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LostinSpace said:
You can demonstrate all you want but it won't make any difference, they'd simply dismiss it as a vocal minority.

As I said in my post, this needs to be approached in a different way which needs some imaginative thought.

A petition with several thousand signatures would be a start. There was one online gently but that had less than a hundred signatures last time I looked.
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The Ipswich owner didn't dismiss it.
 
Dreyfuss said:
The Ipswich owner didn't dismiss it.
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Our biggest problem is we don't have a single owner, the family owns the club and someone from outside the family controls the money. Craig Hemming is probably the only one that cares about PNE but he seems to have very little power.
 
LostinSpace said:
Our biggest problem is we don't have a single owner, the family owns the club and someone from outside the family controls the money. Craig Hemming is probably the only one that cares about PNE but he seems to have very little power.
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Sitting on our hands won't change that. A coordinated campaign of demonstrations inside and outside the ground would attract wider media attention.

I think it's the kind of attention this gaggle of trevor's hangers on would bloody hate to deal with. We need to make it embarrassing for them to continue to cost cut and downgrade the club.

To ensure they put actual real effort into finding a new owner rather than eeking out a depressing existence, seemingly with the only aim of waiting for a better EFL pay deal from the Premiership

The club desperately want the fans to remain comatose to the situation. That's why they keep peddling statements to try to convince the fanbase that without the hemmings, we would cease to exist. Statements which most fans swallow whole.

Its why Ridsdale is constantly engaging with fans online trying to stifle any and all criticism. Its not because he cares. Its because he knows the power of fans when they rise up. He's seen it first hand at Leeds and Cardiff.
 
simo said:
The focus of the protest needs to be right though. Its its a basic "we're not in the playoffs and its not fair, whinge, whinge" then we won't get anywhere because the obvious counterpoint is that we aren't far away.

Its more fundamental than that and needs to get right to the root of the ownership, sustainability and progress of the club in the future. Chances are we go down next season. With the current ownership I don't think we're coming back again for a very long time.
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True but it's pretty clear what everyone is pissed off about.
 
shabbagaz said:
True but it's pretty clear what everyone is pissed off about.
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I'm not sure it is in the weight of numbers that would be needed to make a difference. Most people are pissed off at the football being served up, especially at home, but from the point of view of the club, that comes with the territory and if we somehow cobble together 3 or 4 wins in the next few weeks it'll get temporarily forgotten.

Harder questions are needed than the basic "we've been crap at home this season" which can be easily batted off by blaming the manager and players.

That letter pre-Christmas asked many of these but they were batted back with ease.

We need to follow than line again in greater numbers and with more determination.
 
I was telling my old man and brother as we were coming off the game on Saturday - the Ridsdale debacle came at the perfect time for it to be swept under the rug if it was allowed to.

Comes out early in that week that whatever happened has happened (allegedly) - loads of talk about how poorly the club had treated even people on this forum who hadn't made the allegations, evidence, police involved... exciting stuff.

Birmingham away the Saturday straight after - 2-1 win (which will paper over the cracks of how poor the second-half performance was) and a few inflatable phones to poke fun at Ridsdale. Birmingham fans were making their own protests which lessened the impact of whatever we were doing.

It was supposed to be Coventry at home, but then it was exchanged for the Spurs game. Naturally the stadium was then full of people who probably aren't that bothered about what Ridsdale is up to - nothing against any of them, it's a good team coming to play at Deepdale, the atmosphere was amazing for spells at the beginning and I ended up stood for the whole game like an away day. 3-0 loss and a poor performance, again, but because it's Spurs lots overlook it and put it down to the gulf between the two clubs. Ironically, there was a set of fans chanting for their chairman to go but it wasn't us.

Bristol City was the first proper home game since it all came out about Ridsdale, but by this point it's approaching 3 weeks since and there was not one peep that I heard about the text-master all night. We lose, the performances come back under scrutiny (despite being equally shit throughout all of the games) and we're back at square one - frustrated and vocal, but directing it at the manager.

Maybe if this had happened with a home game next up we could have made something out of it, but the longer it goes without any concerted action taken by the fans, the less likely it is for anything to stick. By the time we play our next home game it will have been a whole month since it happened and the only way it's going to be brought back to the attention of the supporters is probably only once (or rather, if) the police findings are made public.
 
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