Agree even that tiny club down the road called Blackpool made it into the prem.
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As fans we are not naive enough to think we should be challenging for promotion every season but the money that we do spend is on shite and completely wasteful.
Quick question, have you attended Deepdale for the last year? Performances on the whole have been fucking dreadful. 1 goal in 8 games? I think you're the one taking the piss settling for stats like that. We offer absolutely nothing going forward and the way we have played for the best part of a year or more has sent a large proportion of our support base questioning their actual attendance.
Granted, the Hemmings do put a lot of money into the club, but let's get real here. They could and should be a hell of a lot more savvy with that Injection. And that's not even addressing the big elephant in the room. This club presents a an attractive tax haven for their other ventures.
Risdale out.... I won't spout too much about him. What I think has already been said by the OP. But for this club to progress he has to go.
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It's absolutely ridiculous that the Hemmings' are seemingly willing to trust Peter Liar with the recruitment of another manager; he's failed in this regard every time.
With him at the helm, nothing changes - why can't people see that?! It's mission accomplished for Old Peter with Lowe going taking the heat off him (again) amongst the majority of fans, who are only interested in who the manager is (running a football club successfully goes a lot deeper than that).
Someone with high level communication and man management skills is required; PR doesn't know how to identify these as his previous appointments prove.
With him at the helm, nothing changes - why can't people see that?! It's mission accomplished for Old Peter with Lowe going taking the heat off him (again) amongst the majority of fans, who are only interested in who the manager is (running a football club successfully goes a lot deeper than that).
Someone with high level communication and man management skills is required; PR doesn't know how to identify these as his previous appointments prove.
Agreed. You know my feelings when it comes to Ridsdale - he has a proven track record of failure and universally despised at all his previous clubs.
Seems to get off scot free here but at least some of us are wise to his bullshit.
His solution to improving things at the club is to just outsource everything and the measure of that 'success' can be debated.
Sadly, I feel he's got his feet too far under the table.
This has got to be up there with one of the biggest "load of shite" posts this forum has seen for a while.
The fact that you are attacking a fan for wanting better for the club would suggest that you aren't an actual fan, not the other way round.
The turnover argument isn't one to attack other fans with, it's one to attack the hierarchy with. Most clubs who lack attendance revenue, make up for it through player trading - something our Pete seems to struggle with. Hull for example have just picked up Millar for a bargain 1.5mill. if he has a good season or two he will likely go for 10+. These are the transfers we should be making. But instead we sign players who don't fit our system then either pay them up or release them at the end of their deals because it hasn't worked out. That's not the fans fault, that's the management's fault.
With regards to the rest it's been picked apart by enough people that I don't need to do it again. But I would highly recommend that you pull your head out of the sand and give it a bloody good wobble.
So, do you and Andyg still believe I'M the problem?
I noticed you soon scuttled off after this post. Tit.
it was inevitable that an assistant manager would play the same style and so would the players.
We need a new manager with new ideas. Ryan Lowe when he first came it was all about attacking football and closing down the opposition but for some reason it all stopped the mid field and defence dropped so deep we could never be in there half. I think there must be a penalty clause for being in the opposition half. We don’t close teams down we just back off. Obviously the attacking coach is not listening to the defensive coach or to the manger. The players do not seem to know what they are meant to be doing. Wing backs so much talk about them. Potts hardly ever passes the ball forward or takes a man on. Brady just lumps it forward he never takes a player on. We have some reasonable players but we are expecting them to play in positions their not comfortable with. Do the managers ever discuss tactics with the team or expect them to implement their ideas on the day.
When l heard that they had been talking tactics all week to stop their wingers What a load of crap. Is that all they do is talk about stopping the other team. Wouldn’t it be a good idea to discuss away to win not to lose.
It’s not going to be easy for a new manager another new style to implement. There has been a lot of talk about the young players why don’t we play them all this bullshit from Lowe that they are delicate and must not push them to hard if they are good enough they should be playing.
I have said my piece when l played every player knew what they were doing and what was expected of them
A centre forward who could head the ball defender who headed the ball to a team mate not just any where players who would pass the ball and run on for a return ball not just pass job done. It’s sad but the coffin looks like it may go lower.
We need a new manager with new ideas. Ryan Lowe when he first came it was all about attacking football and closing down the opposition but for some reason it all stopped the mid field and defence dropped so deep we could never be in there half. I think there must be a penalty clause for being in the opposition half. We don’t close teams down we just back off. Obviously the attacking coach is not listening to the defensive coach or to the manger. The players do not seem to know what they are meant to be doing. Wing backs so much talk about them. Potts hardly ever passes the ball forward or takes a man on. Brady just lumps it forward he never takes a player on. We have some reasonable players but we are expecting them to play in positions their not comfortable with. Do the managers ever discuss tactics with the team or expect them to implement their ideas on the day.
When l heard that they had been talking tactics all week to stop their wingers What a load of crap. Is that all they do is talk about stopping the other team. Wouldn’t it be a good idea to discuss away to win not to lose.
It’s not going to be easy for a new manager another new style to implement. There has been a lot of talk about the young players why don’t we play them all this bullshit from Lowe that they are delicate and must not push them to hard if they are good enough they should be playing.
I have said my piece when l played every player knew what they were doing and what was expected of them
A centre forward who could head the ball defender who headed the ball to a team mate not just any where players who would pass the ball and run on for a return ball not just pass job done. It’s sad but the coffin looks like it may go lower.
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I started reading this and felt like squirting acid into my eyes - how anyone can be happy about the owners/director (or whatever he is this week) management and players over the last season is beyond me!
Fans ask for honesty, ambition and passion - we don't get any of that, the original post was spot on! I'd settle for mediocrity if clubs far smaller than us with limited funds hadn't got to the PL before us - with the right manager we'd have been in the playoffs for 3 out of the last 4 seasons, I genuinely believe that.
The worrying thing for me is Neil did the same and so did Grayson.
One up front.
Sit back.
Let the other team have all the possession.
Hope for a lucky break or a set piece.
Play every game as though expecting to get beat.
Same old same old. No ambition from the club, none at all.
Wow…bit of a shocking take on the OP’s perfectly reasonable and thorough point of view. You must be so engrained into the Hemmings/Ridsdale way of thinking that it’s almost like listening to a North Korean defend Kim Jong-Un.
You compare us to Stockport/Bury etc. - but neither of those have been close to achieving a promotion to the Premier League, we have been 90 minutes away and have achieved top 10/close to top 6 on a number of occasions, so if run properly, there is a chance we could do it.
It’s not about the ‘prestige’ of simply being in the Prem - it’s what can potentially come with it, a season of great financial benefit to the club and hopefully a spring board to bring the club up to a better standard (see Burnley and currently Sheff U as examples of that).
We would also like to see some actual football being played at Deepdale and some sort of structure/plan from our leadership - for which there is none at the minute.
So really, the ‘problem’ lies with the owner and Ridsdale - but if you’re going to point at fans, then maybe you should look at yourself. Fans that are happy with what is mediocrity, when we can do better and fans that are happy to watch our club be run poorly and into the ground have no right knocking those that have some ambition and want to see the club moving in the right direction.