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Last year, after the 49ers moved on from the best coach in franchise history who didn’t win a Super Bowl, owner Jed York told fans to hold him accountable if the franchise doesn’t compete for championships.

With the franchise now competing unsuccessfully for third place in the NFC West, plenty of fans want to hold him accountable. Or to at least hear something from him. They apparently won’t be.

“Just ran into Jed York,” tweeted Matt Maiocco of CSNBayArea.com on Friday afternoon. “He said it’s not his place to talk about football during the season but promised a meeting with media in [the] future.”

A year ago, York thought it was his place to apologize for a poor offensive performance in a Thanksgiving night loss to the Seahawks. In York’s defense, he perhaps has learned from that experience that he shouldn’t be saying anything while games are being played.

Still, promising in the press conference in “the future” isn’t really promising anything. At some point, surely, York will meet with the media. It could be when he’s addressing a mutual parting with coach Jim Tomsula or G.M. Trent Baalke. (Or both.) Or it could be when York is introducing a new coach or G.M. (Or both.)

Tim Kawakami of the San Jose Mercury News recently made the case for York to talk now, in order to address the current state of the franchise, seven games into the failed post-Harbaugh era. York apparently won’t be talking, but that definitely won’t keep fans from holding him accountable, in ways that involve them holding something that typically isn’t seen at a football game.