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Chip Barm said:
Peter has done a decent job overall in his role as "advisor" and has never shyed away from disussing the issues with supporters who may have questioned issues throughout the club.

It is however now at a point where Peter has been working for Mr.Hemmings for a long period of time whilst having a constant battle to try and get funds for his managers.

It does however seem that he has fallen into the previous regimes mindset of accepting that we are little Preston, we can't compete, we can't find anyone else other that Mr.Hemmings so you just have to put up with it. The notion that we "tried" to sign a striker seems to be something that they believe we should just accept. I saw comments on another thread slating Neil for the signings he made... and asking who signed them then. We have a head of recruitment.... yes we do..... what he does is anyones guess. When the manager identifes a specific type of player we need in January and we fail to bring non of them in... then people need to question this.

This was highlighted by the fact in the last week of the loan window we didn't attempt to bring in anyone. This was despite at least two proven championship goal scorers being offered on loan for us to not even bother trying to discuss terms.

I don't believe that Trevor Hemmings has any intention to sell the club at present and therefore no real effort is being made to find investment, they just exepect it to fall into their laps. Why would Peter want someone to buy the club? He would be out of a job would he not?

John Kay works two days a week and the odd fans forum in which he manages to spout so much nonsense the next day a "claification" needs to be issued.

What people need to realise is that Trevor Hemmings pays people to do a job... he then chooses to ignore their judgement and go with his "gut".
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Who is this? I thought ridsdale fulfilled this function.
 
JK said:
His name is Joe Savage.

What he actually does is anyone's guess.
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I think he just does quite a lot of scouting in terms of looking at potential new players.

SG had Ian Miller as ‘Chief Scout’, but to scout the opposition tactically, rather than scout new players. SG was generally quite lazy with recruitment, bringing in players he’s already worked with etc. so there wasn’t much of a recruitment / scouting structure in place other than PR.

What’s pointless though is having these structures in place to identify players and then the funds not being available, despite selling players for multi-millions. What’s also pointless is when said structures are just bypassed to bring in Irish players on recommendations or whatever.
 
Wisemen say said:
I did not find PR to be disrespectful or arrogant at all, he was prepared to listen to my view point and then gave his response, I did not expect to get an answer as to why we have not invested in a target man. I at least got to put my point across directly to him, he was quite passionate in his response and I do feel he feels the same or similar hurt we as fans do with the present situation regarding performances.
I do not think many other Chairman/Owners advisors would have taken the time to listen to my view point and give his view and reply, so for me hats off to PR for doing so.
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Reminds me of Bryan Gray who I had quite a number of debates with ( in writing ).... Amazed that he was happy to reply and took it all in good spirit and defended his corner valliantly. Top bloke who once called me " rude " 🙂... I strongly suspect that Ridsdale is as pissed off as the rest of us but is hardly in a position to say so...
 
Been some incredible meaty posts on this thread here which pieces together the reason for the shite we're in right now.
We're a shower at the moment.
 
Chip Barm said:
Peter has done a decent job overall in his role as "advisor" and has never shyed away from disussing the issues with supporters who may have questioned issues throughout the club.

It is however now at a point where Peter has been working for Mr.Hemmings for a long period of time whilst having a constant battle to try and get funds for his managers.

It does however seem that he has fallen into the previous regimes mindset of accepting that we are little Preston, we can't compete, we can't find anyone else other that Mr.Hemmings so you just have to put up with it. The notion that we "tried" to sign a striker seems to be something that they believe we should just accept. I saw comments on another thread slating Neil for the signings he made... and asking who signed them then. We have a head of recruitment.... yes we do..... what he does is anyones guess. When the manager identifes a specific type of player we need in January and we fail to bring non of them in... then people need to question this.

This was highlighted by the fact in the last week of the loan window we didn't attempt to bring in anyone. This was despite at least two proven championship goal scorers being offered on loan for us to not even bother trying to discuss terms.

I don't believe that Trevor Hemmings has any intention to sell the club at present and therefore no real effort is being made to find investment, they just exepect it to fall into their laps. Why would Peter want someone to buy the club? He would be out of a job would he not?

John Kay works two days a week and the odd fans forum in which he manages to spout so much nonsense the next day a "claification" needs to be issued.

What people need to realise is that Trevor Hemmings pays people to do a job... he then chooses to ignore their judgement and go with his "gut".
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Do we?.... One who can overide ( or at least veto) the Manager ?.... Who is it and what football qualifications has he got?
 
Savage was brought in after working with Neil at both Hamilton and Norwich. The concern I had about Neil at Norwich was that the club often spent top dollar on bang average. (8.5m on Naismith, £7m on Wildschut etc).

It would certainly be useful to know how many of our signings in the last 12+ months have been down to Savage. Doesnt personally feel many if any were, but who knows. Maybe Hughes?

It certainly feels our overall wage bill has increased to a figure that Hemmings does not want to see rise much higher. (We are probably operating at 120% of our total income - before player sales). It's certainly going to be very hard to improve many of our current players deals without ripping up the current ideology.

Our best player in the ten league games so far has probably been Robinson (albeit he's not had much competition bar Pearson). According to one ITK it was Hemmings who pushed for making Callums deal permanent.
 
Dreyfuss said:
Savage was brought in after working with Neil at both Hamilton and Norwich. The concern I had about Neil at Norwich was that the club often spent top dollar on bang average. (8.5m on Naismith, £7m on Wildschut etc).

It would certainly be useful to know how many of our signings in the last 12+ months have been down to Savage. Doesnt personally feel many if any were, but who knows. Maybe Hughes?

It certainly feels our overall wage bill has increased to a figure that Hemmings does not want to see rise much higher. (We are probably operating at 120% of our total income - before player sales). It's certainly going to be very hard to improve many of our current players deals without ripping up the current ideology.

Our best player in the ten league games so far has probably been Robinson (albeit he's not had much competition bar Pearson). According to one ITK it was Hemmings who pushed for making Callums deal permanent.
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One thing is for sure until the “so called ” wage cap is lifted the club will go one way and we are heading in that direction right now.
 
tcinders said:
One thing is for sure until the “so called ” wage cap is lifted the club will go one way and we are heading in that direction right now.
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Even if TH was prepared to chuck large amounts of money at getting promoted we would fall foul of financial fair play rules and get hit with a transfer embargo. Looking at the current crowds and the fact that most of the players have renewed their contracts recently (presumably to lift the salaries across the squad), I won't mind betting that we aren't to far off the FFP limit of what we are allowed to spend with our current wage bill.
 
Town_ender said:
Even if TH was prepared to chuck large amounts of money at getting promoted we would fall foul of financial fair play rules and get hit with a transfer embargo. Looking at the current crowds and the fact that most of the players have renewed their contracts recently (presumably to lift the salaries across the squad), I won't mind betting that we aren't to far off the FFP limit of what we are allowed to spend with our current wage bill.
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This has been done to death, we are a comfortable way off bothering ffp rules,the income from transfers alone gives us plenty of wriggle room.Do you honestly believe we are anywhere near running up losses of £39 million over 3 years?
Added to that there are creative ways of getting money from owners into clubs.
Our problem is not ffp our problem is th.
 
I think John Kay explained everything sooooooooo well the other night he had his finger on the pulse..
I think we need a supporters group to support but also put pressure on the club.
We are simply letting it happen and they are having an easy ride.
A 1 hour forum interrupted with nonesense and a PR disaster needs addressing.
No direction ( but down ) no passion and little hope or inspiration from the top table.
A Pityful state.
 
White Horse 44 said:
I think John Kay explained everything sooooooooo well the other night he had his finger on the pulse..
I think we need a supporters group to support but also put pressure on the club.
We are simply letting it happen and they are having an easy ride.
A 1 hour forum interrupted with nonesense and a PR disaster needs addressing.
No direction ( but down ) no passion and little hope or inspiration from the top table.
A Pityful state.
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I agree re supporters group. Absolutely.
Pneonline should generate one. Imo. At ~4m contribution we lack a voice.
 
2-0 down if we lose this one which it looks like we will then Saturday is not going to be a nice atmosphere at all especially if we lose whi h we probably will, we are fast becoing the rubbing rags of the division.
 
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