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Gavin Ramejkis

Balance and redress
3/2/06

The management are constantly criticised due to the abhorrent nature with which they treat the fans and supporters of the club.

Here are just a few examples: for several seasons Bill Kenwright (look no name calling) has released token sound bites on how he is working around the clock to secure funding for the club; this turned out to be repetative lies after lies with non-existent Russian businessmen and the odious and farcical Fortress Sports Fund. Yet each time these were surprisingly timed to coincide with season ticket renewals and poor publicity and quite frankly stink of top drawer spin doctoring. It is becoming more apparent that he simply refuses to give up controlling power of the club he sees as a personal possession despite it being in the best interest of the club.

A response to Trevor Birch's short time at the club, and I will openly admit this is my opinion as no one other than Trevor and the club will ever know the truth: Trevor Birch is the highest-profile bankruptcy administration specialist in football which screams out that the club was in huge debt and steering fast towards administration. An obvious route out of this administration would be the sale of assets the most obvious being Wayne Rooney, Mr Kenwright with showbiz mode on full claimed he was a £50m player going nowhere and negotiations were ongoing with his agent. The ensuing court case showed this again to be a Mr Kenwright lie.

Strange how marketing long before he was sold had been stripped of all mention of him but the Wayne Rooney story could be discussed for pages and pages. At some point Mr Birch and Mr Kenwright had some tête-à-tête — probably a disagreement over this issue — found his position untenable and stepped down and away, under no disgrace he made his own choice.

Now to our current CEO My Wyness (again sticking to his name), he has openly admitted to undertaking his own business interests on the club's time whilst in post. In the majority of jobs surely this would be frowned upon and even grounds for dismissal, after all would your boss be happy for you to moonlight on their time?

On several occasions Mr Wyness was publicly reported as travelling to deal with funding sourcing but not once has he returned with any, more recently this reporting has strangely ceased, even with Dominic King of the Liverpool Echo seemingly to have a hotline to Everton's latest spin.

Mr Wyness is surely tasked at running the everyday business of the club, time after time the ticketing policy and travel arrangements for games have failed abysmally, please note carefully that the European games were secured months before they happened so it can't possibly be a case of last minute planning headaches, as that is how it has looked over and over. Mr Wyness wrote an article giving his opinion to the writings of Jeff Randle, he should have used more care to choose what propoganda he chose to spin as several paragraphs are plain absurd if you had been on the receiving end of how Everton treat its paying fanbase.

David Moyes, well again hearsay and supposition about his dithering and inability to make decisions on buying players through years of example both at Goodison and at Preston. David Moyes had in his hand the lion's share of cash with which to buy and build a team to enter the European footballing arena for the first time in the club's history for over 20 years. The competition would have increased the clubs image which in turn would have built revenue from match receipts and marketing opportunities and helped broadcast our image across Europe.

Success breeds success as those clubs who have used Sky money to their advantage with business acumen have shown. Instead the months were wasted on indecision and several poor purchases and re-signings. Mr Moyes admitting months ago he needed to buy a striker in the January window, but no sign...

The team's European adventure became abject misery and reduced the clubs image to one of the butt of humour. Yes Duncan Ferguson scored a perfectly good goal but what if we had purchased another striker and we had scored three or four that night or in the first leg of the Uefa Cup game? Hindsight is great but even the working class fans were screaming for the obviously needed additional striker back in January 2005, a disgraceful waste of all the player's valiant efforts of that season — gone in just four games. So here's to opinions but temper your responses to acknowledge both sides of the story.
Gavin Ramejkis


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