Cutting some slack

[pne_monster]

Hemmings has set out his stall , that we will remain a bottom half championship team. He has no ambition for the club beyond that. I have followed the club for fifty years and more and have never been so disheartened in all that time which includes Westley re election etc etc. The reason it feels worse than those times is that previously we had no other options open to us, with Hemmings as owner i thought we were a club with a billionaire owner with a chance of the premiership for once in my lifetime. It turns out we have billionaire owner with no real i terest in seeing us improve, i am sorry but for the first time in 50yrs i am feeling enough is enough, to stand still or go backwards with a self imposed false ceiling, whats the point of bothering, none whatever !!!!

Made worse by his declaration post play offs that we want to be challenging for promotion within 5 years! No wonder crowds are so low.

 

[Tino]

Made worse by his declaration post play offs that we want to be challenging for promotion within 5 years! No wonder crowds are so low.

Still got 18 months then... what's the panic? Took Huddersfield 5 years as well from League 1 to Prem.

 

[pnematic]

Hemmings has set out his stall , that we will remain a bottom half championship team. He has no ambition for the club beyond that. I have followed the club for fifty years and more and have never been so disheartened in all that time which includes Westley re election etc etc. The reason it feels worse than those times is that previously we had no other options open to us, with Hemmings as owner i thought we were a club with a billionaire owner with a chance of the premiership for once in my lifetime. It turns out we have billionaire owner with no real i terest in seeing us improve, i am sorry but for the first time in 50yrs i am feeling enough is enough, to stand still or go backwards with a self imposed false ceiling, whats the point of bothering, none whatever !!!!

Feeling much the same after 49 years!

However , at least I know where Hemmings stands now. People will make their choices based on his model - where’s there’s no ambition , there’s no hope and that kills the passion.

 

[utw]

Feeling much the same after 49 years!

However , at least I know where Hemmings stands now. People will make their choices based on his model - where’s there’s no ambition , there’s no hope and that kills the passion.

Absolutely it kills the passion. I can only see numbers dropping even more the more we remain under him. The club will, barring maybe a freak season here or there, remain a bottom half Championship/top half League One club.

 

[PNEroulette]

Absolutely it kills the passion. I can only see numbers dropping even more the more we remain under him. The club will, barring maybe a freak season here or there, remain a bottom half Championship/top half League One club.

That's the reality of the situation.
But the quality of the football is still high, the Championship is one of the best leagues in the world and its only a short trip ,for most, to go and watch it.
Its got to beat watching a Tommy Booth side full of steak puddings and pies playing as though they had their legs tied together ,surely.

 

[KeithLard]

Made worse by his declaration post play offs that we want to be challenging for promotion within 5 years! No wonder crowds are so low.

Pretty much where I am with PNE.

I follow my club passively now. I may be a shit fan now, but the cost of football is very high to watch a club with no ambition when other clubs around you have plenty. With a young daugther, nursery fees etc it has fallen down the priority list.

I see PNE as a version of Newcastle. An owner who has more money than sense, but doesn't want to spend it, but won't sell the club either. Won't push on to get to the next level. Treat fans with contempt and doesn't listen.

 

[Ron Burgundy]

If he didn't release the purse strings when we finished 7th , with cash in the bank , he sure aint going to release the purse strings if we finish 4th bottom.

Might be a lesson learnt, under his stewardship we have never been in such a good position squad wise.

It should’ve been this season we pushed on. Will be hard if Pearson goes for us to improve, which I think he will if we are still in this division. Same with Browne and Robinson really. More players will leave eventually and I don’t have much faith in the club replacing them properly. Various managers over the years have failed to kick us on when we’ve been in a good position due to lack of investment. I can’t ever see us making the Prem with TH at the helm.

100% we should have pushed on but maybe the owner might see things differently now after potentially missing this opportunity, however maybe he hasn't.

We do replace players quite well at the moment apart from Hugill obviously.

I can't see teams coming in with the money required for the likes of Browne, Davies and Pearson at this stage just because of how highly we value them but also the limitations in their games compared to other players of similar age in the division.

Robinson if he carries on could be different as he is assisting, scoring and is only young, he could go for bigger money than Pearson simply on his goals and assists.

 

[Tugg Speedman]

Still got 18 months then... what's the panic? Took Huddersfield 5 years as well from League 1 to Prem.

Guess you've not seen the league table then, or noticed our current form? 10 games into a season is the widely accepted bench mark, so we have one more game to go until we can look at the league table and say we are where we deserve to be.

Panic is perhaps the wrong word, but an acknowledgement of our predicament and a plan/desire to change it is required urgently.