Everton arrange private security for their final match of the season

Did anyone else think that the security around the dugout at the end of the game was well OTT? We all know the board are out of touch with the fans but that was pathetic.

Apparently we have employed a private security firm just in case the worst happens. Maybe it was a dry run for the final home game, nevertheless it was OTT imo.

My hunch is that we won't see that board again. I think Moshiri is working behind the scenes to get them gone.

He may not be a football man but he's got his millions somehow and I'm pretty sure he can see they aren't doing the job he expects them to. I reckon they're gone.

If we stayed up at home to Bournemouth, how do you see the crowd reacting? I just can't imagine a celebration second time around? It doesn't feel like something worth celebrating.

I think I'll feel relief, dread for next season, and a lot of anger at the short and long term mismanagement that has made this season such a shitshow.

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At half-time versus Man City, about 60 stewards practised forming a 3-sided rectangular shoulder-to-shoulder redoubt or cordon around the tunnel.

I think it might have been as much a thinly veiled warning message as much as a practice.

I can hear the dulcet tones of the lady announcer... "Commence Operation Rourke's Drift, Commence Operation Rourke's Drift."

Maybe Bill will get Michael Caine to reprise his role in Zulu. He'd line up 3 ranks of red coats with their Martini Henry rifles and bayonets and have at it at the advancing hordes.

"First rank, FIRE!"

(Note: actual security measures on the day may differ…)

[Read aloud with Cockney accent.]

And who knows – it might be adopted for one side of the new Everton Stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock – or more fitting, on the door of a convenience that overlooks the Sewage Works.

He's deluded but he's not mad.

I personally thought the Police handled the situation sensibly last season.

As for the board. Do not show. You abandoned us in January and with the team and manager, we have been on our own since then.

I have led and managed people in difficult situations and no matter what, you face the challenge and lead people.

Taking responsibility. Making decisions. Ownership. Accountability. Communication and Direction.

This lot have ran away. Abandoned ship.

They don't belong here.

Surely it should be:

“ Oi, you lot, stop chucking those bloody cushions!”

For those of a certain age.

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They have no place at our club. The relationship is beyond repair.

That packed-out away section at Wolves, and an already sold-out Goodison for Bournemouth with supporters desperate for tickets.

How dare they look us in the face.

How dare they take their place next season.

They wouldn't because they are shithouses.

Right now, I care about the team, Everton and our supporters.

But once done, this failed Board has to go. Do the right thing. You have failed. Take the moral decision.

Get out of our club.

You've left us to it since January.

Shithouses. Lack of leadership.

Apologies for the outburst.

Here on ToffeeWeb, I used to be often criticised for repeating the difference between the two. The gulf between the board and the team can never be overcome without change. Sometimes the failures go beyond incompetence and arrogance to pure maliciousness and in deriding the fans in such a way, they deserve to go. Shameful.

They should not dare to present themselves in our last match, the focus has to be on winning, the fans have to be focused on the team, not the board. They are irrelevant now, there is no way back. Nor should there be.

I expect investment or new ownership will come with safety of survival or relegation, the difference being what Moshiri gets. I wish an end to this 20-year chapter in Everton FC. A new chapter awaits in the new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock. Onwards and upwards.

BTW, Zulu – One of my favourite films since a teen. The gag after was:

Question: “ Who was the first person to be killed at Rork's Drift???…
Answer: “ A bloke called Will" (Following the instruction: ”Fire At Will!!”)

Now who in attendance could possibly have that same name??…… Mmmmmm… CITB

I got an Action Man for Christmas as a kid in the 80s. It said “Fire at will”. I asked my Mum who Will was? Ha!

Turning up on the last day if we are already safe to milk the atmosphere and to churn out the preposterous “never again”, “we're listening”, “we're taking action”, “500-point plan”, will not wash. In fact it would be a brazen insult to the intelligence of Evertonians.

The phrase "too much water has passed under the bridge" springs to mind. Or should it be it be "too much effluent has passed through the sewer"?

No matter what happens: Kenwright out; new investment, new board, new start.

Let's cast our minds back to what Sean Dyche really inherited. I think what Ernie wrote in his final paragraph of post @4 is definitely how a large proportion of the fan base will be feeling.

Kenwright and his cronies are definitely aware that they can't play the Evertonians anymore and must be very worried that, once Everton are safe, the fans are going to give it to them with both barrels.

If the unthinkable happens, then Goodison will not be a pleasant place because Everton mean so much to us people, and it's only the gross negligence of certain people that has put our football club in such a horrible, horrible position.

Fine for pitch invasion – £300,000
Cost of Security – £600,000

Everton, the gift that keeps giving... 🥳

ps: I don't know how true the costing is but it's something Everton would do – and like others have said, if up to 5,000 fans decide to invade the pitch, how are they stopping them???