1995-2020 = the longest barren spell without silverware in Everton's history

[jaycee]

The ground? Personally, I think there are way too many interested parties, close to and associates of the club, for it not to complete.

Is that going to be for the benefit and well being of the fans and the club though,or more to benefit the interested parties?

 

[davek]

The ground? Personally, I think there are way too many interested parties, close to and associates of the club, for it not to complete.

Fingers crossed mate. We need a boost. However, it'll be a long drawn out affair with no guarantee of a stadium at the end of it. I thought Anderson's Friday Guardian article on 'creative investment' in Liverpool which left out the stadium was interesting...

 

[Jimishorts]

At least you can rely on @davek to lighten the mood.

 

[4737carlin]

Next season we have to focus everything on the cups, everything, even if we dont win lets at least have a serious go, even prioritise it over the league.

 

[roydo]

Is that going to be for the benefit and well being of the fans and the club though,or more to benefit the interested parties?

Ideally, its a win win. I have no doubt that when we do actually see it, we will fight like dogs about the size, the shape, the design and what not, but I am 100% sure it will get built.

 

[davek]

Indeed. In some ways I respect them a bit more because they’ve literally seen nothing.

I'm not sure I could do it. I had to wait through the mid seventies and early eighties to see success. It was torture, as you know. 25 years of this BS is an utter disgrace.

 

[4737carlin]

The ground? Personally, I think there are way too many interested parties, close to and associates of the club, for it not to complete.

Thing is though this doesn't mean it will come off, just look at the new royal hospital, having people interested dosent always mean something will complete, or even start in our case.
We haven't even seen a plan or a spade in the ground, if all the funding was in place surely something would of happened by now.

 

[Jimishorts]

Perhaps our usp should be our history and a Phoenix like rise back to the top

Good to see those disco biscuits have kicked in

 

[Wat Tyler]

He has got to focus on the two domestic cups next season, no changes, play our best team.

 

[summerisle]

The fan base has been anaesthesitised : every season we have a good run, then a terrible spell, out of both cups, then win a few matches at the end giving slight optimism. Every six months a fan consultation concerning the stadium, damping down expectations on stadium size, and with warnings about finance. Dan Meis being a prick teaser with crass Twitter posts. A majority of the board having a sinecure, but what do they actually achieve. Wallowing in nostalgia, which incidentally was originally a diagnosis for a disease. Players spouting inanities after a defeat, such as we'll bounce back, and we'll come back stronger. In our outlook I see little but everything will be the same.

 

[Eggs]

If we dont win a trophy next season a shameful anniversary will be upon us: 25 years without a trophy win. That'll eclipse the previous barren period between 1939-1963 by a year (and that was as lengthy as it was because there was no football for 6 years because of a war). Since 1995, Leicester have won three trophies; Villa, Blackburn, M'boro, Birmingham City, Swansea City, Portsmouth and Wigan have each won a trophy.

Our downfall hasn't happened by accident. It's happened because the club in the last quarter of a century has been run by amateurs who've squandered the greatest money spree there's ever been at the disposal of Everton in its history. It's gone nowhere. Spent on paying off loans (and the interest run up for those loans...and that's another murky area in and of itself). Those loans were taken out because a series of owners simply didn't have the wherewithal to make a successful takeover happen and they used the club's PL status as a credit card and a liberal sprinkling of player sales to keep themselves in position for a future sale. Oh yes, there's been poor recruitment of managers and players. The cash wasted there hasn't helped either.

But this has been an age defined by our former peers upgrading stadia / building new stadia in order to stay competitive and increase their chances of success, but Everton's owners were too dimwitted to ever get a stadium idea off the drawing board and built. Which should come as no surprise to anyone, because they are the same people who employed a variety of CEOs to cut deals which were appallingly small for a club of this size, people who exhibited no idea how to grow Everton into a commercially viable operation. They've all recognised the key problem, for sure, but that's only been in order to hide their failure behind the mantra of 'facility-led' recovery and then they fold their arms as if nothing else matters. And here we are now still waiting for it with promises of updates where a secured planning permission for a stadium and funding to build it should be.

So, as we head into our 25th year in the wilderness, take a bow Messrs Johnson, Finch, Kenwright, Gregg, Earl, Dunford, Wyness, Elstone, Moshiri...and you too Mrs Barrett-Baxendale.

We wake up to the continuing nightmare of our local rival lifting another piece of silverware and taking their place in the sun while we remain firmy in the shadows, but remember that those named above are our real enemies, not an embarrassing cult who just so happen to share the same city as us. No one at Liverpool bollocksed us up for this length of time. The perpetrators of our quarter of a century decline all sat and sit in our boardroom at L4.

....a very reasonable summary, i’m no economist but the club has been inadequately run for a long time. Saying that, I wouldn’t include Moshiri in that list just yet. I would also say it has been an achievement to stay in the top flight whilst so many other clubs perished when in financial doldrums.

 

[Jimishorts]

This and the Danny Welbeck rumour at the top of the Everton forum.

What a time to be alive.

 

[Furey1878]

....a very reasonable summary, i’m no economist but the club has been inadequately run for a long time. Saying that, I wouldn’t include Moshiri in that list just yet. I would also say it has been an achievement to stay in the top flight whilst so many other clubs perished when in the doldrums.

Hi Bill x

 

[Tipp blue]

Right now the difference is not one of our players would make it into their starting XI. You can question as to why that is the case and start to think whether it´s because we as a fan base have been accepting of mediocrity for far too long.

I don't know why but I get the feeling that if the clubs swapped their entire squads the they would still manage to out preform us, there is a minority of our fans that are totally toxic no matter what happens on the pitch but when things start getting bad on the pitch the toxic spreads example from November to the end of February season just gone a lot of people were calling for Silva to go. The man was only in the job a few months, we need to start getting behind the team it costs us points every season.

 

[Furey1878]

I'm reserving my judgement of Moshiri until the the fate of BMD is confirmed.

That said I think we're finally playing it smart now with player recruitment, no good just blowing money all over the shop. Building and improving the team steadily as Spurs have done. Just hoping it leads to any sort of silverware along the wau,