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Blue Union set to resume protests

Nothing has changed despite finishing 7th

Following their suspension of any further matchday protest during the 2011-12 season back in March, after the team performances had improved significantly, the Blue Union has announced it intends to resume peaceful protests with immediate effect.

The Blue Union remains totally committed to continuing their campaign for change in terms of the senior management team and ownership of Everton FC, a change that they believe is essential in safeguarding both the present and the future of the club.

The financial situation at the club remains a precarious one. All the signs are that once again the manager is going to be forced to operate on a ?sell-to-buy-with-a-limited-percentage-of-the-proceeds' strategy this summer — a modus operandi the Blue Union consider to be completely unacceptable, unsustainable and ultimately of potentially disastrous consequence.

The BU believes the pressure needs to be cranked up, the tough questions once again need to be asked, and the custodians of Everton Football Club need to be held to account on their performance of the previous decades, a ?performance' that is seeing Everton fall further and further away from the Premier League elite with each passing season.

Despite a lack of tangible success over the last 20 years, Everton Football Club remains one of the biggest in the country. Biggest in terms of success, biggest in terms of heritage, biggest in terms of global recognition, biggest in terms of some of the legends that have graced the shirt, and, most importantly of all? biggest in terms of support.

As Evertonians, the BU believe that it is their duty to do all they can in attempting to ensure that the club is once again able to compete with the best and at very least halt the financial mismanagement that is inevitably going to lead to the manager running out of miracles at some point in the non-too-distant future.

Restating Aims

To avoid any further confusion, the BU are also taking this opportunity to restate their aims.

The Blue Union are totally opposed to selling the club to the first or just ?any' individual or group who shows an interest in purchase, which is a commonly peddled fallacy. Their view is, and always has been, that the search for new ownership and the subsequent decision on who the club should be sold to should be taken out of the hands of the current board of directors, a board who, it shouldn't be forgotten, are adamant that the club is for sale.

Over a period of a decade, this is a board who have FAILED to secure investment, FAILED to find a buyer, and have consistently failed to deliver schemes that they had previously heralded as ?deliverable' and ?viable'. The BU now call on the Board of Directors to place on public record a statement of intent outlining the sale process, with caveat to protect the history and traditions of Everton Football Club's past and its vision for the future.

In place of the Everton Board — assuming of course that they are genuine in their intention to sell the club — BU would like to see the appointment of a fully autonomous group of professionals with the sole remit of finding new ownership for Everton — an ownership that can demonstrate a viable plan to secure the financial and cultural future of the club.

Enough is enough. Nothing has changed in terms of the financial predicament of the club. Nothing has moved forward in terms of finding a solution to deliver a modern fit-for-purpose facility through which we can increase matchday revenue streams. Nothing has changed in terms of the spin, disdain and pure contempt aimed towards the fans from the senior management team outlined by the hacked and leaked email scandal which rocked the club in November. Nothing has changed in terms of finding the new owners or investment that we are expected to believe that our Chairman has desperately been seeking for the last 10 years. Nothing will ever change unless the fans come together and show a courage and unity to do something about these things and demand better.

The BU believe that this season they need to step their protests up, in size and frequency, and they need to let their voices be heard louder than ever, under the clarion call, ?It's time for change?.

The BU plan to resume the fight to rid the club of the managed decline and failures that have blighted the current board's tenure.

The Blue Union urge all Evertonians to ?Stand Together' with them as they seek to lift Everton Football Club back up to where it belongs at the peak of English football.

Quotes or other material sourced from The Blue Union

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