EFC's failure to capitalise on the success of the late 80's and start of PL

[Toffee in Jandals]

I don't know which is worse.

Climate-change driven sea-level rise armaggeddon will no doubt be next after we win the league in 2028/29; sending Bramley-Moore into the Mersey.

 

[tadao]

It was a mixture of not replacing star players, poor management decisions and a boardroom that could not see the massive money making potential. The early 90's where around the time of Sir Johns demise and nobody wanted anything to do with it. The Dion Dublin fiasco for example.

I've just deleted the stuff I'd written about that period, it's ridiculously painful to remember how lacking in direction the club had!

 

[judge]

i know that it's almost blasphemy to say so but it was down to Harvey not being up to the job as manager. We can talk about a long term lack of investment/foresight but, ultimately Harvey inherited a league winning side, the majority of which were still in their prime. Over the next few years he managed to dismantle that team and bring in inferior replacements. Unfortunately, the powers that be had been seduced by the success of the RS and thought that promoting from within was the answer when Kendall left. However this policy has only ever worked once (with Paisley). The board should have been more business like and realized that promoting the coach (the friend of the players) was not a guarantee of success.

 

[Dario Terracotta]

The European ban hit the club hard. It is hard to explain to the younger fans but that mid 80s side was very special. Everyone knew we were the best side in Europe and the chance to make history was ripped away. The fact that it was the shower across the park who had caused the ban made it a really tough pill to swallow.

The consequences of that ban was that we lost our greatest manager and team in a short space of time. It was a double-whammy. I remember the feeling among the fans was one of 'why should we bother, we can't have nice things'. This feeling is still present today.

It hit us terribly, however our own boards policies and our transfer policies at the time didn't aid our situation, the summer of 1988 as a case in point, we brought in Cottee,McCall,Nevin,McDonald,the RS around that time recruited Barnes,Beardsley,Houghton,Aldridge etc, typically they actually flourished football wise from those desperate times for English football whilst we were in steady decline from which we have never really recovered.

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

We were skint & couldn't borrow enough to keep up, in some ways that may have saved us as Leeds are the example of hocking yourself to the limit & then it all going wrong.
As Dark a place as it may seem that we were in it really isn't anywhere near as dark as it could've been.

 

[jaycee]

Basically board ineptitude,once Sir John Moores left we went from being Harrods to being the £ shop,arguing over a few grand for Terry Curran,flogging players at the first opportunity or keeping long past their sell by date,when the chance came around to improve the ground we stuck a 1st division stand up and planted seats on terraces

 

[Sentinel]

Vision, quite simply vision and ambition. Probably both one of the same. As a club we've been bereft of it since John Moores. It's evolve or die. Everton currently are run like an old chums club.

My brother sits regularly with the Derby directors on match day. It's all about the wine and the food and then the "footie". Makes me sick. Embarrassing, they know nothing about football. Never played it and never will know it. It's just a day out. They've got the money and that's it. Lions led by donkeys.

You want an insight into the way Everton is run? Picture this. Sycophants and freeloaders.

 

[Blues Harp]

Vision, quite simply vision and ambition. Probably both one of the same. As a club we've been bereft of it since John Moores. It's evolve or die. Everton currently are run like an old chums club.

My brother sits regularly with the Derby directors on match day. It's all about the wine and the food and then the "footie". Makes me sick. Embarrassing, they know nothing about football. Never played it and never will know it. It's just a day out. They've got the money and that's it. Lions led by donkeys.

You want an insight into the way Everton is run? Picture this. Sycophants and freeloaders.

You've nailed it my friend....we as a club are in danger of stagnating unless the attitude as you describe changes. I thought that Moshiri would be the catalyst which halted this but now I am less sure. I am fortunate to have started watching Everton since Harry Catterick was manager and have seen some great sides since then....I recognise that the game itself is a businesss nowadays but surely that does not stop us from having some sort of a vision for the club? Eerily and off topic, your description above could well apply to our current government......oh dear

 

[Sentinel]

as a club are in danger of stagnating

We're stagnating because the current board haven't once dug into their pockets and helped the club out. All they've done is filch from the table and brought nothing to it.

As supporters we've dug in deep for generations and the grief that comes with that. It's increasingly looking likely that Moshiri and probably his pal Usmanov are is just in it for the dividends that a developed dockside will bring.

I never bought into the "peoples" club B.S. But even our neighbours across the park wouldn't put up with these shenanigans. It's time for him to put his cards on the table. Put your money were yer feckin' mouth is.

 

[Brendan Janus]

Generally speaking, as a club, we have wasted millions on rubbish players !!

 

[Sentinel]

Generally speaking, as a club, we have wasted millions on rubbish players !!

Or alternatively, we received millions from player sales. Who exactly in the club was responsible for failing in replacing these players? Lukaku, Stones, that's allegedly 150 million, Barkley there's another 30 if he was sold.

Surely you get to a stage and question, if whoever is hiring the person to makes these decisions is maybe incompetent or at least culpable. Nearly 200 million spent and we're floundering near the bottom of the league.

Then it becomes not just a management or coach issue, it comes down to the directors. And their failure to hire someone to do a job. It's inexcusable and if they were not in the bubble of football, they would be removed.

I'm sure as they quaff their claret and scoff their beef wellingtons, that danger never enters their heads.