Of course these polls are irrelevant as we all know. They only serve to absorb our understandable instant frustrations/anger/pragmatism/delusion depending on our standpoint.
Unless banners go up at GP, fans gather in dissent out the back of the Park end etc and the media run with it; there's no pressure on Kenwright. Apart from the results obtained as we go through these last 9 'cup finals' and we get dangerously close to the drop.
Kenwright is the key decision maker here ( however we don't know yet the collective influence of the other shareholders) and for the reasons below Martinez stays;
- BK built up a reputation amongst other PL chairman as one who was loyal to his manager through the
Moyes era, he would not want to become a slayer after such a short time.
- BK chose RM, and to fire now or in the summer would amount to poor judgement on his part when appointing him - how would that look to his fellow chairman? ( a nice little elite group he likes being a part of); and perhaps to his fellow shareholders. Levy has similar form but he has the thick skin and personality not to give a damn.
- He wants another long term manager because that means he can continue with his other life in peace, be a supporter and not have to contemplate too many difficult conversations with people - he will ride out any discontent now in the hope that things will settle, improve and ensure the longer term vision prevails. My issue with that is BK / the club have not set out that long term vision.
For me, I want RM out for the simple reason he is not good enough for Everton. Lovely bloke, infectious and the kind of person you want to succeed. Football at this level consumes people like that unfortunately. As someone has already mentioned, EFC in the 21st century needs different ownership.