A Personal Note

Our idea is not to let you down guys. This site is all about you : the fans. You are the guys that can help us create the best version of ToffeeWeb.
If there is any kind of article you'd like to see more often here, please let us know.

Charles Taudin, who's the global editorial Chief, has one mission : Keep the high standards Lyndon has created here.

transition is a bit longer than we expected but be sure we are going to make this special !

Thank you again for your much needed support !

Lyndon thanks for your post also is there any chance of joining Evertonia — I tried to enlist last week but still waiting for you to reply to me as promised, you will be missed on here as will Michael and many thanks for the years you both provided many Everton fans with that brilliant platform.

ps Get me on Evertonia as soon as possible!

Good luck to you, Khalid, and the rest of your editorial team.
Enjoy

Thank you so much for your support ! Let's go get the W tomorrow !

I can only echo what has already been said.

A big thank you for building and developing this platform, where so many of us were able to express our views, swap opinions and build friendships.

Not having the dynamic of you and Michael will take some getting used to, but I'm sure many will follow you both in your new ventures.

You have that to look forward to.. after 20 years on this site, the one thing I never expected was to see Michael and Lyndon go, but the baton has been passed to you now, good luck!

I know what it's like to have those kind of shoes to fill in. The challenge is huge for me and my team. But with you guys, i'm sure we'll do great stuff.

The "fan-written" articles will of course remain as you POV is also really important for us. So don't hesitate to summit your content as well.

Best of luck in whatever you do next Lyndon, and thank you.

Thank you so much for your message, means a lot. You highlight one or two things that seems important. Yes, opinions are the core of this website. If there's not such thing, all of us would go to BBC or ESPN or whatever haha.
So we'll keep having these on the site.
Second, "New ownership", doesn't necessarily mean "changing everything". I'm not a big fan of this method ! We'll try new stuff but live forum will remain 'of course !) and all the content you are use too.

Finally, no, we are not as Blue as you are. For sure. But let me re-use something i've see on #13 Christine's post : "Once Everton has touched you.. you are never the same, you fall in love"

So let's see !

Compliments at the end Lyndon, and once again best wishes with your new venture, and welcomes to both Khalid, and Charles, who have a very hard act to follow.

The best of luck to our new owners, who I’m sure will already know that Evertonians, are known for being very loyal, which means I’m sure that most people will stick around and wait to see what is on offer🍀

Thank you so much for your message, means a lot ! Shoes are massive to fill in, but challenge accepted and with all your support that's going to be much easier.

Thank you for being great Evertonians

Good luck to the new owners and let's wait and see.

If only the reticent Michael K. would post a few words that would be greatly appreciated.

MK, apparently Jerome misses you mate! So C'mon and say summat.

Thank you so much for your message and support !

Apologies if this has already been asked but are you actual Everton fans who have been offered this unique opportunity? I assume you are not involved with any other fansites.

Anyway good luck again. I shall be switching between the two sites so as to maximise my daily Everton fixes, lol!

One thing is sure, we're not involved in any other fansites in England (so no worries we're not Liverpool's spys ahah).

The group has in charge Netflu, fansite for Fluminense in Brazil, but i'm not in charge of it.

I'm personally in charge of theplayoffs.news, a dedicated site for US Sports

I don't underestimate the amount of time spent developing the website, not just creating, editing and moderating content, but also the myriad technical issues that will have cropped up from time to time. I think I can recall one hosting migration as well as various capacity and technical upgrades that gave you sleepless nights, and the rest of us with withdrawal symptoms.

I look forward to seeing how the "new" site goes, and also how ToffeeWeb evolves. I suspect they will sit well alongside each other.

Really?

Are you serious?

Wtf has any of what you've asked got to do with you?

Charles, Khalid, welcome to TW and the blue family.
Hopefully as promised sweeping changes won't be made and users will notice the positives.
As an initial glance at NetFlu I do hope as an individual we don't get the same number of betting advertising on the homepage but we can only see wait and see what is planned for the site.
Good to hear that the live forum will remain as it was a bit of a shock to log in and find a message saying it had permanently closed on Saturday afternoon.

Slightly neglectful of me not to extend my welcome to you and the new Editorial team.

I am sure that you will seek to evolve and develop the site with your own ideas, whilst remaining mindful of what TW has been to many Evertonians for many years.

I don't say this with blue tinted glasses on or through bias, but it is the best supporters forum out there, and I read quite a few. Apart from Liverpool ones.

So, welcome to the family. I hope you look forward to the knowledge and words of wisdom imparted by contributors, either through well-written articles or comments.

Standby for the virtual sparring as fellow Evertonians disagree. Sometimes it can get heated, but entertaining and they often end with the word "mate"!! As I say, it's like a family.

And enjoy epic tales of our travels to watch the blues. They are often eventful. And the dedication of those scattered around the globe, getting up in the early ours to watch on TV or a stream.

Kahlid you have a very hard act to follow, I have to say I'm dubious that you can match the personal contact that existed with Michael and Lyndon.

I hope you pull it off, good luck.

They completely answer your questions. Take it slowly.

Start as you mean to go on include an "ignore" button on the posts and save yourself a lot of moderation time.

The site has been decent for historical information but mostly a place to vent and screech entrenched views leading to drama queens aplenty - not good.

It’s been a rollercoaster of emotions with good and bad times, but positivity has always shone through.

Let’s finish the era with a win at Goodisons final Derby game tomorrow, and good luck to the new administrators.

Whilst I wish the new owners/editors of the website all the very best for the future, and intend to give them an opportunity to show me that the website will be worth coming back to, I really should point out that one of the things that made ToffeeWeb stand out (apart from the quality of its material, and the wit amid the cut and thrust of the comments ) is the fact that it was created and curated by two people who are Royal Blue through and through. Sadly, it appears that the new overlords aren't Evertonians. Accordingly, the website would appear to have lost its soul, so to say. There are any number of media sources (not to mention fan sites) where I can get my EFC fix. This place is no longer “special” among them.

Evertonia, a site I once visited before the creation of ToffeeWeb, is now back on my bookmarks bar, alongside BBC News, The Guardian football pages, and Google Translate, among others.

Best of luck to everyone still here - writers, and readers thereof - but I don't think I shall be visiting anything like as often as I have for oh so many years past.

UTFT!

P.S. I might point out that the look of the website’s front page is not enhanced by the big, blank, bland, blue backings to headlines. It's almost as if no one can be bothered looking for an appropriate image depicting anything actually linked to Everton Football Club?!

It's beginning to feel a lot like ToffeeWeb...

Like everyone, I look forward to seeing ToffeeWeb go from strength to strength.

I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I’m concerned at the prospect of non-Blues administering the site.

For all I often didn’t see eye-to-eye with the editorial stance on certain matters (step forward MK’s recent article on Moyes’ appointment), both Michael and Lyndon knew in infinitisemal detail the history of our great club and how that connected to what is happening today. Sometimes I guess that was a hindrance but, on the whole, it gave the site real gravitas.

I have no doubt that you guys will bring professionalism and a new energy to the site. My fear is that, as non-Evertonians, if you don’t know something then… you don’t know it. After all, you can’t Google for facts that you didn’t know existed and you can’t include personal anecdotes if you don’t have any.

Anyway, reservations aside, best of luck. I will keep ToffeeWeb as my preferred site (for now!) and see how things go from there…

I want to add my thanks to those already proffered.

For me, ToffeeWeb was an oasis of sense in a sea of mediocrity as far as most fan sites were concerned. Not all, but a vast majority of the contributors seemed more astute, erudite and articulate than the average poster on many other sites and that, for me, set ToffeeWeb apart.

Hopefully, Khalid and Charles, you, and other colleagues in your editotiral team will, as the new guardians of this site, maintain it in the spirit and form that I found so attractive when I first found the site many years ago.

The baton has been passed.

Cherish it and nurture it with the same care as your predecessors.

Khalid and Charles. Welcome and UTFT

Hugh,
Thanks so much for your support ! We will try our best !

Charles & Khalid, Orright lah...
Get used to a bit of Scouse and if anyone asks what you are looking at just ignore them,
Terrah for now.

I'll say thanks and goodbye now, as I'd rather be part of one of the other sites that are run by Evertonians, for Evertonians, and are clearly labours of love. Not sure what the point is of this place now, but good luck to all of you, though I'm guessing I'll see most of you on Lyndon's new site, or on GOT.

UTFT!

I’ve already wished Lyndon and Michael well (still hoping MK will post something / give us a sign he is okay) so now it’s welcome to Khalid and Charles. It looks like Evertonia will remain quite different to ToffeeWeb so you will get adherents if you are able to keep key elements of the site rolling along.
Long live ToffeeWeb and Evertonia! Vive la difference!