Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of Talking the Blues. Quite a bit of noise around academy sales and what that suggests about the club finances plus the potential signing of […]
Frustration and Fear
The silence emanating from the Everton hierarchy is overwhelming. Our 94.1% owner Farhad Moshiri, our Chair William Kenwright are both as silent as church mice on what’s going on with our club. […]
Talking the Blues podcast, a sense of urgency required
Welcome to this week’s Talking the Blues with George and Andy Costigan. It’s a strange time to be an Evertonian. One would think after the close escape at the end of last […]
A New Everton
Ambition is our guide, not a distraction. With everything that has gone at Everton in recent years, you could be forgiven in thinking that what goes on on the pitch is not […]
Talking the Blues Podcast, the latest on investment and the interim board
Welcome to this week’s Talking the Blues Podcast with George and Andy Costigan. We look at the feedback generated on Grandoldteam.com from George’s idea last week to crowd fund the purchase of […]
Talking the blues, the latest on the Chair position, & an intriguing idea from George
Welcome to this week’s Talking the Blues when five days after the promised deadline to update on interim directors and the position of the Chairman we have heard precisely nothing from the […]
The cost of delay
Delay in any area of life usually creates additional costs, be it through rising prices, the delay in delivering benefits, or a delay leading to worsening conditions and a slower recovery – […]
Talking the Blues – the Grandoldteam survey, the latest on the board & director resignations
Welcome to a delayed Talking the Blues podcast in which we play the piece on the GrandOldTeam survey, recorded yesterday. We then go on to look at the extraordinary resignation of three […]
Immediate resignation of Everton directors opens the door to change
The full extent of the chaos of the Moshiri years is reaching its crescendo. Nothing quite encapsulates the sheer dysfunctionality of his tenure as majority shareholder as three of the four directors […]
Summary of Everton’s current position. Not out of the woods
We are nearly two weeks on from the Bournemouth game. A game in which as we all know, we faced potential relegation which may have brought to reality the existential threat talked […]
Talking the Blues Podcast, a review of the squad, who we should keep & who should go
Welcome to this week’s Talking the Blues’ Podcast with Andy and George Costigan. In a rare podcast for us, we focus almost entirely on the squad, manager and director of football. We […]
Talking the Blues podcast, Bournemouth (h) & a lot of reflection
Welcome to this week’s Talking the Blues’ podcast covering the Bournemouth game but more importantly covering personal reflections on the most difficult of seasons. Reflections on the season and the events around […]
Talking the Blues podcast, Wolves (a) & the ramifications of the next week in Everton’s history
Welcome to this week’s Talking the Blues podcast in which we look back at the chaotic game at Wolves – possibly the least structured professional game any of us have ever seen. […]
Talking the Blues podcast, Manchester City (h), new owners & the need for change post season end
Welcome to this week’s Talking the Blues Podcast with George and Andy Costigan. We look back on the City game, talk about City’s impact on the game generally and our lack of […]
The sale of Moshiri’s stake in Everton looks increasingly inevitable
Back in March 2016, buoyed after a Lukaku double had disposed of Chelsea in a rousing 6th Round FA Cup game at Goodison, Farhad Moshiri, talking of his new club, Everton, uttered […]
Talking the Blues Podcast, Brighton (a) what a stunning evening!
Welcome to a post match Talking the Blues after what I think is the most remarkable result I can remember as an Evertonian. George, Andy and I look back on a memorable […]
Talking the Blues Podcast, Leicester (a), Brighton (a), Michael Keane, Usmanov and heroes
Welcome to this week’s Talking the Blues Podcast with Andy and George Costigan. We look back on a hugely entertaining game at Leicester earlier in the week, looking at Dyche’s use (or […]
Talking the Blues podcast, Newcastle United (h), our fans, Marcel Brands and the “R” word
Welcome to this week’s Talking the Blues podcast with Andy and George Costigan. We look back on Thursday’s debacle and contrast the progress of Newcastle United with our demise. Intelligent investing and […]
The “R” word and its financial consequences
With five games of the season to go, at the time of writing, Everton sit in 19th place and for the first time since 1951 face the prospect of relegation from the […]
Talking the Blues podcast, Crystal Palace (a) and two tales of survival?
Welcome to this week’s Talking the Blues podcast with Andy and George Costigan. There’s only two topics in town this week, Everton’s Premier League survival, and the ongoing survival struggles of our […]