Are the board letting the club down?

Are prices to high? Should hill be sacked? Should don step aside and let the club move forward with a fresh marketing campaign?

I ask these questions because whatever has been tried the crowds are dwindling and result aren't improving. I'd love to see hill turn it around but I just can't see it! I think he was lucky with Vaz te and we already had butterfield after they went last January its been dire and I think he's way out of his depth and drowning. The sad thing is he's taking our club with him. People want him to stay because he's doing a good job with the club as a whole from youth right through to the first team. Why would we want our younger players training to play like the first team? We can't score or defend! We will lose 6 million next year if we go down and as we're only breaking even at this level where do we go then? Cheaper players on less money and lower crowds? I can see us going from established championship team to league 2 in 2 or 3 seasons and its frightening to think.

After sitting and having a think before I put anything on straight after last night these are a few thoughts and opinions that I have come up with. I don't know if you agree or not but whatever your opinion is these are worrying times for our club.

 

Yes, pointless, pointless.

 

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My answers to your three questions!

 

I was wondering wether you would like to elaborate why?

 

The so called board aren't a board at all they and when I say they I mean The Don , are there to follow instructions from the owner

Without change at the top it's pointless sacking Hill or Don

 

What board?

The directors box is almost as desolate as the oakwell terraces

 

So the future of our club hinges on a takeover that some on here are against?

 

Desperate for it to happen

 

Me too the club needs it to move forward. We've gone from standing still to going backwards at an alarming rate and if we don't address it soon it will be to late!

 

agree in principal. but not at any cost think you'll agree to that

 

Yes, yes they are! It seems the owners chalked fook to it as well. I really hope there's a hidden syndicate coming in sharpish but can't see it after Barry Taylor's tony the barber gate scandal.

 

Scot free too

 

Of course not at all costs but we need something to happen soon before its to late.

 

Unless something is happening now then it already is too late. As a club we are significantly more attractive to a potential buyer than we will be in league one. There is no strategy or vision at the club and that is why since coming up we've made no progress.

 

Wrong, wrong, wrong. You and others might not like the strategy, but whether we are bought out or not it makes sense to make sure that we are not running in debt. Many other clubs in the division are not only doing better with significantly larger fanbase, but they are also spending over and above themselves. Sadly this does mean limited resources, limited wages and limited money for transfers - hey even wages for a manager(!) but that Cryne has done will at some point in the future be recognised by all fans as being a very important part of this clubs history. From the guarded safety of a computer keyboard it's all too easy to pontificate about what should be done and how easy and obvious the solutions are, but at the pit face it's entirely different. That's not to say we can't do better, not to say Hill is the right person, but those wanting him out see it as an easy solution, when in fact it's not given the constraints we are operating under.

 

I do think people forget where the club is now from when Cryne bought it, We've gone up a division, had 6 seasons in a row in this league when many on here have said at the start of each we are going down, and have moved to a point where we are breaking even. That is not to say I have significant criticisms of the way the club is run within that but the fundamentals are sound and many, many clubs would give their right arms to be run in that manner.

And as I said yesterday, what people actually mean when they talk about investment is someone to underwrite spending beyond our means.

 

No, I don't mean that. I mean ideas and actions that would increase our means.

 

Favourties to go down every year with the bookies since we came back up - that's quite an achievement in a league that has gone significantly stronger in the past few years due to a variety of club being promoted and then relegated back into the division with massive pots of money and parachute payments.

And hopefully care enough about the club not to leave us in the lurch if it all goes tits up.

 

Its also too easy as a fan to see the general malase and lack of vision fron the club as well and just chalk fook to it until such a time as the folk running the club show a modicum of ambition and publicise this the the fans.
If they, the folk at the top, cannot be arsed to attempt staying in this division then i cannot be arsed to spend my hard earned watching hills tripe brand of footy and i suspect theres several thousand more feeling just like me.
I've followed them since i was 8 and im nearly 41 now and i cannot recall being this disenchanted about BFC for such a prolonged time since last January.