Thracia
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Wow - so apart from Ridsdale leaving, you think basically nothing will change?
Still, I'd happily take that. Bring it on.
We have become a very dull football club
Still, I'd happily take that. Bring it on.
I just don't imagine there being any investment from the present regime, just cost cutting.
I'm not sure that relegation and then attempting to keep our head above water and stop us going down the plug hole to the division below would attract any new investors.🥴🤔
Thracia
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Having knowledge of other Championship clubs' accounts long before they are published - because clubs have to submit them to the EFL for FFP assessments - means he was able to precisely rank us in relation to other clubs during his summer bloviating, which isn't possible using publicly-available information alone.
That sort of information could be useful to a club owner who wants to efficiently calibrate their lowball budget at e.g. 22nd in the league.
Thracia
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I think you're missing the bit about relegation being inevitable under the current owners. Inevitable.
Of course they're going to stifle investment and cost-cut wherever they can - that's what they do.
But they aren't going to attract any new investors at their inflated Championship asking price, so maybe they need to be encouraged, through relegation, to give a more realistic L1 asking price a try.
Agree that whether it is this season or next with the current regime and PR at the help wasting the funds available we are heading in only one direction.
I just don't see them making and more efforts than they do now ( none) to encourage new investors.☹️😡
Here lies much of the problem. A bunch of journeymen above where they probably should be who can't believe their luck to be on decent money to do any more than stay in this division. I have loved this club 45 years and counting and have got to the point where I want the Hemmings to go if they don't want to progress the club. If it means several years of lower division shit then so be it. The City of Preston deserves a Premier League club and will always get behind owners that have aspiration to get there.
is it a fair assumption that the malaise at the top of the tree has finally spread down to players & heccky has realises hes been sold a dud at interview
Who was the number 9 there, Moult?
Think a bit of soul left when Gally left. He was a great link between knowing what it meant to play here with his experience on the coaching staff.
Not saying bring him back but it's important to have someone like that around the team or on the coaching staff.
Think a bit of soul left when Gally left. He was a great link between knowing what it meant to play here with his experience on the coaching staff.
Not saying bring him back but it's important to have someone like that around the team or on the coaching staff.
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Yeah, that's Moult.
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Which leads us to the question - why does every manager we employ get us to play this play-safe style we’re we lump it forward. We have signed a bunch of cloggers.
The fact we haven’t even tried to improve the defence for almost 4 years is an utter disgrace. The fact our only permanent full back signing since 2019 has been Brady and is he even a full back.
It’s s bloody disgrace. Yes hecky got his line up wrong on Saturday but imo he will be gone by the end of the season. Not because he will be sacked. He will leave because he will realise that any promises that were made when he was appointed are just lies.
No manager in the history of football can get this squad playing good football successfully.!
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In lowe’s defence these players weren’t even signed by him.
On Saturday we had two loan players playing. Our best two players on the day.
Whatmough and woodman were signed by Lowe.
The rest (7 players!) have been here since 2021 some even longer.
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It's very difficult to properly scout defenders solely via data and video clips, that's the problem. We have the defence that Alex Neil brought in because we had Joe Savage and people going to games watching them regularly before bringing them in AS WELL AS starting to use more data, whereas now we have a graph and data to show Whatmough did a lot of headers, made a load of blocks, and his "forward passing" was good (oh, and was free), when the reality is that he was a League One player, in a League One team getting battered every week in the Championship for a season, playing League One hoofball and he was the one launching it forward. And he was free.
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Many years ago, we were looking for our first house and thought we’d found an ideal one. The bloke showed us around and pointed out many faults with the house, almost as if he didn’t want us to buy it and we thought the whole thing was strange and obviously didn’t take it any further,
It later turned out his wife wanted a divorce and he’d obviously be out if the house got sold. She didn’t know he was doing this with prospective buyers.
Obviously nobody would do this with a football club.
Which given we have "only got so much money and I’m currently choosing to use that to strengthen the squad", then with a dozen or so OoC Players next summer, you can safely say that there will be no pitch upgrade next summer (or any summer!) either.
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Maybe we need to relaunch the PNE Action Group? Is it worth running a poll to see how many people would be interested? It’s clear something must be done. The alternative is to sit on our arses and moan while we witness the current regime slowly ruining our club.