Blackburn End and Darwen End full of home fans. From memory it was the first trial of ‘Taking Back Ewood’ before season tickets were reduced that summer - leading to an average crowd of 25,500 that season… a year later, well, we know who arrived on the scene.

… and a few weeks later again they are bumped up again to £450-£555. 🤷‍♂️ I mean, what do you even say at this point.

I haven’t, but a mate of mine lives at South Shore and he raves about it. Might go up soon as the kebab shops around me are all a bit meh (I do like Ahmets in Lytham though, especially after a few scoops).

Mani the Grifter who’d have thought it 😅

Surely they won’t do anything vindictive as they are very ‘kind and honourable people’.

I’m with Mark. These just aren’t normal owners, I don’t think they will *ever* voluntarily sell regardless of how much of a disaster it’s been. Actually I think they are totally unique in this never mind not normal. Our only hope is with the Byzantine world of the Indian judicial system and I just don’t have the expectation that some of you have that we will get any decisive edicts (though I really hope I’m wrong).

‘PlaStiCs’ meltdown incoming on PNE-Online

…or a way to stop the far bigger death toll that the full ground invasion of Japan would have brought. War isn’t black and white.

‘Going to have’… season kicks off in 18 days time.

£350-£450 for four weeks, covering just one month end payday, then whacked up £80 is not a good deal.

Lighten up Dreams. Good for Dacky still wanting to play.

End of the day even WATR are still not budging from their ‘critical friend’ standpoint despite the club rapidly going down the plug hole, so I think you all need to dial down your expectations to how the FF will be approaching tonight

Much better location for the Loose Women studios and the like..

It does, but it just won’t be the FF doing it, just not what that forum has ever, or will ever do.

‘Look, on paper loads of non league clubs should be above us when it comes to support and finances, us loyal fans will be cheering them on, mid table in the National League will be a successful season’

Isn’t that what Merce wears at his dinner parties?

No they had 18-23s at that price last season, at what is now the ‘discount’ price, of course.

Derby tickets on sale. There’s a £2 ‘discount’ to buying online. But in reality that’s actually a two pound surcharge for buying in person. Such cynical cash grabbing once again, the brass neck of them never ceases to amaze.

Just use somebody’s Football Manager season as our campaign, be Champions League winners in three years. 🙌

I wouldn’t be surprised, most footballers seem to operate in a bubble.

They all say that stuff, PR guff, part of the media training. It’s why I don’t listen to manager interviews (I made an exception for JDT), so only poor results get me riled, not the claptrap they come out with too.

Reads like standard boilerplate BS from an incoming manager. What did you expect him to say? ‘Pretty poor bunch this lot, terrible recruitment, but I’ll give keeping us up a go’.

Even if you do just follow it at a surface level the discussion has to be grounded in some sort of reality surely? The reality being the budget we have (or don’t have). So loans and the like, an actual possibility at the back end of the window you’d think, yeah they should be discussed on this thread without them being immediately poo-poohed . But a discussion about the merits of a player that is obviously going to want far bigger wages than we can offer because, say, he’s also linked with parachute clubs, people want a fantasy thread where you can slot him in the side anyway without the negative Nellies raining on the parade? Err fair enough, set it up J*B 🤷‍♂️

So somebody suggests a player that just ain’t going to come here as we couldn’t afford him, you want to ignore that very important aspect of it and have an chinwag about his ability as an inverted winger, how he’d work well with Gallagher anyway? What an odd way to waste your time that is - but you go for it.

But surely finances are a key part of a discussion when it comes to signings, otherwise what’s the point in discussing player x’s attributes there’s not a chance we are paying a fee/his wages. So the thread of course will end up going down the same road as this one.