25-04-2025, 07:39
BOSS MAN
Paul Heckingbottom has welcomed the club’s ticket offer for Saturday’s important clash against Plymouth Argyle, as he wants to create a “really intense” atmosphere.
North End head into their final home match of the Championship season with plenty still on the line, and so do the visitors from Devon who currently sit bottom of the league table.
To help drive up the attendance and atmosphere at Deepdale, the club are offering tickets for £5 for fans aged 14 and over (until midnight on Friday 25th April), and £1 for U14s.
On the offer, Hecky said: “I think it's a great idea. I think it's the right time, the right occasion. It's the last home game and a really important game where both teams are scrapping.
“I think it's a great idea to do anyway, but the importance of this fixture for us and the fans is huge, so the more we get in the better.
“I can sense everyone's on edge about this one, which is good because every game you should be like that.
“You should scrap and fight every game for the three points. I can sense media, fans, everyone at the club knows how important this game is, how big this game is, so the atmosphere should be really good, really intense.
“We want to make sure that our fans get behind us and give us the best possible chance because it’d be great to take care of business that way.”
The manager has been frustrated with the performance of his side on a few occasions this season, but he’s more often been left stewing over decisions which have gone against his team.
He feels that nobody is being punished for those decisions more than the PNE fans, who he was so disappointed to not be able to celebrate with on Gentry Day. Instead, a penalty decision early in the second half in Hull changed the pattern of the game and North End went on to be beaten.
The manager said: “Obviously we were really disappointed with the result. I liked what we did, especially in the first half, and then we get a penalty given against us, which everyone knows again is not a penalty. We've suffered that massively this season.
“Peter [Ridsdale] was already telling me in the last international break that we were the only team to have two Key Match Incidents go against us on in three separate games, which obviously cost us all those games. Since then we've had the Stoke penalty which the KMI panel said five to nil wasn't a penalty. Then we had the QPR game where the lad's been sent off after the event, and not only that, after he should have been sent off, he was handling the ball for one of their goals. And then we had another penalty changing the tide in the game at the weekend.
“That's been a pattern of so many of our games where we've been started well, got the goal and as much as we always try and focus on ourselves, the players need protecting a lot of the time when these are three games. In particular in the last few where it's things out of our control, it's nothing to do with us. They're changing the game for us.”
Paul Heckingbottom has welcomed the club’s ticket offer for Saturday’s important clash against Plymouth Argyle, as he wants to create a “really intense” atmosphere.
North End head into their final home match of the Championship season with plenty still on the line, and so do the visitors from Devon who currently sit bottom of the league table.
To help drive up the attendance and atmosphere at Deepdale, the club are offering tickets for £5 for fans aged 14 and over (until midnight on Friday 25th April), and £1 for U14s.
On the offer, Hecky said: “I think it's a great idea. I think it's the right time, the right occasion. It's the last home game and a really important game where both teams are scrapping.
“I think it's a great idea to do anyway, but the importance of this fixture for us and the fans is huge, so the more we get in the better.
“I can sense everyone's on edge about this one, which is good because every game you should be like that.
“You should scrap and fight every game for the three points. I can sense media, fans, everyone at the club knows how important this game is, how big this game is, so the atmosphere should be really good, really intense.
“We want to make sure that our fans get behind us and give us the best possible chance because it’d be great to take care of business that way.”
The manager has been frustrated with the performance of his side on a few occasions this season, but he’s more often been left stewing over decisions which have gone against his team.
He feels that nobody is being punished for those decisions more than the PNE fans, who he was so disappointed to not be able to celebrate with on Gentry Day. Instead, a penalty decision early in the second half in Hull changed the pattern of the game and North End went on to be beaten.
The manager said: “Obviously we were really disappointed with the result. I liked what we did, especially in the first half, and then we get a penalty given against us, which everyone knows again is not a penalty. We've suffered that massively this season.
“Peter [Ridsdale] was already telling me in the last international break that we were the only team to have two Key Match Incidents go against us on in three separate games, which obviously cost us all those games. Since then we've had the Stoke penalty which the KMI panel said five to nil wasn't a penalty. Then we had the QPR game where the lad's been sent off after the event, and not only that, after he should have been sent off, he was handling the ball for one of their goals. And then we had another penalty changing the tide in the game at the weekend.
“That's been a pattern of so many of our games where we've been started well, got the goal and as much as we always try and focus on ourselves, the players need protecting a lot of the time when these are three games. In particular in the last few where it's things out of our control, it's nothing to do with us. They're changing the game for us.”
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