Where do PNE fans get their arrogance from?

JJpool

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Its honestly baffling, had a quick browse of a thread on their site about us in playoffs and not all of them, but some are so deluded, its laughable.

They genuinely think they are a much bigger club and were still tinpot.

Yet, two towns aprox the same population.

OK they won a few games with pigs bladders in black and white, playing with clogs on in the 1800's. Wow.

A lot of them seem to base it on a club we used to be, being owned by the oystons for decades and being limited by it. We have had our potential held back for years. We were tinpot, we all know it, compared to a decent owner now.

What have Preston done in recent history, a nothing boring soulless club with no purpose who have had almost nothing whatsoever to celebrate.

Whilst we have had multiple promotions and are the most successful playoff side ever, we turn it on when it matters. The polar opposite to them.

The passion and support of our fans is universally praised as being unbelievable, Deepdale is often like a library.

I can understand rivarly and the club being mocked in the past with the Oystons, as we were a joke with owners who didn't care. Even after only 2 years or whatever it is its already changing under Sadler.

Sadlers first season we were on for an average 10k crowd, which isn't bad for league 1 considering we had nowt to play for and a shite style of boring football under Grayson and its early in the new era, we had lost fans for many years and that takes time to rebuild.

Just to finish off with this post from their playoff thread 🤣

'What is it with Blackpool and play offs? How can one club be so lucky in them. They must have the best play off record in the country. Lincoln aren’t going to challenge that record now. 😡😡😡'

🤣🤣🤣

Its all luck lads 🤣 As Holloway said its, in part, about the energy the fans bring, we didn't stop once singing, makes sense then if its linked to fans energy and support why PNE are probably the worst playoff side in history 🤣
 
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JJpool said:
Its honestly baffling, had a quick browse of a thread on their site about us in playoffs and not all of them, but some are so deluded, its laughable.

They genuinely think they are a much bigger club and were still tinpot.

Yet, two towns aprox the same population.

OK they won a few games with pigs bladders in black and white, playing with clogs on in the 1800's. Wow.

A lot of them seem to base it on a club we used to be, being owned by the oystons for decades and being limited by it. We have had our potential held back for years. We were tinpot, we all know it, compared to a decent owner now.

What have Preston done in recent history, a nothing boring soulless club with no purpose who have had almost nothing whatsoever to celebrate.

Whilst we have had multiple promotions and are the most successful playoff side ever, we turn it on when it matters. The polar opposite to them.

The passion and support of our fans is universally praised as being unbelievable, Deepdale is often like a library.

I can understand rivarly and the club being mocked in the past with the Oystons, as we were a joke with owners who didn't care. Even after only 2 years or whatever it is its already changing under Sadler.

Sadlers first season we were on for an average 10k crowd, which isn't bad for league 1 considering we had nowt to play for and a shite style of boring football under Grayson and its early in the new era, we had lost fans for many years and that takes time to rebuild.

Just to finish off with this post from their playoff thread 🤣

'What is it with Blackpool and play offs? How can one club be so lucky in them. They must have the best play off record in the country. Lincoln aren’t going to challenge that record now. 😡😡😡'

🤣🤣🤣

Its all luck lads 🤣 As Holloway said its, in part, about the energy the fans bring, we didn't stop once singing, makes sense then if its linked to fans energy and support why PNE are probably the worst playoff side in history 🤣
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Very well put Sir 😘
 
JJpool said:
Its honestly baffling, had a quick browse of a thread on their site about us in playoffs and not all of them, but some are so deluded, its laughable.

They genuinely think they are a much bigger club and were still tinpot.

Yet, two towns aprox the same population.

OK they won a few games with pigs bladders in black and white, playing with clogs on in the 1800's. Wow.

A lot of them seem to base it on a club we used to be, being owned by the oystons for decades and being limited by it. We have had our potential held back for years. We were tinpot, we all know it, compared to a decent owner now.

What have Preston done in recent history, a nothing boring soulless club with no purpose who have had almost nothing whatsoever to celebrate.

Whilst we have had multiple promotions and are the most successful playoff side ever, we turn it on when it matters. The polar opposite to them.

The passion and support of our fans is universally praised as being unbelievable, Deepdale is often like a library.

I can understand rivarly and the club being mocked in the past with the Oystons, as we were a joke with owners who didn't care. Even after only 2 years or whatever it is its already changing under Sadler.

Sadlers first season we were on for an average 10k crowd, which isn't bad for league 1 considering we had nowt to play for and a shite style of boring football under Grayson and its early in the new era, we had lost fans for many years and that takes time to rebuild.

Just to finish off with this post from their playoff thread 🤣

'What is it with Blackpool and play offs? How can one club be so lucky in them. They must have the best play off record in the country. Lincoln aren’t going to challenge that record now. 😡😡😡'

🤣🤣🤣

Its all luck lads 🤣 As Holloway said its, in part, about the energy the fans bring, we didn't stop once singing, makes sense then if its linked to fans energy and support why PNE are probably the worst playoff side in history 🤣
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That’s a quality post 👍🏻
 
They are what they are.

I don't think we should decry them for being founder members of the Football League and winning stuff back then. That just plays into the narrative that football only started with the advent of PL.

What riled our supporters with the ESL was the removal of some of the principles that they helped craft, albeit in the 1870's.

Meanwhile, they know, that they are simply beige, no redeeming features, not a huge amount one way or the other, a club where supporters "go on" and not "go to," a town (city 🤣) with nothing much good about it, apart from maybe the combined courts. An owner who doesn't really care, he does enough to stop then from folding, a Chairman who is a charlatan and so on. They play in blue and white like loads of other teams, they are a stopping point for football fans who will spend as little time in the town as possible and far more 20 odd miles away down the coast.

We hate them, but we should actually pity them; literally every other fan in the country will just think PNE, meh - utterly irrelevant.

We on the other hand, are the absolute polar opposite. Fans gutted their day out has gone, fans overjoyed we are back, vibrant tangerine and white, the party capital of the UK, up and down and up again through the league structure, with the entire club all pulling in the same direction.

We are back and we are ready, we know it, they know it and they are going to hate it!
 
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Another cracker was something along the lines of they have had their playoff match thread up since Monday and so far only 450 posts, ours is way more than that on a normal matchday.

This is how they measure club size now? 🙄🥱
 
I live in Fulwood and have for 21 years. I have a fair few Nobber mates who to be fair are top lads but even they can be bitter and salty towards any success we have. For them winning on merit is something Blackpool don't do. For the cynical twisted jealous ones we're jammy and lucky.
Most games of football have moments where a decision or an opportunity goes either way. Lincoln yesterday hit the bar but by the same token Jerry Yates was unlucky not to make it 3-1 when he dinked the ball over the keeper and Mitchel came close but his powerful shot was at the keeper.
To coin a Lancastrian phrase.
"Sod 'em and let's get on with our own washing."
 
JJpool said:
Its honestly baffling, had a quick browse of a thread on their site about us in playoffs and not all of them, but some are so deluded, its laughable.

They genuinely think they are a much bigger club and were still tinpot.

Yet, two towns aprox the same population.

OK they won a few games with pigs bladders in black and white, playing with clogs on in the 1800's. Wow.

A lot of them seem to base it on a club we used to be, being owned by the oystons for decades and being limited by it. We have had our potential held back for years. We were tinpot, we all know it, compared to a decent owner now.

What have Preston done in recent history, a nothing boring soulless club with no purpose who have had almost nothing whatsoever to celebrate.

Whilst we have had multiple promotions and are the most successful playoff side ever, we turn it on when it matters. The polar opposite to them.

The passion and support of our fans is universally praised as being unbelievable, Deepdale is often like a library.

I can understand rivarly and the club being mocked in the past with the Oystons, as we were a joke with owners who didn't care. Even after only 2 years or whatever it is its already changing under Sadler.

Sadlers first season we were on for an average 10k crowd, which isn't bad for league 1 considering we had nowt to play for and a shite style of boring football under Grayson and its early in the new era, we had lost fans for many years and that takes time to rebuild.

Just to finish off with this post from their playoff thread 🤣

'What is it with Blackpool and play offs? How can one club be so lucky in them. They must have the best play off record in the country. Lincoln aren’t going to challenge that record now. 😡😡😡'

🤣🤣🤣

Its all luck lads 🤣 As Holloway said its, in part, about the energy the fans bring, we didn't stop once singing, makes sense then if its linked to fans energy and support why PNE are probably the worst playoff side in history 🤣
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A rather sweeping assumption based on comments made by a very small number. The same knee jerk reaction happens with most teams. Yourselves included.
 
Just listened to Trevor Sinclair and Jamie O'Hara on the Danny Kelly show on Talksport, about 9.15am to 9.30am. Trevor is absolutely buzzing about the way our club has turned round in a short space of time and the part the fans have played. The common theme from Trev and Jamie is the absolute passion of our supporters. Jamie agreed even in the tough times he played in the support was something very special. Never seem to hear that kind of thing about the Nobbers support.

Worth a listen if anyone can do a link to it.
 
I haven't paid much attention to them until now , didn't pay attention to football in general from the "Riga revolution" until this year really.

They've done well to consolidate in the championship though, averaged between 11-14k in that time. Their norm for the last 20 years is championship football (apart from 3 seasons in league one) and they have a PL (ish) standard stadium.

But despite , during that time spending more time in league one than the championship we've still achieved more than them. Made more of an imprint on the national football psyche, and I'm confident we will finish above them next year.

its a good rivalry , definitely adds another 10% to the anticipation of next year, let's not forget last time we saw them they were flailing around like idiots over a coca cola cup win, we owe them.
 
PNE are a nothing club, we’ll be back above them in no time. They’re clearly jealous that we have days in the sun and turn it on when it matters while they just languish in the bottom half of the championship.
 
What really irks them is they were well ahead of us on ground development and they completed their ground ahead of Burnley, and they spent money on players and wages and it just hasn’t happened. Then the multiple play off failures add to the hurt.They are the Tranmere Rovers of the Elton Welsby years...think they are big, given coverage by the media as if they are big, but always falling short. Meanwhile Pool have had all the attention of their bottom to top division and back again, and we are on our way again under new ownership and Burnley are now established in the top division. “When oh when will it be our turn?” .... not any time soon hopefully.
 
Its an inferiority complex. Deep down they know they are inferior to us and project arrogance to protect their internal 'little dick' psyche complex.*


* In layman's terms - wankers !
 
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Giro said:
A rather sweeping assumption based on comments made by a very small number. The same knee jerk reaction happens with most teams. Yourselves included.
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I said not everyone, but there is a large amount who appear to think like that, on pne online it seems anyway.

I've no issue honestly assessing our clubs status but seems not so the other way for many.

I bet with all similar circumstances (like no shit owners for one club like we had plummeting us down the leagues and putting off new fans) that there's actually not much between the clubs 'sizes'.

The way some bang on you would think you have triple the attendance and fanbase.
 
JJpool said:
I said not everyone, but there is a large amount who appear to think like that, on pne online it seems anyway.

I've no issue honestly assessing our clubs status but seems not so the other way for many.

I bet with all similar circumstances (like no shit owners for one club like we had plummeting us down the leagues and putting off new fans) that there's actually not much between the clubs 'sizes'.

The way some bang on you would think you have triple the attendance and fanbase.
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In terms of PNE’s fan base. Define a large amount?

What people say and what they actually think aren’t always the same.
 
We now compete on a level playing field as them with much the same challenges...competing against, in a lot of cases, bigger teams and some propped up by parachute payments.
The differences? They have a completed stadium and a new training ground which is both something we have to sort out. We have Neil Critchley and they have a manager with no real experience who sounds like a Scottish painter and decorator. We have an owner who's in love with this football club and will be chomping at the bit for next season, they have an owner who might have more money but who is tired and weary and if offered would sell if he could. We also don't have an arsehole like Peter Risdale running the club.
Finally the fans. Because of the experiences we've been through we have a fan base who's grateful for what we've got and ready to go again . They are a bored set of fans, restless ,with that perennial monkey on their backs of never getting to the Premiership.
 
Giro said:
In terms of PNE’s fan base. Define a large amount?

What people say and what they actually think aren’t always the same.
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Seems the general view.

If we cant judge of what people say as what they think then what can we judge off?
 
Saw a break down of PNEs season tickets in 2018 and they only had 3000 adults paying full price. The rest were OAPs/Youth and they had upped the age of free season tickts to 11. They are deluded when they claim to be a bigger club.
 
We most definitely were tinpot. That’s the Oyston’s for you. A self-serving bunch of grasping fools.

Now we’ve got Simon Sadler - a real fan with the best interests of the club at heart. There should be movement soon on the new TG (over to you, Council) and work to fully complete the stadium, as part of the wider town redevelopment. Exciting times ahead and it may come as a shock to PNE about how much this once tinpot club has actually caught them up.
 
They need something to cling on to, it is no exaggeration to claim they are one of the most boring clubs in the country.

Over the last 20 years we've had 7 play-off/cup wins. They've had 1.

Let them cling to the glories of not the last century, the century before that. They won the League and FA Cup double the same year Jack the Ripper was kicking about Whitechapel - that's how long ago it was.

They're shitting it really. We are a club on the up whilst they'll continue to stagnate.
 
JJpool said:
Its honestly baffling, had a quick browse of a thread on their site about us in playoffs and not all of them, but some are so deluded, its laughable.

They genuinely think they are a much bigger club and were still tinpot.

Yet, two towns aprox the same population.

OK they won a few games with pigs bladders in black and white, playing with clogs on in the 1800's. Wow.

A lot of them seem to base it on a club we used to be, being owned by the oystons for decades and being limited by it. We have had our potential held back for years. We were tinpot, we all know it, compared to a decent owner now.

What have Preston done in recent history, a nothing boring soulless club with no purpose who have had almost nothing whatsoever to celebrate.

Whilst we have had multiple promotions and are the most successful playoff side ever, we turn it on when it matters. The polar opposite to them.

The passion and support of our fans is universally praised as being unbelievable, Deepdale is often like a library.

I can understand rivarly and the club being mocked in the past with the Oystons, as we were a joke with owners who didn't care. Even after only 2 years or whatever it is its already changing under Sadler.

Sadlers first season we were on for an average 10k crowd, which isn't bad for league 1 considering we had nowt to play for and a shite style of boring football under Grayson and its early in the new era, we had lost fans for many years and that takes time to rebuild.

Just to finish off with this post from their playoff thread 🤣

'What is it with Blackpool and play offs? How can one club be so lucky in them. They must have the best play off record in the country. Lincoln aren’t going to challenge that record now. 😡😡😡'

🤣🤣🤣

Its all luck lads 🤣 As Holloway said its, in part, about the energy the fans bring, we didn't stop once singing, makes sense then if its linked to fans energy and support why PNE are probably the worst playoff side in history 🤣
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Thoroughly enjoyed that JJ
 
Doc said:
I live in Fulwood and have for 21 years. I have a fair few Nobber mates who to be fair are top lads but even they can be bitter and salty towards any success we have. For them winning on merit is something Blackpool don't do. For the cynical twisted jealous ones we're jammy and lucky.
Most games of football have moments where a decision or an opportunity goes either way. Lincoln yesterday hit the bar but by the same token Jerry Yates was unlucky not to make it 3-1 when he dinked the ball over the keeper and Mitchel came close but his powerful shot was at the keeper.
To coin a Lancastrian phrase.
"Sod 'em and let's get on with our own washing."
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I have said before maybe on old avftt my gf is from Preston, but is a blackpool fan now, absolutely loves us. Never been a pne fan, liked Liverpool but Blackpool are number 1 by far now.

We currently reside on the outskirts, Lea, nice area. A temporary stop before we move back to the seaside eventually......

The attacks on both towns both sets of fans do are often a bit overblown. Both are completely different towns. Preston has largely kept more greenery where Blackpool had in some places decimated it, but thats something the council have been working hard to correct with 10k trees being planted etc and a few k already done in Blackpool. Blackpool has evolved for entertainment and there is so much to do. Stanley Park a gem, best park in the UK

I'm sick of the bad rep Blackpool gets, yes the central area is a bit dicey and we all know the issues. But so can parts of Ribbleton and ingol for eg, but its just not as central so not as noticeable.

Blackpool has some decent areas and a lot going for it not portrayed in the media often and often an easy target. I absolutely love the town, its unique and yes you can get some of the lowest lows but also the highest highs. There's a real feelgood factor about seeing the tower and being by the sea.

The idea that you would get from pne online that all preston people hate Blackpool as a town isn't always true, her family love it and so do quite a lot more unbiased folk.

Anyway to the football side, the gf went to 1 game, to accompany her sister who is a pne fan, after someone didn't go, just to see what it was like kind of undercover last season supporting Leeds, well there was no atmosphere and all you could hear was the Leeds fans, despite pne lofty position pushing for promotion to the prem at the time. All you could hear was a drum beating on the pne side.

She said the atmosphere at Blackpool is unbelievable and the passion stands out by a mile. She's tangerine through and through. Only ever step foot in there again in the pool away end.
 
JJpool said:
Its honestly baffling, had a quick browse of a thread on their site about us in playoffs and not all of them, but some are so deluded, its laughable.

They genuinely think they are a much bigger club and were still tinpot.

Yet, two towns aprox the same population.

OK they won a few games with pigs bladders in black and white, playing with clogs on in the 1800's. Wow.

A lot of them seem to base it on a club we used to be, being owned by the oystons for decades and being limited by it. We have had our potential held back for years. We were tinpot, we all know it, compared to a decent owner now.

What have Preston done in recent history, a nothing boring soulless club with no purpose who have had almost nothing whatsoever to celebrate.

Whilst we have had multiple promotions and are the most successful playoff side ever, we turn it on when it matters. The polar opposite to them.

The passion and support of our fans is universally praised as being unbelievable, Deepdale is often like a library.

I can understand rivarly and the club being mocked in the past with the Oystons, as we were a joke with owners who didn't care. Even after only 2 years or whatever it is its already changing under Sadler.

Sadlers first season we were on for an average 10k crowd, which isn't bad for league 1 considering we had nowt to play for and a shite style of boring football under Grayson and its early in the new era, we had lost fans for many years and that takes time to rebuild.

Just to finish off with this post from their playoff thread 🤣

'What is it with Blackpool and play offs? How can one club be so lucky in them. They must have the best play off record in the country. Lincoln aren’t going to challenge that record now. 😡😡😡'

🤣🤣🤣

Its all luck lads 🤣 As Holloway said its, in part, about the energy the fans bring, we didn't stop once singing, makes sense then if its linked to fans energy and support why PNE are probably the worst playoff side in history 🤣
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It is simply banter which you wouldn’t expect anything less from our local rivals.
We would be saying exactly the same about them.
 
Giro said:
Actually 18.30, yesterday, was my first appearance. Do try and keep up.🤪
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Don’t know why but I can always be bothered to read your posts, some of them are quite amusing, what i honestly couldn’t be bothered with is to go on your forum,I went on it once a good while ago and I’m sure you’ll agree it’s very drab - not just saying that, it really was drab, hence you come on here I suppose?
 
Eternaloptimist said:
It is simply banter which you wouldn’t expect anything less from our local rivals.
We would be saying exactly the same about them.
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Sorry I dont buy that. Theres always banter but....

If we had 1 or 2k more ticket sales I wouldn't not be saying they are a minnows.

For the sort of bragging about how small we apparently are youd expect a balckpool Fleetwood size difference.

If pne got 3 or 4 times our crowds I'd maybe agree.
 
All I saw on their thread was delusion, frustration and homophobia.

Imagine having to watch your rivals be that ** good when it matters, six time play-off winners. We all know what happens to their club when the chips are down...

The best part is they're now trying to pretend PNE v BFC means more to us than it does to them. Under the current respective owners we've far greater chance of getting (back) to the Prem before they'll ever reach it.

Anyone know who their manager is now? Even Google hasn't updated.
 
Preston fans are strange bunch. Some are okay but the majority have a strange sense of entitlement because they won the league 130 years ago against 12 other teams.

I hear them bang on about how many years they’ve played in the top flight but them only winning the league twice sums them up. They’re a nothing club that weren’t even worth singing about yesterday at Wembley.
 
Pne fans think there some kind of big club and think we’re small time , just look how many times we’ve been to Wembley in the last 15 years . Everyone says the atmosphere at Bloomfield is electric on match day , we stick together as fans . We only had 4000 for play off semi the noise and atmosphere was amazing . They have about two songs maybe one , which is pne pne pne and that filters out after 15 seconds . We’re passionate , ex players always say Blackpool always leaves them with a special feeling after they’ve left . They talk as if there fan base is massive they average about ten thousand I think . There generally just a boring club. Who will never get over the mighty getting into the prem when they cocked you 2 or 3 times . They never stop talking about beating us in the Coca Cola cup when we had ince as manager you’d think they’d win the World Cup. I’ve a few pne fans as mates and there sound . They thought they would get frank lampard or Eddie Howe as there new manager that’s how delusional they are .
 
I noticed on there forum they compared us to Wycombe in terms of size of club. That's coming from a club who couldn't sell 1800 tickets for a local derby when we take near 6000. A club who took 20k to a League 1 final where we took 32k. Who really is the tin pot club?
 
I had a Nobber text me on Friday saying we would be fine at Wembley as we are used to playing in front of empty stadiums....

I had to ask him if he was no longer a Nobber as his reference made no sense at all 😁
 
Like I said a month or so back, nobheads appointing a cheap manager, signing an aging rapist as their main striker shows how much they will struggle next season, I think they will be fighting relegation all season, the money pot is empty
 
tangerinedreams said:
I noticed on there forum they compared us to Wycombe in terms of size of club. That's coming from a club who couldn't sell 1800 tickets for a local derby when we take near 6000. A club who took 20k to a League 1 final where we took 32k. Who really is the tin pot club?
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Don't Wycombe have a 10k capacity? They only averaged about 5.5k the season they were flying and went up, albeit season cut short.

We finished with just under 9k average but we had a lot of games moved that should have been weekend games if I remember, an average season with dull as dish water football and big games to come. The next game was Sunderland which would have been the biggest crowd of the season. Probably 12k+.
 
It's a really long thread that I couldn't read due to alcohol tiredness from yesterday, celebrating and today being as fucked as a frog.
Fcuk Preston, small minded absolute tossers...most of whom still talk about the invincibles.....fcuk me, there were on about 12 teams in the country...

Since WW2 they have won diddly squat.....
We on the other hand have been moderately successful DESPITE the Oystains.

Now they have gone we will fly high once again UTMP
 
WLDTangerine said:
Preston fans are strange bunch. Some are okay but the majority have a strange sense of entitlement because they won the league 130 years ago against 12 other teams.

I hear them bang on about how many years they’ve played in the top flight but them only winning the league twice sums them up. They’re a nothing club that weren’t even worth singing about yesterday at Wembley.
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Hadn’t really thought about that but no chants aimed at PNE is a bit of a statement about how we see our rivalry these days. We are more concerned with ourselves these days which is a great thing.
 
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