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Durutti said:
I would agree as there will be plenty of part timers on who won't have a clue what the fuck is going on. Save it for the league games.
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Why not both cup and league? Are you saying you expect any protest to be a "one off"? Fans should prepare for the long haul as PNE are set in their ways and believe they are kicking above their weight

ps Most part timers will try to get a ticket for cup match
 
I guarantee their won’t be any meaningful protest. Our fan base simply don’t have it in them anymore.

Plenty are great at sounding off on here and social media, but then that’s as far it goes.

I’ll use the Ched Evans signing as an example. Lost count of how many people were going to ‘boycott the club’ if he signed, yet are still posting on here, and yep, still attending games.

Whilst fans continue buying tickets and attending games, nothing will change.

I expect I’ll get a load of grief in return, but obviously happy to be proven wrong.
 
MrBoomBoom said:
I guarantee their won’t be any meaningful protest. Our fan base simply don’t have it in them anymore.

Plenty are great at sounding off on here and social media, but then that’s as far it goes.

I’ll use the Ched Evans signing as an example. Lost count of how many people were going to ‘boycott the club’ if he signed, yet are still posting on here, and yep, still attending games.

Whilst fans continue buying tickets and attending games, nothing will change.

I expect I’ll get a load of grief in return, but obviously happy to be proven wrong.
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Unfortunately there's a lot of truth in this 🙁
 
JK said:
I think the only way Rivett & Hemmings can build some sort of relationship with the fans to move forward would be the removal of Ridsdale.

Don't think it's going to happen though.
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To be honest I doubt even Ridsdale going would make any odds. All KR and the Hemmings family see are profit and loss margins, and we all know which margin we are in. We need owners who want to brag about their club and big it up, the current lot are too busy counting the money from the profit margins whilst sitting firmly on the other.
 
MrBoomBoom said:
I guarantee their won’t be any meaningful protest. Our fan base simply don’t have it in them anymore.

Plenty are great at sounding off on here and social media, but then that’s as far it goes.

I’ll use the Ched Evans signing as an example. Lost count of how many people were going to ‘boycott the club’ if he signed, yet are still posting on here, and yep, still attending games.

Whilst fans continue buying tickets and attending games, nothing will change.

I expect I’ll get a load of grief in return, but obviously happy to be proven wrong.
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Important to remember it's not the fans' fault we have these shitty owners.

And protests are just "sounding off" - that's what they're for, it's a cathartic process in itself.

If people sneer that they don't cause change to happen, those people sneering don't understand how things work.
 
MrBoomBoom said:
Whilst fans continue buying tickets and attending games, nothing will change.
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The club have already stated their thanks for the 12k season tickets, by telling us the whole endeavour has raised bugger all extra funds.

They don't care about the gates. The last decade is testimony to that. They wouldn't care if only 6k show up next year. They'd just cut the player wage budget appropriately. And they'd shut a stand or reduce staffing. They'd probably quite prefer the reduced hassle.

You can't hurt a billionaire family in the pocket. We need organised vocal protests, the media attention that brings, and generally making it very uncomfortable for Craig and the cronies to attend Deepdale.

If Ridsdale and Craig were unable to cross the car park without banners and chants shoved in their face, it would have some effect. The (albeit puny) commercial investors we do have, may start asking questions too.
 
Joanpne said:
To be honest I doubt even Ridsdale going would make any odds. All KR and the Hemmings family see are profit and loss margins, and we all know which margin we are in. We need owners who want to brag about their club and big it up, the current lot are too busy counting the money from the profit margins whilst sitting firmly on the other.
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It's a difficult situation because reading between the lines on comments like this it's we expect other wealthy people to chuck coin at making us decent. They're spending enormous amounts now, it's spent incredibly foolishly.

Ridsdale runs the club on behalf of the ownership who don't want involvement day to day. This fucker wastes their coin at a shocking rate. They allow it. There's huge scope to transform how we operate imo.
 
California_PNE said:
It's a difficult situation because reading between the lines on comments like this it's we expect other wealthy people to chuck coin at making us decent. They're spending enormous amounts now, it's spent incredibly foolishly.

Ridsdale runs the club on behalf of the ownership who don't want involvement day to day. This fucker wastes their coin at a shocking rate. They allow it. There's huge scope to transform how we operate imo.
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That's what football club owners are expected to do, especially ones who profess to have Prem ambitions, as ours do.

The club's budget is 5th-bottom in the Championship, so it's only "enormous" compared to e.g. League One clubs. Ridsdale flushes it down the toilet every year, but that's just one aspect of PNE's problems, not all of them.

The owners claim they want to develop Championship quality players, and to sell one for £8m-10m every few years to break even, but we run a Cat 3 academy that cannot produce such players, while our budget means we cannot afford to invest in them from elsewhere.

The owners claim we are an established Championship club, but our facilities are deteriorating, our retail is outsourced to race-to-the-bottom outfits, and our maintenance budget is the spare change left over from the bottom-5 football budget.

Owners can't fund a Championship club at these levels and expect us to develop any decent players or make a dent in the promotion places - and sure enough, we don't.

The owners obviously don't want to own the club any more, but while they continue to set an unrealistically high selling price while cost-cutting and asset-stripping, they won't find any buyers.
 
Thracia said:
That's what football club owners are expected to do, especially ones who profess to have Prem ambitions, as ours do.

The club's budget is 5th-bottom in the Championship, so it's only "enormous" compared to e.g. League One clubs. Ridsdale flushes it down the toilet every year, but that's just one aspect of PNE's problems, not all of them.

The owners claim they want to develop Championship quality players, and to sell one for £8m-10m every few years to break even, but we run a Cat 3 academy that cannot produce such players, while our budget means we cannot afford to invest in them from elsewhere.

The owners claim we are an established Championship club, but our facilities are deteriorating, our retail is outsourced to race-to-the-bottom outfits, and our maintenance budget is the spare change left over from the bottom-5 football budget.

Owners can't fund a Championship club at these levels and expect us to develop any decent players or make a dent in the promotion places - and sure enough, we don't.

The owners obviously don't want to own the club any more, but while they continue to set an unrealistically high selling price while cost-cutting and asset-stripping, they won't find any buyers.
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Waste of your time typing all that shit cause it is boring and we all already know it.

There is no one else that I know of who can afford or wants to fund our club so instead of us all pretending otherwise we can only realistically campaign for a absolutely new direction that maximises the ownerships enormous financial contribution.

There's nuance in this rather than "that's what football club owners are expected to do"
 
California_PNE said:
Waste of your time typing all that shit cause it is boring and we all already know it.

There is no one else that I know of who can afford or wants to fund our club so instead of us all pretending otherwise we can only realistically campaign for a absolutely new direction that maximises the ownerships enormous financial contribution.

There's nuance in this rather than "that's what football club owners are expected to do"
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Your "nuance" is "the budget is enormous, it's all Ridsdale's fault".

Childlike in its sophistication.
 
Durutti said:
Couldn't agree more. I'd renew if PR was gone even if Lowe and Hemmings stayed. It's time for the fucking dinosaur to be put into extinction
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We’ve bought two players for a transfer fee in the last four windows.

Ridsdale is a big part of the problem and removing him may take us in a different direction.

But it won’t be in a positive way if we don’t start spending money. I’m not asking for millions and millions. But signing players who will improve us would be a good start.
 
Naughton's moustache said:
There are a good amount of great posters on here but if I had to name 4 contenders it would be Dreyfuss, Tharcia, J K an Billymac.
Over to you lads 😂
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The main guy would be - ideally, for me, to be someone ALREADY linked with the Media , but Independent of any Media Company ( ? )
- linked with the Club , but Independent of the Club .
And who would make representations to this Guy ?

Mark Lawrenson.


Really , who else is better ?
And for his "wingman" - if needed, Steve the Former PNE kitman - aka 'Surf' - (but as PR uh, 'let him go' for being outspoken , he could be in a difficult position , and I've not spoken to Surf since he left. But there's no doubting his passion )
 
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