Shareholders Association call for vote of no confidence in Everton Board

3,500 so far.

Predictions for final number? 10,000.

Interesting that it is sponsored by the Shareholders Association.

Let's stay focused on the agreed belief that he should know now that his time is up. Make amends by making way for another approach to solving the club's vast set of problems.

If he is in fact a good person and ‘one of us', he should oblige and give up his pursuit of image maintenance.

4,500 and counting!!!!!

Given the build-up of anti-Board sentiment in recent days, I do wonder if at least one member may decide to throw the towel in?

I'm starting to wonder how the scenario of an emergency board might play out, likely or not.

Dean – wherever it goes, the size of this petition will make waves for sure.

"I speak to the chairman on a regular basis," says Lampard, but he's a bit like myself at the minute, absolutely fuckin clueless. So that is not a bad suggestion at all, Will.

They may like to give the impression it's fallen on deaf ears, but no way will they be allowed to ignore it.

Because this shows no sign of abating and it's getting to the sort of number (now approaching 5k & only started this afternoon) were it's going to be picked up by the media, particularly with it being sponsored by EFCSA (the oldest association of its kind in football) and likely to get well into 5 figures before it's finished.

A case of turning the tables and utilising their preferred method of using the media to do their dirty work. Slightly ironic really, “He who lives by the sword, shall die by the sword”.

Hopefully this gets more than the average home attendance otherwise the club will laugh it off and those who still back the board will say it's still a minority who are causing trouble etc etc.

The ‘27' organizers, the past contributors who framed the failures and all those who didn't settle for the brown plate special deserve much much respect. It's still shit, no doubt about it, but I do feel better thanks to what has to be one of the finest football communities. Keep it fucking going. UTFT!!!!!

Change at our club is long long overdue.

I don't expect our narcissistic Chairman to resign voluntarily but, if Graham Sharp has any balls, he would resign now. The longer he stays there, the more it diminishes what he achieved as a player.

Although, Moshiri is also culpable for failing to appoint an effective Board to run the Club for him.

This is bad shit, cos left with just Farhad, as it looks like we are going to be, who would give 50p for any competent decisions being made? Bill, for all his faults, wasn't an absolute basket case like Farhad.

The 'V' on my keyboard is evidently like our owner... never appears when you need it!

The world hasn't stopped turning just cos Blue Bill's mask slipped. You make it sound just like what he wants you to think – we depend on him. We don't, for fuck's sake!

We don't need Evertonians on an Everton board. It's a professional (hint) organisation where the board, regardless of affiliation has a fiduciary duty to do the best for the football club… unless the owner says otherwise. It's lazy thinking and we've been guilty of it as a football club for years.

I believe that anybody can sign the petition, you don't need to be a member of anything connected to the club.

I signed and 'chipped in' before going to work this afternoon.

Here is a link to a legal firm, describing the petitioned-for process;

Removal of Directors

Here is a link to the pertinent section of the Companies Act (2006):

Section 168

For Section 169 (also needed to be read) just scroll down to the bottom, and click next provision.

Unfortunately, UNLESS Moshiri agrees to the proposed resolution, this is not going to fly, sadly. As, any proposed resolution requires 5%+ of shareholders for any proposal to be successfully requested.

Seeing as Mr Moshiri owns 94.1%, and Mr Kenwright owns 1.3%, that only leaves 4.6% outside of their control, ie, not enough to successfully propose a resolution.

For the legal 'spiel' see here;

General Meetings

Lastly, here is the official EFC share list on the EFC website.

Division of shares

However, please, Please, PLEASE sign the petition, as it is our only way of showing Mr Moshiri the extent of the support to replace the board!

#AllTogetherNow

NSNOW

Keep going, lads and ladies!

This is the most peaceful, and probably most powerful way (without resorting to a total boycott) of demonstrating OUR displease of the Board and the clubs hierarchy.

If in don't, please sign, and click the 'anonymity option', before submitting, and you do not have to donate. it is entirely optional.

Moshiri probably doesn't even care.

I doubt whether there are many posters here who were under the illusion that this would succeed via the formal route of convening a general meeting of shareholders for a group of minority shareholders to table a resolution to remove board members.

Simply due to the fact that Mr Moshiri holds 94% of shares and would have to agree to convening the general meeting in the first place. Which he's never going to do, as he holds all the cards, so it would never get off the ground, and I think even the EFCSA are aware of this?

I think the whole point of the petition and vote of no confidence, is to draw widespread media attention to the fact that this isn't what the board would have you believe. That it's a group of Neanderthals who attack women because they're upset over their team losing a football match.

It's actually the oldest shareholders association in football representing the views of tens of thousands of its supporters articulating their dissatisfaction at the decades of incompetence of the board. Conducted in an orderly and responsible manner. Which is the sort of action by the sort of numbers that can't just be ignored or dismissed out of hand.

It could reverse the media feeding frenzy and refocus this negative spotlight from the fans onto the board?

Bringing the full power of the press to bear on them and not us, is what's ultimately going to be their undoing.

Then the team went in the bin, and fatally no focus has been on the appalling Lampard, with the effect that he has stuck around to lose us crucial games against our rivals. A normal club would have booted Lampard by now, righted the ship and be well on the way to being sold.

But this obsession with Bill Kenrwright has banjaxed us, leaving a shit manager in post, and the media focussing on the boardroom and the fans to the detriment of all of us.

Another factor is Frank's affability. He's such a lovely bloke nobody wants to turn on him. Frank's such a great kind of guy that even if Tyson Fury came back from training and found him in bed with his wife he'd say “ Hey Frank, sorry to disturb, would you like a cup of tea and a hobnob when you've finished? “

Brent, I would argue that the stinging criticism of the Board made it much more difficult for them to move against Lampard; it would look like they were using him as a scapegoat in such an atmosphere.

Kevin, if the normal club could afford to, they would. Our club simply can't afford to boot him because Moshiri has tightened the purse strings and we can't afford to pay up his contract, just as we can't afford to buy players.

We're fucked!

Notwithstanding he still has a 'day job' to do... which can't be easy these days, I get the impression he's mentally 'left the building'.

He finishes the stadium — he's gone. He gets an offer he can live with, finished stadium and / or guarantees to finish it or not — he's gone.

Kenwright is The Designated Survivor... and he ain't no Keifer.

Novel idea. How about him, his successors at The Echo and the rest of Bill's mates and sycophants employ some form of journalistic integrity going forward before bad-mouthing fans?

Even the Daily Mail with agent King have crossed over, as have the Express. I also noticed Michael Ball in The Echo on one hand supports NSNOW but on the other slagged off Moshiri for circumventing Everton's “brilliant” PR people to talk to Jim White.

Hmm… who would that be, Bally? David Prentice, the fellow who gave you your column?

I'm fed up with these self-interested hypocrites. Bally out, Sharp out, Echo out,

Like Juliette Ferrington at the BBC and Joe Thomas in the Echo, all Greg and David Ornstein did on Saturday afternoon was report the full context of the club's decision to instruct directors not to attend the Southampton game, which is what "the club" (read senior figures) wanted out there. It was an unprecedented decision, after all.

The later report by Greg and Paddy Boyland fleshed that out with the added context of Merseyside Police's claims that no offences had been reported which is when most people not already sceptical (ie, seasoned Evertonians!) started to question the narrative.

Just as I said on TalkSport on Monday that I think it's important to make the distinction between the peaceful protesters on the one hand and the actions of one unidentified person seemingly crossing the line in the Directors' Box with Denise Barrett-Baxendale and fans accosting players in the street on the other. We should also keep in mind that what the "brilliant" PR and comms people at the club might have done in terms of messaging (and the timing thereof) isn't necessarily the same as what the higher-ups did do.

There are some fine people working in Everton's Communications Dept, some of who I've met, others I count as friends and they don't deserve the abuse they've been receiving, some of it quite vile, for decisions they may have no influence over at all.

It's important, if the fan base is going to be taken credibly by the national media, that we keep our heads and not appear like the Bolsheviks storming the Winter Palace in St Petersburg. A sort of (blue) Velvet Revolution as in the then Czechoslovakia would be more effective.

Maybe that's a bit deep, but I'm usually like this early in the morning.

I subscribe to the Athletic. I like it as a source for good articles on Everton, but also wider football and sport in general.

A pity this didn't happen many moons ago, when the Club was more salvageable and before Moshiri got involved. Of the millions wasted we only have Pickford to show for it realistically.

Still, I suppose better late than never, applies.

Take the Athletic for example. Gregg O'Keefe and David Ornstein printed an article entitled 'Everton CEO Denise Barrett-Baxendale put in headlock by fan' last Saturday. The article LED with the allegations briefed to journalists that our CEO was put in a headlock, subjected to sexually aggressive comments and had her car surrounded. The Club Statement was then included as part of the article BELOW the informal allegations.

The structure of the article conflated the two separate issues and was structured to give credence to the club's claims by linking the formal club statement and the informal allegations together - it was intentionally written that way. There was no attempt to separate the two issues or verify the allegations of violence towards the CEO. You could claim that was lazy journalism, but it wasn't.

Journalists like Ferrington, Thomas, O'Keefe and Boyland rely on stories fed from clubs every week and, therefore, will print what the clubs' formal and informal sources feed them. They value those sources above all else, and will never deeply question what they receive (or they will not receive anything).

O'Keefe and Boyland fleshed out the added context in a second article because the statement from Merseyside Police cut their feed from under them - they could have investigated the informal allegations in the days after the match but it is evident they did not do so.

A national journalist, might shrug off reactions from a particular set of irate fans following an article. But, O'Keefe and Boyland earn their living by focusing primarily on one club - Everton. Most Everton fans I have talked to now regard them as thoroughly discredited mouthpieces for the club hierarchy rather than credible sports journalists.

We know from an article published yesterday by O'Keefe and Boyland that 1) journalists were given the statement 2) then briefed on some of the wider context, including some of the specific email threats to the Chairman and CEO 3( then club representatives present also described an incident when the chief executive was put in a headlock.

And what did O'Keefe do? He typed up the lot and printed it knowing the impact such claims would have.

Who knows the Chairman very well and would be in Ian Wright's, a ex professional footballer, What's App group and in the Director's box?

The answer to that could explain the silence from the Club and those in the know.

We are all feeling angry (although I suspect some are simply enjoying the drama) and there is a tendency to lash out.

Not pointing any fingers because I did it myself recently, only to find the journo in question was very sympathetic to the plight of Evertonians.

Abuse will not win the day. Nor will pointing fingers at easy targets simply because The legitimate targets wont come out of their trenches.

Caution and calm minds required.

With very, very little coming from the club we need to be wary of shooting the messengers. Otherwise there'll be no message at all

We need sensible articulate Evertonians, like Lyndon and Paul The Esk, coming to the fore now, and we need everyone else to start concentrating on the team.

My little daughter has just got one of those ‘Elexa things’ so listening to Neil Young, singing harvest moon, this morning, my only wish, was for me to see, those beautiful Everton fans, dancing once again!

You're the voice, try and understand it
Make a noise and make it clear, oh, woah
We're not gonna sit in silence
We're not gonna live with fear, oh, woah

Ooh, we're all someone's daughter
We're all someone's son
How long can we look at each other
Down the barrel of a gun?

Time for something more dramatic: Yes, the team might need the crowds to raise their level and fight like last season. But the snobbish ones at Board Level need to be shown a harsher lesson.

Nothing would be more than an empty Goodison Park in the next home game, IMHO.

Is the board going to sack themselves?? And if they do, where does that leave us??

We've been paddling in circles up shit creek for decades. No real change then.

It would also be great to get some positive media coverage and keep this battle for the soul of Everton Football Club front and centre. The pressure needs to be continually cranked up on the Board until they have nowhere to hide.

Michael/Lyndon - are there any levers you can pull with your vast network? I am personally lobbying Jazz on the Fan Advisory Board to gauge what can be done through that channel. I am a member of the Shareholders Association, btw.

But I'm still not sure of the ultimate goal in this.

Are you hoping ti get the board to resign and if so what would happen then??

When a club goes into administration, I’m guessing all the old guard, will be asked to leave, but it is now starting to look like all the people who defended Bill Kenwright for years, spoke to soon, when they said “at least we never became another Leeds”

Leeds are lucky, they don’t have another set of fans in their city, but the stick for us Evertonians is going to be unmerciful, thanks to the bastard, who gave us some good times.

What is the plan of action? Because we are already rudderless anyway, wether this board resign or not.

The Athletic and others raced to put the headlock story out and Greg himself retweeted on Saturday that the board had been subjected to "credible threats." He didn't use the word alleged. These stories created a snowball of criticism of Evertonians as other journos and the public piled on. Sky even twisted the pre match reception into some sort of threatening event. Ian Wright felt the need to apologize for his comments which showed fans in a bad light and he had seen messages from Kenwright specifically that seemed to legitimize the claims.

McNulty apart, going back to the Joe Royle row, the Echo and it's graduates show undue deference to Bill. And I say Bill because they have no issue writing articles criticizing Moshiri. While those articles have validity, they (McNulty apart) always avoid mentioning Bill in a Negative light.

Rather than saying "I will answer reasonable questions at a later date," why don't they a story explaining what actually happened, and who from the club put out a false or exaggerated story to them to begin with?

The club had been fortunate by virtue of its general results on the pitch up to and including Martinez's first season, although there were enough critics of the board and the way the club was run, throughout that period.

When the financial backing of Moshiri arrived, many of those critics believed the club would change its mode of working and we'd become more akin to our peers. It appears that we have fallen between two stools, trying to operate the way it always had done, but not realising that any mistakes would be more expensive and longer lasting than previous errors.

Considering that the current owner works in the world of money and accounting, it's perverse that the club should find itself in breach of the basic rules of the football authorities and continues to make a loss, even seven years into his tenure.

As the financial figures have grown worse, so too have the results on the pitch, and the clubs ability to finance its way out of trouble, which has happened very often at various times in the last fifty years, has all but disappeared.

It's little wonder that fans are awakening to what the true state of affairs at Everton FC may be, and are anxious if not petrified about where this could lead. At a time when the supporters need some reassurances about the future of the club, the owner and his staff, appear to have hunkered down, out of sight and are hoping that all the bad stuff will just go away.

That in itself gives fans, little or no confidence in the people who make the decisions at Everton Football Club. Frank Lampard, if there are no additions made in this window, has to somehow, cajole and inspire his players, he must get the best out of the current crop, even if he doesn't rate them, he can't continue to snub or perhaps protect, his newer additions to the squad, he has to utilise every single player as best he can. If the players don't feel that they are all in it together, we have no chance of avoiding the drop.

May be this will help.The NSNOW /27 years# is headed by various individuals who are capable of dealing with Moshiri and the Board and have the expertise to do so.

NSNOW

Mission Statement

Our mission is to unite the fanbase of Everton Football Club to demand the club uphold the values and principles of Nil Satis Nisi Optimum both on and off the pitch.

As lifelong fans of our great club, we are growing deeply concerned about the recent performance of our club, particularly off the field of play. We feel this needs to be addressed by Mr Moshiri, 94% Owner of Everton Football Club. There are four key areas to focus on; Finances, Ownership, Leadership and Direction (FOLD).

Finances: Other than the minimum statutory requirements, the club provides no information on its finances. On the back of constructing a new stadium, having extensive, continued losses, and profitability & sustainability issues, it is reasonable for shareholders and fans to expect regular updates on our finances. Our finances directly relate to our ability to compete.

Ownership: Since the summer, messaging from the club has been confusing. Is the club for sale? Are you seeking new investors to fund our working capital requirements? Other Premier League clubs seeking new investment or owners have appointed investment banks to handle their requirements. They have been clear with their communications. What is your intention, what are you doing and when will you communicate it clearly?

Leadership: In the near seven years since you acquired your initial shareholding you have persisted in retaining the current Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. There is nothing in the club’s governance, commercial, financial and indeed footballing performance, that suggests they warrant continued employment. As a result of huge losses and the squandering of resources, our competitive position declines on an annual basis in all respects. How can you justify their performance?

Direction: What are your ambitions (if any) for the club? The building of a new stadium, in isolation, will not cure the ills that have befallen Everton in recent years.So much more is required for us to be a competitive Premier League and ultimately European competitor once

more.

Change

We have short-term, immediate requirements, namely survival in the Premier League. But if that is not to be the limit of our ambitions in years ahead we have to see change at the football club. Change in the leadership, change in the culture that exists. You, as the majority shareholder, are the only person who can bring about that change. Surely you, with the financial commitment you have made, must recognise that change is necessary?

With respect, we ask you to directly answer the questions put to you. Tell us what changes are to be made to change the direction the club is heading.

You can register with the NSNOW website and ask individual questions you may have. I like Tony#106 fear we probably only seeing the tip of the iceberg and Administration my be the ultimate result., though has been forecast for a number of years,but has not materilised.If the Club keeps going as it is.What little we can do to prevent that is worth while as Evertonians.

Julie (105) I think that most people generally want the major shareholder to get a grip on the slippery slope we are on down to the Championship. They want him to identify and rectify

1)What's caused it

2) Who's responsible

3) What is he going to do to arrest the slide

That is the very least that we want to see. The Board, if they had any integrity, would have resigned long ago as thos has been going on ever since Kenwright took over as Chairman. If you don't know the history of his mishandling of our club since he became Chairman, it;s worth finding out.

I was going to say (we) but can only say I. want to see a radical departure from the pathetic, and I feel Corrupt, practices since at least the Kings Dock disaster, and for rejecting interest from the Man City owner before he went up the East Lancs Rd; where City have now won numerous cups and championships up to date. The Board members have perhaps some reason to say " Not our fault Guv" but they are part of the decision making process and presumably have gone along with Kenwright's Captaincy of the good ship Titanic, oops! Everton FC; and at the same time is now £20 odd million to the good.

We look like we are in serious danger of relegation. If we don't start winning some games we could fall into the ChMPIONSHIP; AND MAYBE NOT GET OUT FOR YEARS, IF AT ALL! (sorry Michael) This going on while half of a very, importantant transfer window has gone by without any sign of reinforcements to midfield or attack. This is after selling our best hope of scoring last summer;and bringing in to players who, I can only think were available on the never never.

Quite rightly, many thousands of Evertonians, many who have been going the match since the 50's and many more since the sixties, up to younguns coming with their Mam and Dads, are in despair at the vacuum of of ideas, well at lweast any good ones!, coming out from Goodison Park, to such an extent, that our own Shareholders Association (small in ownership terms but great in dignity and upholding what their forbears have done) have asked Evertonians to sign for the board to resign. Ten Thousand, including me have done, in less than 1 day.

We are doing this because we love our club and want Moshiri to take control and ask the Board to resign whole he organises another Board to run our club. This Board is not doing it's job,

There is an interesting podcast on you tube from...'Across the Park' talking to Dave Kelly from the shareholders association.
Have a listen.

No headlocks, no abuse, no violence, just massive numbers of true Everton supporters making an individual mark to demand change.

Yes it is, considering as outlined by other posters how old and established the Association is.Hopeful NSNOW and its associated Fan groups and members have and will wheel in behind this petition and push it on to 55,000 the capacity of the new Stadium.Which is a achievable target.

Our Brother Bill would have difficulty with this Association's genuine Everton DNA,especially at this rate with two days before the Saturday game and then a week to the Arsenal game High risk has a whole new meaning with the Everton Shareholders Association back by enough Evertonians to fill a Stadium and headlines jumping on over the numbers.There also may be some legal validity with such backing and no AGM called.

Anyway, I thought Denise B-B was looking for another job? I can't imagine her wanting to hang around much longer after this week's shenanigans, so that leaves Bill. If Moshiri has any sense, he'll make public a time-line for Bill's retirement and announce that he's begun a process to find his replacement. But I won't hold my breath.

Watched it. Some Interesting points. Sort of confirms the whole chaotic nature of things in some ways. All very loose and disjointed for a large Premier League club. None of this should be necessary.

What you say is correct. Those that can, will be able to claim backing. But given the conduct of the Club they will probably be ignored. The Club seem to only be prepared to communicate via channels it set up and controls. They may even give lip service to them rather than engage which they have form in doing.

But the more they ignore now, the bigger the problem will be, and I expect Moshiri will be the first to crack. It is turning into a PR nightmare for the Board.

I agree that anyone can sign the petition, but it will get the above association recognised and their message across.

Good to see Dave still fighting the good fight. Mellowed a bit and a bit more diplomatic from the Destination Kirkby days!

I think you may have misread the site, as the current total stands at 10,671 a few moments ago. I imagine you saw the 'Let's get to 15,000" message and took as the number who had signed.

I would think that the total won't get much higher than circa 12,000, but that's still a significant number.

Sobering his last comments about the foodbank situation. I know a famous Kopite said football was more important than life or death, but it isn't. We are all obsessed by all things Everton (well, I know I am after 40+ years!) but for people and families not to be able to get food to feed them and their kids in this day and age is criminal.

Every fan taking 1 tin with them to a game (if they can) is a great call to action for us all.

Yep, I was a bit over eager to sign and I did misread. Positive thinking maybe haha.

Just over 11,000 now.

See here Mike.

Sorry Mike, bear with me.

Odd, when I copy the link into a new tab it opens the correct page, but when I post the link here it opens this page??

https://www.toffeeweb.com/season/22-23/news/43058.html

Seems to work if you copy and paste but not if I create a link.

Francis, I saw your name at the same time K Baxendale signed.

I saw your post and not seeing what thread it was on started Googling Keith Baxendale thinking our scouts had unearthed so hidden gem.

"I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here!...sees a group of celebrities living together in extreme conditions with few creature comforts. Each member undertakes challenges to secure additional food and treats for the group, and to avoid being voted out by viewers during their stay, with the final episode's votes nominating who wins a series."

This is why we can't get relegated. If a team in the black gets relegated and is having financial issues after relegation, then what would become of a team with hundreds of millions in yearly losses if it was relegated?

In a word: Parachute Payments.

Doh... two words. But aren't they to cover the financial shock of going down? Not that I am advocating such a disastrous outcome.

"Kia Jooranchian... says that Carragher is ignorant, lives in a glass house and had no education."

In defence of Carragher, I doubt he lives in a glass house.

I would have thought the active online community was probably 2 or 3 times that number…