No i didn't. I dont think we are playing terrible football either. I cant explain why exactly i feel less motivated to go and watch but this last few games the disappointment has lingered. I dont think its about a relegation, a bad performance or that we are bad to watch. Its interesting though that you mention what people thought of the last relegation and strange how we seem to be in the same position yet again. Maybe we didn't learn. Its a general motivation and having messed about to make it to games, like i said in prior posts I've started thinking is it worth it. Maybe the 40 years have worn me down. On the other hand i might be there on Wed back up for it. Lets see if im feeling sorry for myself or i genuinely have lost the mojo. Perhaps know better at 5pm on Wed.
I agree with this and i don't have a big issue with the players that we sold. We did however sell goals and some championship experience that we dont appear to have readily replaced. I also agree that experience doesn't necessarily reflect through a players age. I think someone said on talk sport that we dont have anyone that can manage a game. We could last year at that level. Stendel talked in his interview about similar things. Time may prove that we have the talent and it needs nurturing and developing. Will the Championship grant us that time?
Yes mate thats how supporting Barnsley is for me right now. The good news there are lots of other things thats note so might have to just shift the balance.
Depressing, i've bin depressed nar since 1975, but its in mi blood and i'm hoping the next 44yrs are gunna be as depressing. C.O.Y.Depressing, R.
I'm off to see King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard on Wednesday. Tickets booked long before the fixture list came out to see them at the O2 Academy in Leeds. I've a feeling I'll have a better night than at Oakwell, but I truly hope than on checking my phone multiple times during the gig, that we get that much needed win & 3 points.
My two sons both said that they are not bothered to go Wednesday night too wet cold and boring not seeing us score and the atmosphere quiet. I'll be there because that's what we do but kids have other interests.
For me, it's all about momentum. Not the team's. Mine. With international breaks and stupid bloody Sunday lunchtime fixtures, I just haven't felt like the season has really got going yet. It all seems a bit stop-start and it's left me feeling strangely detached. I was hoping these two back to back home games might rekindle some fire, and I was really looking forward to the Brentford game. Unfortunately a combination of miserable weather (made worse by the extra walk round the flipping interchange) and awful football has done nothing to lift my spirits. Still, by the time it's Wednesday night, I'm sure I'll be back to my pathetically optimistic self. No matter how bad it gets, a choice between visiting Oakwell or staying at home is really no choice at all.
D’ya know what Neil I feel exactly the same, I also can’t explain why but I no longer look forward to games, I’ve definitely lost the passion, it’s even got to the stage where I’m now “meh” when we lose,
of course they will. they will be massively bothered, if they thought everyone in the same frame of mind, wasn't getting an ST next season
It's sad to read this but only because it mirrors my own views too. The only reason I went on Sunday was because the lad I go with would have had to have watched the match on his own and I'd have felt bad about that. If he'd been away on holiday I'd have watched from home in a heartbeat and I'd have probably turned the TV off and done something else. We all have our ideas of what we want our "matchday experience" to be. I have a young family and care for a disabled elderly relative. The matches are a couple of hours of my own time to switch off and hopefully enjoy a game. I had an East Stand car park pass and could leave home at 2:30pm and make kick off, leave when the board goes up for extra time (yes heresy I know) and be home for 5:30pm. That was good for me, it worked and I enjoyed it. Since losing that pass for the fan zone I have to set off an hour and a half before kick off to get parked somewhere (usually disabled riding school) - then hang around the ground doing nowt till kick off. By the time I've walked back to the car I'm stuck in traffic and the matches in between time aren't exactly glowing are they. It was 5.5 hours on Sunday to watch a team give up. That's a whole other thread but I think it hurts so much this time as it's just another incarnation of the same cycle we've been through before - which gives no cause for optimism at all. Essentially, I want a 90 minute football match to be part of my day rather than my whole day and the combination of all the extra d*cking around and the pedestrian submissive football just has me a bit ... meh ... already. I will probably be like you and take a look out the window and decide if today's the day I can be arsed with it all or not. Looking at this thread there's an awful lot seem to feel the same. Such a shame.
Me too Roy. I sincerely hope the owners read this thread and digest it. I believe at least one of them posts on here, and if I were him/her I'd be horrified and devastated to read a thread like this. It would result in an emergency board meeting to decide what to change.
‘Operating within our means’. That statement has to be gauged against our last 15 years - when on and off the field we neither went forward, backwards or sideways. And hence some (many?) of the people that sat in the West Stand Lower season after season no longer attend matches. We haven’t built anything in 15 years. And now we start to build - but it’s a building process that could take up to another 3 years before it shows any benefits.
It has to be said this thread isn't made up of "flouncers", quite the opposite. We're all trying to stay positive in the main, but if these kind of posters feel like this, it isn't great for the "plan". It is not to say we expect megabucks to be spent, it is just about how money is spent & looking at the much vaunted "match day experience".
Fairy Nuff Helen, but I just feel so sad about what is happening, and I hope they can at least make some tweaks. It's demoralising when I see young kids excitedly getting autographs and selfies with their heroes, only to find that 12 months later they're no longer here. "Time for new heroes" sounded good at the time, but I'm getting fed up of it now.
I do get what you're saying but that seems to be football nowadays. Footballers dont stay long at a club unless it's a top side and not even then!
