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Sky TV Fanzone

Just to let you guys Know, I'm on "Sky Fanzone" this weekend for the Stoke game. Also my Blog is up on the SkySports website. It's my first bit of writing, be kind to me!! My Profile is also there, Might be worth a look if you want to put it on the site, http://www.skysports.com/fanzone/0,24002,15166,00.html Micky. (11/09/08)

Calling All Scottish Toffees

Is there anyone from Scotland going to Everton games. I am from Dundee and have been following Everton for the past 20 years but it gets boring traveling on your own. Can anyone help? Please contact me at erchiba@aol.com Thanks. Away The Toffees. Brian Archibald. (11/09/08)

Everton Is Still GREAT

I have to respond to Pete’s suggestion that most Evertonians are thick for supporting Bill K, & Davie Moyes. I presume it is people like me he is referring too, as my email appears directly before his, and is exactly the sort of views that he is criticizing. I can assure him I am not thick – If he would like to take an IQ test challenge, I’ll give him a 10 point head start, and he can bring his cleverest mate along to help!

This club is STILL great, not once great – Circumstances have contrived against us since well before Bill’s time (starting with Heysel in 85), and yet we STILL have the 5th best team in the country, and still have one of the most stable, and well run clubs in the Premiership. It’s not a picnic running a Premiership football club, with a very limited budget – It’s a bloody difficult job. The Board make mistakes, the Manager makes mistakes, and Phil Neville makes bloody thousands of ‘em – But I wouldn’t swap any one of them.

The most volatile, risky and POTENTIALLY damaging influence on EFC at this current time, is not the Chairman, the Manager, the Captain or Carlo f’kin Nash – It’s the supporters. If you want to destabilize the environment, and put the progress we have made at risk – then carrying on boo-ing off, some of the most committed and whole-hearted professionals in the Premiership today (Shandy excluded of course!). Otherwise, accept that we’re all in this together, we have no divine right to anything, and the best thing you can do to help is let them know that you’re behind them all the way – For better or worse!

If in any further doubt try looking up the dictionary definition of “Supporter” for guidance. Sean Taylor. (11/09/08)

Buy Michael Owen

If Moyes and the Everton board have an ounce of business acumen, then they would be in for Michael Owen NOW. While the boat is rocking in Geordieland. I urge them to put a bid in now and complete the deal for January 2009, subject to Owens' fitness at the time of transfer. He is ideal for Everton, and I can see him scoring loads of goals in the last few years of his career. Get rid of shandy to part fund Owen's salary. We know of his redshite past, but Owen understands now that there is no reward for loyalty in football. The redshite proved that. He would be near to his horse racing set-up in Cheshire, and I would go as far as building an extra day off into his contract, for those business interests. That would attract him to our club! Come on Everton be pro-active! Lets snatch a proven goalscorer! Mal (trueblue) but not holdings. (11/09/08)

Phil Neville

Looking through the comments on the “Shouts” page, a common theme is the abuse directed at Phil Neville at matches from Everton “fans”. Now while I appreciate that “they pay their money, have a right to air their views” etc, but do they really think that their comments are helping the cause of the team? Neville himself has kept a dignified silence on the subject but other Everton players in the past have commented on the detrimental effect of the barracking e.g. James Beattie.

When we hear The Sh*te supporters barracking their own players we love it because we know it doesn’t help their player or the team, but why do we tolerate such abuse of our own players? If a player is showing a lack of commitment, I can understand the anger, but nobody could accuse Phil Neville of showing less than 100% commitment. Is the fact that he is from Manchester a factor?

The disgusting abuse he gets from the Sh*te fans (spitting at him and vile comments about his family) are rightly condemned but if they hate him so much, isn’t that more of a reason for us to support him? And isn’t supporting what being a fan is all about? Barry Spencer. (11/09/08)

Set Up A Study Group To Attract New Investors

We know Bill just wants to sell his shares and hand over the reigns to someone else but will we still be a viable sellable commodity if we severed our links with the city and upped sticks to Kirkby? Now that Man City have shown the way, wouldn’t it be wise to set up a study group to see how they achieved new backing, as any new investors might want a say in a new stadium but if we have gone to Kirby we will be further overlooked in fact a move there will be a disaster for Everton and I don’t like the way the current board is selling this and possibly damaging the future of the club. I thought the club’s motto was nothing but the best not just I can’t be arsed anymore so let’s move to Kirkby because that is not the best option at all. Everton forever not Kirkby knowsley. Chris Simpson. (11/09/08)

The Plot Thickens

The EGM has been and gone. It's all still as clear as mud, proposed moves and only options. manager won’t sign his contact, £15m for a Belgian 20 year old (only Everton), some crocks, a “goalkeeper” and gates on the slide. Marketing of the club within the city as though we are a leper colony! The big move to pastures new- as we can’t fill what we have got why do we need bigger? £15m- you really are kidding me on this one, however good the boy is, he is just that… a boy.

Injuries- how can we have so many, what was going on in the summer??
Crocks- 52 games in 4 years? Great move lads.
Goalkeeper- nice lad (that’s all we can say I think)
Marketing- while the shite have pissed themselves laughing at us and took the city over, we can’t even get a kit out on time.
As no billionaire with half a brain will touch us,

Plan B- call it a day and close shop, no more stress or shit on a Saturday.
Plan C- accept what we are and stay where we are
Plan D- get a board of directors who live in the 21st century (not aimed at Bill- he’s moved us on as far as he can so don’t knock him) and lets start all over again, new strategy, new plan and stay in the city, its ours!!!

Finally, Moyes- sign up , straighten your face or fuck off, don’t make the mistake of believing your own bullshit and press (see Sam Allardyce) Blu Mik. (11/09/08)

EGM/Stadium

As a season ticket holder (three tickets at a significant cost) I really am irritated with everybody involved in the Club and the stadium issue, including Kenwright, the politicians, KEIOC. Same old issues, same old rhetoric, same old blame culture which has been ongoing for 5 years since the Kings Dock fiasco. Come on Kenwright and Bradley - you are the main leaders of the Club and the City - make something happen or let someone else make it happen. Put up or shut up. We, the fans, Moyes, the players, the staff, need leaders to take us over the top or we will just keep our heads down in the trench. We need to know whether or not Everton FC will go forward not just in mediocrity but as an inspiration; whether for the next generations we are going to compete with Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Newcastle and now Manchester City or with second raters with "nice" stadiums, with the realistic best ambition for a UEFA cup place. Will Everton's true leaders step forward and LEAD? JM Jerman, Lincoln. (11/09/08)

Football's Future

Whilst Bill wants to get us our own billionaire I do wonder whether those running the Premiership teams including Scudamore as Premiership CEO are looking ahead over the next few years and gauging what lies there.

I can visualise a time when the Top 4 has become a Top 6 or 7 all run/owned by billionaires or corporate giants and they all want their clubs to be exposed on a regular and global basis. The 3 - 4 clubs missing out on the CL will not stand for it. Weekend fixtures of Man Utd vs Wigan will cut no ice and they would want Man Utd vs Barcelona, Chelsea vs Bayern Munich, Man City vs AC Milan, Liverpool vs Zenith St Petersburg. We will be faced with a rebellion of initially 20 European teams all wanting a slice of the global commercial revenues, and maybe in time teams from S America, Middle East and Asia Pacific. Scuadmore will have his wish of globalisation but not the model he was hoping for.

Spectators will be faced with watching their teams only at the home games as the travel times/expenses will be far too much for any ordinary fan to afford. Entry prices will all level out probably at the most expensive price, equivalent to £60 a game today at Chelsea. Hooliganism will not exist as opposing fans will not meet. These 20 clubs will not run youth programmes as all their players will be bought from the feeder clubs – Everton, Wigan, Seville, Napoli etc, who will be given hand-outs to allow good academy programmes to be put in place.

Entry to the global league will not be on a promotion/relegation basis but by one club loosing its funder and another one taking its place by placing a non-returnable entry fee of £100m. A salary cap of £200,000 per week will initially be put in place for all players , but it is expected that this is likely to be broken when Ronalndo is enticed from Man Utd to Man City. These 20 teams will not allow their players to play in International matches, only in the World Cup finals after pressure from the players themselves, earlier knock-out rounds will only use players from the feeder clubs. That’s it for crystal ball gazing but I dread the day our beloved club goes down either path depending on whether we have Bill in charge or Mohammed Lotsamoney from Basra. Michael Oats. (11/09/08)

Pompey Game

Exiled Blue, living on the south coast, not far from Portsmouth. Made the trip up to Goodison for Pompey game with eight-year-old daughter, who speaks with a southern accent but is now a Blue for life. Sat in Upper Bullens, overlooking the Street End, my old stamping ground for many seasons, through thick and thin, even when we had 18,000 for a game against Bristol City (anyone remember that 0-0 nightmare?) Head in hands when third goal went in. Little girl told me off for swearing.
Very disappointed to see the ground empty so quickly. No matter what happens, we should support Everton win or lose. That's what being a Blue is all about.

Don't blame fans for walking, but imagine how I felt, having gone on a 600-mile round trip, spent 300 notes, been slaughtered by the girl for swearing, and then getting loads of stick from Pompey lads down here. I stuck in my seat to the final whistle, and then went to the Top House for a few beers. Me and the lads taught the girl how to say chicken and Sharm El Sheik in a Scouse accent. So funny I even laughed out loud. We'll be back soon - no matter what! Just hope everybody stays to the end next time. What's happened to the house with the Everton crest behind the Street End - it's been painted out! COYB. Holdo. (11/09/08)

Calling Kev Purdy

I was wondering if my fellow Toffees could help me out. I used to work with a guy called Kev Purdy in Liverpool and we lost touch a few years back. I was living in London (Boo!!) and am now living in Northern Spain but would really like to contact him again. I knew that going onto an Everton website would be my best bet as he's a die-hard Blue and I can see he's been on this site before... I am hoping someone could put me in touch with him / have an email address for him as I would like to get to a match with him at Christmas when I'm home. Cheers. Clair Burke. (11/09/08)

Destination Kirkby

All those supposed fans who are bleating on about the Blues moving out of the city need to stand back and take a look at the bigger picture. Many, probably most, of our fans don’t live in the City of Liverpool but I suspect 90% live in Merseyside– it’s the just same for the red sh**e but they have more who live in Scandinavia. Everton is the greatest club on MERSEYSIDE, which includes Kirkby. Stop being so narrow minded and start focussing on taking control of Merseyside! If we do that the Sh**e might become leaders in a sub-set – they might take ownership of the lesser area of Liverpool but we will own an area four or five times bigger. I’m not saying this as an ‘outsider’; I was born in Mill Road Hospital and I grew up in Kirkby; it doesn’t make me any less of a Scouser. The same will apply to Everton.

We need a new ground and whether Kenwright benefits from it or not is not the fans concern. A football club is a business and it must be run as a business first – otherwise there is no club for the fans. The club may well need a richer benefactor but give Kenwright his due he did put his money where is mouth was when it was needed and he has been part of the regeneration of the club on a modest but sound financial basis. Billionaire fans are few and far between – Terry Leahy might come closest in the UK - and the foreigners aren’t supporters, they are looking to make money off the back of our support. The Arabs didn’t pick MCFC for their love of the club, it’s a way into the Premier League – any club would have served their purpose. So, why wasn’t Everton considered? Easy, MCFC had a shiny new ground they acquired on the cheap after the Commonwealth Games. We need a new ground……………..ideally, funded by someone else. Then maybe, just maybe, some oligarch or a rich dictator will buy us too. Won’t that be good? You can’t have it all ways!

Moyes has done a great job without the money of some of the other clubs but, crucially, without incurring masses of debt – just look at the balance sheet for the sh**e and don’t forget that whilst the sh**e have identified a location for a new ground they are missing something………money.

If the ‘rebels’ continue to inconvenience Kenwright and Moyes their reward will probably be both of them walking and that would be tragic. Kenwright has been open and made it clear someone can come in and take the club but if someone like Hicks & Gillette or Glazer turns up then you better keep your gobs shut – they’ll fund the business through debt and it might buy a trophy or two but when it gets too much or the profits do not materialise they’ll pi** off leaving their successors with a massive bag of crap – it won’t matter whether we are at Goodison or Kirkby if that happens because it would be all over. Grayson and his supporters need to drop the sentiment about Liverpool and stop causing stirring up discord publicly – it will unsettle the team, unsettle the manager and distract the fans. I appreciate he is doing what he thinks is good for the club but I don’t think it is and the poor turnout for the EGM suggest many shareholders feel the same. CYOB – The People’s Club, the Pride of Merseyside. Pete E. (11/09/08)

Man Utd Connection

So sasha signs? Why do Everton continue to buy spent united players? Look at the track record. Brian Kidd, Micky Thomas Mark Hughes, Jon O'conner, Norman Whiteside, Tim Howard and Phil Nevelle. Fergie dosen't sell good players. Non have made an impression. Do they come to boost there pension fund? Are we Eastbourne to them. (Come to wind down B4 retirement). They never go on anywhere. All are too old, are not good enough. Most wouldn't be 3rd choice had they stayed @ United. I went to a sportsman's nite once. One was speaking and said as much. He got the best contract of his career last 2 years @ Everton and hardly played. Neville never impressed. Kicking is a big part of a keepers game these days and Tim can't kick. Looks to throw 6 yards. Take the Pompey game James makes a save and there having a shot in 30 seconds. Don (West Derby). (11/09/08)

Transfer Market Blues

Hi Lads, great job on the site as always, I just thought I would voice a few quickies as I feel I need this off my chest. I would appreciate if you posted this letter to see if there is anyone out there who agrees with me on this.

I am disgusted and disheartened with this whole transfer affair and quite frankly sick of being an Everton supporter in times like these. It is the same fucking thing year upon year upon year with the transfer market. Where is the ambition? If we don’t have a billionaire buyer, we need to make the fucking effort and put the fucking tools in place to get one. Not sit around on our arses hoping to god that some shiek or Russian pops along and empties his pockets for fun.

Man fucking City, the 2nd division specialists are signing Robinho and swp.?????!!!! Hull city are snatching signings away from us, Fulham are taking our best players. Year after year we are promised better. What do we get? Yakubu. That’s it. One person per year. One person does not make a fucking team. We had a great player 2 years running on loan. Fernandez. Why not go for him again. Surely he would come if asked again. It is players like this that change games. Not Carlo Nash, Castillo or fucking Jorgensen or whatever he’s fucking called.

Felliani, someone I have rarely heard of, may be good, but he’s 15 million and 20 years of age, why not Moutinho as promised??? It’s was all too little too late for me. I refuse to be satisfied and pacified by a midnight signing of some 2 year old Belgian. I want proven big names. I want a cup, I want champions league, I want to be challenging for the league in 5 years. We need silverware. Also, why are our chief executives leaving mysteriously all of a sudden? SOMEONE IS TO BLAME KENWRIGHT? MOYES? ELSTONE?.AN EXPLANATION IS REQUIRED TO ALL FANS. Alan Joseph. (11/09/08)

Fellaini

A guy at work reckons that Fellaini is the best defensive midfielder in Europe already, not just with potential. Also reckons that already the best Belgian player for 10 years (though I can't remember who the last good Belgian player might have been). The guy is very very upset right now as he's a Liege fan. He says it won't be long before Fellaini is at Madrid or United, so he's clearly not aware that City are now the biggest team on the planet, nor of course that Everton are the best! Jim. (11/09/08)