When Did The Rot Set In?

[Librarian]

When we sacked Joe Royle

 

[Canuck Darryl]

Moyes got bored with the same old, same old. He bugged out.
The revolving door began with myriad managers and directors
There wasn’t any direction from above. Too many average players in positions that we really didn’t need them.
I hoped that it would get better with a billionaire, but it’s only got more chaotic.
Too many cooks that couldn’t boil water,
If we survive this season it will be a miracle.

 

[Huyton Layne]

How can you be one of the 5 big boys that instigate a break away league to make more money and be so skint 10 years later you're spending beans? Top end attendances too but not able to spend.

 

[edge]

When we sacked Joe Royle

Last time we actually looked at other teams without an inferiority complex .

 

[Dad watched Dixie]

Thatcherism, the permissive society, advent of rock and roll?
From an Everton perspective, what was the moment when the tide turned and things started going backwards?
For me,the pivotal moment was the first home game in Martinez’s second season when we were walloped at home by Chelsea. Everything seemed rosy up to that point. We entered the season on a wave of optimism after t performing so well the previous season . Then bang! Teams sussed us out, watching us pass, pass, pass in our own half.
Since then it’s been one way to the grave.

29th May 1985. After the wall was pushed down at Heysel. We have never recovered from the European ban. The decay was slow at first, got worse then the [team] decay was stabilised because Moyes (not Kenwright) punched above his weight but the club was being ruined by Kenwrights antics, antics that continue to this day.

 

[4737carlin]

When we sacked Joe Royle

This is the best answer so far, but it pre dates a lot of the supporters todayso they dont get it, we had a FA cup winning side and failed to build on it, and Joe going and the reason behind it did cause us very long term damage

Peter Johnson, another who some give a free pass too.

 

[daza_1973]

When Ted Lasso's AFC Richmond beat us 1-0 in the first series.

 

[BlueStevie35]

When we sacked Joe Royle

We didn’t sack Joe, he walked out because Agent Johnson wouldn’t sanction a move for Tor Andre Flo, same thing as Howard walking out 4 years earlier because he wasn’t allowed to sign Dion Dublin

 

[Tom Hughes]

This is the best answer so far, but it pre dates a lot of the supporters todayso they dont get it, we had a FA cup winning side and failed to build on it, and Joe going and the reason behind it did cause us very long term damage

Peter Johnson, another who some give a free pass too.

You give a free pass to BK who makes Agent Johnson's misdemeanours look like a tiny blip in our history. For you, everyone is to blame except for the one common denominator throughout all these periods....... your hero!

 

[4737carlin]

You give a free pass to BK who makes Agent Johnson's misdemeanours look like a tiny blip in our history. For you, everyone is to blame except for the one common denominator throughout all these periods....... your hero!

The common denominator is the fans, who I do regularly call out for the misdemeanours they have made.

 

[Blue peter]

Moshiri:

- Happily kept Kenwright on as a convenient source of critisism deflection.
- Little to no communication, and lies through his teeth whenever he does such as in that weird Jazz Bal interview.
- Has crippled the club due to financial mismanagement, now facing punshment.
- Involved the club with shady individuals such as Alisher Usmanov, who also meddled in our managerial appointments such as Benitez.
- Listens to advice from Kia Joorabchian and buys players without Managerial/DoF consent on huge contracts.
- Has oversaw the development of a championship level squad with nothing in common with the values of everton.
- Signed Alexander Iwobi because Arsenal.

But most importantly, he has oversaw the degredation of any connection between fans of the club and the club itself. Speak to any evertonian and they will all agree that we are a shadow of our former selves even from the Moyes team. He has allowed the Board to castigate the fans and the rift between them and us has never been greater.

Forget the stadium, THIS man is the biggest problem with Everton FC now.

As much as I think Kenwright is to blame I can’t disagree with any of that

 

[Blue peter]

The rot set in with me as I bought my first season ticket in the summer of '95, have had one ever since, and we've won the square root of F all in that 28 year period.

I'm clearly a jinx!

Right the next protest March or town hall meeting has to have @StreetEndBlue as Agenda item 1!!!

 

[Ferguson1878]

As much as I think Kenwright is to blame I can’t disagree with any of that

mate kenwright had also done most of the things on that list before moshiri was even in the picture

 

[Blue peter]

mate kenwright had also done most of the things on that list before moshiri was even in the picture

I know hence why I said I think Kenwright is to blame but couldn’t also disagree with what the poster said

 

[Tom Hughes]

The common denominator is the fans, who I do regularly call out for the misdemeanours they have made.

The fans do not make any decisions and do not control anything.

The fans did not run the club into the ground and not deliver anything for decades, while all around us, clubs grew their infrastructure and income streams to multiples of ours.

The fans did not wreck Kings dock, did not get into bed with Philip Green with multiple dodgy loans, did not wheel out the Charlatan Samuelson, did not try to force the club to relocate to a shed in Kirkby at 3rd party's behest.... did not lie continually, did not ban AGMs because he could no longer face the questions. The fans did not preside over the longest barren spell in the club's history.... a spell that has seen the club go from one of the established big 5.... to absolute nobodies.

All the fans did was turn up..... in their tens of thousands, year after year.... with nothing whatsoever to show for it.

The only fans that have anything to be ashamed of are the happy clappers like you.... who have been complicit in BKs endless list of crimes against Everton Football club. Hope you're proud of yourself!