Not sure if it's been posted but did Marc want to stay??

Whether I am or I'm not I'm not about to chuck my dummy out and start saying I'm not buying a season ticket.

You're either a supporter or you're not.

 

I think you've got the wrong end of the stick. I'm right behind us being a selling club. I think the club is wonderful at developing talent. I also think the greedy people at the top see a player get valued at a couple of million and their heads explode so they don't bother reinvesting in new contracts to potentially head up the league and get even more value from the player. There's no point being a selling club if you're bad at business. Selling Hourihane on a proper length contract would have bank rolled the club for years.

 

He is an excellent defender, but his one major weakness is that he overhits long balls forward. Got that reason he is not one of our greatest centre halves, and I with his age, I understand why the club accepted the offer.

 

We didn't really start getting away with it in League 1 until December. If we're lucky, Lindsay and Pinnock will hit the ground running, and gel with each other / Gus straight away. But that really is a best case scenario. The defence is probably the part of any team which takes longest to gel, especially if there's no wily old pro to help organise the younger lads. I've already mentioned it in another post, but I really believe that a Darren Moore type in terms of experience should be signed, even if he doesn't play every game. I reckon we'll need that sort of steadying influence next season.

 

A consistent self destructive transfer policy ruining heckys plans and teams he's built over and over again. If you're really proud to throw money at that again that's your business.

 

Indeed, but I'd be amazed if the club didn't even talk about extending his deal. Like I mentioned, even if it's just an extra year to maximise his transfer value, then it would've been worth it.

 

We would have to pay probably more than Roberts would have wanted in wages for that so it won't happen.

 

That was exactly what I thought. Strange.

 

There's a little bit of a difference between selling an occasional star player to get by as we have always done and selling your whole team.

It's not same as it ever was. It's a fire sale. Can you name any point in our history where we have sold/lost/misplaced so many players in such a short time other than WW1 and WW2? What other Championship club has sold it's entire first team in the last year.

It's disingenuous in the extreme to say theirs is just business as usual. Player sales should be about stabilising and moving forward. You can't build anything on sinking sand.

I'm also not bothering with a season ticket. I support a club not a business. I will still go to some matches mainly away ones because they are more fun.

There are other options. Not sure that Huddersfield spent too big last season...




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I think it's very likely we've been burned by January so have sold Roberts when he has a higher value

As for contracts, whether we offered one or not, surely if we were to offer £5000 a week and knew Birmingham would offer £15,000+, Robbo would always go

 

I'm a Barnsley supporter, I've seen all sorts since my first match in 1979.

I still kept throwing money at it, cos I'm a Barnsley supporter.

I might not like it and I'll say if I don't like it, but I'm not one for spitting out my dummy and saying stupid things.

 

Bye then.

 

Bye.


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That's the only reason I can see for having let him go - Marc and Gus are very similar, and it might be that the idea is to get a ball player next to one old skool centre half. As I mentioned in another post, this could have a very positive impact on the whole dynamic of the team, but it's quite a risky strategy. If come October we've been shipping 2 goals a game and more, it's going to look like a massive miscalculation.

 

But what is it you're supporting? You can't get attached to any player now and that is a big part of it for me.

It's ok talking about "New Heroes", but they are transient at best.

Better to support a position rather than a name. Next season my favourite position is going to be left wing or defensive midfielder

 

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My grandad supported Barnsley for 50 years and never owned a season ticket.

I probably missed 20 games from 1977 to 1992 but never had a season ticket. Did that make me not a fan.

Some people are absolute idiots who canny appreciate that people are allowed different views.


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I support the club.

All Barnsley players move on.

 

You've just made the big deal out of not getting a season ticket, not me.

Seems like you were never getting one any way, every one who wants one has renewed by now.

Basically that was a paper tiger, roooowl, look at me, I'm not going to get the season ticket I was never going to get anyway.

 

You made a big deal of it mate mine was a throw away remark. My decision was nowt to do with Marc Roberts.

You are intolerant of people with different views to you. I feel sorry for you really.


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