problems and preventing us from playing decent football.
4. We don't really care what you think anyway.
Charming isn't it?
You're entitled to send a mail in which illustrates how we're all disgruntled and it's proactive. I'm just not sure what response they could send that would make you feel happy?
As they didn't like the idea that I posted it on Toffeeweb.
So I won't post any further communication, that's if I actually get any.
I suppose there's some club employees at least reading this because of your email. In which case, for any club employees reading this, can you tell Kenwright to get out of our club? Can you tell Kenwright to tell Earl and Green to get out too? If Elstone actually reads this, I'm not missing you out, can you get out too.
Cheers.
Hello Everton employees, howya diddlin'?
Hmmmmmmm...
No you're miles away - think more along the lines of Jason Bourne.
I'm more the loads of passports, tight black sweater and Kung Fu-ing the shite out of all hands...type.
And if I don't have time to give them a full martial-arts seeing to and don't have a dead flash gun with a big fat silencer, I usually go with the Bulgarian umbrella (ella...ella..).
Anyway, better get back to the Roulette table, I've got a big stack of chips and there's loads of these almond-eyed East European sorts giving me the come on.
We'll probably go back to my hotel later and they'll try to kill me after I've given them one (on a fur blanket) and when I turn the tables and do them in, I'll say something flash like "Your turn to be exshheeeedingly shhhtiff ladieshh".
(UHH -wakes up in Hamburg hotel room, surrounded by crumpled tissues)
There's more than a few suspects on this site Dan.
" However, I have made it clear to Everton that I intend posting any and all responses from them as I receive them (I don?t want anyone to think that I am publishing confidential correspondence.)"
"I've now received an email asking me not to publish any further communication from Everton without getting permission first.
As they didn't like the idea that I posted it on Toffeeweb".
Seems like the same shit as with Bill and the BU interviews.
They should just get stuffed and stop writing condescending bullshit instead of focusing on fixing what's wrong with the Club!
Let go if you love the Club.
NSNO - Need Some New Owners
Kenwright OUT and take Phil Green and the dummy board members with you.
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