I said same after McGuire scored in 95th minute or whatever it was when Jim O’Brien gave ball away about 4 or 5 years ago. I stuck to it and missed the 1 1 draw last time. Hate the place.....
Maybe it needs to be broken down for you. We don’t need inside information. They have been honest and transparent from the start. I have no problem with their way of operating, it doesn’t risk the club’s future. But we know what it is. When they came in, the owners stated they were interested in our club because of the system and structure that was already in place. They came in to enhance the ‘buy them young and cheap, sell them for profit’ model. When they did finally take over, they even said, in their own words, that they weren’t going to ‘go crazy’. The owners have no emotional attachment to Barnsley Football Club so have no reason to illogically throw too much money at it. They are only here to attempt to grow the club and make regular profit from it or sell it again for a decent gain. So they will try to increase the value. They are also sound business people, so won’t chance their arm like Chansiri and the likes have. They will use their contacts and experience to increase revenues, and therefore spending. For example we are set to have a much more lucrative main shirt sponsor from the start of next season. They will make improvements on and off the pitch, funded by money the club generates of its own accord or possibly with arranged loans. Or maybe I’m wrong, and they are on Friday going to announce a £50million warchest funded by a share issue to themselves, because Chien Lee, Billy Beane, Neerav Parekh and Grace Hung have been convinced by Paul Conway that they should completely change their modus operandi in a phone call he made whilst off his nut in The Garrison.
Remember the game well, only been once since and no intention of going. I've not been to the last two home ones either, the bogey team of bogey teams.
Like the majority of away games next season, I won’t be going as it’s disproportionately expensive and I won’t be railroaded into paying it. On the positive side, if we immediately get promoted into the premier league, the cost of away games will reduce and I can resume going.
Don't remember the exact year, but it must have been between 1989 and 1994 I would think, when the Wendies rocked up at Oakwell. The game was definitely before the erection of the new North Stand, because,the old odd shaped Kop as it was then , was "rammed " with Wednesday fans. Again, not exactly certain, but I think we we were both in Division Two and the game ended in a 1-1 draw. We were playing quite well, when completely out of the blue, Carlton Palmer hit one from the right hand side well outside of our box and it flew into our net. That game has stuck in my memory ever since, for the fact that I have never ever, heard a roar like it from any visiting set of supporters at Oakwell from that day to this. Again only guessing , but I was surprised at the attendance. There must have been twenty odd thousand plus there that night. If my memory serves me right, Ron Atkinson was the Wednesday Manager and Palmer had followed him from West Brom for around £750,000. Let's hope that we can get one over them next Season, because after a series of self inflicted gaffes and some "jammy" goals on their part that have been scored against us, we really do need the tide of good fortune to change in our favour at some future point surely.?
Can you or anyone on here put a measure or a number to the term ‘not going crazy’? What does that mean in relation to actual funding made available? As for Chani lad at Pancake Tuesday - I might be wrong but to my knowledge ive not heard his name mentioned by our directors.
That’s a well used statement used by fik fookers who haven’t a clue of what other people are talking about. Lol !!!
Without checking I think Weds had won their first five away games that season and they equalised late on .
It means they will spend only the money the club generates for itself, and won’t go crazy risking the club’s future. They aren’t going to be sugar daddy owners so their ‘billions’ are completely irrelevant. Why would they mention him? I mentioned him as an example of a batshit crazy overspending owner who’s risked the stability of the club on a punt to get promoted which failed. He’s one of a few, and I’m glad our owners aren’t of that ilk. Some on here, you included by the sounds of it, seem to think they should throw the kitchen sink at it, blindly ignoring the fact that as and when it goes tits up, the owners could walk away without putting in any more of their own money and we end up like Bolton. Do you think Ken Anderson doesn’t have enough personal wealth to pay the club staff’s and players wages for a couple of months? He’s not doing it though - because it’s Bolton Wanderer’s liability, not Ken Anderson’s. Which is why there’s a very good chance they will be liquidated and possibly thrown out of the football league. Mr Anderson won’t be in the queue for the dole and a council flat at that point though, he hasn’t lost every last personal penny, he’ll be back in his luxury Switzerland home counting the money he paid himself as a consultant whilst Bolton were losing money. We don’t have owners like that, and I’m extremely happy about that.
Definitely not. I suspect none of us know what the owners are planning to do. And no one to my knowledge has I implied that the new owners should ‘go crazy’ in funding the club. But have you known any business that has been bought and then the owners have just stood back and hoped for the best. Because I haven’t.
Same here. We were brilliant that day. I think Ritchie was fired shortly after that? I vowed never to go again only to break that vow and since witness many other jammy defeat.