[Archived] Preston

[Husky]

Not sure but Lancs Police have asked for both the home and away game v Preston to be at 11am. You read it here first!!

Have they requested all the Wetherspoons be boarded up too?

[Neal]

Not arsed about Preston either, I live there now and I don't consider it to be a rivalry at all. It's a local Derby but nothing more than that.

[Dunnfc]

As with all Lancashire clubs, i do like to see them do well.

Only the Burnley game gives me the derby butterflies.

Preston to me is just like Bolton... They are close but i dont give two hoots about them.

[tomphil]

That is hilarious reading and I'm only on page 2. Seems we are all getting a mention ha ha! If they aren't obsessed what they doing reading this thread regularly. Seriously a teeny chav board that I bet I know more about their tinpot outfit than most of them. They say first impressions last well my impression of that lot will always be a wooden shed that used to catch fire every week and a crumpled artificial pitch that they used to rent out every night. Played on there a few times as a youth, at least I got to spit on the gaff.

A knobber mate once took me to a match there, North End v Southend, worst experience of my life, sand blowing in my face for 90 min, 0-0 and virtually no crowd just a scattering of people. Where was their great support then ? Didn't turn up till John Beck got them on the up.

For their boys looking in, all our plastics are long gone lads. Fact is your at your highest point for about 6 years yet you're still struggling to get 10k homers on. We are at our lowest point for 5 years, we are run by Venkys, justifiable excuse. What's yours

[Jock]

They have an excuse, they are the ' Big Club that never was '

[Husky]

This thread is under surveillance (not that they care one bit about BRFC).

http://www.pne-online.net/forum/showthread.php?96287-What-a-bitter-bunch&s=714928c4ea234bea467240e7810b2f08

"Very ugly people from Blackburn with strange voices".

I think NobEnds finest can be seen around 1:40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzP1XC51kro

[tomphil]

Worryingly they do make some good points about Shaw, would do a lot of Rovers fans good to research this goon. Hope the Knobbers give him some grief when we play.

Seems most of their bitterness stems from the early Walker era and the fact lots from over that way pitched up at Ewood. Fair enough I suppose but it's always been a funny place like that has Preston. Man U opened a megastore there once....

[roverandout]

To any pne fans reading this we have always been a bigger club than you and always will, if it wasn't for venkys you wouldnt even be an afterthought.

[Rover_Shaun]

I've worked with Nobends for 25 years and they know the score. Inferiority complex the lot of them. And why not? They've been the lowest ranked Lancs club for years. It took Stanley, the shrimps and Cod army getting into thr league to give them a credibility boost.

I'm 40 and we've hardly played. The nearest a nobber got to a rovers wet dream was Macken hitting the post when we had our promotion party in their cow shed. Based on childhood memories The nobbers, dingles, lashers and wnky wanderers are all 4th division nobodies. Ahh them were the days

Can I add that John Beck took them down. God bless him.

[Neal]

"Ugly" & "Weird"

Why not treat yourself to a night out in Preston?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PzP1XC51kro

[Gav]

Don't understand why we have 20 pages dedicated to Shaws mates, and they've been living in Bpools shadow for 20yrs yes Bpool!

[Rover_Shaun]

They are good to laugh at. A curiosity like the bearded lady (plenty of them on the flag market). But in Derby terms Gav they are as meh as playing Brighton. The insignificant worm of the Lancs derby world. Their biggest achievement in over half a century was beating Swindon in the 3rd tier platoff final ffs!

Both Grayson and Garner are serial failures in this league so sit back, point and laugh.

A City

[Claytons Left Boot]

Seems most of their bitterness stems from the early Walker era and the fact lots from over that way pitched up at Ewood. ....

I worked in Preston pre Jack Walker days and there were plenty of Rovers fans around then. It's just one of those things. Bearing in mind where Claytons Le Moors and Rishton are, there's far more Burnley fans pro rata than there should be. Same with Bamber Bridge. They don't seem to be able to get over it though.

Best experience ever at their place was the game in October 1974. Three train loads over by mid day and that wooden shed behind the nets absolutely rammed, wooden terracing towards the back, the place was bouncing literally. You could see out to that park from the terracing and even before the game had finished Rovers fans were chasing them back to where God knows where.

[Jock]

I worked in Preston pre Jack Walker days and there were plenty of Rovers fans around then. It's just one of those things. Bearing in mind where Claytons Le Moors and Rishton are, there's far more Burnley fans pro rata than there should be. Same with Bamber Bridge. They don't seem to be able to get over it though.

Best experience ever at their place was the game in October 1974. Three train loads over by mid day and that wooden shed behind the nets absolutely rammed, wooden terracing towards the back, the place was bouncing literally. You could see out to that park from the terracing and even before the game had finished Rovers fans were chasing them back to where God knows where.

There has always been Rovers fans around Preston. Old timers have told me that loads used to walk and cadge lifts from the Kirkham area to Ewood.

Nobbers like to claim Chorley and Leyland as theirs but we know different.

[tomphil]

I worked in Preston pre Jack Walker days and there were plenty of Rovers fans around then. It's just one of those things. Bearing in mind where Claytons Le Moors and Rishton are, there's far more Burnley fans pro rata than there should be. Same with Bamber Bridge. They don't seem to be able to get over it though.

Best experience ever at their place was the game in October 1974. Three train loads over by mid day and that wooden shed behind the nets absolutely rammed, wooden terracing towards the back, the place was bouncing literally. You could see out to that park from the terracing and even before the game had finished Rovers fans were chasing them back to where God knows where.

I know mate my first job was amongst these lot in our Mackay era and they hated Rovers with a passion and they had the usual crowd obsession. Good lads though when you got to know them. My first boss was a knobber and Rovers hater as well though not in a nasty sense. Imagine my surprise when I bumped into him again in 95 outside Ewood with his dad . "We just want to watch some good football and watch that Shearer he said". I'd ask any PNE fan is it really us that are plastics

There has always been Rovers fans around Preston. Old timers have told me that loads used to walk and cadge lifts from the Kirkham area to Ewood.

Nobbers like to claim Chorley and Leyland as theirs but we know different.

They've certainly never had Chorley. Outside of the glamour clubs they are 3rd in line behind Bolton and Rovers down that way I'd say.

[K-Hod]

Certainly an odd lot on there with a chip on their shoulder regarding us. Bless them.

A lot of those comments did make me laugh on their forum, properly can't get over how funny and wide of the mark they were

[Jock]

That's why they're known as ' country & westerns'

[yoda]

That's why they're known as ' country & westerns'

Two XXXX's from Preston

[onlyonejackwalker]

I've always had sympathy for genuine PNE fans.

Years of financial mismanagement, the plastic pitch fiasco, the lack of bottle in play offs, the lack of investment, the lack of quality on offer....for years their owners took the mickey good and proper.

Propped up the Council, Baxi and Trevor Hemmings for as long as I can remember.

Watching the Rovers, Burnley and Blackpool enjoys spells in the PL whist they were getting walloped at Scunthorpe.

They call us plastics yet the minute they get anywhere near the play offs the flags and banners come out all over Moor Nook, Callan, Dodge, Savick and Avenham.

And they love a day trip out on finals day. Can find Cardiff or Wembley no problem but ask them were the PKE club shop is and they are stumped. Plastic pitch...plastic fans.

I'm not suprised they are bitter. We are all similar sized Northern clubs but with such limited success over the last 50 years watching the Rovers play the very best around for almost two decades, with Internationals in every position, winning national trophies, with a succession of top managers must have hurt very, very badly reading some of those responses.

There is a lasting rivalry, but few recent games as they preferred to play Hartlepool whilst we flew to the Emirates. Loved getting promoted there, loved chucking 5 past them, even loved the 3-0 pre-season friendly with only 3 sides of their ground built. But thats about it of late due to their lasting pre - occupation with the lower divisions.

Let them have their voice. They've been irrelevant all my life so I'm not bothering with them now. Back down in three years. It's always been that way. Just feel sorry for them.

Their mentality will hopefully change as they experience better quality football on a more regular basis. They've been a semi big fish in lower divisions, lording it up at a Wycombe and Rochdale and Peterborough for decades.

Its twisted a few of them irrepairably. They believe they are massive, with huge potential. It's quite comical, but all that has changed now. They'll get their newly promoted bounce then the season will really kick in. And big, well established clubs will be ahead week in week out.

I feel sorry for them. This is the best they've felt for years. It's been that bad. No suprise with Deadly Derek in charge.

Get the gormless Nobender out of Rovers. Rather have Indian chicken @#/? than measly mouthed horseshit.

[yoda]

I know mate my first job was amongst these lot in our Mackay era and they hated Rovers with a passion and they had the usual crowd obsession. Good lads though when you got to know them. My first boss was a knobber and Rovers hater as well though not in a nasty sense. Imagine my surprise when I bumped into him again in 95 outside Ewood with his dad . "We just want to watch some good football and watch that Shearer he said". I'd ask any PNE fan is it really us that are plastics

They've certainly never had Chorley. Outside of the glamour clubs they are 3rd in line behind Bolton and Rovers down that way I'd say.

It is surprising just how many Rovers are in Chorley these days, come across a lot in my game

[tomphil]

It is surprising just how many Rovers are in Chorley these days, come across a lot in my game

Always been a healthy support from over that way. There's a good number of young lads still support Rovers, watched the Derby away match beginning of the other season down there in the Prince of Wales and it was pretty full of Rovers fans 18-25 ish.

[ABBEY]

I used to walk from abbey to the harpers arms (maybe) in Chorley on a Tuesday to book on the away coach with Chorley blues back in the 80's . Imagine the Internet kids doing that these days .

[Rover_Shaun]

I used to walk from abbey to the harpers arms (maybe) in Chorley on a Tuesday to book on the away coach with Chorley blues back in the 80's . Imagine the Internet kids doing that these days .

I used to walk from Ossy to Ewood to buy a ticket in the late 80's when games were all ticket

[Mike Graham]

I don't get the "plastics" bit, maybe it is jealousy?

I went to Wellfield High School in Leyland in the mid 70's and all my mates (15) were Rovers fans bar one who was Liverpool. This was at a time when PNE were higher than us in the leagues.

Some of the group still go to Ewood. One (who lurks on here occasionally) was trying to get on the Rovers Board in the 90's but was blocked by the East Lancs Rovers "mafia" who did not like outsiders.

However football is cyclical. On and off the pitch PNE are on the up and we are moving in a downwards direction. Expect to see big investment in PNE of the sort we only dream of these days.

[Blackburn Ender]

I guess it all depends on who you are talking to, but I've lived in Preston for 20-odd years and all the PNE fans I know are just the same as us. Happy when things are going well, peed off when not.

Currently, the mood of optimism and sense that maybe North End are on the up is a very refreshing one. I definitely want to see them do well in a way I just couldn't (however hard I tried, fellow Lancashire club, etc) with Burnley.

I find there has been a lot of respect for how well Rovers did in the 1990s-2000s, a lot of respect for Jack Walker and a lot of sympathy for our current malaise.

They do have a good chuckle that our great leader is the one and only D Shaw though!