A Message from Bill Kenwright to Evertonians on the club website

[blue4eva77]

Bill's destroyed our club?

Get a grip, man!

Oh sorry mate, of course he isn't. Lost it there for a minute.

How was the picnic?

 

[dholliday]

So sad there isn't a sarcasm font.

You don't need one. It was obvious you were being sarcastic. But by capitalising it you imply someone of influence has called him that before.

Or did you just make it up and no one has in fact called him that?

Don't mind me, just a stickler for language and its meaning

 

[dholliday]

Oh sorry mate, of course he isn't. Lost it there for a minute.

Good man.

How was the picnic?

I am fine how are you today?

 

[canuckblue]

Well, he did manage to get himself elected to the club's hall of fame back in 2009 and never misses a chance to boast about watching the team from the boys' pen. A bigger Blue you'll never encounter, hence the Greatest Living Evertonian.

 

[dholliday]

Well, he did manage to get himself elected to the club's hall of fame back in 2009 and never misses a chance to boast about watching the team from the boys' pen. A bigger Blue you'll never encounter, hence the Greatest Living Evertonian.

ouch!

then fair comment, brother.

I admit, he overdoes all that spiel. Would've preferred him modestly refusing the hall of fame thing, at least until he wins us a trophy.

 

[canuckblue]

ouch!

then fair comment, brother.

I admit, he overdoes all that spiel. Would've preferred him modestly refusing the hall of fame thing, at least until he wins us a trophy.

Better yet, after he'd stepped down from the board.

 

[bobafro]

Well, obviously no one does. But I for one would want to use our club's motto accurately if I was the chairman.

Since the most common translations of our motto is "only the best is good enough" or "nothing but the best is good enough" and very few people speak latin these days, I'm fairly certain he was trying to sign off his letter by telling the fans "you are nothing but the best" or "you are only the best" (while incorporating a portion of our motto)

What an absolute c**t, how dare he try to say something nice to people. I wish we had Vincent Tan as chairman or that knobend Dave Whelan. You might think he's done a s**t job at Everton but come on, do people really need to have a go over releasing a statement like this. It's pure simple to just ignore this statement completely if you think it's disingenuous.

 

[dholliday]

got some front that fella, what winds me up is he's not even an evertonian, he uses that to keep soft ****e fans on his side who love all that romanticism crap, he loves the song of the Kop and got passed around the [Poor language removed] thing by his uncle Cyril he even said that himself. How Evertonians haven't chased this cowboy out of Goodison with torches and pitchforks i'll never know

It's worth pointing out that the bolded part came from Bill's speech on the Hillsborough verdict:

“I watched the documentary a few weeks back and two words were mentioned an awful lot that resonated with me hugely. They are the two most important words in the English language and certainly for people from Liverpool – ‘me mum’.

“I saw your banner (at Reading) on Saturday – ‘You took on the wrong city’. Well, they took on the wrong mums too because we know how the mums of Liverpool fight for their families.”

Gazing up at the 11,000-strong congregation where managers Brendan Rodgers and David Moyes sat alongside each other, Kenwright told how back in the early 50s he was a ‘small, timid kid’ who would watch games on the Kop with his Uncle Cyril when Everton were playing away.

On April 15 1989 he had been at Villa Park to watch the Blues’ semi-final against Norwich City.

“All of my mates gathered as the news came trickling through and we felt like we had been relegated, not like we had just got to Wembley,” he said.

“We all knew it could have been us if the balls (the draw) had come out differently. It happened tragically to you. I hope since that day you have known the support of Everton Football Club is there for you.”

I'm sure you can see how unfair (and inappropriate) your comment was.

 

[dholliday]

Well, he did manage to get himself elected to the club's hall of fame back in 2009 and never misses a chance to boast about watching the team from the boys' pen. A bigger Blue you'll never encounter, hence the Greatest Living Evertonian.

ouch!

then fair comment, brother.

I admit, he overdoes all that spiel. Would've preferred him modestly refusing the hall of fame thing, at least until he wins us a trophy.

In the interests of research, I just found out Graham Stuart and Tony Kay were also inducted into the Hall of Fame back in 2009.

Frankly, if they deserve it, so does Bill. I thought the hall of fame would be proper legends only stuff.

Since the most common translations of our motto is "only the best is good enough" or "nothing but the best is good enough" and very few people speak latin these days, I'm fairly certain he was trying to sign off his letter by telling the fans "you are nothing but the best" or "you are only the best" (while incorporating a portion of our motto)

What an absolute c**t, how dare he try to say something nice to people. I wish we had Vincent Tan as chairman or that knobend Dave Whelan. You might think he's done a s**t job at Everton but come on, do people really need to have a go over releasing a statement like this. It's pure simple to just ignore this statement completely if you think it's disingenuous.

I think you massively miss the point, kidda.

 

[bobafro]

I think you massively miss the point, kidda.

Do you? Good for you... kidda.

 

[Gwladys St. Glory]

"Goodison a special place" You tried to convince us it was a delapidated (spelling) old shed that was about to fall down and get refused a safety certificate a couple of years ago. And as for "Nil Satis" you had it ripped from our badge. Just get some of that money you got for sold players and spend it. Don't want to say anything nasty to you Bill but stop taking us all for a bunch of dickheads.

Can't argue with that, really...

 

[dholliday]

Do you? Good for you... kidda.

Yes. I'm one of those blues always defending Kenwright against the haters, whereas your last paragraph seems to sarcastically scream that anyone pointing out the inaccurate use of our motto is automatically a Kenwright-hater:

What an absolute c**t, how dare he try to say something nice to people. I wish we had Vincent Tan as chairman or that knobend Dave Whelan. You might think he's done a s**t job at Everton but come on, do people really need to have a go over releasing a statement like this. It's pure simple to just ignore this statement completely if you think it's disingenuous.

Basically:

Fact 1: Bill's use of "nil satis" isn't accurate.
Fact 2: Bill is not destroying our club

 

[dholliday]

"Goodison a special place" You tried to convince us it was a delapidated (spelling) old shed that was about to fall down and get refused a safety certificate a couple of years ago. And as for "Nil Satis" you had it ripped from our badge. Just get some of that money you got for sold players and spend it. Don't want to say anything nasty to you Bill but stop taking us all for a bunch of dickheads.

Can't argue with that, really...

Here's how to argue with that:

1) Bill tried to convince us Goodison Park wasn't a high-tech modern stadium like The Emirates or Etihad or even St Marys. He has a point, really.
2) at the same time, it's still possible to think of Goodison Park as a "special place". You know, like how your battered old Austin Martin isn't as high-tech as a brand new BMW M5, yet it's still so beautiful to experience.
3) Everton FC's marketing department came up with a new badge which didn't have the motto on it. The fans complained. Bill Kenwright authorised a fan-chosen redesign.


I think some blues are missing a few jigsaw pieces in their brains when it comes to discussing our chairman

 

[dholliday]

It's similar to Doug's post about how Bill's Hillsborough speech mentioning his Uncle Cyril passing him round at the Kop has been turned into "he's a kopite! get him out of our club!".

Now he's not even allowed to call Goodison "special" anymore because he's mentioned how old and creaking it is.

And he gets zero credit for the badge thing.


This is what having an agenda does to you...completely clouds reasonable judgement.

Not good. And not very Everton that.

 

[Gwladys St. Glory]

Here's how to argue with that:

1) Bill tried to convince us Goodison Park wasn't a high-tech modern stadium like The Emirates or Etihad or even St Marys. He has a point, really.
2) at the same time, it's still possible to think of Goodison Park as a "special place". You know, like how your battered old Austin Martin isn't as high-tech as a brand new BMW M5, yet it's still so beautiful to experience.
3) Everton FC's marketing department came up with a new badge which didn't have the motto on it. The fans complained. Bill Kenwright authorised a fan-chosen redesign.


I think some blues are missing a few jigsaw pieces in their brains when it comes to discussing our chairman

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