If you can't feel good about being a Barnsley fan just listen to Ronnie here...

Watch this lovely video from start to finish. Just Ronnie Glavin talking about what it meant to him playing for us.

Talking about the great players that we had at that time. Inspirational stuff - all of it.

I know the perpetual moaners on here will say "ah but that was then, not now" but who's to say we won't unearth new stars like these and go on that journey all over again. That's the thing about following, and I mean properly SUPPORTING, your team. You don't spend all your time complaining about this and that. You just sit back and enjoy the good times when they come along, and you put up with the bad times.

We've had plenty of good and plenty of bad times in my fifty odd years of going to Oakwell. Nothing is going to change that. This is what makes following a small town club so enjoyable. I might not have lived in Barnsley for most of my life but it's still my team, and EVERYBODY that has known me has heard about The Reds

 

Jesus saves but Ronnie Glavin scores the goals

 

Why is there a constant need to try and belittle anyone that has any trepidation about the forthcoming season ? I find the BBS is a very strange place at the moment, anytime people say they are worried or they dare to say they think we will struggle etc. they are pilloried and made fun of and basically told they should just shut up and accept everything. Life is not like that, without discussion and different opinions the BBS will be rubbish.. I can see that there is some posts that are just there to moan, but no-one can say anything without 10 other threads slating them.

 

We may well unearth future stars. Problem is we will sell the buggers first chance we get.

 

So what? That's how it is these days.

If Ronnie walked through the door tomorrow as a recently capped, goal scoring midfielder he would be on his way in January as well, with a multi-million pound price on his head. It's how it always is. Not so much then, but definitely now.

 

I'm not belittling anyone as such but there ARE people who come on here to complain virtually every day. If things are going well all is silence. Strange that.

 

I find it completely opposite, every time someone tries to be positive, they are deemed to be Happy Clappers & accused of blowing up the clubs backside. At the end of the day, its all about opinions & thats something we all have but a forum will always throw up differences & thats what debate should be about.

 

Exactly, and I'm not some kind of Evangelist so resent being called a happy clapper

Reasoned debate is great but every day sniping and negativity is just tiresome. If that's all you've got take up some other hobby.

 

Is that a serous reponse? Might as well shut it darn now and just keep the academy open.

 

Yes, it's a serious response. We breed players, we take them from lower down the pyramid, we sell them on. Tell me a time when it has ever been different. Maybe we are just highlighting it more at the moment because we are actually getting decent money on some of them.

I'd rather they all stayed and took us up to the Premier League but we all know neither of those things are likely. Possible, but unlikely.

Footballers are just commodities really. Oh they entertain us, they thrill us, they infuriate us (sometimes all that inside ninety minutes) but at the end of all that they are guns for hire. Sometimes we pay lots for them, sometimes we just borrow them. Either way they will never stick around. The Joe Joyces and Bobby Hassells of the football world are gone for ever.

 

When has it ever been different? 1887 - 2015.

The current plan is unprecedented in the history of BFC and the sales of Blanchflower, Taylor and Hirst don't disprove this. If this is the future it is bleak.

 

Agree 100%
It's good what Prince has posted - but IMO - if yer not concerned and thinking about what has gone off at the club since January then yer can't be that bothered about the club.

It must be great to walk out of the ground and forget about football and your club.
Go through life with no thought of what's happening around you.
Unfortunately some of us are not like that.

 

We just happen to have more saleable assets now, and the money to tempt them away is obscene. In my time though there has always been an outcry when the odd star player is sold, or rather given away. Eric Winstanley, Pat Howard, Stewart Barrowclough, David Hirst........etc etc. The list is long but proves my point. We breed players, we sell them on. So long as we get the RIGHT money for them I see no problem. We take the money, reinvest some of it and the rest goes to ensuring we have a Barnsley Football Club to support.

I see no problem in that.

 

So survival is the only aim/dream? It's not enough.

 

If I wasn't an atheist Ronnie would be my God but every time I hear his name mentioned at the moment, I can't help thinking that he was 28 when he signed for us. Therefore, if we were now offered RG mark 2, we'd turn him down on age grounds!

 

We have always been a selling club & I cant see that altering in the distant future, however, its not a one way street, we also, have purchased many players over the years

 

Thank you for sharing that,I really enjoyed it. I remember those days very well,at home we seemed invincible for a couple of seasons. The problem started after promotion and the Board of directors at the time,ripped Norman Hunters team apart,we then drifted into mediocrity. For old timers like me,you can see parallels with the current situation. Can I add that I think Norman Hunter is the most underrated and under appreciated manager at Bfc.

 

But we haven't sold/lost eight (and counting) first team players in a year before.

 

I cant disagree, but thats gone, we move on, my comments were not aimed at last season, they were just a generalisation of how it has always been in my memory at Barnsley

 

Yes the clubs financial viewpoint wasn't much different back then. At the end of the promotion season a number of the squad were due to renew contracts and having been promoted they were asking for what the club could not afford, hence their departure. This info was given to me by a player from that squad after he himself had moved on and then retired from football.