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Heartless performance

Heartless performance

I agree … I wasn’t on tonight but against Derby we was awfully quite for the amount on there, fair enough it’s was around a sad event but still you’d expect some noise. This has been a common occurrence with home games for a long time but never this bad. Seems any passion that was there has been sapped out of the fans and the club. Sad times for Us.
 
Have we become a middle class fanbase? That's how it seems to me... As much as I dislike them lot down the road, I don't see our ground bouncing like theirs anytime soon... Frankie has to go surely, but what in earth are they going to say to any new prospective manager? We look stagnant in all aspects of the club...
 
MikeConroy'sForehead said:
Have we become a middle class fanbase?
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No. Strange question.

We do have an ageing fanbase imo and many fans of all ages who realise that while Ridsdale is at the club nothing will change and with that comes a 'what can we do about it?' attitude.

Fan pressure can contribute to removing a manager, but it doesn't have much affect on removing board members.
 
MikeConroy'sForehead said:
From players and fans alike ... There was nothing about tonight's game that suggested we were up for causing an upset ... Embarrassing
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Definitely we should have tried for an up tempo start to get the crowd involved. But I disagree that we never looked like an upset was possible.

We’ll probably not get a better opportunity of beating Liverpool in my lifetime. But the tactics, though not thrilling, did give us a shot. Clearly we should have been 1 or 2 goals up. We kept Liverpool so quiet.

Arguably offside first goal and for the second, a mishit cross bounced luckily back off the crossbar - and really restricted them to one other chance.
 
That performance was meant things but it wasn't heartless.

Criticise the tactics, Saturdays debacle or any number of other things deserving of criticism, but the players have their all tonight.

Using tonight as a stick to beat the club with just weakens the case against McAvoy, Ridsdale and the Hemmings family.
 
MikeConroy'sForehead said:
From players and fans alike ... There was nothing about tonight's game that suggested we were up for causing an upset ... Embarrassing
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I don’t think that’s fair either for the players or the fans. i thought the players in the first half gave a decent account of themselves. The second half we reverted to type more. As for the fans, they tried hard to get an atmosphere going but, we are singing the same old shite from the last century! The songs are stale. Perhaps the new fans group could get something going on improving and freshening things up it’s way over due.
 
I disagree RE the performance on the pitch. I thought we did well first half and broke on them numerous times, just the final finish or ball let us down. The Liverpool players, whilst most weren't first team regulars they were still class. They moved the ball very well and you could see they are better players and so they should be.

Fans wise, it was always going to be like that. Two blokes sat behind me, one a Preston fan and his mate was a Liverpool fan with the accent to boot. He didn't celebrate their goals or anything, just sat and watched the game.

One thing will get the atmosphere to where we want it to be at Deepdale, winning games and playing some decent stuff.
 
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