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MBcha

MBcha

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From about 25 minutes into the game tonight I was willing the time away.

Why should we as fans care about the club when they've treated us with such utter disdain by keeping Lowe and Ridsdale in post?

The club feels hollow, soulless.

My enthusiasm is at an all time low.
 
MBcha said:
From about 25 minutes into the game tonight I was willing the time away.

Why should we as fans care about the club when they've treated us with such utter disdain by keeping Lowe and Ridsdale in post?

The club feels hollow, soulless.

My enthusiasm is at an all time low.
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6 league games in a row with 0 goals scored, when we lose now i dont even feel sad or disappointed just feels like Lowe has sucked all my enthusiasm for this team out of me.
 
MBcha said:
From about 25 minutes into the game tonight I was willing the time away.

Why should we as fans care about the club when they've treated us with such utter disdain by keeping Lowe and Ridsdale in post?

The club feels hollow, soulless.

My enthusiasm is at an all time low.
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My dad turned 67 yesterday. He's watched us pretty much his whole life and tonight he said he doesn't enjoy games anymore. Just finds it a chore. Have to agree. It's honking. And to be fair, it's not all down to Lowe. Was the same the last 2 seasons under AN too.
 
Loweball said:
6 league games in a row with 0 goals scored, when we lose now i dont even feel sad or disappointed just feels like Lowe has sucked all my enthusiasm for this team out of me.
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Tonight I went from a brief flash of anger at full time to numb by the time I'd left the ground.

What's the point?
 
MBcha said:
From about 25 minutes into the game tonight I was willing the time away.

Why should we as fans care about the club when they've treated us with such utter disdain by keeping Lowe and Ridsdale in post?

The club feels hollow, soulless.

My enthusiasm is at an all time low.
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Guarantee you'd have felt different with another manager at the helm.
 
There's no hope or enthusiasm with this club. Top to bottom. Ownership don't want to run a modern football club and we've got Peter (who no other championship club would hire) seeing out his pension years.

Manager is just treading water til he returns to the lower leagues. Most players are just here for an easy pay cheque. It's a complete vacuum of a club with a fanbase left gasping for air. We can pretend there's a game plan on and off the pitch but it's been apparent there isn't one for years.

FIrst game in to the season and I already want it to end. Until fans unite and help force this ownership out, we will continue down the same hopeless path.
 
My entire enthusiasm is at an all time low sadly.

Even more depressing is I’ve got a young son and he’s wanting to get involved. He’s taking more of an interest in Football and want to come on a game.

I almost want to spare him the dullness and monotony of PNE life and guide him to other hobbies and interests - stuff that may actually give him some fulfilment and joy.
 
golf tomorrow and again on Tuesday, wonderful looking forward to something, going to Deepdale seems like a chore that you have to suffer knowing it will offer you no joy at all......................
 
This is the first summer in practically forever where I’ve barely kept up with what’s going on at the club. A perfunctory browse at the summer transfer window thread. A passing glance at the full-time score last night. I simply don’t care. And that comes straight off the back of having my first (half) season ticket last season in years. It just feels like we’re about 10 years behind most other Championship clubs. Why should I care if there’s so little imagination from the owners directed towards modernising the club? They’re just making it up as they go along. Even if we win 5 in a row, I probably won’t care much more. It will be a flash in the pan, same as it was last season. At one time (when I was a lot younger admittedly), there wasn’t a great deal that mattered to me more than PNE. It barely qualifies as an interest at present.
 
shabbagaz said:
So many fans walked out way before the end.... again. Tells a story.

Yet Hemmings, Revitt and the trust seem completely blind to it.
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Their view is different from ours. From their perspective it’s “we just put in another £2m what they complaining for”. They just see money results obviously don’t matter.
 
Randall Flagg said:
My dad turned 67 yesterday. He's watched us pretty much his whole life and tonight he said he doesn't enjoy games anymore. Just finds it a chore. Have to agree. It's honking. And to be fair, it's not all down to Lowe. Was the same the last 2 seasons under AN too.
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^^^100% this^^^

I've felt like this for quite a while.

The enjoyment, excitement, enthusiasm etc etc has been completely removed for me.

At this point I'm absolutely past caring.

I have a ST & I'm genuinely unsure if I will even bother going to every game.
 
mells bells said:
All I am clinging on to is the hope that Lowey will be gone soon.
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No both Lowe and Ridsdale need to go. We will get nowhere with Ridsdale. Where do you think the attitude of “we are over achieving” comes from.

I recall in the early months of Alex Neil appointment during a fans forum Ridsdale telling the fans we absolutely have to get to the premier league. One fan stood up and said surely we had to be realistic, Ridsdale responded with no, we absolutely have to get there to survive as a club! Now he spouts historically we don’t deserve where we are! What changed so much? We absolutely don’t deserve to be dragged down by him and his 2nd rate managers that’s for bloody sure.
 
Joanpne said:
No both Lowe and Ridsdale need to go. We will get nowhere with Ridsdale. Where do you think the attitude of “we are over achieving” comes from.

I recall in the early months of Alex Neil appointment during a fans forum Ridsdale telling the fans we absolutely have to get to the premier league. One fan stood up and said surely we had to be realistic, Ridsdale responded with no, we absolutely have to get there to survive as a club! Now he spouts historically we don’t deserve where we are! What changed so much? We absolutely don’t deserve to be dragged down by him and his 2nd rate managers that’s for bloody sure.
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Yep, when apropos-of-nothing Lowe slips into an interview stuff like "I think if we were to win one, draw one and lose one for the remainder of the season, we'd be two points better off than we were last season", it's obvious he hasn't sat down and worked it out for himself - these are stats spun up by people at the club with nothing better to do, including Ridsdale once he's replied to all the fans individually by text.

What changed re the Prem was Ingol - in 2016, the owner's priority was getting planning permission for Ingol so he could build houses on it. The pretext for that was the "state of the art training facility for both the first team and the Academy", which (we were told) was needed before the club could deliver Prem football. All the club's focus then was Prem, Prem, Prem, with (as you say) Ridsdale even linking the Prem to the club's survival, anything to convince the planners to grant permission. Once housebuilding was safely under way, the training ground was scrapped.

Fast forward to the 2022 fans meeting (fans forums had by now been scrapped as well), and Craig told us that things had inexplicably reversed - perversely, we now had to get to the Prem first, before we could afford to build all the things we need to get to the Prem, such as that training ground. And Craig's new plan for getting to the Prem was a programme of careful frugal IoM budgeting with Ridsdale in sole charge of all football operations.

Getting to the Prem is now such a distant nice-to-have dream, that it could even threaten the club's survival if we tried too hard to achieve it (so we are repeatedly told).

Revitt and the Hemmings value Ridsdale because he'll shamelessly spin this shit for them while they stay very much in the shadows. There's no Prem coming our way while any of these people are involved IMO.
 
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