Everyone has been loving Barnsley's long term planning and self sufficient model this past year. In my opinion there was never a long term plan for Success and we were never self sufficient. We had one f the highest average attendances last season, won a cup, got promoted and had two big pay days at Wembley yet apparently we still lost money. Where the hell is that money going? How can we be losing money all over the place? It's not like we have been spending vast sums on the stadium or on improving things from the supporters. Where can it be going? I mean we are told that our players are on peanuts. If you can have a season like we did last season and still lose money you are NOT self sufficient. Next is the long term planning for success. What a total fallacy that is. We had a long term plan alright but that plan centred on us maintaining our position of underperforming in league one. Buy cheap sell for profit and continue. The board simply can't have planned for any kind of success because as soon as we have got it they have absolutely crapped themselves and panicked. Our long term plan was for league 1, it wasn't for the championship. This is proven by us not having any plan for promotion. No plan for players wages should we get promoted, no plan for how to keep our assets. No plan for how to ensure that our assets could be sold for maximum profit. Surely if we planned for success then the players would have had clauses in their contracts that planned for success. Promoted and hourihanes wages go up. Sign a contract extension which only activates if we are in the championship etc. If we had any plans for success then contingencies would be in place. Even looking at the boardroom itself what long term planning was there? An owner who maintains he wants out, a part time token chairman who splits his time between us and over a dozen other organisations and Barry Taylor who despite Patrick crynes claims to the contrary is an absolute disgrace I how little he adds to Barnsley football club. He has been on failed board after failed board, has been inside football for more years than I care to remember but where is he stepping up? Why hasn't he assumed the CEO position? What the **** does he bring the the table? Because for all his experience the bard with him on it seems to make mistake after mistake after mistake. And don't get me started on putting the commercial guy in charge for the club
Good post. I've been saying myself that we've been planning for failure. Hence the reason we have 6 of the first choice players having a contract with only 6 months left on it.
The money is going on loan fees, agent fees, and wages, how many players do we use each season because we never buy a full squad of our players, and we are reliant on loans all the time, then another loan to replace the previous loan that's gone back, every time you sign a player you've got to throw back handlers to all the hangers on.
I don't know how the Rochdales, Southends and Colchesters survive if we are making a loss on the gates we get.
How many loan players have we had in last 18 months? It's got to be 25/30 if not even more they'll have cost millions in wages, loan fees, and agent fees.
Erm so when I said that we had no long term planning and we're haemorrhaging money I was wrong because you say we were spending vast sums on short term loans? That's the same thing...
The club has been mismanaged for 10 years, the last 12 months have been a blip in this mismanagement, all we are doing is returning to form. How stupid of me to think things had changed, we're a joke, no one is running the club, letting players contracts run out, and selling assets for under market value, what a joke, no wonder players want out. I'm proper gutted about this by the way, no amount of spin and happy clapping can deny this mismanagement.
A very good post indeed (IMHO). Raises a lot of very valid questions. We need answers ASAP as I'm starting to get a very bad feeling in mi' waters.....
Brilliant post, think you've hit a lot of nails on a lot of heads and I get the impression you and I know the answers to a lot of those questions but actually saying it on here would be blasphemous
Depends what you class as success. You and me night think it's getting into the prem, but the club may see staying in the championship year on year is successful, or bringing through and selling on a specific quota of players each season. The club could see this window as a success? Who knows? One things for sure, they'll successfully shrink the fanbase the way they're shaping. Sent from my SM-G850F using Tapatalk
