Let it go

Do you

do you think then they deliberately sabotaged the club?
Surely it has to be they got it wrong or it was deliberate.

 

Not deliberately sabotaging but wilfully ignoring hoping Daniel was some kind of a magician!

 

So they made the wrong call then

 

I've yet to be convinced they want us in the highest league possible. Tbh I'm not sure they're really bothered at all, as long as they can sell.up for a profit. I dont think they have much interest in the club.

 

Fair enough

 

Erm, no I wouldn’t, not if we were tenth but that would’ve quite probably required a far wiser transfer strategy I’d imagine and not what they carelessly, nae recklessly actually did.

Yes, they made an overwhelmingly shocking call in the summer when they already had experience of one relegation from this division hence my initial point.

 

I think they haven’t the personal wealth that was initially made out they had to back up any successful English football ambitions just in case ‘not doing anything crazy’ wasn’t working, pure and simple. This and the international investment they initially crowed about to all and sundry that got many supporters, myself included, thinking these would be brighter days for Barnsley FC. Sadly, this was all smoke and mirrors, hence the scouting around Europe for hopeful bargains paid purely from the clubs transfer coffers.

I think we are a punt, a low-risk gamble, a little toe in the water purchase to see if doing things on the cheap could reap rich rewards in the English leagues and that’s it.

So far it’s definitely not working.

 

I don't think the owners have deliberately sabotaged the club - that's daft. Why would you buy something to watch it decrease value.

I think they arrogantly believed that we could survive with them just taking a few low risk punts to make money in future sales whilst doing it. Then in January they realised that we were in the brown stuff and slightly modified this. Perhaps if they had taken a more flexible approach pre season then we may be comfortably mid table - that is purely hearsay though.

I just hope they didn't leave it too late to save the season.

 

I think the dropped bollock was not sacking Stendel early enough. They should have given him the boot after the Brentford match.

 

So it’s not the strategy then it’s the recruitment?
If they’d let the same 4 go and bought different players with the same strategy and we ended up 10th you’d have been happy.

 

Exactly this.

 

Probably. After all, they kept in touch with Struber so he could have come straight in.

 

I don't think us fans will ever know what truly goes off behind closed doors.

 

Not with our current set up, I agree.

Edit: And without being facetious, you're probably correct whoever is in charge.

 

We didn't under last set-up either. Cryne was asked before the 16/17 season what would happen if Hourihane and Winnall wouldn't sign new contracts? They will be staying while the end of the season regardless. They were sold in January. Asked whether the club had offered them new contracts. The club haven't offered them new contracts because we didn't think they would sign them. When Hourihane left he said he offered Hourihane a new contract to be the best paid player in our history but was blown out of the water by Villa. What the same the contract that you didn't offer him? Curious situation.

 

I'd reply to that with a bunch of lies and half truths from the current owners, but there wouldn't be enough space in the text box.

Out of respect for them, sorry after taking legal advice, sorry because of my knee injury, sorry because I've failed a drugs test, I won't though.

 

We're only talking a week later so I dont see the difference it would have made really.

 

It felt much longer.