This was my original email;
Sirs, I don't suppose there is any chance whatsoever of this email getting to anyone who can make a difference or take what I am about to say seriously, I fully expect this to end up in your Junk folder. I have supported Everton since 1964 when I was 9, lots has happened during the intervening years and I have witness some truly awful Everton teams as well as the greats. However, if you read ANY Everton Fan Forums you must know that the majority of fans are well and truly fed up with the way the Club is going, downwards and backwards. We keep hearing that Bill Kenwright is searching '24/7' for 'investors', thats been going on for years and yet during this time, teams like Sunderland, West Brom, Bolton, Wolves, Wigan, etc are buying quality players, we are scraping the lower Leagues and hoping they come good. We may get a Tim Cahill now and again but most of the players we bring in actually belong in the Championship and not the Premier League. Now we are nearing the end of another Transfer Window and we have lost players on Loan and sold to other Clubs but brought nobody in. Net result, a smaller squad with less quality and this has been going on for years. We now look like a Championship Club and cannot even afford decent loan players that other teams seem to get hold of, many, many supporters are sick of the inability of the Board to come up with any sort of 'investment' that will halt our slide to further mediocrity. I don't know how David Moyes can continue under the restrains that the current Board are putting him under, if it wasn't for him we would be in deep, deep trouble. The 'Peoples Club' is a thing of the past since the Club decided not to answer questions put to them at the AGM's and you only have to speak to any Evertonian to find out how depressed we all are and nobody in the Club seems to be doing anything about it. Please do not insult my intelligence by reeling off typical 'Political' answers because I have been a Blue Nose for long enough to know they mean nothing, its action we all need. It's no good Mr Kenwright telling us all how much he loves the Club, my god there are people in the stadium every home game who can hardly afford the tickets and love it as much if not more than him. Yet we all still go to hope that the remaining decent players can perform but they are doing it less and less and the good players will be leaving for Clubs where decent players can also be added to the squad, not taken from it. He is in a position of find investment, if he has to sell then do it, we're not talking about Man City type finance, just enough to enable progress which is something we should have done when we won entry to the Champions League, again the Board failed to provide finance to enable us to compete. How can he not find Investment in a Club so right in History and such a loyal fanbase?? We are so depressed at the moment there is a very great possibility that we are resigned to eventual relegation, it is not inconceivable if we can't beat those teams around us like yesterday. Like I say I don't expect this will go any further than the 'Fans Junkmail Folder' but you really need to sit up and take notice before it's too late, that day may not be far away. Russell Quinlan
I don't suppose there is any chance whatsoever of this email getting to anyone who can make a difference or take what I am about to say seriously, I fully expect this to end up in your Junk folder.
I have supported Everton since 1964 when I was 9, lots has happened during the intervening years and I have witness some truly awful Everton teams as well as the greats.
However, if you read ANY Everton Fan Forums you must know that the majority of fans are well and truly fed up with the way the Club is going, downwards and backwards.
We keep hearing that Bill Kenwright is searching '24/7' for 'investors', thats been going on for years and yet during this time, teams like Sunderland, West Brom, Bolton, Wolves, Wigan, etc are buying quality players, we are scraping the lower Leagues and hoping they come good. We may get a Tim Cahill now and again but most of the players we bring in actually belong in the Championship and not the Premier League.
Now we are nearing the end of another Transfer Window and we have lost players on Loan and sold to other Clubs but brought nobody in. Net result, a smaller squad with less quality and this has been going on for years.
We now look like a Championship Club and cannot even afford decent loan players that other teams seem to get hold of, many, many supporters are sick of the inability of the Board to come up with any sort of 'investment' that will halt our slide to further mediocrity. I don't know how David Moyes can continue under the restrains that the current Board are putting him under, if it wasn't for him we would be in deep, deep trouble.
The 'Peoples Club' is a thing of the past since the Club decided not to answer questions put to them at the AGM's and you only have to speak to any Evertonian to find out how depressed we all are and nobody in the Club seems to be doing anything about it.
Please do not insult my intelligence by reeling off typical 'Political' answers because I have been a Blue Nose for long enough to know they mean nothing, its action we all need.
It's no good Mr Kenwright telling us all how much he loves the Club, my god there are people in the stadium every home game who can hardly afford the tickets and love it as much if not more than him. Yet we all still go to hope that the remaining decent players can perform but they are doing it less and less and the good players will be leaving for Clubs where decent players can also be added to the squad, not taken from it.
He is in a position of find investment, if he has to sell then do it, we're not talking about Man City type finance, just enough to enable progress which is something we should have done when we won entry to the Champions League, again the Board failed to provide finance to enable us to compete. How can he not find Investment in a Club so right in History and such a loyal fanbase??
We are so depressed at the moment there is a very great possibility that we are resigned to eventual relegation, it is not inconceivable if we can't beat those teams around us like yesterday.
Like I say I don't expect this will go any further than the 'Fans Junkmail Folder' but you really need to sit up and take notice before it's too late, that day may not be far away.
Russell Quinlan
Part of his reply said, "If you do not believe Bill Kenwright is attempting to sell the club, that's a matter for you.
"There seems little point in my answering your questions as you stated in your email you were unlikely to believe any responses...but - you were wrong...we didn't dump your email...we never do...we always reply...personally and swiftly."
I replied just to say that I thought the Club's reply to a genuine fan enquiry was disgraceful to which he said that he "unable to discuss transfer market policy as it is commercially sensitive....but I suspect you already knew that. If you have any questions which do not fall into that bracket, I'm happy to receive them."
So, any questions other than awkward ones are okay!!
To be honest its no more than I expected, if he is the 'face' of EFC to the public, its no wonder we can't get any investment.
I really do worry for our future with these clowns in charge.
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Not one more penny will I give these arseholes.
Now, the performances of the team, poor mostly, but definitely inconsistent, are what I have been witnessing for the last 50 years of supporting Everton, you accept that there are other teams who want to win and only a tiny fraction can be successful and unlike Liverpool supporters believe, we have no God given right to be the top dogs.
For a few of those 50 years we were the top team, playing good attractive football, but for the vast majority of those seasons we have been as we are now, also rans, but the board and chairman have always backed the manager, until now.
My Dad, 91, still a season ticket holder, my son, my brother and me are not renewing our season tickets next season, it's not because of the team, or Mr Moyes, because I have seen a lot worse than I see now, but I still wanted to go the game, put my money up front, still felt that tingling when Z Cars started to play, but I dont feel that buzz anymore.
Its because of the way the club is being run behind the scenes, the Kings Dock and Kirby fiascos, the pathetic business sense of the people charged with maximising the clubs incoming revenue, but most of all the complete lack of initiative regarding the state of the stadium and the clear improvements that are required to bring it up to minimum modern day basics to enhance the viewing and match day experience.
Staggering up to the Top Balcony on Saturday, with the escalators again not working, the number of people saying they had had enough and would not waste their money on season tickets for next season was frightening.
As I have mentioned before the poor facilities, such as toilets, the ridiculous prices for the most basic of catering, this is 2011, for fucks sake, nothing has changed in this area of the club for several years, apart from the customers expectations and people will not stand for being ripped off, look at the lack of queues for the catering, the massive queues for the toilets.
Sitting in cramped seats watching the game, it doesnt matter how the team plays if you are not happy with the match day experience, because all you are thinking of is this seat has cost me nearly £500 and for what?
It was different a few years ago, when everything was affordable, but it isnt now and Everton need to compete much, much fucking harder for my hard earned £500!
I can take the poor teams, I can't take the pathetic efforts of a board and chairman who are clearly playing for time, the reply to the email another example of people who have no idea what is about to explode around their heads.
The lack of initiative regarding contracts and selling of players, well, what do you expect from these people, the closing of the window now a week away, unbelievable.I write the above with a heavy heart, always I have tried to carry the name of Everton forward and defend it against all comers, but you can't defend the indefensible.
Now don´t get me wrong I understand our nations youth have a new found love of all things Chelsea but Christ above, we´re the Blues. Chelsea literally replaced Everton replica gear on our nations shelves in the last few years.
But come on nothing for Everton. I´m at a loss to understand the business decision making in our commercial-marketing whatever department. Of course we´ve no monies, there a bunch of clowns, up there with our own glorious leaders in Fianna Fail if ya ask me.
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