The supporter?s response to all this has been: Why won?t you talk to us?
Well.... not all supporters ? just Evertonians for Change and Anne Asquith, the chairwoman of the Shareholders Association. Does this strike you as being rather tame considering the club's current predicament?
I won?t spend too much time or expend much effort on criticising a naive supporters group for seeking to engage with a board that doesn?t want to engage with them. But Anne Asquith should know better:
Mrs Asquith said she will meet with chief executive Mr Elstone at a shareholders? meeting next week. She said: ?Getting the AGMs back is a perennial request, and lots of shareholders have felt disenfranchised since they were stopped. But you can almost understand why they stopped them. Proxy representatives were attending the AGMs and there was some behaviour which some of us felt was not appropriate.?
She said: ?Getting the AGMs back is a perennial request, and lots of shareholders have felt disenfranchised since they were stopped. But you can almost understand why they stopped them. Proxy representatives were attending the AGMs and there was some behaviour which some of us felt was not appropriate.?
Asquith does have access to the upper echelons at Goodison, unlike the shareholders that she purportedly represents. I wonder if Elstone has given her an indication about when the shareholders will be have their rights restored?
The club have silenced the shareholders and the chairwoman does not raise a word of complaint,: instead, she parrots the clubs line. If Anne Asquith can?t muster a defence of the shareholders rights then the Shareholders Association should be wound up forthwith.
As things stand, the club have silenced the shareholders, banned The Echo and we still have individuals and supporters group that want to engage with them. The board of directors at the club are not reasonable people, and to regard them as reasonable is a colossal mistake.
They burned the bridges, it?s not up to us as fans to rebuild them.
They regard supporters and small shareholders as beneath their contempt, little people that can safely be ignored until they need your season ticket money. Engaging with them is pointless ? they will not listen, and taking their record into account, why engage with them at all?
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How dare any of us offer any constructive criticism, no matter how many of our well earned pounds they readily take off us? I was a staunch Bill Kenwright fan. I reckon it must have taken me a bit longer to see the light!!!! It sounds like he has got pissed with power and has got his head stuck firmly up his fat arse.
As Lyndon has pointed out, though, at least we haven't got the local press in our pocket now, spouting the 'party line'.
I think we?ve been average and we deserve to be where we are. We have risen to the challenge of the big teams, but we have let ourselves down in the games we should be winning.
I am in no way shape or form blaming the supporters for the performances this year, but Goodison has been dead for atmosphere this year, there are only two games which you could say had atmosphere, the derby and the Spurs game. I know people will say that the players need to lift the crowd. But sometimes the crowd need to lift the players and wake them up and make them realise how much even the small game means to us. I think with only a few home games left we should make Goodison a fortress and leave the Manchester City players and Chelsea players not wanting to face an atmosphere like ours again.
The buck stops with Billy Bullshitter, well it would if he wasn't hiding like a shithouse rat in his London digs, the same shithouse that, for all his True Blue credentials, wasn't even arsed to come to the Cup match against Reading and has remained painfully silent over DM getting a penny of the Pienaar sale money in the January window.
He looks to be greasing up the exit door to cover his own useless arse with DM the latest fall guy to feel his 'knife in the back' routine.
Years ago, then Crystal Palace chairman Ray Bloye (I was living in S London then) banned the Croydon Advertiser from games. The main sports reporter, John Matthews, just paid his two bob or whatever it was and stood with the fans. After a couple of weeks, you should have seen Palace retreat.
If the Echo did the same, I suspect EFC would do the same.
You say to leave the business side until the end of the season, but the season's all but over for Everton, bar scraping a few more points together to grant the club another season in the Prem. The prospect of losing key players in the summer, no cash to buy replacements, and no change at the top means next season is already looming up on the horizon as a disaster waiting to happen.
We have paid up stooges like Graeme Sharp employed as a fan's liaison officer ? for what exactly? We score zero in terms of customer care ? I wonder why?
We have endured a littany of lies and fiascoes on every issue from investment to an ill-thought-out ground move ? I wonder why?
The only way that I, as one supporter with a season ticket, two for my kids, and the associated hundreds of pounds spent on merchandise each season, have to demonstrate my anger at this totalitarian dictatorship is to withdraw my backing, and that us what I will do.
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