The Everton Board Thread 2014/15

[Bluesnapper]

We've still got Bill (who may or may not be well), Jon Wood, Robert Earle and Robert Elstone.

Kenwright is supposedly very ill. Earl very rarely sets foot in the UK and even more rarely attends the board meetings and Elstone isnt on the board.

Apart from that you are 100% correct.

 

[joey_macmo]

That was KEIOC, granted its part of the BU.

KEIOC is still around and hopefully we shall have an insight from them at the meeting at the Casa on 11 July.

Essentially the same people

 

[paultheblue]

We've still got Bill (who may or may not be well), Jon Wood, Robert Earle and Robert Elstone.

Thats ok then for a minute there I thought we were in trouble

 

[Bluesnapper]

Essentially the same people

No there are more groups than just KEIOC.

 

[joey_macmo]

No there are more groups than just KEIOC.

And? The people four officers of KEIOC are members of the Blue Union are they not?

KEIOC essentially became defunct when Kirkby was quashed

 

[Bluesnapper]

No, just Dave Kelly.

This taken off Twitter after their AGM: 'secretary Simon Magner and also treasurer Tony Fitzpatrick who have left their roles this evening but still actively support the group’s aims. Dave Kelly was successfully re-elected as the group’s chairman, with both Richard Knights and Robbie Daniels being unanimously elected as secretary and treasurer respectively.'

 

[MickA]

Maybe as supporters we should just get behind our team since it's the best one we've had in 20 years. Lets be honest while the team is this strong and we're talking of windows where we might be signing Shaqiri, Mertens and have signed Cleverly and Deulofeu after the last window when we signed Rom nothing is going to happen.

It's simply going to be an unwelcome distraction which spreads division in a season when we might actually do something.

If you want my advice the BU should pick it's battles so as not to weaken it's argument. Wait for the time when the board is weak and then act because if it doesn't it will come across as a joke and when the time is right no one will be able to take it seriously.

Mate we haven't had a go and strengthened without selling since the summer of 1988.

Incidentally....

 

[The Esk]

Kenwright is supposedly very ill. Earl very rarely sets foot in the UK and even more rarely attends the board meetings and Elstone isnt on the board.

Apart from that you are 100% correct.

As I said the other day, if you're going to present things as fact make sure you have it right before doing so. Elstone is on the Board of Everton.

http://www.evertonfc.com/content/club/board-of-directors

Given that that the Club does not report who attends Board meetings (it is under no obligation to do so) you cannot say whether Earl attends. It is not uncommon to attend by phone when out of the country.

 

[Bluesnapper]

As I said the other day, if you're going to present things as fact make sure you have it right before doing so. Elstone is on the Board of Everton.

http://www.evertonfc.com/content/club/board-of-directors

Given that that the Club does not report who attends Board meetings (it is under no obligation to do so) you cannot say whether Earl attends. It is not uncommon to attend by phone when out of the country.

I dont think you should believe all that you are spoon fed by the club and you will find that what I posted is correct.

Proof? These pages say different and prove my post is correct:

http://companycheck.co.uk/director/911302193/MR-ROBERT-COLIN-ELSTONE

http://companycheck.co.uk/company/00036624/EVERTON-FOOTBALL-CLUB-COMPANYLIMITEDTHE

http://companycheck.co.uk/company/0...-CLUB-COMPANYLIMITEDTHE/directors-secretaries

If you also pay to see the Companies House version you wont find Elstone there either.

 

[davek]

I dont know how a supporters group at this level of the game is supposed to do anything other than critique their owners. There's nothing else on offer as far as I can see. We are not at a level of football that can, for example, expect a supporters trust type of intervention. It's just too large a concern to have impact, and in any case, the largest shareholders are not in the business of sharing capital with anyone outside their fellow caste. Any shares that do come into play have been quickly snapped up by the existing largest shareholders. I'm pretty sure Carter's shares will be heading that way if they haven't already. In the past the Shareholders Association has been wrestled away from the meek and mild boardroom poodles who once ran it. But that was a short run project which ran aground and the largest shareholders would have little to do with those who were more questioning.

Besides having input of that nature - on stock ownership grounds - what is there left other than to do what the BU and KEIOC have done in the near past? They are protest groups who have put forward for general consideration alternative ways of funding a stadium and getting new capital into the club. Am I missing something here? Is there anything other than that they can be doing other than what they've tried in the past, because it sounds to me like some are asking them to shoot for the moon with a pea-shooter. The balance of forces are totally against them and to expect them to do anything other than to hit and run and sporadically enter the fray with a guerilla campaign is unreasonable. IMO.

 

[The Esk]

I dont think you should believe all that you are spoon fed by the club and you will find that what I posted is correct.

Proof? These pages say different and prove my post is correct:

http://companycheck.co.uk/director/911302193/MR-ROBERT-COLIN-ELSTONE

http://companycheck.co.uk/company/00036624/EVERTON-FOOTBALL-CLUB-COMPANYLIMITEDTHE

http://companycheck.co.uk/company/0...-CLUB-COMPANYLIMITEDTHE/directors-secretaries

If you also pay to see the Companies House version you wont find Elstone there either.

Mate, I never said he was a Director of the Company, I said he is a member of the Board. You do not have to be a Director to sit on a Board.

 

[nil satis]

Who is realistically going to do a better job? Unless a ready made billionaire comes in ala Citeh and Chelsea what more can we ask for. Other than last year we have been consistanly in the upper parts of the Premier League and are currently shaping up nicely for a good go next year. Lots of clubs get taken over and how many have been a raging success and even got past us? Those billionaires at Newcastle, Villa, Sunderland and big takeovers elsewhere and how many are better off? Just the two mentioned as far as I can see and they are exceptional circumstances.

I think you speak for many supporters there, who are probley more realistic about how football has changed. BU might have more support if it said;
1/ what it wants to happen?
2/ How that change can be achieved (this hopefully not with pure speculation about a Billionaire buyer in the wings).

 

[joey_macmo]

No, just Dave Kelly.

This taken off Twitter after their AGM: 'secretary Simon Magner and also treasurer Tony Fitzpatrick who have left their roles this evening but still actively support the group’s aims. Dave Kelly was successfully re-elected as the group’s chairman, with both Richard Knights and Robbie Daniels being unanimously elected as secretary and treasurer respectively.'

Colin Fitz was press officer for the BU so I'm sure he will be a member, just because they aren't officers of the BU doesn't meant they aren't members

Ive no idea why you thought to jump on it anyway but "essentially the same people" was an accurate term.

No, just Dave Kelly.

This taken off Twitter after their AGM: 'secretary Simon Magner and also treasurer Tony Fitzpatrick who have left their roles this evening but still actively support the group’s aims. Dave Kelly was successfully re-elected as the group’s chairman, with both Richard Knights and Robbie Daniels being unanimously elected as secretary and treasurer respectively.'

 

[Bluesnapper]

I think you speak for many supporters there, who are probley more realistic about how football has changed. BU might have more support if it said;
1/ what it wants to happen?
2/ How that change can be achieved (this hopefully not with pure speculation about a Billionaire buyer in the wings).

1 - they have said from the outset they want professional people who sell sports clubs for a living.

2 - the board say they will do it for themselves but given that thats been going on since 1999 then there isnt much hope of it happening. Pointers say the club isnt for sale despite what they say.

 

[joey_macmo]

I think you speak for many supporters there, who are probley more realistic about how football has changed. BU might have more support if it said;
1/ what it wants to happen?
2/ How that change can be achieved (this hopefully not with pure speculation about a Billionaire buyer in the wings).

You specifically have had this answered many many times in this thread.

You also seem to be the only one who repeatedly mentions a billionaire.

We do not need a billionaire, we require a board who have the vision to move us forward whether that Be in a new stadium or a renovation of Goodison. It might take 20 years but a plan that doesn't involve a massive handout would be nice.

We need a board capable of delivering a project like Everton place.

We need a board that does not promise that the investment cheque will be in the bank in the morning (FSF)

As ever though you specifically will ask the same questions in 5 pages time pretending that it hasn't been answered so many many times in this thread.