That’s where I was post-Westley….
I started finding other things to do on a Saturday afternoon and i didn’t miss physically going to the games ( I followed them on the forum )
Bored.
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I started finding other things to do on a Saturday afternoon and i didn’t miss physically going to the games ( I followed them on the forum )
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Unless you get excited when a tax bill is paid promptly, there is little left.
My worry is that the people in the board room (better name: bored room) may think our indifferent silence is better than fans screaming for their heads.
They're wrong.
At least when we're moaning it shows we care. It's going past that now. Beyond caring.
My worry is that the people in the board room (better name: bored room) may think our indifferent silence is better than fans screaming for their heads.
They're wrong.
At least when we're moaning it shows we care. It's going past that now. Beyond caring.
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Probably the saddest post I’ve ever read from you Sid.
Advising a leading light of this forum, who’s made this forum a fantastic product, supported the clubs Ingol training ground project, walked the walk encouraging neutrals/lapsed supporters to be get off their arses & commit to attending Deepdale & made a success of the flag initiative among many other achievements to
Surely you cannot be serious? But you are, and what is soul destroying for a fellow fan of nearly 60 years is I understand your premise & reasoning & fully agree with you.
How many on here with season tickets are deciding not to attend matches, to miss their regular away support & vowing not to buy season cards for next season?
It is said the club belongs to the fans, for that to be true there has to be a fanbase. The owners, PR & RL are, in different ways, driving fans away & don’t seem to care one jot.
I’ve battled disability to attend home games, cannot go to away games as I did in the past.
But I’ve maintained season tickets/cards even in seasons I knew I wouldn’t be able to attend.
I, along with many of you, to the best of my ability have “played my part.”
Those above the fanbase, even allegedly & totally dispiritingly some players, have not played & continue not to play their part.
They’ve drained many years of goodwill, through good times & bad, to a point where if they don’t give a damn why should I?
I’ll be taking your sage but heartbreaking advice to heart Sid. As, sadly, will many, many others.
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I just want to see some entertainment football .
Unfortunately Ando I think like you many supporters are just bored and totally fed up of the dire performances and the total lack of ambition,apathy has sent in.
The actual protest will be at season ticket renewal, could easily see season tickets sales dropping dramatically from this season's high to the lowest ever numbers since returning to the Championship.🤔😡
Millwall at home?
I take my blood pressure on a weekly basis and I honestly think that if I took it whilst at Deepdale I would get my lowest reading as I'm that bored and if I weren't sucking a Werthers I'd be asleep!
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I think Lowe is also bored. Anyone else notice at Hull yesterday he spent 90% of the game sitting or standing in the dug out Like he couldn’t be bothered. Time to go.
I was going to Hull yesterday prior to Wednesday evenings turgid offerings, went to Darwen on Friday evening watching Darwen V Macc U18's, great game which Darwen lost 2-4, everyone up for this cup game played on a cold wet night, great entertainment and I just couldn't imagine seeing anything like this at Hull, going to miss next weekend too as the egg chasing has more appeal.
I didn't even celebrate our goal last week. I didn't even get out of my seat. I can't remember the last time that happened, let alone for an equaliser.
Shades of Alex Neil towards the end of his tenure
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as someone who went to Hull yesterday i can say we were very very lucky to not have lost that game in the first half, Storey had an absolute nightmare against the fast Hull players and Lindsay looked very shaky again, i can tell you for a fact the back line is crumbling fast, Bambo was the only one who came on and had an impact.
Thank you, @Keeper1, for baring your soul. I couldn't agree more with everything you've written (and my first North End game was Easter Monday 1958). North End are my one and only team, and always will be even if we're playing in the 'Evo-Stik North Division 2'. I'm not suggesting that John, or anyone else, walk away from the club and abandon it, but just step back and really take some time to reflect on and review the current situation. Change is inevitable, but when is an unknown.
Thank you again - great post 👍
I endorse the sentiments and consensus above. Part of my retirement plan was a season ticket and since 13/14 I have done exactly that...go to most games. This season, I think I might've missed twelve already , definitely double figures anyway. I'm going to Wigan game. Watford away (anticipated it being Gentry Day -staying with my daughter though and going with her partner but really the excitement will be seeing my grandson) and Lashers...probably that will be all. Very unlikely I will be renewing my season ticket again this summer unless things change but as everybody has said so eloquently above...its as dull as dishwater - the last game I saw us win was Boro last May. Things were better in the fourth division, believe me.
Just a point - when we came up in 15, with a pragmatic team which I feared wouldn't cope with the Championship...how many of the current team would get into that team - over Hunts, Clarke, Wright, Joey, Beckford etc...? I'd have Grayson back in a heartbeat even though he was a cautious manager
Just a point - when we came up in 15, with a pragmatic team which I feared wouldn't cope with the Championship...how many of the current team would get into that team - over Hunts, Clarke, Wright, Joey, Beckford etc...? I'd have Grayson back in a heartbeat even though he was a cautious manager
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Great post, like you said, "they don't give a damn", hits very hard and true right now at the club, yesterday i was bemused by how poor some of our players were, you can look at the young prem lads injecting a bit of something into the game but my word some of our mainstay players played like non league players i mean i watched Wrexham the other week and they looked better than us. When it comes round to Saturday i still go to Deepdale and get that football buzz right up until the whistle blows and we witness balls being sprayed out of play and players getting outmatched all over the pitch. Change is needed but when is the big question.
It’s alright saying it all started prior to RL’s arrival, BUT he’s the one in the Managers seat, and he has to take responsibility for how boring it is at present. He promised to have Deepdale bouncing! The thing that makes it boring for me, is the way RL sets us up at home and you feel a sense of achievement if we get to HT at 0-0 and even more so if we’ve manage a shot on target. It’s hardly worth attending Deepdale until HT so we just aren’t getting value for money, but do the owners care? I think not!!!
I have never known the club run so badly and the fact that no one seems to care apart from the die hard fans.
I have never known the club run so badly and the fact that no one seems to care apart from the die hard fans.
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Think it was my first game. Hanging onto the railings by the pavilion stand paddock. Think it was Man city and we got stuffed. Still suffering all these years later. The present fair on offer though is fast becoming unberable thinking its time to cut the cord if this bully bull shitter is around for much longer.
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