Positivity

You've a few close games next season mate. Blackpool and Fleetwood both over your side.

 

I know mate - Accrington worth a visit as well

 

Yeah I've been there. Looking forward to going back. I think they're developing parts of the ground for next season.

 

Genuinely looking forward to it mate. The football, the lads, away days. Football doesn't stop below the second tier. Fidem Servavi.

 

Why do you bother coming to games? I'd save my money if I thought that was true....

 

Me too mate

 

It'll be my 50th anniversary of my first game as a Barnsley fan. We lost 3-2 at home to Barrow on 10th August 1968. Johnny Evans & Allen Bradbury scored for us. If i could look forward to the start of every new season when we were in the old Fourth Division during the 1970's, looking forward to the Division 1 campaign of 2018/19 with optimism is a piece of cake.

 

Well if we are after a manager in the play offs... then it will be the end of May. But like you say people are very much allowed a few weeks Hoilday.. So that would take it at the earliest, middle of June. Another month from now. Any play off manager moans that they start behind the other teams (due to not knowing which league they are in) in recruitment, arranging pre-season games, training and the like. So we could easily be behind in everything..

This is, for me, obviously a worse case scenario.. hopefully things have moved on considerably already. We'll see,

 

I think with the size of the squad... already in the twenty odds, without movement out, I wouldn't expect too many faces in. And i'd say none until the new man has assessed what he has got to work with. I may be wrong but id guess we will go with what we have baring a couple of outs and in's Our squad as it is should be top 6.

 

For all we know we may have already got a manager lined up & we’re waiting for peoples holidays to be over so they can arrange a press conference at the ground to announce everything & do it properly. Let’s just wait & see.

Despite been relegated there’s actually less work to do than there was last summer when we needed to replace about 2/3rds of the squad

 

Actually he looked very decent up the right with Hammill before being dropped. Yiadom coming back was the worst thing that could have happened to Jason.

Reckon he could make it in the championship.

 

Yay! Its Hemsworth Tyke

 

I do not agree with most things this member says to be quite frank

 

I don't think any of us could answer that one!

 

I can. I might joke, "why do I bother?" But I look forward to each game and to seeing the same faces.

I've got great travelling companions and also those that sit around us at Oakwell have become friends.

I've even met a few like minded people from here and Facebook through football and stay in regular touch.

Key is to let it be a big part of your life, but not the death of you.

 

Bang on. Football is a sport, very little is a foregone conclusion. That's the whole point. The joys come from the sense of achievement, the upsetting of odds. If we were guaranteed to win every week what would be the point?
The trick is to squeeze every ounce of enjoyment out of our successes and not allow the inevitable troughs to get us down too much. Fail to do the latter and I'm afraid, as a Barnsley fan, you're letting yourself in for a very rocky ride.

 

Good comments, Churton. And as ever, an interesting way of looking at things. But what if the odds are against us due to our own actions? It's one thing battling when things are against us, but another when it is us (i.e. BFC) that have trood on our own shirt lap, as I think the former and present owners have done. And given the resources of the current owners, are we a rich club that chooses to be poorly-resourced of our own accord? And if we make that choice, how will we put out a team that is any better than the poor collection we've been watching since the end of January '17?

 

Yep - I think the manager/HC appointment is crucial! Thing is, I've always got the competing attraction of me 'osses!