09 Aug 2013 16:53:51
So Hull's owner thinks his club has a "lousy identity" and should be called Hull Tigers. Imagine BK selling up to some random billionaire who thinks Everton should be called something sexier, like Merseyside Marauders. It's always worth remembering the upside of having a chairman who's a genuine fan and knows the true value of the club.

1.) 09 Aug 2013
Honestly, I wouldn't mind what we were called as long as we were given the kind of money Chelsea and City have had to spend. I believe in success at all costs.

2.) 09 Aug 2013
Which is exactly why he approved the changing of our badge to the current monstrosity.

3.) 09 Aug 2013
What Football Club Do You support?

Dwells

4.) 09 Aug 2013
To the first replier: success at all costs?
So you'd lie and cheat and have players on performance-enhancing drugs and bribe match officials and fiddle the books?
Amazing that your reply begins with the word "honestly" and ends with the phrase "I believe in success at all costs"!
Everton is a proper football club and although I'd love us to have better finances, I dread getting trigger-happy owners like so many other clubs have endured.
Happy-Camper

5.) 10 Aug 2013
But look on the bright side, the S**** can be called "Liverpool Norwegians"

Andy The Chef

6.) 10 Aug 2013
09 Aug 2013 18:36:44
I agree entirely. I want to see good football, but not at the expense of the clubs heritage. City and Chelsea are a bad joke in my opinion, not "proper" clubs at all.

7.) 10 Aug 2013
O. P. I agree with you 100% The grass is not always greener on the other side, we should be grateful for what we have.

First replier. Are you sure you are on the right site? Or the right Planet for that matter?

Happy Camper. Bang on the button mate, we would all love unlimited finance but not if it means loosing our club.

Final thought. Wouldn't it be fun to convince John Henry that a name change a-la Hull is a great idea, I'm sure the "Liverpool Ladyboy's" would be a big hit for them!

8.) 10 Aug 2013
'something sexier' lol, whose taking ovhis seasoner? Hugh Hefner?

9.) 10 Aug 2013
Well done "Happy-Camper" for taking my reply completely out of context and twisting it. You'd make a great reporter.

Obviously, when I say "at all costs", I mean within legal and sportsmanlike bounds

"Proper football club" this, "Heart and soul" that. You sound like Kenwright. Watch him spew this exact kind of thing when we sell Fellaini for £15m to United. Don't hate him though, because "he loves the club and always has and it's a proper football club that isn't bought by money. "

I'm tired of the same story. I would love success for Everton and I believe in perusing it at all (legal) costs.

10.) 10 Aug 2013
Merseyside Marauders does have a catchy ring to it don't you think? No? Just me? I'll see myself out then.

11.) 10 Aug 2013
But Hull does have a lousy identity and probably would be improved by giving it a name like Hull Tigers - so he probably has a point

and at the end of the day if he owns it then its his decision

and before you reply that clubs belong to their fans - then my reply is that they should do but they mostly don't which is a shame

to my mind all football clubs should be owned by their fans in the form of share ownership where no one person can own more than 1% of the club for example

wouldnt it be nice if Kenwright said he was going to sell the club to its fans - at a discounted value of say 100m

then we'd know if he really wanted to sell it and had the club and its fans interest at heart rather than his own interests

12.) 10 Aug 2013
Look at cardiff, their owners made them switch from blue to red, what a joke

13.) 10 Aug 2013
I could live with the the 'Everton blues' or 'Everton toffees'. The hull guy hasn't really changed much IMO - they were known as the tigers anyway

Pod

14.) 10 Aug 2013
Hull city are already nicknamed the tigers, and listening to what the fella has to say it makes a lot of sense. As for cardiff changing to red, I guarantee that particular change would not happen no matter who came in, that change, was based on the fact that red is the national colour of Wales and that its a popular colour in the far east. The fact cardiff has no real rival that plays in red helped. This crazy idea that bill is doing a good job because he hasn't switched our shirt colour or renamed us the Everton toffees or isn't venkys is ridiculous. If that stuff makes it ok by you that he has run this club into the ground, lying to fans and screwing up 2 ground moved (kings docks failure is far and away his worst crime) selling off our assets and letting shysters and nobodies ruin Everton while he sits in London alternatly crying and guffawing to sky cameras then fine. But if you don't mind I will take your playschool justification for keeping a board and chairman who have financially ruined our club and seem to have no real idea on a tangible way forward, and discard it in the nearest dog mess bin.