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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).

OB1 said:
Which basically translates to how can they separate those job titles amongst the people they already have so it doesn’t look like one person is doing more than they should
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We didn't back down on our belief that they are wrong with the current approach.

They just disagree.
 
JK said:
The budget is decided by the trust, which owns the football club.


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Alright Alright, I come clean. It’s been me all along.

I am Nobber ‘trust’ and ‘wallet’ holder.

Look, soz about the budget for the season but I needed some new trainers and an air fryer. It doesn’t grow on tree y’know!!!
 
northend nevets said:
Then he is culpable in Peter's absolute nonsense then. Paying 1.7m for a player we don't use, contracts run down and players leave for nowt or we just re-sign them on a new deal, unknown clauses somehow missed in contracts.

By saying he oversees it all then he is taking that responsibility
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It seems to me that we have two people here, Ridsdale and Revitt in key roles who are far more interested in a quiet cosy life than the future prospects of OUR football club, and Craig either can't be bothered or is too nice a guy to kick ass. Not a great way to run a business never mind a football club.
 
Thracia said:
This is the point - and it's fundamental. It's fundamental to every football club that ends up in crisis. It's the fundamental question - who owns and controls our football club.

It's why the EFL has Regulation 114 "Disclosure and Publication of Ownership", of which 114.5 says:
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Each Club shall publish the identities of the ultimate owner (Person, not Entity) of each Significant Interest in the Club. That information shall as a minimum be published on the Club’s official website on a page accessible directly from the home page of that official Club website.​

We don't comply with this EFL regulation. The identity of the people who own and control our football club is kept secret, and is not published on the club website.

And that should concern all PNE fans.
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So why don’t we raise it with the EFL?
 
OB1 said:
Which basically translates to how can they separate those job titles amongst the people they already have so it doesn’t look like one person is doing more than they should
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Exactly, it'll be a snow job for Ben Rhodes.

Craig smugly told us 2 years ago: "When asked about certain roles within the club, CH stated that just because there is nobody with the title of Director of Football or CEO, it doesn't mean that the responsibility of those roles aren't being fulfilled by those at the club. They are."

Nothing has changed since then.
 
I hope you are finding it helpful for me in responding to as many comments as I can.

I will continue to do if it helps.

I can't answer everything with what you would like to hear, but what I can assure it was no cosy meeting and we fought very hard to get our points across.
 
So, about this time for ACTION...

I'm getting the impression that bar some minor administrative moves, there is to be no real action by the club. Just the same old tired "aspiring" outlook, rather than the perspiring hard work and investment that's needed.

So, when is a protest group going to be formed - when we are back in L1 or before then? Cos cookies and coffee with Craig might be nice but it gets us precisely nowhere.
 
JK said:
I hope you are finding it helpful for me in responding to as many comments as I can.

I will continue to do if it helps.

I can't answer everything with what you would like to hear, but what I can assure it was no cosy meeting and we fought very hard to get our points across.
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What’s your personal opinion JK on how the meeting went and whether you think anything will change as a result?
 
Well done to JK and Co for trying to bring the club’problems into focus With the management.

Sadly there are none so blind as they who simply can’t see the truth.

Just like politicians, you know they are lying because their lips are moving and this is what our representatives had delivered yesterday. Empty words and vague half promises.

We are now a mere shadow of the once proud and ambitious Club we used to be.

The Club will continue to “pay its bills” and exist at the very cheapest level the owners can get away with. No desire to move forward, just stagnation and decline.

Unfortunately the only people who really care are the fans and yesterdays responses showed the owners and Senior Management don’t care at all about anything or anyone but themselves.
 
Dreyfuss said:
So, about this time for ACTION

So, when is a protest group going to be formed - when we are back in L1 or before then? Cos cookies and coffee with Craig might be nice but it gets us precisely nowhere.
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It needs someone to set one up, you volunteering?

There was no coffee or cookies for me, don't like em.
 
JK said:
I have met Craig on a couple of occasions now, once in a larger meeting and now in a small meeting.

Whilst I still disagree with him on various issues on how the club is run, including Ridsdale I do believe he is a fan and does care.

Wether that is enough, or wether others within the ownership care enough, I guess we may never find out.
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Never met him, not interested in doing so either because someone who did care wouldn’t have reacted the way they did on receipt of the letter. I still think if he cared, he can see what’s going on and condones it rather than change it. He is not and never will be a fan like us.
 
Joanpne said:
Never met him, not interested in doing so either because someone who did care wouldn’t have reacted the way they did on receipt of the letter. I still think if he cared, he can see what’s going on and condones it rather than change it. He is not and never will be a fan like us.
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I believe it's the wider ownership structure which is a huge issue.

Which ultimately comes down to how his father passed on his businesses and wealth.
 
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