Do you still back the board?

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Do you still back the board?

  1. Yes

    31 vote(s)
    20.0%

  2. No

    89 vote(s)
    57.4%

  3. Unsure at the moment

    35 vote(s)
    22.6%
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  1. ubi

    ubique_tyke Well-Known Member

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    Lets see just how divisive these last couple of weeks have become.
     
    ubique_tyke, Oct 17, 2019
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    Didcot Red Well-Known Member

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    What's the alternative?
     
    Didcot Red, Oct 17, 2019
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    Jake The Red Banned Idiot

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    Yes.
     
    Jake The Red, Oct 17, 2019
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    wombwell-red Well-Known Member

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    At this moment until given reason to change it's 100% no from me. I'll support the team and the caretaker manager and continue to use my season ticket but the board aren't seeing another penny off me this season.
     
    wombwell-red, Oct 17, 2019
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    SuperTyke Well-Known Member

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    The club has existed for 132 years. The current board have been PART owners for less than two of these years. Evidence suggests that there is an alternative than Conway and co. It has been run by alternatives for longer than any human has been in this planet
     
    SuperTyke, Oct 17, 2019
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    orsenkaht Well-Known Member

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    Robledo's, Taylor, McCormack, Blanchflower, Currie, Tiler, etc, etc, etc...… all the way down to Hourihane, Winnall, Watkins, Mawson, Roberts. Club debt-free, wealthy new owners, and yet still we can't hold on to our better players. Pile 'em high, flog 'em cheap. A relegation to League One recharges the player factory. A promotion back creates a shop window for the next Summer sale. Yes - rinse and repeat! There was reason to hope for better this time. They are no better. They can walk for me.
     
    orsenkaht, Oct 17, 2019
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    No way back for me. I hope they can find a buyer soon.
     
    Stahlrost, Oct 17, 2019
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    Hykehamtyke Well-Known Member

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    Nope. They have taken us backwards as a football team of players good enough to compete since a return to the championship when they alluded to the contrary from the off saying they would build year on year reinvesting player sales when in fact they have severely weakened the squad therefore they have lied imho.
    The whole deal at Barnsley stinks to high heaven sadly.
     
    Hykehamtyke, Oct 17, 2019
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    Have followed BFC for the majority of the time in this tier. There has always been hope; not necessarily of promotion, but always of at least competing. That is what I have supported. If I want to support a business plan I'll start a share portfolio and spend my Saturday afternoons trading. This is not what football is about.
     
    Birkdale Red, Oct 17, 2019
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    I’m on the fence at the moment and falling towards no but I’m also happy to see what the January transfer window brings to see which way I go, I’m not holding out much hope
     
    Bossman, Oct 17, 2019
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    Yes ,
    What other option is there ?
    Create a deeper us and them and there’s only one winner,
    If they make a stance like the Oystons,Venckys or Dale because the supporters are hostile there’s no winners and we’ll be definitely the losers.
    I’m all for questioning the role of the board and it’s practices but to start demonstrating as some have suggested and openly calling out the board in chants is counter productive imo.
    We have a supporters trust who have done a fantastic job of getting information and meetings in the past.
    At this stage I’m prepared to say the board have made mistakes and wait to see how they remedy them .
     
    Marlon, Oct 17, 2019
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  12. Ex Bournemouth Red

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    It has indeed - but times have changed and money has now spoilt football. In this division you need to spend just to stand still. It would be good to have someone who has a connection with Barnsley owning the club, but unless they have wealth that they are willing to spend and potentially lose, we will always struggle. I don't see many people like this queuing up to buy the club - and it appears none were forthcoming whilst PC owned the club.

    Without a person like John Dennis and PC unfortunately a football club is becoming less of a community symbol and more of a business.
     
    Ex Bournemouth Red, Oct 17, 2019
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    The only reason I'd cut them any slack is lack of alternatives. But I suspect they just want to use Barnsley as a wholesaler of players to more ambitious clubs. From that standpoint League One will do. Can't support that so voted no.
     
    RichieD, Oct 17, 2019
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    This
     
    Redhelen, Oct 17, 2019
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    I feel totally let down with the owners. They gave us renewed hope after taking over from Patrick saying they would build year on year but in reality we are in the same position. After this summers transfers debacle, then Conway saying it was our most successful transfer window ever when its was blatantly obvious that it wasn't, the sacking of Stendel ended any lingering respect I had for them. Falling at their feet just gives them Carte Blanche.
     
    PLOBBY, Oct 17, 2019
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    The OP question assumes that one backed them from the outset.

    Always wary of people outwith of this locality.

    Even more so of people with plenty of cash (allegedly) who are not of this area.
     
    leebrilleaux, Oct 17, 2019
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    Same, I'm just about holding on. Not impressed whatsoever with the last couple of weeks, or the transfer business from the summer but happy to give them the January transfer window to rectify this mess.
     
    Mido, Oct 17, 2019
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    More than the transfer windows, the inflexible policies, and the promises, it's the lack of respect shown in the sacking of Stendel, and the subsequent deliberate silence that I'm struggling with. I feel like the Board is not only treating the fans like fools, but is also creating a far worse situation for its own staff from players to club staff. The term "cutting off nose to spite its face", comes to mind. I've never felt so disillusioned by a Board. Other Boards may have been limited by finance, economic circumstances etc. This Board is limited by its own stubborn attitude and apparent lack of care for the club staff and supporters. That is impossible to back from where I sit. They could so easily have sorted this mess, and even avoided it in the first place. Unforgivable really.
     
    fired, Oct 17, 2019
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    If owners don't want to spend out of their own pocket then what's it matter who owns us?
     
    dreamboy3000, Oct 17, 2019
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    What's this 'still' business?
     
    Jay, Oct 17, 2019
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