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Time for action - An open letter to Preston North End FC (Meeting & responses added).

Time for action - An open letter to Preston North End FC (Meeting & responses added).

Thracia said:
Doesn't affect our current FFP situation, so right now there's nothing to ask.

But it will affect our ability to spend if/when the proposed new turnover-related rules come in - it will make our spending the lowest in the division, and much lower than it is now.

I am sure the owners already know this, and I am sure they cannot wait.
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These are the question,the points that want addressing with CH, he needs to know that the supporters know a little bit more than both he and his spokes person both believe.
They need to be asked, telling and uncomfortable questions about the financial running of our club.
The more telling the questions the better the sooner they begin to realise that the supporters will no longer be fobbed off and want a clear indication of intent the better.
 
Thracia said:
It was when he coined the phrase "club recruit" - as he attempted to square the fact Lowe had "bought into" the signing with the rather glaring other fact that Lowe had also just fucked off out the door:

"This is a club recruit which Ryan had bought into - as opposed to the recruitment taking place because one person wants them, which is not the way it works."​
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Attempt at arse-covering.
3/10 for effort.
 
Bodney Rewes said:
I do vaguely remember Ridsdale saying that Okkels was a signing Lowe wanted
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He will have been and gone are the days of when Trevor used to force the likes of Doyle, Nugent, Pringle etc upon the manager.

Like mentioned there's no proof that we could have pulled out of the Okkells deal and interestingly in books and on podcasts players/managers/owners regularly talk about how transfers have been signed and sealed long before being announced, we've even seen it at Preston especially on X with people confirming signings of being all but done deals days or weeks before being announced.

Unless you're the forum bully who just wants to turn anything and everything into a Ridsdale witch hunt and anything that counters this agenda is simply labelled as "bollocks" without fair and sufficient evidence.

Not that I support Ridsdale in his role but a poster said this and it makes a very fair point "The more people on here target him, the more it looks like a vendetta". If people want someone as entrenched as Ridsdale out they need to be a lot more educated and subtle about it as it just looks like a vendetta at the moment which completely undermines any arguments for his removal.
 
deepdaledreamer said:
Whilst there are other issues, i think the main one is how effectively Ridsdale spends the budget that he is given and why he cannot improve said budget over and above the easy, lazy way that brings some revenue in but not much.
Most of the extra budget he has is from Ticket sales, which he had little control over improving anyway.

As its the case that a lot of us think that Ridsdale is the problem, why if this forum is a minority view was the LEP result pulled on the Ridsdale question and if they are so certain its a minority view why not hold a referendum of at least Season Ticket holders (not sure of the logistics of widening it to the greater fanbase) with the simple question.
'Do you think Peter Ridsdale is doing a good job'?
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Sadly, I'd reckon a list of registered 'MyPNE' individuals would be Club-Confidential.
 
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NorthEndNerd said:
He will have been and gone are the days of when Trevor used to force the likes of Doyle, Nugent, Pringle etc upon the manager.

Like mentioned there's no proof that we could have pulled out of the Okkells deal and interestingly in books and on podcasts players/managers/owners regularly talk about how transfers have been signed and sealed long before being announced, we've even seen it at Preston especially on X with people confirming signings of being all but done deals days or weeks before being announced.

Unless you're the forum bully who just wants to turn anything and everything into a Ridsdale witch hunt and anything that counters this agenda is simply labelled as "bollocks" without fair and sufficient evidence.

Not that I support Ridsdale in his role but a poster said this and it makes a very fair point "The more people on here target him, the more it looks like a vendetta". If people want someone as entrenched as Ridsdale out they need to be a lot more educated and subtle about it as it just looks like a vendetta at the moment which completely undermines any arguments for his removal.
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Then the question has to be, why would so many have a vendetta against him if he is as good as the club claim?
 
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