The People's Forum: Re: Funnily enough I thought long and hard about whether to post this or not as one of the best things..

With respect, he lied to my face twice on a one-to-one basis, and multiple times at various AGMs/EGMs and as part of the wider fanbase, but I've always tried to keep any personal abuse/vitriol/hatred to a minimum and aim it at his chairmanship rather than his personality, but as I feel that the 2 things became inextricably intertwined, that isn't always easy to do.

If I'm feeling particularly benevolent then I would maybe concedede that he might have had the best intentions when he first got involved, and maybe it was just years and years of having smoke blown up his arse that inflated his ego more and more (very easy to do in his other theatre world) and maybe that gave him the utterly deluded opinion that he was "Mr Everton" and that the club would simply crumble and fall to pieces without him at the helm.

That might well be the case, but even if it was true, that wouldn't let him off the hook for his self-indulgent behaviour and all the damage he did, in my opinion. The club has been in limbo for 30+ years, and I think TFG so far seem to be doing a pretty remarkable job of trying to turn that around.

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Fair enough thanks for the considered reply.
I respect your views and can see your reservations about Bill.
I think if the Kirkby move would have gone ahead I don’t think I could ever forgive him but it didn’t so I’ll cut him some slack there.
It just saddens me the vitriol he sometimes receives.

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...about this summer and the start of the season is that there has been absolutely ZERO mention of him whatsoever - and that's the biggest sign for me that the club and the fanbase have indeed finally turned a corner and we're looking forwards with positivity and optimism.

I don't disagree with the statement that he was a Blue (although some would apparently even dispute that in his earlier life) but so am I, so are you, so are most of us on here - that doesn't make us in any way eligible or suitable to own/run the club - and certainly not to run it into the ground.

If he truly did love the club then he would have sold up and walked away a long, long time before he did (well actually he didn't, but that kind of proves the point too!) He begged, borrowed and stole from some incredibly risky and dodgy sources, just to keep hold of his trainset and it was the textbook definition of a vanity project - the primary reason for the hand-to-mouth, head-above-water, bare minimum existence that the club operated under throughout his tenure.

The lies he told to keep himself in place are endless, from Samuelson right through to Headlockgate, and his refusal to sell to anyone who wouldn't keep him on as Chairman nearly killed us.

So yeah, with the greatest of respect Dan, I think we'll agree to disagree on that, but for anyone like yourself who wants some recognition for him at the new stadium then I've got some good news for you - it's already there, on the fan plaza, in the most appropriate place possible...

The only mistake is that they've spelt his name wrong - there should be a H between the S and the I...