Everton_Worshiper

From what I have seen so far, Anichebe has to be starting and preferably with Beckford to run off him.

I just don't think Coleman is ready for a starting position at right back (or playing there in general).

Nearly benched Rodwell for Heitinga, in fact I'll move on before I change my mind.

Barkley looks good and needs to play as the creative player behind the strikers, but he is young and needs game time. Osman would bring better experience to the role.

Cancer. Just lost my nan to it in the last 30 minutes. RIP Nan - never ever forget you.

(Don't mean to be morbid in this thread, just good to get it off my chest.)

Dentist this afternoon, what is it about the dentist that makes grown men nervous..?

Tranmere - some of my relatives live down the street from Prenton Park so spent time there as well as Goodison Park.

Preston - don't know why but I always look out for their results.

That is exactly where I disagree though (we may be getting somewhere here)

 

Do fans who spend a great deal of cash following their club - similar to those paying fans of Liverpool, Man City etc have a right to know as to why we have massive operating costs?

The same very fans some of whom have shares in the club are not allowed to attend an AGM to ask these questions? In my opinion absolutely.

 

There are 38,000 fans who put on average £30-£50 into the club on each match day. The same very fans have a right to ask questions regarding the grey areas of the clubs finances - let's face it, it has been made clear that the board have not put a single penny of their money in apart from the shares they acquired. This makes these very fans have more of a right if anything. Should they chose to boycott attendance, you would see a very different dynamic - the business would not run, it would fail. Therefore yes, I believe we are entitled to ask the glaring questions.

I see where you are coming from, but, if you walk in to Sainsburys and buy your weekly shopping for £100 - do you think you are then entitled to go to customer services and ask to see their operating costs in detail? No one at Everton is making supporters hand over £30-£50 each match day, supporters choose to do so. The fact no board member invests is annoying, very annoying considering some of the wealth there, but I don't see how that elevates our rights to see the business figures in deeper detail? I would love to be let loose on the books but unless I show evidence of having finances for a takeover I will never get near them - only wish I had that £160m Euromillions win...

Never seen Breaking Bad...Just looked it up though. Might look out for it in la stores!

Series 4 has just started and I practically have a semi waiting to watch it (well actually I don't but emphasising the excitement).

it is, makes it clear where they stand and what they want.

 

In my opinion though, I still dont believe they have the right to sensitive business information. If they want to know the price - find the investment, make a bid and help that way rather than perusing another embarrassing witch-hunt. Why do fans, who in the end will not run the club deserve to know the price? Its purely to satisfy a curiosity which is no grounds to demand inside business information.

 

Also, terms like "convince us" or saying "therefore its a money issue" irritate me. Convince us?! Who the hell do they think they are, the lords of football!? Do I want to know more information, sure. Do I think I have the right to it, no. Why? Because I dont. "Therefore its a money issue"? As if thats the only possibility. Maybe the investors backed out because their finances fell apart. Maybe the investors thought "hang on, football is a dangerous business, Im changing my mind" and so on. Small minded assumption...

 

 

Interested parties im sure will have signed an anonymity / privacy agreement as Everton have always played cards close to their chests. It protects the club and potential investors when things collapse.

 

23m now for other operating costs? Wasnt it 30m last week? (ive lost track here, im honestly not sure).

 

I would give them more credit if they could point out Bill and the boards achievements too and try and make a balanced argument, but noone wants to seem to do that in the same group. Theres no mention of breaking transfer records 3 years in a row, no mention of building the team we have (Moyes mightve picked the players but the board and Bill organized the acquisitions), no mention of record breaking sponsorships, no mention of brilliant barging skills in some of our player sales, no mention of bringing Moyes - who they completely support - to the helm.

 

Mind you why would they, that takes some of the wood away from the stake....

Nice post Matt.

Well Entourage has completely passed me by, haven't seen a single episode. People seem to rave about, guess I need some box sets of it one day.

I was gutted about that too. Was it dropped all of a sudden? Because there'd been no warning, as far as I could tell, that this would be the last series til just before the last 2 episodes.

Yeah, it was cancelled by the FOX along with a few other series in May. Cal never got it on with Gillian before the series was out...

Breaking Bad season 4.

 

Hated that season 3 ended with a cliffhanger, but season 4 picks up right were last season ended. Walter White is one of the best characters in tv history.

Agreed. Quality series. Rumours are that Season 4 is the last one though

Watched the last 2 episodes of Lie To Me last night, what a disappointing finish to a great series.

The thing about Barkley is, he excites when he touches the ball. I watch the DC game and for the first half he made some silly mistakes but for every one of them he made some unbelievable passes for a player of his age. Obviously struggling for fitness but he is exciting. Baxter is quite the opposite, I don't get excited by him and he seems to lack pace. I honestly don't believe Baxter will force his way to the 1st team, where as it is inevitable that Barkley will.

I also thought McAleny looked like a good prospect when he came on, seems to have something about him.

Barkley's name is going on my away shirt (I have Daddy on my home one)

Midfield for me - attacking mid and wingers. You can have the best striker in the world, but unless he gets the ball how is he supposed to score. Coleman is a runner, not a crosser. Bily is shite. Gueye is our best prospect on the wing but lacking game time.

In dreamland, someone like Nasri would be immense but never going to happen. Unless Kanchelskis fancies coming out of retirement, I used to wet myself every time he got the ball out on the wing.

Just finished watching The Event, like many shows I get into it's been cancelled ¬_¬

Awesome series, absolutely awesome.

I can't understand why the cancelled it either...

Pretty sure Nugent's got more Premier League goals than Bothroyd.

 

Nugent would be a much better option than him. Not that I want Nugent either mind.

Shall I start my public affection for Nugent again?

Don't know what his wages are but I do suspect they are in the lower part of our wage spectrum.

If we offload Yobo & Yakubu then a portion of their wages could be used to boost Fellaini's. Te be honest, if Fellaini gives ridiculous demands then I would sell him whilst his price is high, but we all know I am not his biggest fan (although I was slowly coming round).

No doubt Barkley has talent, but will he be thinking twice about going hard in to tackles knowing what his leg went through? (I know I would).

Personally, I am more excited about Hope. He has such an eye for goal (luckily seen a few of his games) and has something like 10 goals in 12 England games.

Let's also take this with a pinch of salt, no doubt a very good (public) tactic to get higher wages during the negotiations.

I hear that not only will Barkley be getting game time this season, but Hallam Hope is also in line to make the step up. Hope (no pun intended) to see him in pre-season, he certainly scores for fun for England.

Chicken Pox.

Why the f**k isn't there a vaccination. My son has it bad and you feel so, so helpless.

How in the world did he get to be that old ? He was only born last month wasn't he?

 

Jeez where does the time go .

Tell me about it.

You can disable those channel btw EW if you don't watch them....but you probably know that .

Erm, I think I'll leave my options open for now :lol: (unless he does it again )

Also Young has one of those faces i would like to punch the shit out of!

Hahaha, I have the exact same feelings!

Not so much what I am watching but my 20 month old son just switched channel 902 on Sky :lol: For some reason my first thought was to update this thread...

There'll only be 1 series though won't there? It got canned in the US after only the first series.

Really? Bugger! I thought it was good so far.

They did the same with that series set in New Orleans floods (can't remember the name) - it was good but only had 1 series.

Didn't realise Justified and Dark Blue new series had started, will be catching up on them tonight.

I'll be watching The Chicago Code tonight. Seen the pilot episode last night and it seemed good.

Think I posted that a few post back, it is good. Pilot has a lot packed in to it but needs to so characters are known.