Protests Today?

[GrandOldTeam]

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Fans Expected To Protest About Everton's Summer

Everton host their first pre-season game at Goodison Park today - and the club are braced for a hostile reception from fans disillusioned by a summer that has been beset by bad news.



The Government’s decision to scrutinise Everton’s controversial plans to build a new stadium at Kirkby, and the club‘s inability to bring in any new players as yet whole allowing Andy Johnson and Lee Carsley to leave are factors that have made this summer a frustrating one for Everton fans. And they are expected to vent their feelings at Goodison today when the Toffees take on PSV Eindhoven in a prestige friendly.
Club chairman and owner Bill Kenwright is braced for a lively reception with more protests expected from Toffees’ fans opposed to the move Kirkby, which is outside Liverpool's city boundaries.

And Everton’s plans have been further undermined by what could be a delay of up to two years for their proposed £400million new stadium project with Tesco.

The delay will incur escalating extra costs which Everton may have to bear, with Kenwright due to meet Liverpool City Council leader Warren Bradley next week and also to chair an emergency board meeting.

Everton have been in talks with their legal team, plus Tesco, the City Council and Knowsley Council following the Government's decision to ‘call in’ the plans for a public inquiry.

Knowsley are still backing the scheme, but Everton will not state publicly their own view until studying a cost-assessment from their lawyers.

Everton fan Bradley has campaigned to keep the Toffees within Liverpool city boundaries, but the club's board have rejected three proposed sites as unacceptable, and will now challenge him to come up with another proposal.

But with the delay threatening to cost the club millions, and with Kirkby residents and many Everton fans opposed to the scheme, the club are in a decidedly uncomfortable position.
...But M'bia Bullish Over Everton Move
The politics over the stadium are also providing a negative back-drop to manager David Moyes’s as yet fruitless efforts to make new signings before the Barclays Premier League opener against Blackburn Rovers a week today.
He has been linked with Newcastle's Alan Smith and Rennes defender Stephane M'bia, who claimed: "At the end of last season I was promised that if there was a good offer, I could leave.

"This offer exists. It comes from Everton, who want to buy me for more than eight million euros.

"I want to leave Rennes. Everton are offering me 1.5million euros (£1.1million) a year - Rennes could never offer me that much.

"Everton are a very established club in the Premier League, managed by David Moyes, a coach who puts trust in youngsters.

"I have spoken to him on the phone. He wanted to invite me to visit the club. I hadn't the time to do it."

 

[kenada_blue]

They pay the money to see em so why not have a go. Unless Moyes gets pissed off and decides to leave but we'll see how it goes hehehe

 

[GhostOfDixie]

Await the march of the uninformed.

 

[davek]

I dont know of any protest. If there is one, I'll add my voice to it though. Anyone else who wants the best for the club should too.

 

[GhostOfDixie]

I dont know of any protest. If there is one, I'll add my voice to it though. Anyone else who wants the best for the club should too.

So do you expect Moyes and Kenwright to be waving their banners around too?

Sorry, but this is just typical moaning Evertonians. Not saying that its been a great summer, but any excuse to have a bitch in my book.

Moaned all last season about KEIOC malarkey, now moaning because we haven't replaced Lee Carsley and McFadden.

Danny made a great post earlier this week, and it put things into perspective. Shame that type of Evertonian is few and far between.

 

[davek]

So do you expect Moyes and Kenwright to be waving their banners around too?

Sorry, but this is just typical moaning Evertonians. Not saying that its been a great summer, but any excuse to have a bitch in my book.

Moaned all last season about KEIOC malarkey, now moaning because we haven't replaced Lee Carsley and McFadden.

Danny made a great post earlier this week, and it put things into perspective. Shame that type of Evertonian is few and far between.

The board have let everyone down in a period when we should have been adding 4/5 players - not losing 2 first teamers - to push forward this season. If they insist on treating supporters as 'customers' and using the language of 'business' in relation to the club, dont you think they should hear the customer complaints? They cant have it every way. They either act the part of competent businessmen and move us forward off the pitch, or they pay the penalty of failed leadership.

 

[uknightbreed]

imo , every fan who is currently unhappy has every right to tell the club what they think today.

in fact im shocked at how calm the fans have been up till now.

 

[steevie]

The board have let everyone down in a period when we should have been adding 4/5 players - not losing 2 first teamers - to push forward this season. If they insist on treating supporters as 'customers' and using the language of 'business' in relation to the club, dont you think they should hear the customer complaints? They cant have it every way. They either act the part of competent businessmen and move us forward off the pitch, or they pay the penalty of failed leadership.

The entire Everton Boardroom staff have let the club down for years now, not just recently. This is not another Evertonian on the moaning bandwagon, but an Evertonian that can see what has gone on. Strange how anti-kirkby fans have continuously been accused of moaning due to non existent transfer activity, yet since the stadium call-in was announced, almost all for DK have acted in an almost suicidal frenzy. We cannot even fill Goodison Park up most weeks in a stadium that is easily accessible to Liverpool City Centre, so what makes people believe we would fill out a stadium with 14,000 extra seats in a stadium where transport connections are far poorer is beyond me. To find genuine individuals who detest Everton, read Brian Reads column in the Mirror, then again best not because i hardly red the RS insulting column.

 

[Dom1878]

Ill be protesting, when the players come out of the tunnel, ill be standing up, and then start banging my hands together.

Protesting is pointless. In our case anyway, if you want the manager, or the board out fair enough, but Kenwright and Moyes know they need to make transfers, so singing about it isnt going to speed them up.

 

[uknightbreed]

We cannot even fill Goodison Park up most weeks in a stadium that is easily accessible to Liverpool City Centre, so what makes people believe we would fill out a stadium with 14,000 extra seats in a stadium where transport connections are far poorer is beyond me.

no disrespect meant , but a clean tidy stadium will put more bums on seats.
its hard to expand the fan base when watching football at goodison is like watching football in a public toilet. thats the sad truth.

 

[kenada_blue]

no disrespect meant , but a clean tidy stadium will put more bums on seats.
its hard to expand the fan base when watching football at goodison is like watching football in a public toilet. thats the sad truth.

And no restricted views £30 is a fair bit to miss half the match.

 

[uknightbreed]

Ill be protesting, when the players come out of the tunnel, ill be standing up, and then start banging my hands together.

Protesting is pointless. In our case anyway, if you want the manager, or the board out fair enough, but Kenwright and Moyes know they need to make transfers, so singing about it isnt going to speed them up.

yep , i hope everyone still backs the players.
but protesting isnt pointless if it gets the feelings of the fans across.
the best protest imo is to block kenwright and co from entering the stadium at street level.

if no new players are coming in , then neither are the board.

 

[steevie]

no disrespect meant , but a clean tidy stadium will put more bums on seats.
its hard to expand the fan base when watching football at goodison is like watching football in a public toilet. thats the sad truth.

I understand what you mean mate, Goodison is a shambles these days, but saying that it would not have any bearing on whether die hard fans go to watch them play there. Evertonians travel everywhere and anywhere to watch their heroes play. We currently only fill out the ground against the top four teams with the exception of fixtures where we require vital points for European qualification, ie Newcastle last season and then we got 39,000 odd. We have averaged around the 34,000 mark for quite a few years now when the stadium was in a better condition.

 

[kenada_blue]

I agree your hardcore evertonians will go see them anywhere at anytime. But to fill a stadium you've got cater for the casual fan, one who'll get his tickets late or is not arsed where he sits for the best atmosphere etc. Those seats are terrible at Goodison and would put them off from going again.

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

yeah, thats right lets get portraits and march, won't upsdet the team at all will it.

keep matchdays for getting behind the team, otherwise off-field turmoil will be dictating our position in the pl, learn from the mistakes of the rs, last season the players said that its hard to avoid it when its going on so lets not go down that route. the local rs press will try to stir it up to destabalise the team........ignore them.