Club on notice for General Meeting

It's frustrating to see the mockery the 'Peoples Club' subject it's servants to. God help us, we haven't got enough obstacles to overcome already The Echo et al.

It merely reinforces the view that there is something dark and stinking lurking somewhere that they are trying to hide.

As for the badge, just as the shite lay claim to the Liver Bird for theirs we come out with one that looks like a fucking charity sticker or a kid's mock tattoo transfer. And, it seems, the death of the motto just about sums it all up at the moment. What is Latin for 'Anything is good enough from now on'?

in other words if you are not in Bully Bill's clique, Fuck off.

What is the guy affraid of. Oh that's right ! He's a bully.

We all pass on in due course of time, but my grandfather supported Everton in the 1890s and my father began going to Goodison in 1910 with his older brother who went even earlier. My dad started taking me in the fifties and my daughter will take over from me when I go to the great Goodison in the sky. Most Blues can tell similar stories and have similar histories. But who bothers to consult us when they decide to cease AGM's? Who bothers to send me a little letter saying something like 'Dear Dave, As a lifelong supporter and season ticket holder for 37 years we feel we value your opinion and therefore could you provide your view of this prospective new badge?'

I don't expect to be consulted about how many tea bags the char lady puts in the pot at Board meetings or the colour scheme for the new manager's office at Finch Farm. But I would appreciate at least a nod in my direction when they want to change the club's badge. They gave me a vote because it suited them when they wanted to go to Kirkby so why not at least an opportunity to express an opinion about the club's badge? Rather than use eleven tame members of the Fan's Forum?

The answer is because they don't give a shit about me. I, and thousands of others like me are taken for granted. They depend on our loyalty but give very little back in the way of respect.

What do I (or we) do about it?

Well the answer is simple isn't it? Get bad service in a restaurant and you don't go back. Get robbed silly in a shop and you don't use it again. Put your car in a garage and they make it worse and you never use it again. So, I shall stop going to the match, I shall stop buying season tickets. I will stop supporting Everton.

But I won't will I? And neither will the vast majority of the pissed-off and the disenfranchised. No, we will carry on going and supporting the team through thick and thin and thereby we are the authors of our own inevitable defeat. They've got us by the bollocks because the club means far more to me (us?) than it ever will to them.

It's a stitch up whether we like it or not!

Very well put,nail on the head stuff there.
If and when Mr Chairman gets his asking price will he attend every home game?
We will still be there when they are all gone.

I would be interested to know what would happen if someone tweeted a link to this article and the comments here to all those people? And more people maybe...Ive copied a few of them below....

@StellingJeff
@bbc606
@philmcnulty (football correspondent for BBC)
@mdunn1982 (head of sport for sun)
@ColinMurray
@CWheelerDM (North West sports reporter for Daily Mail)
@SteveWilson1967 (BBC match of day commentator)
@talkSPORTKO
@mickquinn1089
@neilashton_ (football writer Daily Mail)
@MirrorFootball
@BKL_Productions (Bill Kenwright's official twitter)
@tSPressPass
@iomatrix23 (Marco Materatzi!)

A mass boycott is never going to happen, but I agree it would be the only way the board would sit up and take notice, because the financial implications would directly effect them.

The ones that are older enough to remember, cast your minds back to 1982ish, attendences had dropped to 16,000 for many home games and that then prompted the board to invest in new players which brought us the golden era in Evertons history

And if you are going to protest, why stay away? Why not have your protest broadcast on the Sky camera's all around the world? Silent protests are only going to be effective if the stadium is half empty.

And if I understand correctly, BK did already meet with a protest group. And they then recorded the meeting despite clearly agreeing not to, and then apparently doctored the manuscript to suit their agenda and paint BK in an unfavourable light. Since then, it appears that all communications and forums have ceased. So it sounds like somebody fucked it up for everyone, as opposed to a tyrannical regime refusing to discuss things.

The interesting thing for myself, is what happens if the protest succeeds? If BK and the board walk away tomorrow, who will actually run the club, and how will it be any better? I would support anything that made our beloved club better. But without a board, I can see only anarchy. Our creditors would immediately want their money back, and for this to happen most of the players would have to be sold. I think this is why many refuse to protest, as Everton without a board is a thousand levels worse than what we have today. Of course, if there was a buyer out there it would make protesting easy, similar to how BK got in charge in the first place.

Your supposition that Bill, and his HMRC bothering pals, leaving Everton, would create a void filled only by anarchy, is total shite, as you well know.

Dan, i'm not going to comment any further on your ridiculous post, I would be here all night

ABSOLUTE DRIVEL!

Going back to Everton itself, years ago I read a very good management book written by Don Keogh, he isn't one of these professors of business that talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk, he was the former President of Coca Cola and yes in that role during the disaster which was New Coke. He has 11 rules which he says are guarantees to failure for a business, I had a quick check again and see how many of them you could stick to BK's office door.

1 Quit Taking Risks
2 Be Inflexible
3 Isolate Yourself
4 Assume Infallibility
5 Play the Game Close to the Foul Line
6 Do not Take Time to Think
7 Put all Your Faith in Experts and Outside Consultants
8 Love Your Bureaucracy
9 Send Mixed Messages
10 Be Afraid of the Future
11 Lose Your Passion for Work - For Life

Funny, you've always got 'the energy' to post your apologist nonsense, but suddenly feel shattered when asked to justify it.

How strange

And they cannot select which shareholders or their proxies can and cannot attend an EGM.

If this EGM requires invitations/notices to attend then expect that they will only be sent to those the Club know will support them and not ask awkward questions.

If the club were saying that they had the right to approve non-shareholder guests of the Shareholders' Association then they'd be perfectly legitimately within their rights. I don't see how they can refuse entry to actual Everton shareholders, though.

surely a club cant treat it`s shareholders like this?
We are promoted by Mr Chairman as the Peoples Club.

The petition could be along the lines of "We the undersigned request the immediate resignation of the Chairman and Board of Directors, and the appointment of a third party to arrange the sale of the club."

Once we have enough signatures we alert the press and make sure that there is a huge turnout when the petition is delivered.

Whilst I don't expect the board to act if we can get 20,000+ signatures it will be too much for the media to ignore.

It started with David Moyes leaving the club as a lot of Blues felt safe with him at the helm. It has grown stronger as we see the badge being changed at the whim of the kit producers, and is made even stronger by the vetting from Robert Elstone of the shareholders who will be barred from attending the Shareholders Forum. A case of "you can't attend if you have a point to make against the way the club is run".

Absolute shambles at the moment.

2. Long term, they will have to go back to the original if the fans vote with their feet and stay away from home games. It is stupid to think that they can force the fans; long-term fans have all the power, we need to remember that. We need to not forget about when the new season starts.

Again, if we remember and vote with our feet then they will have to give in .

14,000 is quite something, already. But if we could get into the computers of those who haven't signed yet...! Where's that RS guy when you need him, the one who has once or twice hacked into the Live Forum on matchdays!

(Note to MI5 - just joking, lads).

As for Billy Liar and the rest of the "Shambolics" refusing to let go their tight hold and allowing this once glorious and illustrious club to flounder YET AGAIN – take your pound of flesh and be done with you for another season and thereafter – I despise you ALL!!!

Yet again, silence is their Golden Goose as we are still a rudderless ship. Hmmm.... no urgency – until about 24 hours to season kick-off – when they finally shit themselves having done fook all to replace Moyes... then, Hey Presto – Howard Kendall re-appointed (an international manager with Premier League pedigree).

There'll be the usual no signing till the following January when Billy Liar's West / East / South / North End Show finally produces urgently needed cash to stave off the wolves from the door when we'll take on loan Tom Huddlestone (who has by now broken his leg by tripping over his exploding hair in a freak yachting accident).

Yet we'll all take the reaming from the Suits of the Club, coz all of us have one disease in common – Everton!!!