Preston North End 2007-2008 Discussion

[noel]

I can't find a single North Ender who doesn't feel the same way Jim. Bring it on.

[Martin]

Not the greatest of endings to the season for PNE. 3 - 0 loss to Bristol City. In fact they haven't won a game since 29th Feb.

If they are going to do anything remotely exciting next season, they need to splash some cash.

[Spitfire]

Martin, 19 pages of trials and tribulations are quite enough for one season.
Page one onwards , where we are commenting on Irvine`s team (not a group of payers or the dire situation he inherited) will make much better reading. Of that I am certain.
However, no predictions from me (at this stage []).

[noel]

Incredible isn't it, just 3 points in the last five games. It's almost as if they knew they'd done enough then gave up. Maybe the effort they put in just after the new year took it's toil, whatever I agree with Martin, they need to splash the cash.

[TonyL]

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Originally posted by noel

I agree with Martin, they need to splash the cash.

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And you slag off Blackburn Rovers for buying success, Noel.
Pot & kettle spring to mind.

[noel]

You are going to have to remind me what I wrote Tony because I can't remember "slagging off" Blackburn, if I did it was purely tongue in cheek, but it's difficult to know that from the written word. I used to watch alternately Blackburn and PNE back in the sixties, getting there on my trust Vespa 125cc following the road through to Brindle and down the old road into Blackburn passing the paper mill on the way. I was there when Rovers beat Spurs 7-
1 I think it was, with Danny Blanchflower, Cliff Jones, White,Allen, Bill Brown in goal, Dyson on the right wing, Dave Mackay while Rovers had Ronnie Clayton, Brian Douglas, Ferguson, Pickering , and and onthe left wing good old Ally McCloud who later predicted Scotland were going to win the 1978 World Cup ( with him as their manager of course). Mike England I think was centre half though he later joined Spurs, he had just displced the great Matt Woods. I think Jack?? Bray was left back and was Fred Else in goal or was it Harry Leyland, such a long time ago. Later that season Rovers beat West Ham 8-2 No Tony I wouldn't slag Rovers off, what I would saythough is Jack Walker started the "rot" as I would call it of British football by "buying success" with the likes of Shearer who joined them rather than Man U ( one wonders why though it obviously was money related) and the reaction of some Rovers fans when they booed him after he had helped them win the title and later came back playing for his beloved Newcastle, why boo? I can never understand that to an ex-player.
The rot has since got worse in my opinion, now only 4 clubs can realistically expect to win the Premier League title while the rest just jostle to avoid relegation, meantime players whose names you struggle to pronounce, let alone know which country they come from, milk millions out of the sport and take it back to all corners of the world. Football as I knew it and loved it is dead now Tony thanks to Sky TV and Jack Walker, but like a fool I'l still pay to watch North End every other Saturday, guess it's an illness, only time will tell. And after all this is about PNE not Blackburn Rovers.

[Spitfire]

No Noel, it`s not an illness. It`s the definition of a true supporter. More power to your elbow - as they say.
I`ve only supported two teams in the last 60 years - PNE and England (in that order). I honestly cannot comprehend how you can truly do otherwise.
I have to say though, that doesn`t spoil my enjoyment of watching a good game when we are not involved.

[noel]

I like to think I'm a football lover these days Jim, wanting all Lancashire teams to do well, yes even Blackpool and Burnley ( double spit) as long as they always finish below us, but in truth PNE are the only team I support in that I pay to watch them. I was disappointed Southport missed out on automatic promotion, that's another team I watched occasionally many years ago when they had players like Blair and Blore scoring goals for fun and top of the old Division 4 for a while. Brig got beaten last week in their play off against FC United the team founded by disillusioned Man U supporters against the new American owners. When I lived down on the Wiltshire/Somerset borders my son and I used to watch a different team each week, Westbury United, Frome Town, Trowbridge who were managed at the time by Ken Knighton the ex Northender who joined Rovers from them back in the sixties. We even travelled down to Southampton to watch Saints play the Gooners, Tony Adams was in his first season for the Arsenal and Tim Flowers was making his debut for Saints. Arsenal won 4-0 and the guy stood next to us in the home end kept saying "Lucky Arsenal " as every goal went in. Lucky? I thought, 4-0 isn't luck it's a trouncing.