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Looking like same old

Looking like same old

Pennyhome said:
Forget splashing the cash, another successful mid table finish is on the horizon , trev will be well pleased, and another fire sale in the summer with millions more in the kitty
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another one talking utter rubbish...the millions in the kitty eh? when will people realise the problem in football is clubs need to pay for themselves...the club must be run as a business so its the people of preston who need to turn out in larger numbers to put the money in the kitty!!
 
Tugg Speedman said:
Lack of any real investment (certainly reinvestment of funds from player sales) is the reason I didn't bother getting a season ticket this season for the first time in 29 years.

I was thinking of getting a half season ticket, but then remembered we won't be strengthening in January.

Hemmings inputs circa £600k a month apparently, but he was doing that anyway BEFORE we sold any players and brought in conservatively £16 million. So his monthly input is not an excuse for lack of investment/reinvestment in players.

However, it's his club (not ours) and it's his prerogative if he chooses to recoup some of his investment.
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So you bought a season ticket in 1990 when we had real investment? ....go onto Companies House Beta and take a look at the accounts. TH has invested over £40m so far.....how about he extends that to £160m which is where the Venkys are at....for what? You really didn't buy a ticket because of lack of real investment?
 
flipper said:
another one talking utter rubbish...the millions in the kitty eh? when will people realise the problem in football is clubs need to pay for themselves...the club must be run as a business so its the people of preston who need to turn out in larger numbers to put the money in the kitty!!
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When will people realise the problem with football is money, which is more often talked about than the product itself, football except for a few clubs (backed by more often than not foreign investors) is no longer competitive, the rest of the clubs are making the numbers up only.
 
Teams start to play differently around December and have started sitting deeper at Deepdale.
With sitting deeper our play getting behind the team is harder and without any creativity in our team it’s difficult to create chances.
We end up lumping the ball in the box to small players like Maguire and nugent.

Certain players are creating very little. We’ve gone from top scorers to not having a chance.
 
mozzchops said:
Teams start to play differently around December and have started sitting deeper at Deepdale.
With sitting deeper our play getting behind the team is harder and without any creativity in our team it’s difficult to create chances.
We end up lumping the ball in the box to small players like Maguire and nugent.

Certain players are creating very little. We’ve gone from top scorers to not having a chance.
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You’re right but we had opportunities for overlap runs and passes leading to crosses from the byline today and for driving into space before pulling crosses back. Instead we invariably crossed it forwards from a standing position, rather like a free kick and making it easier for the defence and keeper.
 
In terms of the last couple of games, there’s clearly a structural / tactical problem (as well as a lack of quality) in there which AN needs to address urgently.

In the grand scheme of things though, I think ultimately this first team has taken us as far as it can.

Looking at AN’s 1st season in charge, it’s more or less the same group of players who just missed out back then. The first team midfield is the same. The back 4 is Bauer for Huntington (upgrade) and Hughes for Cunningham (downgrade).

The forward line is basically Nugent or Stockley for Hugill, then no Robinson so everything on Maguire on the left.

I like a lot of our mainstays but they need help with additional quality coming into the building which improves our first team. Sadly it rarely happens.

One could argue our bench is much stronger than 2 years ago but that clearly isn’t having a massive effect.

We need to improve the team to move forward and at the moment our recruitment just isn’t really doing that.
 
kbd_pne said:
In terms of the last couple of games, there’s clearly a structural / tactical problem (as well as a lack of quality) in there which AN needs to address urgently.

In the grand scheme of things though, I think ultimately this first team has taken us as far as it can.

Looking at AN’s 1st season in charge, it’s more or less the same group of players who just missed out back then. The first team midfield is the same. The back 4 is Bauer for Huntington (upgrade) and Hughes for Cunningham (downgrade).

The forward line is basically Nugent or Stockley for Hugill, then no Robinson so everything on Maguire on the left.

I like a lot of our mainstays but they need help with additional quality coming into the building which improves our first team. Sadly it rarely happens.

One could argue our bench is much stronger than 2 years ago but that clearly isn’t having a massive effect.

We need to improve the team to move forward and at the moment our recruitment just isn’t really doing that.
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And how much of that is because every window the owner will only sanction the funds to allow us to get our third choice targets?
 
Severiano said:
So you bought a season ticket in 1990 when we had real investment? ....go onto Companies House Beta and take a look at the accounts. TH has invested over £40m so far.....how about he extends that to £160m which is where the Venkys are at....for what? You really didn't buy a ticket because of lack of real investment?
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Oh but I really did.
 
mozzchops said:
Teams start to play differently around December and have started sitting deeper at Deepdale.
With sitting deeper our play getting behind the team is harder and without any creativity in our team it’s difficult to create chances.
We end up lumping the ball in the box to small players like Maguire and nugent.

Certain players are creating very little. We’ve gone from top scorers to not having a chance.
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Tell our wide players to emulate what Boro's no7 did yesterday. Marcus Tavernier ran North End ragged.Best player on the park by a mile.We couldn't get near him. He showed that being DIRECT can be very effective. Barky used to do it but no longer seems either willing or capable. We currently are predictable and relatively easy to defend against. If we mixed it up a bit our forwards would benefit.
 
Well, the article in the LEP this morning certainly reads like same old, same old. Neil knows where the problems lie and we'd like to do some business "if we can" but in his opinion the big issue is DJ's absence. I may still be in a post defeat bad mood but Neil's comments read to me like we won't be able to bring in players he wants and we'll just have to wait for DJ to recover.
 
I am sure AN had been given assurances about signing players and strenghening the squad before signing his new contract.

If that is not the case, he would be hacked off and leave when the next big job comes calling!
 
flipper said:
another one talking utter rubbish...the millions in the kitty eh? when will people realise the problem in football is clubs need to pay for themselves...the club must be run as a business so its the people of preston who need to turn out in larger numbers to put the money in the kitty!!
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If "the club must be run as a business", it's up to the sole owner of the business to "put the money in the kitty".

It stopped being the people of Preston's problem when the PLC was dissolved and taken private.
 
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