But that's your opinion. What your statement said was that nobody was suggesting replacements - which they are. Just because you don't fancy them doesn't mean there's none out there.
We won't break the cycle of having a L1 mentality so why would we be favourites to go back up under Hill? It will only get worse if we go down.
Five more games is too many; if we're going to make a change we may as well do it now rather than after dropping another fifteen points. I hope I'm wrong but it feels like we're dead in the water.
And why does the ground have L1 written all over it Your position is a perfect example of the club having given up.
It's quite simple. Hill doesn't beat wendies he empties out his desk on Saturday evening and goes. All this talk about being brave and if we go down well be in a position to come straight back up is fanciful. We go down well be staying down for a long time under the current regime.
Re: We've got to break the cycle of changing manager every other season Soz but thats ******. It seems the Oakwell PR machine has done a job on you big time. The club is where it is as a result of hills appointment not because of a natural progression. If you keep saying that we are punching above our weight then sooner or later everyone connected with the club begins to believe it. I don't subscribe to this ***** unfortunately. The calibre of loanees just brought in shows we have the means just that hill blindly fails to address our weakest area in defence. This will cost him his job and sooner rather than later so a manager with some sort of clue about football and defending can come in and hopefully keep us up.
Still think he needs til the end of the season. Millwall were in the bottom 4 with us right up until end of March. Now look at 'em. But if we sell Davies/Steele we're screwed.
The thing is he did have the team playing well and winning games with a bare bones squad due to injuries. We also played well and lost against some of the top teams and people were generally of the view this was a good sign. This culminated in the Brum performance was one of the better ones for many a season. We had a few more injuries, then players came back and this seemed to co-inside with a loss of form from which we have not really recovered. Recently it seems to have been a whole series of individual errors that are costing us points, and then yesterday we got a hammering with only Steele keeping the scoreline down. Maybe this is the bottom of the slump, the test of KH is whether he can motivate the players and get them thinking positively. This is as much about man management as it is tactics and whether the players believe in what he has sold them as an idea of how he wants the team to play. I think he deserves until the New Year before we really talk about changing the manager. What worries me again is that we end up on the merry-go-round and hire someone who has to deal with a large squad of players he either doesnt rate. We have no money to buy, so we're looking at more uncertainty.
Re: We've got to break the cycle of changing manager every other season That (East Fife Tyke is the biggest load of ballaaaxxx that i've heard on here for at least a week... which is an impressive pair of nads) No one is running Barnsley FC as some sort of loss making tax haven. I guess you haven't been down the well or walked round tarn & seen how little cash is abart.
Re: We've got to break the cycle of changing manager every other season Give up, if we were top of the league or in the prem folk find the cash. Nubdi had any money in 97 either, there's been no money in barnsley since the pits shut in 83. Are you Sydney in disguise?
Re: We've got to break the cycle of changing manager every other season Agree with every word. We sack him, we start again. We're continually taking steps backwards - the key to the teams we talk about emulating (Swansea, Millwall & Palace are being spouted around) is consistency and selling players at the right time. Swansea have had a number of gaffers, never sacked one (Martinez to Wigan, Sousa to Leicester, Rodgers to Liverpool) and all had the same philosophy. They signed players, developed into their style and then sold at a profit. They had a strategy and backing at the top. We need to have some bottle, stick with Hill and back the boards strategy and vision. They need to help themselves too and Keith needs to stop making the mistakes he has and we'll be fine - in the long run. We can keep sacking managers, spending money we haven't got in January and then be in the same position 18 months later or we can ride out the poor form and see what happens. One last thing - I've looked at the teams we've played in the last two months. The only ones that I would expect any points against were Charlton, Peterborough & Burnley. All the rest were/are flying, January/February are the key months.
Re: We've got to break the cycle of changing manager every other season I would love consistency but your philosphy falls flat on it'sn face on "Keith needs to stop making the mistakes he has and we'll be fine - in the long run" Hill has made, and continues to make too many mistakes ie. McNulty/Wiseman, no wide players, not addressing centre half situation, treatment/ignorance of Hassell, posession-with-****-all-at-the-end-of-it-tactics, talking bo!!ocks on interviews, ocassional dig at the fans, etc.