Next Season will see our first sub-10k attendance for Championship Football

[Bayside]

Next Season will see our first sub-10k attendance for Championship Football

And I can't help but feel it could have been prevented.

I'm absolutely lost for words tonight, like most Preston fans. That "joke of a club with the tower" have managed to get promoted to the promised land, and we're stuck for our eleventh season in the Championship. Burnley doing it was bad enough, they had a bit of funding buying Eagles; they had fuck all that lot who did it today, they bought Charlie Adam (WELL FUCKING DONE IRVINE) and they've got a manager who's passion and drive has seen them over the finish line. The rest, is now sadly history.

So where does our club go from here? It won't be business as usual next season as a mixture of apathy and "can't be arsed with it anymore" sinks in, a loyal fan base of around 8,000 will attend every home game with around 4,500 season tickets, if we're lucky. We're yet to break the 2k season ticket barrier from what I've heard and with the massive cock-up about the mis-communication regarding season tickets it's going to be a push to get the neccessery amount of season ticket holders to keep us fully functional through the summer months.

Looking at the wider picture, them going up isn't the initial damage, it's the final straw for some. The club has been rotting slowly since Simpson took charge, but Irvine has ripped this club of its soul. Players such as Neill Collins have brought shame to this once proud club and put it's supporters through misery whilst still raking in the same amount in a fortnight as most of us earn in a year. Fans starting to disappear, slowly but surely it's happened over the past 24 months and retail sales apparently down also. This final straw for a lot of people is going to hit the club hard, the everyday fan may sit down tonight and think "can that £400 for a season ticket be spent elsewhere in a way that is going to be better for me, for my family, for my life?"

I have, and I honestly have no idea how many games I'll be attending next season at present. I love my club to pieces, but something has got to change. We're fucked at the minute, well and truly fucked.

 

[Dannypne7]

And I can't help but feel it could have been prevented.

I'm absolutely lost for words tonight, like most Preston fans. That "joke of a club with the tower" have managed to get promoted to the promised land, and we're stuck for our eleventh season in the Championship. Burnley doing it was bad enough, they had a bit of funding buying Eagles; they had fuck all that lot who did it today, they bought Charlie Adam (WELL FUCKING DONE IRVINE) and they've got a manager who's passion and drive has seen them over the finish line. The rest, is now sadly history.

So where does our club go from here? It won't be business as usual next season as a mixture of apathy and "can't be arsed with it anymore" sinks in, a loyal fan base of around 8,000 will attend every home game with around 4,500 season tickets, if we're lucky. We're yet to break the 2k season ticket barrier from what I've heard and with the massive cock-up about the mis-communication regarding season tickets it's going to be a push to get the neccessery amount of season ticket holders to keep us fully functional through the summer months.

Looking at the wider picture, them going up isn't the initial damage, it's the final straw for some. The club has been rotting slowly since Simpson took charge, but Irvine has ripped this club of its soul. Players such as Neill Collins have brought shame to this once proud club and put it's supporters through misery whilst still raking in the same amount in a fortnight as most of us earn in a year. Fans starting to disappear, slowly but surely it's happened over the past 24 months and retail sales apparently down also. This final straw for a lot of people is going to hit the club hard, the everyday fan may sit down tonight and think "can that £400 for a season ticket be spent elsewhere in a way that is going to be better for me, for my family, for my life?"

I have, and I honestly have no idea how many games I'll be attending next season at present. I love my club to pieces, but something has got to change. We're fucked at the minute, well and truly fucked.

Great post Jimmy.

 

[norky84]

I always look out for your posts as I think you talk a lot of sense. And I find nothing wrong with what you have posted here.

 

[The Saint]

Excellent post.....What would have to change in the next few weeks to make you passionate again?

 

[Atkypne]

To be honest, I'm getting to a stage in my life where £400 odd pound can be spent elsewhere. I've been a season ticket holder for 15 years, PNE are going to loose me if something isn't done drastically.

I'm sure I'm not the only one either, today has put the final nail in the coffin. I wouldn't be suprised if we go down next season, starting the season with -10 pts.

 

[raefil]

I always look out for your posts as I think you talk a lot of sense. And I find nothing wrong with what you have posted here.

I find loads wrong with what he has posted. However hes telling the truth. I wish he wasnt but he is.

 

[Dannypne7]

To be honest, I'm getting to a stage in my life where £400 odd pound can be spent elsewhere. I've been a season ticket holder for 15 years, PNE are going to loose me if something isn't done drastically.

I'm sure I'm not the only one either, today has put the final nail in the coffin. I wouldn't be suprised if we go down next season, starting the season with -10 pts.

The problem is mate, we need to know NOW whether this might possibly be the case - the lack of information coming out of the club is just plain wrong. As a shareholder and season ticket holder for a similar period of time to you, I have a right to know!!

😡

 

[Fibber McGee]

And I can't help but feel it could have been prevented.

I'm absolutely lost for words tonight, like most Preston fans. That "joke of a club with the tower" have managed to get promoted to the promised land, and we're stuck for our eleventh season in the Championship. Burnley doing it was bad enough, they had a bit of funding buying Eagles; they had fuck all that lot who did it today, they bought Charlie Adam (WELL FUCKING DONE IRVINE) and they've got a manager who's passion and drive has seen them over the finish line. The rest, is now sadly history.

So where does our club go from here? It won't be business as usual next season as a mixture of apathy and "can't be arsed with it anymore" sinks in, a loyal fan base of around 8,000 will attend every home game with around 4,500 season tickets, if we're lucky. We're yet to break the 2k season ticket barrier from what I've heard and with the massive cock-up about the mis-communication regarding season tickets it's going to be a push to get the neccessery amount of season ticket holders to keep us fully functional through the summer months.

Looking at the wider picture, them going up isn't the initial damage, it's the final straw for some. The club has been rotting slowly since Simpson took charge, but Irvine has ripped this club of its soul. Players such as Neill Collins have brought shame to this once proud club and put it's supporters through misery whilst still raking in the same amount in a fortnight as most of us earn in a year. Fans starting to disappear, slowly but surely it's happened over the past 24 months and retail sales apparently down also. This final straw for a lot of people is going to hit the club hard, the everyday fan may sit down tonight and think "can that £400 for a season ticket be spent elsewhere in a way that is going to be better for me, for my family, for my life?"

I have, and I honestly have no idea how many games I'll be attending next season at present. I love my club to pieces, but something has got to change. We're fucked at the minute, well and truly fucked.

Agree with much of what you say but I have a problem with Irvine (or Simpson for that matter) being blamed. Who was it who appointed a manager with no Championship experience whatsoever (Simpson)? Who was it who appointed a manager with not only no Championship experience, but no managerial experience (Irvine)-a man who had been happy to take a back seat until he was 50, with no experience of signing players (hence his 'safe' signings of overpaid 'established' Championship players). Who allowed him to sign these players and who agreed the wages? The buck stops not with the manager (though he's the one who gets sacked) but with the board...and the Chairman.

 

[sagaman]

For gods sake get a grip man. Its your choice....make that choice and stop whining, I will renew because its my club .......Blackpool has nothing to do with my club.....yes Im as envious as hell..yes I will get some stick on Monday..............Im a nobender..its the way it is

 

[bolter]

Sell off the ground...sell off the training pitches...lets just pack it all in!!!

Typical, PNE supporters when the going gets tough we just throw in the towel, same every match when things aren't going our way.

I wonder if we were this fair weather during the Invincible days?

Probably not, we were winning!!!

 

[kc1968]

I always look out for your posts as I think you talk a lot of sense. And I find nothing wrong with what you have posted here.

Yeah but he swears a lot doesn't he?

 

[Gordon Ramsay]

Agree with much of what you say but I have a problem with Irvine (or Simpson for that matter) being blamed. Who was it who appointed a manager with no Championship experience whatsoever (Simpson)? Who was it who appointed a manager with not only no Championship experience, but no managerial experience (Irvine)-a man who had been happy to take a back seat until he was 50, with no experience of signing players (hence his 'safe' signings of overpaid 'established' Championship players). Who allowed him to sign these players and who agreed the wages? The buck stops not with the manager (though he's the one who gets sacked) but with the board...and the Chairman.

I could'nt agree more. Who is fleecing the proceeds from the training ground and renting them back to PNE ? Who is also fleecing the rent & proceeds from the club shop for one's self endevours, and considers this to be a never ending gravytrain.

 

[Werbeniuk]

Pop goes another bottle of wine.

 

[Fibber McGee]

The problem is mate, we need to know NOW whether this might possibly be the case - the lack of information coming out of the club is just plain wrong. As a shareholder and season ticket holder for a similar period of time to you, I have a right to know!!

😡

But we are a plc....hadn't you heard? Therefore we will be told NOTHING...until the 10 point deduction kicks in.

 

[Bayside]

Agree with much of what you say but I have a problem with Irvine (or Simpson for that matter) being blamed. Who was it who appointed a manager with no Championship experience whatsoever (Simpson)? Who was it who appointed a manager with not only no Championship experience, but no managerial experience (Irvine)-a man who had been happy to take a back seat until he was 50, with no experience of signing players (hence his 'safe' signings of overpaid 'established' Championship players). Who allowed him to sign these players and who agreed the wages? The buck stops not with the manager (though he's the one who gets sacked) but with the board...and the Chairman.

Oh Fibber I agree with a lot of what you've said there. DS and the board backed Irvine with money, £5m of money in fact, and have seen absolutely no return from it. That £5m of transfer fees alone were wasted and are now sitting in our accumulating debt which just doesnt look like been reduced at any given time in the near future. His signings' wages are nothing short of ridiculous for a club of our size, with Neill Collins been on £7k a week before bonuses. But who picked these players to sign? Who chose Shumilokoski above Charlie Adam, when Charlie Adam was about to board a plane to Austria last season during our training camp to sign on the dotted line? That is the killer blow for me, along with Irvine's other "incredible, established Championship players" - they were nothing short of failures, 90% of them.

Typical, PNE supporters when the going gets tough we just throw in the towel, same every match when things aren't going our way.

But Bolter this is the thing, the club will always be at my heart but I just can't figure out where the next bit of positive news is going to be coming from. The final straw for a lot of supporters will have been today, I cut down drastically the amount of games I went to the season just gone because of a new job after two and a half years without missing a game. Now I'm saving towards a deposit for a house and I just think "well, could that £400 go towards my deposit" and the answer is a big, fat yes at the minute.

All I can say is how I feel, that's what this forum is for - opinions and feelings to be discussed. I look at our players at the minute and just get this sort of hatred for a few of them, I hate the way they are bleeding the club of money (and ridiculous money at that) and their lack of passion, belief and enthusiasm which our supporters crave. I looked at that team who won today and their players and manager had all three - passion, belief and enthusiasm, a hard-working attitude that our team just lack because of the lack of passion and absolutely no self-belief.

I'm off to bed, today will be put to history and hopefully some fairly positive news will come out over the next week. Now is the time to make some sort of statement and some positive PR to get people to buy them season tickets, otherwise I feel it's going to be one hell of a long season next year.

Yeah but he swears a lot doesn't he?

Is it any fucking wonder! 🙄

 

[neilpne100]

Good shout pal! but have to be honest nothing is gonna change!!

I'm not that bothered that Shitpool are playing Prem football, its the fact that when they get relegated there gonna pick up 50 million,

They get 50 fucking million for coming down and were fucked cause we can't pay a 400k tax bill, sorry boys but we are screwed big time.

Selling all the shit we have isn't gonna make a difference, the damage has already been done. We are now the only club in lancashire/north west (with an avarage attendance of over 5k) that hasn't and never will recieve that sort of cash.

Its gonna be another long and futrating year for PNE

All my thanks goes out to Alan Irvine and Derek Shaw

 

[St Paddy]

For gods sake get a grip man. Its your choice....make that choice and stop whining, I will renew because its my club .......Blackpool has nothing to do with my club.....yes Im as envious as hell..yes I will get some stick on Monday..............Im a nobender..its the way it is

Great post mate 😉

 

[kc1968]

All I can say is how I feel, that's what this forum is for

And to discuss PNE stuff perhaps?

 

[Lord Edgington]

For gods sake get a grip man. Its your choice....make that choice and stop whining, I will renew because its my club .......Blackpool has nothing to do with my club.....yes Im as envious as hell..yes I will get some stick on Monday..............Im a nobender..its the way it is

Lots of emotion on here but let's look at one fact our chairman new about that is clearly deceiptfull ?
The alleged letters and e mails ref season tickets say nothing about an increase in June, absolutely nothing.
People hate being lied too and will vote with their feet, I will not renew until I know for sure that wasters like carter, mellor etc etc will never go near deepdale again.
I feel lied to and cheated by the management team at pne but not as let down as the work shy passionless spineless squad we carried in the 2010 season

 

[edstar123]

i'm posting on here for the first time......Derek shaw has to go,that is not in any doubt,his position is now untenable,half the squad has to go....in my veiw they're just as bad as he is,our football club is being murdered......without being to controversial i have to admit i watched the lashes game on tv this afternoon...if the north end players had half as much pride,half as much energy and half as much hunger then we'd be where they are now....tme for a complete re-building if we have to start from scratch then so be it....time to put the proud back in proud preston,i WILL renew my seson ticket because i believe we can do it,lets get behind the club....UTW!!!!