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davek said:
It appears we may have a new manager in soon.

I think that will be extent of Moshiri's axe-weilding.

Possibly that brings unity for a period too.
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A new manager may well give us a chance at survival this season Dave, but, continuing with Kenwright and co. is unworkable, the atmosphere is too toxic. It's going to be very difficult to persuade a decent manager to walk into this and should we manage to stay up this season, we will be in exactly the same position next season without a change of board. Moshiri really needs to appoint some competent professionals now to protect what is left of his investment and then he needs to finish the stadium, sell up and feck off.
 
davek said:
Mental health plummets much further with relegation. There is no scenario where slipping out of this league is a salve for mental well being.
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True, but nothing is worse that doing what you say, Dave, emotionally investing in this "survival battle" against one's better judgement and still going down - or staying up only to find the board intact and this latest civil war extinguished.

It's not on the fans to keep the club up, Dave. It's on the board.

I am merely an interested observer at this point: distanced, detached, and all the better for it.

I'm off to get some popcorn.
 
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bill Jung Un managed to get off his death bed then….
 
davek said:
The attempted 'cure' is worse than the disease in this instance.

Kenwright was an issue when he was majority owner. But since mid-2016 he hasn't been a significant player, and he's not likely to become one again anytime soon. He's more of a pantomime villain than anything more substantial. The fact we never had a professional board is down to Moshiri. That's because he didn't want a CEO of note, he didn't want a chairman of note. He wanted control of everything. There has been no delegation of power at this club. It's centralised control. Removing this board in the coming weeks would achieve the square root of f.a. in the near term...which is what we should be focussed on.
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Kenwright is still the chairman, by defintion he and his board run the club. He is involved in all major negotiations and decisions. No-one within the club says differently. The majority shareholder is essentially an absent landlord who thought he could step in, clear all the massive debts he inherited and leave the existing regime in place for continuity.... it was part of the deal. He probably fell for the same luvie Billy Bull as so many others. Thought he could give them the readies, sit back on his yacht and collect the spoils. Losing sight of that and the previous decades debacles is the reason BK has lasted so long.... nothing is ever his fault.... not even his contribution/complicity in the current crisis. Lance one boil at a time! If the board is a cardboard cut out as you claim... its removal will have even less damaging effect than the sqr root off FA, but the symbolic effect might be just as cathartic as the removal of Benitez last year, reuniting the fanbase and allowing this club to breath far easier for that battle ahead! Once and for all removing the parasitic jonah of jonahs and king of liars and empty trophy cabinets.
 
Efcjake said:
Do you feel Greg and Joe should publish official retractions and apologies because I do.

Everything that's been said to them was brought on by themselves for running the story on the word of a single unnamed source who we all know.

I can't be arsed hearing the pleas for sympathy from them and their mates. They failed to do their jobs properly. It's not personal abuse it's professional abuse for doing a crap job and it's well deserved imo.

This "we trusted the club official and we aren't to blame" line they're peddling is just an attempt to distract from the fact they rushed to run a story without doing their due diligence. That's why they're getting it in the neck and I hope they learn from this.
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I don't want any apology. People can simply cancel their subscriptions. The only way to hold O'Keefe and the Athletic to account is to hit them squarely in the pocket. He knows full well he has cost his rag a lot of subscriptions this week, hence his rather glib "Realise..." tweet during the week that was still riddled with aggression and threats to block people. He has no credibility, so why anybody would read that club stooge now is beyond me. It's not like he ever had any insight to offer anyway.
 
Tom Hughes said:
Kenwright is still the chairman, by defintion he and his board run the club. He is involved in all major negotiations and decisions. No-one within the club says differently. The majority shareholder is essentially an absent landlord who thought he could step in, clear all the massive debts he inherited and leave the existing regime in place for continuity.... it was part of the deal. He probably fell for the same luvie Billy Bull as so many others. Thought he could give them the readies, sit back on his yacht and collect the spoils. Losing sight of that and the previous decades debacles is the reason BK has lasted so long.... nothing is ever his fault.... not even his contribution/complicity in the current crisis. Lance one boil at a time! If the board is a cardboard cut out as you claim... its removal will have even less damaging effect than the sqr root off FA, but the symbolic effect might be just as cathartic as the removal of Benitez last year, reuniting the fanbase and allowing this club to breath far easier for that battle ahead! Once and for all removing the parasitic jonah of jonahs and king of liars and empty trophy cabinets.
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It really is almost beside the point if Kenwright has any influence or not. His time is up. For the club to move on, he must be purged. Symbols matter. He is a symbol of the past and a symbol of decline. He has to go.
 
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I can’t see why people find it hard to believe they’ve received threats. This is a tweet from today. We can all agree that the board needs to improve, but the narrative that has carefully been built up against them is horrific.
 
I'm starting to wonder if this is even worse than we think, and it's hard to come to terms with that. What if the board actually want out, because they have felt, experienced and seen that they can't solve the crisis, and they're all trying to protect their legacy and reputation? What if they think that if they resign, it's an admission of failure, but if they spin the story that the fans drove them out (like they did the managers) then It looks like they are victims of our evil behaviour. The Hollywood days of Koeman, Rooney and co seem to be boring in comparison!
 
What do you all think of this analysis?


The upshot of this counterproductive debacle is that Everton have made their own manager’s job – and, by extension, their own prospects of avoiding relegation – more difficult. They have also exposed how Everton are run, and why there is such a clamour for Moshiri to sell up or impose the changes that were needed at the top when he bought into the club. Everton’s decline has accelerated under the British-Iranian billionaire, but it did not start with him. The club was lagging behind its Premier League peers commercially and had three failed stadium projects to its name when Kenwright, indebted to Moyes for keeping Everton competitive on a shoestring for 11 years, finally found a much-needed investor and invited Moshiri on board in February 2016.
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https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...in-civil-war-that-could-have-catastrophic-end
 
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