My Observations of the BBS

I dont post as much as i did as the reasoned debate is getting less and less. However I'm just wondering how others see the posters and observations of how the consensus representation is form members. I see 3 types of posters:-

1. The people who, whatever we have as a plan, polarise towards criticising what the club does. They talk more about the players leaving than the ones coming in. More discussion of our failings than successes. Rarely offer the club credit. They rarely offer balanced and alternate viewpoints.You could say glass half empty community. Buy Web every issue. Right now i see this as the majority of posters.

2. The people who often see only positives. Puts trust rather than challenges the clubs decisions. Quick to welcome new players and wish the best to the ones going out. Always feels we will be highly competitive in August. Buys WSB occasionally. Appears to be a dwindling community but still exist.

3. The people who reason two sides (or more) of a debate. See the upside and downside of what the club are doing. Swings between positive and negative on occasions but only on specific topics. Often get driven down in debates even of facts exist. Longer winded posts and usually have some good points if read in detail. Reads someone else WSB if its laying around.

Some of this is obviously tongue in cheek but where do you see yourself or 360deg where others see you. I reckon I'm between 2-3.

 

I prefer to be debate orientated, balanced and offer facts, but I find myself falling more into the positive camp in order to provide some balance, because the number of critical posts outweighs those that positive, and unjustifiably so in my opinion.

 

Good post. I really can't engage any more as there's so much negativity, and so little positivity to balance it. On the field, the performances over the last couple of seasons have been very positive, for the most part, but on here all I read is how crap everything is. Can't be arsed to argue the point, got better things to do in life. So put me down as 4 - Someone who reads the board a lot, and finds it entertaining because of the absolute drivel he reads at times, hardly posts because he's unwilling to get into an argument with people who have no idea what happens behind the scenes.

 

Edit - thought better of it.

 

I'd like to claim to be in the third category, but find myself more and more in the second, just to try and balance out the persistent negativity.

 

Yes, that's true, although it's always a difficult issue for me as I live part of the time in Germany and miss too many matches to make a season ticket viable. Some good friends got me interested again, and of course the on-field performances improved dramatically in THAT season. I then got upset about the pricing structure, as it hit people like me hard, but I worked out that last season I went to about half the home matches, and a season ticket would have been about break even, so I've got one for the coming season.

Really looking forward to it, but it's impossible for me to comment on the team's prospects on the field because I (like everyone else) have no idea what the squad will look like.

 

Between 2 and 3 like yourself Icer. Don't think I do personal insults and hopefully seen as open to having my views and opinions changed, and would like to think I offer reason and balance in my posts. Not that anyone has to agree with them. Age has mellowed my expectations of my football club.

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Hee hee, looks like your edit was too late ha!

 

Dint think better soon enough.

 

Mainly 2 with a bit of 3!

 

hahahah i guess thats a 1 then edging on 1.1

But of course you are welcome to post on your position on the OP as well as on the comments of others.... if you so choose.

 

A big problem is that a positive view even when wrong is seen as somehow more valid or balanced.

 

1,000 likes.

 

But not as big a problem as a negative view even when wrong is seen as somehow more valid or balanced.
Just for balance, like!

 

3.


Sent from the darkest recesses of a poisoned mind.

 

I guess thats true, Human psych has a lot to answer for

 

I think it's important that criticism doesn't die, otherwise we're all just basically robots where the club and anyone associated with it can do no wrong (the self-professed "happy-clappers" on here).

But criticism should be constructive and shouldn't lead to overwhelming negativity (again, there are some on here who only look at the bad side of things). Look at the positives and negatives without blindly focusing on one side. I'd like to think I'm number 3 on that front.

 

4. Sees some utter drivel, types up a reasoned response then deletes it as it's not worth the hassle

 

5- only posts cuntish jibes.

 

" The product or service is far less important than its ability to fulfil a customers needs".
That's the first tenet of marketing.

At the end of the day I'm a customer of BFC and my need is to see attractive football
in return for parting with hard my earned cash.

My expectations will therefore rest on the efforts of everyone involved in delivering an acceptable product
for me to view between August 2017 and May 2018.

When I go into WH Smith to buy something I don't start quizzing the assistant about what she earns,
what her qualifications are or where the contents of my purchase originated from cos likely or not
I'd be told that that is none of my business.

I have two choices I either buy the product or leave it on the shelf.Buying and selling players is not new. I've got the "Who's who of Barnsley FC" on my bookshelf. It shows every player from when the Club formed up to 2011. It's around six inches in thickness. It's part and parcel of a Football Clubs everyday business model when the windows permit of course.

The Barnsley FC "product" for 2017/18 is being prepared for us as we speak. I can choose to either support it or go shopping with our lass between 12 and 6 pm each Saturday.

My attitude is I'll at least take it out of the box have a good look at it and try it before I decide whether I am
getting what I thought I was being promised against what I was asked to pay for it.!

If we are no better or worse than we were last season rest assured along with others I'll be on the board to post my
disappointment because like any true fan at the end of the day I want us to be successful.