UNBELIEVABLE BARNSLEY

Hahaha, patronised by Cardiff City? Seriously?

 

I'm just happy to have a club. I'll still go if we end up in the NW Counties League.

 

Warnock was on sky sports news this morning blaming the ref and his linesmen for tomorrows defeat

 

Point would be that they are still my team & I'd still watch/support them regardless of division or form. I prefer this league because it is more competitive and much more interesting. Like Bluebird I didn't particularly enjoy our experience in the top flight.
Apart from a couple of grounds I'd prefer to go to the ones in the championship. not saying we shouldn't try and win each game, just not lying awake at night dreaming of getting there.

Once you get past Man Utd/City, Liverpool, Chelsea Arsenal & Spurs[?] there's not much there to get excited about. I hate what the PL has done to football in pretty much everything it has done.

If I match the 2 leagues up on preference of games to watch:

Man City - would like to see them for sure
Man Utd or fowls - fowls
Chelsea or Leeds - Leeds
Spurs or Sheff Utd. - SUFC
Liverpool or QPR - Liverpool
Arsenal or Milwall - Arsenal

Burnley or Bolton - meh
Watford or Norwich - Norwich
Brighton or Ipswich - Ipswich
Huddersfield or Forest - close but probably HTFC,
Newcastle or Sunderland - both good
Liecester or Villa - Villa definately
Bournmouth or Burton - Burton
Southampton or Bristol - neither really but I'll go Bristol as it's closer
Stoke or Preston - probably Stoke, but not much in it
Everton or Hull - Everton
West Brom or Birmingham - meh
West Ham or Fulham - Fulham, fantastic away day
Swansea or Cardiff - probably Cardiff just
Palace or QPR/Brentford - meh

 

& I forgot Boro & Derby

 

Averaged 13,859 with 11,844 home fans last year. A few clubs get lower than that in this division.

 

Serious question, would you rather travel to Bournemouth, Brighton, Burnley & Watford over Villa, Forest, Fulham & Middlesborough? Personally I wouldn't. It might be that I'm not a 'football' fan in the purest sense, more of a 'my team' fan.
Other than Man City (this season) and Arsenal (some years back) there aren't any teams, other than Barnsley, that I would go out of my way to watch. There is nothing about watching Palace, Swansea insert any team that excites me anymore.
#hatefootballlovebarnsley sums it up for me

 

In the spirit of reasoned debate I don't think anyone doesnt really want us to perform better and higher. It's just that a lot of us don't think we're s**t at present either, especially having seen where we were in the 60s and 70s. We have no divine right to be where we are never mind any higher.

 

http://european-football-statistics.co.uk/attnclub/carc.htm

Cardiff don't get too many more than us.

 

Agree prices are ridiculous, even £30 to watch Man United. All of which feeds into my general dislike of football these days. Unfortunately I still love, and am addicted to, my team.

 

What relevance does the 1960s have though? Most people weren't around and so it's long ago it might as well be the 1860s. 2003-17 have been far less successful than the 80s and 90s. I think people need to calm down a bit.

 

I’d love to see us in the Prem at some point - I’m too young to really remember the last time!

 

I watch more championship than PL on sky. Lost interest in the PL to be honest.

 

Thanks for the 1860s reference. I feel a lot better for that! I know my bones are creaking a bit but crikey.
It's all perspective I guess but from my standpoint we're in our traditional home in terms of league and the team seems to be developing nicely. Reason for a little bit of optimism.

 

I would love us to be a fantastic, free flowing, exciting team that won almost every game and we should strive for that. I understand that as a consequence of being that team we would end up in the prem. All I'm saying is that 'being in the prem' isn't the end goal for me. would definitely take being an exciting team in the championship (as we are now) over being a Tony Pullis type team in the PL that survived year after year. For me, apart from the Glavin era & the year we won promotion to the PL, this last few years has been the best time I can remember for being a Reds fan. I enjoyed the year we came up from league 1 miles more than the year in the prem. I loved that we had a local chairman, coach & captain. I loved how together it all felt as fans and players.

The novelty of being in the PL had worn off after about 6 games.

 

Never want us to lose, and it's not like I would stop going because we were in the prem. I'd love to be in the Prem if we were competitive but still did things the way we do now (developing young talent), However, we both know that after a couple of games the clamour would be for us to be spending zillions on players, sacking the manager, etc.. I think I'm just an old reactionary now. I like things as they are. We have a great (local) coach, who tries to pay attacking football. I like that we defy the odds time & time again. I can feel an affinity building between the fans and the players again (a la Hourihane, Scowen, etc.). Actually think this lot will be better, given a couple of years.

 

Supporters shouldn't let the affinity build too much. If we get an offer for a player that turns the owner's head then they could be off in January.