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Riddler statement.

Riddler statement.

JK said:
You have both spectacularly missed the point.

Nowhere in my post did I criticise or say we shouldn't be greatful to have Mr. Hemmings to at this time.

Neither did I "have a pop at your support."

What I do take exception to is your constant bashing of supporters who support the club to the best of their ability. You are constantly belittling supporters.

Yet again you state, why don't fans cough up £1000 each? You mean just like the share issues? When we got a pittance back in return when TJH took over the club.

Yet I am sure that if the optertunity arouse for part fan ownership again fans would step up the plate.

There are fans clamoring to buy season tickets, shirts and the like. Fans pushed the club to licence the terrace so they could support them.

At the present time we cant attend matches but I can assure if football fans could never return our club and football as a whole would die.

As I've said before. Many football fans have put in a higher percentage of our disposable income into supporting our club than the owner. If many of us where billioanires... yes a billionaire we would do what Hemmings does, infact many would do even more.

Yes support the owner but please stop belittling the contribution we all (yourself included) have made and will continue to make for decades to come.
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What contribution is that, bought a season ticket subsidised to the tune of £800 by the owner and then moaning about it.
 
edgy said:
In fairness it’s his opinion but not one I’d imagine is widely shared ?
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“Opinions are like arseholes.......” as the saying goes & he’s more than entitled to it.

Doesn’t alter the fact he’s talking through said arsehole.
 
paddysr said:
No sadly this idiot thinks that the fans should cover the full costs the club incur. As such in his deluded brain the owner is subsidising our season tickets.
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Presumably feels taxi drivers are subsidising their passengers' fares on the same basis.
 
paddysr said:
No sadly this idiot thinks that the fans should cover the full costs the club incur. As such in his deluded brain the owner is subsidising our season tickets.
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If Hemmings leaves the fans may have to but judging by the muppets on here I don't hold out much hope.
 
NORTHENDRTOPS said:
The statement says virtually nothing that we didn't already know., it's the way that it's said. There are numerous issues which he touches on but not in depth. Yes, it's a sign of the times and none of us like it, but just like the guy who swallowed a 50 pence piece and watched his poo for a week, there was "no change". It's all as you were. Not much changes at North End although I too welcome the statement, but let's not have this, "they've put out a statement so you can't argue with it crap". I really feel for the supporters who are going to find it may well be a lottery to obtain a seat to watch matches next season, especially those of you who have watched PNE for years and paid so much into the club. I accept that Ridsdale, who let's not forget is just a journeyman who has already been involved with a number of clubs, most of you are lifelong and coscientious customers. Ridsdale is 68 and will not be around forever and just as one of the directors who signalled his resignation recently, he can move on in the same manner, then Hemmings will have to find another servant. Sadly there was no mention of the training ground fiasco, but perhaps Trevor has that as a little xmas bonus for us all. I don't mind replies to this, but please no more of the" we could be like Bury or Wigan shit."
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When pushing for a change of ownership, being reminded of these cautionary tales is important. That they may be inconvenient or irritating doesn’t make the comparisons any less valid.

In recent years in the football league, how many club takeovers, particularly of northern small/medium sized clubs like PNE, left said club better off in the long run?

I can think of many disasters - of clubs who have fallen foul of the predatory, opportunist businessman or the bogus consortium - than clubs that have seriously benefited. At least in recent years.

We won’t know how PNE will fair post Hemmings until the day it actually happens, but plenty of examples from the football league show we’d more likely be worse off, possibly disastrously so, than any better.

I’m not particularly pro or anti Hemmings. But I am very much pro PNE. I want the club to survive and at a decent level, and I think Hemmings’ ownership gives us that assurance.

I’m also, I think, a realist. I’d love a benign billionaire to buy TH out and bank roll us into the Premier League, but the football league keeps throwing us warning signs that such owners seldom materialise.

IMO, ousting Hemmings and rolling the dice on God knows who else, is very unlikely to pay off, and much more likely to backfire drastically - particularly in the current economic climate.

I understand those who have got frustrated and think we might land the winning lottery ticket by replacing TH, but I think we’ve got to be risk averse in these unprecedented times.

PNE will without doubt lean largely on our owner for support in the coming months and TH provides a very reliable crutch.
 
Doc Brown said:
When pushing for a change of ownership, being reminded of these cautionary tales is important. That they may be inconvenient or irritating doesn’t make the comparisons any less valid.

In recent years in the football league, how many club takeovers, particularly of northern small/medium sized clubs like PNE, left said club better off in the long run?

I can think of many disasters - of clubs who have fallen foul of the predatory, opportunist businessman or the bogus consortium - than clubs that have seriously benefited. At least in recent years.

We won’t know how PNE will fair post Hemmings until the day it actually happens, but plenty of examples from the football league show we’d more likely be worse off, possibly disastrously so, than any better.

I’m not particularly pro or anti Hemmings. But I am very much pro PNE. I want the club to survive and at a decent level, and I think Hemmings’ ownership gives us that assurance.

I’m also, I think, a realist. I’d love a benign billionaire to buy TH out and bank roll us into the Premier League, but the football league keeps throwing us warning signs that such owners seldom materialise.

IMO, ousting Hemmings and rolling the dice on God knows who else, is very unlikely to pay off, and much more likely to backfire drastically - particularly in the current economic climate.

I understand those who have got frustrated and think we might land the winning lottery ticket by replacing TH, but I think we’ve got to be risk averse in these unprecedented times.

PNE will without doubt lean largely on our owner for support in the coming months and TH provides a very reliable crutch.
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AFAICT, no one in this thread is talking about "ousting Hemmings and rolling the dice".

Well, except for you.
 
JK said:
Another one who belittles and undervalues the supporters of Preston North End.
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The moaning JK on the forum saying what TH should be doing what he isn't doing & at the same time giving him a total lack of respect for the huge amounts of money he has pumped in since lockdown.& in 40 years.
What would we do if he just walked away tomorrow because if you think people will be queuing to invest in north end your more deluded than I thought.
Look at Wigan they are really struggling to find a new owner & looking at there comments I am sure they would gladly change places.
Bury & Bolton fans have put just as much into there clubs as we have done & look at them.
There's more moaning now than when we had no floodlights & applied for re election it shocking.
And we are only in the summer brake ffs
 
Thracia said:
AFAICT, no one in this thread is talking about "ousting Hemmings and rolling the dice".

Well, except for you.
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Sorry, I didn’t just mean on this thread alone.

I was addressing the general feeling that we may be better off without TH and under a different owner.

Theres been plenty of ‘Hemmings Out’ talk over the last few months. This thread alone was started a few weeks ago:

www.pne-online.net

Is it time for Hemmings to finally go?

We’ve come to expect disappointment recently. Remember when we signed Harrop and Pearson from United. Pearson won the prestigious young player of the year at United. And now all we are doing is signing players from Exeter standard. Joe Savage the recruitment manager who Neil brought in...
www.pne-online.net www.pne-online.net
 
Doc Brown said:
Sorry, I didn’t just mean on this thread alone.

I was addressing the general feeling that we may be better off without TH and under a different owner.

Theres been plenty of ‘Hemmings Out’ talk over the last few months. This thread alone was started a few weeks ago:

www.pne-online.net

Is it time for Hemmings to finally go?

We’ve come to expect disappointment recently. Remember when we signed Harrop and Pearson from United. Pearson won the prestigious young player of the year at United. And now all we are doing is signing players from Exeter standard. Joe Savage the recruitment manager who Neil brought in...
www.pne-online.net www.pne-online.net
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Yeah, I know there has.

On other threads.

Not this one.
 
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