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Does this feel like .... ???

Does this feel like .... ???

Big Bob Atkins said:
And even worse is being made to leave the Shay 5 minutes from time cos your Dad wanted to "miss the traffic" and you end up missing Mark Greenwood's consolation goal......85/86 was an absolute shitshow. All about context i suppose; the last two seasons have felt a real disappointment cos I had a real expectation that we could compete. Whereas in 1985, even though I was 10, I knew we were bobbins....
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The traffic rush from the Shay has never that bad!😊

I’d be more than grateful if you could see your way to changing your Avatar.

That dodgy chancer gives me the yips!🤮
 
Kitty Kat said:
Does this feel like our worst EVER season in our long history ?? Yes, I know it sounds over the top, but can anybody really say that finishing in the bottom 4 in the 3rd division in 1984/85 or finishing 91st out of 92 in the old 4th division in 1985/86, feels worse than this season ?? Going back to those years, we were paying peanuts for our players, coaching staff & manager, but with this lot, they're getting paid thousands & thousands per week & for what ?? We're a terrible team & half of the team isn't even our's !! I know I'll get criticised for being over dramatic, but another Sunday will arrive tomorrow, with me going to chat to my late father in the cemetery & telling him that we lost without much fight or ability. I told him last week about the Wycombe match & since then, we've lost another 2 matches, where we haven't scored (in the oppositions net, of course) & played like a park's team. Take Care all ❤
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No. The thread is over the top and conflating £ with performances is lazy and I’ll thought through.
 
Some of the posts on here made me laugh. My first game on Deepdale was a defeat to Cardiff in 1969. We were relegated that season to the 3rd tier for the first time in our history. To put this in context, we were playing in the top tier just 8 years before.

So, you’ll forgive me for laughing about posters saying this season is the worst ever etc. In my early years, I saw first hand our demise from being a solid tier 2 team to seeking re-election 15 years later (that would’ve meant relegation to the Conference under the current system). The best season in all that time was winning the old third division in 1971, but we were strugglers from the first season we went up and were soon relegated again. During that time I saw the ground deteriorate to wreck and ruin as we had no money, they were truly bad times and yet I stayed with my club.

In recent times we’ve been a solid Chapionship club, yet people talk about not going on anymore etc. etc. The club is about its fans and if the fans won’t stay with it, you can be sure no one else is. Get real folks, in football there are good times and bad times, mostly bad, but that’s what makes the good times so special.
 
LostinSpace said:
Some of the posts on here made me laugh. My first game on Deepdale was a defeat to Cardiff in 1969. We were relegated that season to the 3rd tier for the first time in our history. To put this in context, we were playing in the top tier just 8 years before.

So, you’ll forgive me for laughing about posters saying this season is the worst ever etc. In my early years, I saw first hand our demise from being a solid tier 2 team to seeking re-election 15 years later (that would’ve meant relegation to the Conference under the current system). The best season in all that time was winning the old third division in 1971, but we were strugglers from the first season we went up and were soon relegated again. During that time I saw the ground deteriorate to wreck and ruin as we had no money, they were truly bad times and yet I stayed with my club.

In recent times we’ve been a solid Chapionship club, yet people talk about not going on anymore etc. etc. The club is about its fans and if the fans won’t stay with it, you can be sure no one else is. Get real folks, in football there are good times and bad times, mostly bad, but that’s what makes the good times so special.
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I find the hard times like those are what make fans.

I went on the odd game as a kid but never really cared too much, even when we were on the brink of promotion.

What really made me love the club was the relegation under Fergie and Brown. That's the season I fell in love, and after it I bought my first season ticket and didn't miss a match for 5 years, until I went to uni.
 
I blame the leader/owner of the club for telling everyone through the club that we will push for promotion (one of many promises not kep). I you have the financial ability to do exactly what you state you will do and don't do it, then your a LIAR. We don't need a liar at the top of our club.

I'm not making any excuses for hemmings and co whatsoever. They sold a lie to Alex Neil, and he bought it like us hook line and sinker.

Now we are crashing and burning we all need someone to blame.

Alex Neil has gone stale and it is time for him to go. However he is a capable manager and given a rethink by him and the right backing by the club, then I think he's capable of definitely competing for promotion.

I'm not goanna say covid or depression has caused this because I hasn't. Contributed to the grand scheme? Probably yes. .

All the best Alex, Sorry you fell for our horrid management lies our proud club currently occupies. You do my head in with your rubbish post match interviews and hands in pockets head down dugout approach. I hope you get out the hole your in.
 
LostinSpace said:
Some of the posts on here made me laugh. My first game on Deepdale was a defeat to Cardiff in 1969. We were relegated that season to the 3rd tier for the first time in our history. To put this in context, we were playing in the top tier just 8 years before.

So, you’ll forgive me for laughing about posters saying this season is the worst ever etc. In my early years, I saw first hand our demise from being a solid tier 2 team to seeking re-election 15 years later (that would’ve meant relegation to the Conference under the current system). The best season in all that time was winning the old third division in 1971, but we were strugglers from the first season we went up and were soon relegated again. During that time I saw the ground deteriorate to wreck and ruin as we had no money, they were truly bad times and yet I stayed with my club.

In recent times we’ve been a solid Chapionship club, yet people talk about not going on anymore etc. etc. The club is about its fans and if the fans won’t stay with it, you can be sure no one else is. Get real folks, in football there are good times and bad times, mostly bad, but that’s what makes the good times so special.
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I can only compare my feelings to other times I've experienced. I was only born in 1985.
 
deepdaledreamer said:
As crap, rubbish, dire, turgid etc, as this Season is it doesnt come close to when we were bottom of the bottom Division with no floodligts and a dilapitadeted Ground
Or other bad periods.
Although i get the fact that right now you might feel like it is!!!!
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Things were obviously worse off the pitch back then, but even under Westley, Fergie Jr, etc, I got the impression they were trying to win games.

I don’t see that with AN - it looks like he’s clinging on for a draw throughout and hoping to snatch something from a set piece or breakaway.

He has served up the worst football since Beck IMHO and by far the most negative performances.

Yesterday was a must-win game and we barely had a decent attempt on goal.

It was painfully, shockingly bad.

Allowing him to carry on is isn’t just highly risky - it’s negligence. 🙁
 
deepdaledreamer said:
As crap, rubbish, dire, turgid etc, as this Season is it doesnt come close to when we were bottom of the bottom Division with no floodligts and a dilapitadeted Ground
Or other bad periods.
Although i get the fact that right now you might feel like it is!!!!
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At least the Sumners and Garrison were still open.......
 
deepdaledreamer said:
Not being pedantic but didnt go on this game and dont remember a Mark Greenwood but we did have a Nigel probably about this time, is that who you mean?
If it was Nigel i really thought he was going to go on to great things but i dont think he did.
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We sold him to Bury for £15,000 which John McGrath then used as his transfer budget to rebuild the team which won us promotion.
Nigel then re-signed for us a number of years later.
 
giro said:
Not sure. But he if did, I wasn’t at the game I went to. We lost 1-0.
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If that was the reelection season we lost 2-1 at the Shay. I had just arrived in Halifax that summer for work and I got 2 free tickets to the Director's box from the guy I bought my new kitchen off. They hammered us, we just got a late consolation
 
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