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Time for action - An open letter to Preston North End FC (Meeting & responses added).

Time for action - An open letter to Preston North End FC (Meeting & responses added).

I think it’s time for another meeting tbh or either that or a massive protest to get the Hemming’s family out, cause under his ownership we’ll become stagnant and get left behind especially with today’s football market.

We just can’t compete we have the budget of a league 1 club, and that’s where we will inevitably end up, not that Craig and Peter will care, they say they have “Premier League Ambitions” but I don’t believe them, the only way you can prove it is putting your money where your mouth is and splashing the cash on a few players.

Just look at what Wrexham are doing in their transfer business, now that is a club where I believe they have Premier League ambitions and I believe they will be there long before us.
 
IrishNorthEnder93 said:
I think it’s time for another meeting tbh or either that or a massive protest to get the Hemming’s family out, cause under his ownership we’ll become stagnant and get left behind especially with today’s football market.

We just can’t compete we have the budget of a league 1 club, and that’s where we will inevitably end up, not that Craig and Peter will care, they say they have “Premier League Ambitions” but I don’t believe them, the only way you can prove it is putting your money where your mouth is and splashing the cash on a few players.

Just look at what Wrexham are doing in their transfer business, now that is a club where I believe they have Premier League ambitions and I believe they will be there long before us.
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Look what’s happened to Sheffield Wednesday and Hull
 
IrishNorthEnder93 said:
I think it’s time for another meeting tbh or either that or a massive protest to get the Hemming’s family out, cause under his ownership we’ll become stagnant and get left behind especially with today’s football market.

We just can’t compete we have the budget of a league 1 club, and that’s where we will inevitably end up, not that Craig and Peter will care, they say they have “Premier League Ambitions” but I don’t believe them, the only way you can prove it is putting your money where your mouth is and splashing the cash on a few players.

Just look at what Wrexham are doing in their transfer business, now that is a club where I believe they have Premier League ambitions and I believe they will be there long before us.
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We may have a very low budget but in respect of the monies they put in, its probably on a par with most 'owners' at Championship level.
It's how it's spent and not improved upon. that is the issue, to me.
All credit to Wrexham, for now, but lets see how they fare at a much higher level where finances are more equal., nor should they really be used as an example as they are an outlier.
As much as Baxi where rightly lauded they did pull out at this level as the finances and investment involved are way higher.
It's not necessarily the monies they put in but how its administered and not used as a base to build on, that's the problem.
 
TheWarehouse said:
Look what’s happened to Sheffield Wednesday and Hull
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Sheffield Wednesday have a charlatan owner yes but Hull are continuing to spend and show ambition.

What next? Hope we don't do a Bournemouth or Brighton? I'm more fearful we'll do a Sheffield Wednesday when Revitt forgets to put money into us
 
Pressure needs to be put on those that own the club.
It is them that state the aim is the Prem, then they do not invest in the club sufficiently. So we need to hold them to account.
I would love to be more connected to start a protest, but I am not. I don't know many Northenders personally. I would not know many on here even if sat next to them for many seasons, so I don't think I am the best person to start a protest group. But I would happy join one if there was.
By the way, there are many on here is would like to meet. Even the ones I don't always agree with, the BIG question is do I want to hear a story about a certain hatrick first hand 🤔
 
TheWarehouse said:
Look what’s happened to Sheffield Wednesday and Hull
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Derby went into admin, had two seasons in the division below, got promoted, finished above us first time of asking (while taking 4 points off us) and this window have smashed our transfer record. They’ve had a pretty good window imo, certainly on course to finish above us again.

Those current clubs in crisis only need to wait a few years and they’ll be finishing above us again.
 
PNEMark said:
Derby went into admin, had two seasons in the division below, got promoted, finished above us first time of asking (while taking 4 points off us) and this window have smashed our transfer record. They’ve had a pretty good window imo, certainly on course to finish above us again.

Those current clubs in crisis only need to wait a few years and they’ll be finishing above us again.
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They might have been badly run a few years ago but in reality even if they have a similar Owners input to us then their natural turnover is significantly higher as they have circa 10k extra per home attendance, and that's not withstanding how much better they probably are at merchandising & building on the owners investment.
 
deepdaledreamer said:
We may have a very low budget but in respect of the monies they put in, its probably on a par with most 'owners' at Championship level.
It's how it's spent and not improved upon. that is the issue, to me.
All credit to Wrexham, for now, but lets see how they fare at a much higher level where finances are more equal., nor should they really be used as an example as they are an outlier.
As much as Baxi where rightly lauded they did pull out at this level as the finances and investment involved are way higher.
It's not necessarily the monies they put in but how its administered and not used as a base to build on, that's the problem.
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Yes. I think there's a lot to discuss with Craig and Revitt and probably not their fat little Rottweiler. Tie him up outside.

This can't continue. We can't be ran as a club in this way. It's absolutely fine for them to have no interest in PNE but then we need to see what active steps are being put into moving the club onto other more ambitious ownership. Or redoing what they do with the money put in. But PR can't stay at this point. This is yet another catastrophic transfer window.

Because the actual value of PNE is what a buyer is willing to pay for it. And that means Craig not getting what he's put in (but who cares? Something that is worth £-10m a year is really worth Zero as a starting point).
 
flipper said:
If you have the money nobody's stopping you putting it into the club sure we'd all appreciate it
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Look around you, this just isn't washing with the fans anymore.

Yes, they cover the losses of THEIR poor business decisions that litter this club but it's obvious to fans now with Oxford and Charlton pissing on our transfer budgets that this isn't enough.

Why are they hanging onto the club and drip feeding it and damaging their own public reps in the meantime? There is a financial reason they won't let go of the club and/or the asking price is mental.
 
Michael said:
Look what's happened to Millwall, Charlton and Oxford. All teams of a similar size to us and yet are somehow blowing us out of the water with transfer fees. How is this possible? Better run, better owners...?
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But they haven’t done fuck all in the league yet
 
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