Amateurish running of a professional club

As the club staggers towards the trap door with in inevitability of a drunken sailor in a hurricane its time to ask some questions about the professional running of the club. We seem to have been taken over by a flash young executive with all the glib words of a man who can always tell you the precise reason why he and the enterprise have failed. We have played much of the season with a disjointed management team, and a bunch of players who clearly do not want to be here.
There has been no attempt to build the reputation of the club and we have stuffed the pockets of players who clearly believe that they were made for better things and are doing us a favour by taking our money and turning up. A necessary management change was half made mid season with a manager with new ideas being bound to a back room staff completely wedded to the old ones. Predictably the horses harnessed to opposite ends of the plough pulled in different directions.
Leadership is not about pleasing everyone, it''s not about keeping the club running smoothly on its way to inevitable disaster, it is about having a strategy and actions to achieve that strategy. "I gave the manager what he asked for" will not suffice. where is the judgement? Where is the strategy? Where is the discipline?
We appear to be moving towards relegation, we the fans do not deserve that, we have been loyal and committed. The executive team, now espousing the repeal of FFP, having made us live within it, to the obvious dissatisfaction of our intended signing, they deserve relegation and I trust that when it comes, they will do the honourable things and resign and leave without pay-off, reference, or opportunity to do it to another club.
By the way, this does not absolve Wilson, Flitcroft, Mellon, or the players, all have taken the money and very few have delivered. If this post is perceived as being angry and vitriolic, that is absolutely right. After the last three abject performances in the face the ultimate consequence we al, have a right to be angry. Thank you for reading this.

 

You should post more often.

Sums up my feelings.

 

Agree totally.

What have Watkins and Mansford actually done for us since they took over?

 

A worse job than Don Rowing?

 

Is that your yardstick?



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The roads. Plumbing. Law and order....

 

????????? - Tha'll have to explain that one, t'owd cocker. Gone straight ovver mi 'ead.

 

To me this season has simply encapsulated the last eight years since gaining promotion. We've bobbed along chopping and changing things trying to keep our head above water, with vague aims of progression but few tangible targets and absolutely zero proper mid to long-term planning. The end game has always been a scramble to survive (Robins' season aside), aided by loan signings. I don't wish to have a go at anyone inparticular who has ran the club during this time as it is blatently obvious the club has limitations on it's prospects, but as the OP says, we've seen so little professionalism from the 'board' it's no wonder BFC have failed to establish themselves at this level. We've had eight seasons in the Championship and the odd gimmick aside, the club has failed to grow on or off the field. Very few commercial ventures have been thought up, fewer pursued and fewer still capitalised on. Everyone knows we are skint and totally reliant on our benefactor. No one is expecting a play-off push. But the club desperately needs some kind of vision/plan that extends beyond hoping to finish fourth from bottom come May. Unfortunately it appears we will have to implement that plan in League One.

 

Life Of Brian, "What have the Romans ever done for us?"
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Not a Python fan then? "But what have the Romans ever done for us....."

 

Mpfc.

 

No mate, Monty Python is a bit before my time.

 

They are still around and about to make zillions more from some concerts in London. Big mistake I think, but you can't blame them for exploiting the demand

 

Perhaps you would like to draft the framework of a strategic plan. One that can be added to by all who post on here. When the plan is complete and we have all agreed it, we can send it to the club with an undertaking that no matter what, if the club adhere's to the plan, we will all stand behind it, and back it financially through the purchase of season tickets etc. That seems a good idea, doesn't it. The club and its patient fans pulling in the same direction for the good of the club, over the long term.

Shall I tell you what would happen, in spite of the above long term plan, in spite of the promises of the fans. If the club went through a bad patch, the fans would desert the club they profess to support citing some excuse that would be valid if only the promises had not been given. You see no matter how strongly we all profess our loyalty during the good times, for most, that promise will not stand the test of the bad times.

Many times I have read criticism of the players on here. They do not care, they have no spine, they are just not good enough. Then I read that individuals on here will not be going again this season, that they will not be buying a season ticket if the team goes down, that they left the game with 30 minutes left to play. The irony is lost upon them and I think that those posters have the team that they deserve. It is easy to support when the team is winning. The fans are only tested when the team is losing and currently many on here are failing that test.

But go on criticising, go on blaming someone else be it the team manager, the owner, the club management, the players. Because it is always someone else's fault. It is never the supporters, it is never the lapsed or absent supporters and it is never that the town just does not want second tier football badly enough to come out and support its football club financially. The real reason that the club is headed down is because it cannot compete financially in the second tier. If we do not go down this season, then we will go down the next because we cannot afford to pay the wages of the type of player that would keep us up. It is as plain as the nose on my face, and yet it is ignored by almost all.

 

Its as plain as the nose on my face that we can't compete because other clubs lose more a year than our entire budget.

Should ffp be as it reads then we would imo compete.

But that is another blue sky thinking load of ***** that will never be upheld

 

Red Rain, sorry but I disagree with you.

I have watched BFC since mid 1970s, so have seen us lose, win, draw, get relegated, get promoted, go on cup runs, get knocked out of cup early, etc. etc.
Fact of the matter is, I see absolutely nothing that tells me BFC have a strategic plan.

Any good business has a short-term plan (1 year) and a longer term plan (3 or 5 years depending upon what business you are in). At BFC, our plan looks to be based on who we are playing the next game.

Its just poor from top to bottom of the club, management, Board and players. Ive said before, our leadership does not exist, we are rudderless and drifting along in the wind.

Thats the reason why I'm giving it a rest, because i see zero signs of strategy. Let me give you an example of how our CEO Ben Mansford is "leading" this club.......club badge project......what an absolute joke.

 

Yerrr. What happened to the club badge project, anyways . . . ?

 

It seems to me that the strategy is as follows:
1: win the support of the community, excite the public with possibilities and publicise locally whenever and where ever you can, work with schools and set up a volunteer programme to champion the reds. Excite businesses and business men to invest, show them what it's like to be a VIP at a championship ground every other week.
2: Project that image of a world class, winning club that has the community at the centre of it's values and show that it does everything with professionalism and efficiency.
3: Invest heavily in community sport, developing young talent in football, but also in other sports, we haven't had an olympic gold since Dorothy Hyman
4: invest in coaching, medical and development talent.
5: Invest heavily on the pitch.
Outcome objectives:
1: Fill the ground
2: Finish higher than the previous season every year.
3: Make sure that everyone who says they are a Barnsley fan has a season ticket and a shirt.

Back of a *** packet, or did i find it in Barcelona?

 

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