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Never again....

Never again....

Lord Edgington said:
Give me time my friend.
It’s a work in progress
Evidently we have the perfect dimensions for parking spaces and really good water pressure in the latrines
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They need to turn down the thermostat for the hot water in the Finney Stand. 3rd degree burns every time I wash me mits! The money saved could go towards a RWB. 🤪🤪.
 
JK said:
do I want to hear anyone at Preston North End Football Club tell us we are overacheiving, that we can't compete, that we punch above our weight EVER again.

Luton promotion, they have been in the top flight, down to the non league and returned to the top division since Preston North End got relegated in 1961!
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Even if Coventry had won, one can write that they've also been down in the League One dumps and had their terrible "Home" game situations for ages......... exactly the same words - and they were within a whisker of the Prem.
Luton & Coventry both are simply better run than PNE - but it doesn't have to be like this.
Just start thinking about passing that Baton
Ridsdale, and there's no time like the present for all of us.
 
raefil said:
I stopped going because i was bored off my head, at the games. Ridsdale and the whole regime are complicit in that.

I will continue to ask, "Is he still here?"

The reason being is that I believe the advice hes giving to the owners is stifling PNEs progress and holding the club back.

The club needs a progressive CEO like we had back in the days of Tony Scholes. Unless and until that happens I think the entertainment value will continue to be very limited as manager after manager ends up resorting to negative tactics because of the abilities of the squads they are being given.

I didnt boycott I stopped going because it was mind numbingly boring and i found better things to do, especially in the couples of hours before a game started.

I dont demand wins, although theyre always nice, but i do expect a modicum of entertainment at games i attend. Ive renewed my Season Card and live in hope for the new season ahead.

Lutons success seems to have pissed on everyones chips but for me it shows that just a little bit extra and that could have been us.
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So you boycotted cause you were bored but you're happy to point at posters who are being negative (in you're opinion). Sorry, I don't really get it. Maybe there's some correlation between the way we're run, who our owners place in leadership roles and how boring it is.
 
California_PNE said:
So you boycotted cause you were bored but you're happy to point at posters who are being negative (in you're opinion). Sorry, I don't really get it. Maybe there's some correlation between the way we're run, who our owners place in leadership roles and how boring it is.
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🙂
 
northender2 said:
shows what you can do when you get recruitment right, even a change of manager didn't affect them. We need to go back to the recruitment policy we had when Grayson was here, sign good young players who can either be moved on for money or developed into decent championship players, lets stop with this signing journeymen with no growth/resale potential
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Spot on. Nothing more need to be said.
 
Fair play to both Luton and Coventry who have achieved a lot on limited resources similar to ours.
What is this down to? The Managers or the recruitment/ general backroom set up?

Luton Town
Nathan Jones (twice) & Rob Edwards , are they the reason for the success

Coventry City
Mark Robins , is he the reason for success?

PNE
Alex Neil, Frankie McEvoy*, Ryan Lowe , are they the reasons for our lack of success?

Or is it the backroom staff / recruitment staff/ general setup around the club?

* Frankie McEvoy didn't really have long enough in the hot seat and was also classed as a Head Coach rather than manager.

IMO, we are still feeling a bit of fallout from the last days of AN, there was obviously a lack of harmony somewhere, with the refusal to play Gordon, the offloading of Dolan and other bizarre happenings around that time (not got a scooby doo who the best team is etc) .
Frankie was a makeweight.
Ryan Lowe has his critics but overall has done a decent job this season, made his mistakes sure but he's a young manager finding his way and TBF he seems to have generally learned from his mistakes. Another thing to his credit is that he isn't constantly whinging about having no money to spend, he accepts his budget and gets on with it.

Big season for RL coming up, the end results will show if he's Championship/Prem standard , I would like him to prove that he is.
 
It's interesting to compare with Luton and Coventry and see how we could improve.

However, that's quite a recency bias. It's also fair to say we've performed as well or better than clubs with massively more resources than us this season (e.g. Watford and Stoke).

I'm note at all saying that shouldn't aspire to learn from the best, just that we aren't that bad either.
 
will either plod along as have done last few seasons mid table easy money for players to pick up for minimal effort, its all about 42 points attitude. or it will be an absolute shit show, how many folk have pne signed or pending ? millwall have got the hibs lad coming there way, is it a case of seeing whose left after june 15 then its best of them, thats how it is coming across.
 
Thracia said:
I think we'd've needed a couple of those £2m strikers at least. Or the striker and a couple of equivalent-value defenders to shore things up properly at the other end. Or the striker and a couple of genuine creative talents to provide goals for others too.

It's as if we were at least a RWB and a goalscorer short all along. 🤔
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We needed a few things to happen to be up there with Luton Town really. We needed Riis to not get injured, we needed Cannon to be signed in the summer not January and we needed a player that could make something out of nothing like McGeady could for example.

Ryan Lowe has identified that we need these players it appears from his comments, whether he will get them or not is another matter.
 
NG White said:
We needed a few things to happen to be up there with Luton Town really. We needed Riis to not get injured, we needed Cannon to be signed in the summer not January and we needed a player that could make something out of nothing like McGeady could for example.

Ryan Lowe has identified that we need these players it appears from his comments, whether he will get them or not is another matter.
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We need a lot more than that this season, with Riis and Evans set to be out for months, 4 OoCs still debating whether to sign on, and all the Prem loans gone away. We need to sort that lot out plus we still need to find the RWB and goalscorer we needed last season.
 
NG White said:
We needed a few things to happen to be up there with Luton Town really. We needed Riis to not get injured, we needed Cannon to be signed in the summer not January and we needed a player that could make something out of nothing like McGeady could for example.

Ryan Lowe has identified that we need these players it appears from his comments, whether he will get them or not is another matter.
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Did you forget that we needed a defence, a midfield, a manager that can adapt , a multi capped executive that knows what he's doing ( for the club not himself ) and an ownership that gives two fucks about football rather than coin?..... Sorry to interrupt but you only scratched the surface.🙂
 
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