Who is bothered anymore?

And I think by being self sufficient, the worst that happens is, we have the occasional dip back into league 1. We won't go under and we won't plummet through the divisions. But we might struggle to be competitive at Championship level over an extensive period of time. Last season might have been a flash in the pan, where all the right circumstances fell into place with signings, managerial appointments and to a degree, rule changes (5 subs definitely helped).

The stadium is the big concern off the field, which only gets rectified if the club takes full ownership of it again in my opinion.

On the field, its another bad season, brought about by poor recruitment and managerial appointments which can be rectified, even if it means having another season at a level where we're the big fish.

 

Slightly hyperbolic there. I don’t own the club. The amount of money I put in 3 season tickets wouldn’t pay for an hour of Benson running round ineffectually. The days of fans funding clubs is long gone.

I will leave that job to the alleged billionaires who own us keeping the club going is their responsibility. They want to run it as a supermarket so I will treat them like one. No one blames me for Tesco’s finances when I go to Sainsbury’s.

we are no longer a football club. Success or failure is largely irrelevant no decisions are made purely on a sporting basis.

 

Just prior to administration we had nearly got promoted again invigorating play off final. John put too many eggs in the On Digital basket has did many others and we had a less forgiving bank than most. He did make some major errors signing Sharon on daft wages but don’t we all.

At the minute in terms of financial impact any of us could run the club as it’s self financing indeed the 80%take significant monies out.

 

Think that was what did us the failing on promotion, last year of parachutes bassett was on big wages had to flog higgy. In hindsight when wilson left we shouldn't have appointed hendrie.

And yes i agree with that but in this day and age to be a championship club you cant run it like they are and were going down with probably the lowest points total ive ever seen us accumulate in the championship due to their poor running of the club.

 

Agree that the appointment of Hendrie was poor and a real turning point for the club. That team was a top 3/4 team and he wasn’t able to manage it.

 

Yeah we had a great opportunity to bounce straighg back great player for us but too matey with the rest of the squad i think. Given chance Id swap dennis or cryne with the current bunch in a heartbeat obviously that can never happen.

 

It survived Peter Ridsdale, a man who was actively trying to kill it.

 

I know from John he was always keen to promote internally and reward those who had contributed which I get. On this occasion he was wrong. The internal candidate was Eric

 

Agree with that eric always did well when he was given the caretaker role. Could never understand why he was never given it on a permanent basis but maybe he didnt want it.

 

There was a period in my life (from 1976 to 1998) where the thought of missing a match at Oakwell was inconceivable. There was one season in 1985 where I'd met my wife to be and was spending my weekends in Manchester with her. That apart I was there rain or shine. There's no badge of honour for that. No "better fan" medal.
In 1998 when my marriage collapsed I realised that there are far more important things in life and I stopped thinking of being at every single game as non negotiable. From not long after that having a season ticket became impractical anyway due to location and work.
I'll always be bothered though. Every single person on this board is bothered or they wouldn't be on here posting in the first place. I have a rich hoard of memories of BFC around the club, my Dad, my mates that is intertwined in my life. I feel in a far better place now though where I don't let us losing on a Saturday ruin my week.
BFC doesn't owe me anything and I don't owe it. The club is, however always a part of my life but I'm quite happy that in seasons like this I can emotionally distance.
There is and there should be more to life than Barnsley Football Club and if people are currently feeling disenfranchised or distanced from the club or its owners and gain more enjoyment from doing other things then it's their prerogative. If I were the owners I'd be worried about the trend of thoughts and attitudes on this board as a representation of the fans' feelings.

 

Great post, summed up a lot of my feeling, for me the passion just slowly died it actually probably finally ended in actually attending match other than on the odd occasion and only usually for social reasons like meeting up with old mates etc. Of all places at Wembley when we beat Oxford, only way I can explain it is... I come to the end of the journey, I'd experience everything we could feasibly archive, I'd been lucky in my eyes I'd seen things many before me could only dream off my grandad included, promotions, Wembley visits in play offs, the millennium stadium win, and the joys of the premier league, so to see us lift a cup at Wembley sort of drew it to a close, the only thing I truly am sad I didn't experience was / is actually winning a League title, that's one of my greatest wishes to be in the Ponty with Queens we are the champions blasting over the PA system while the captain lifts the cup in the centre of the pitch.

 

Well I'm sorry that Im not as good a fan as some others in this thread but I'm not bothered anymore. Its a shame because I used to follow the team everywhere, turn up in the wind and rain, watch the team at the bottom end of L4 and generally incorporate BFC into my day to day life. There was a connection for me and therefore I was bothered. I used to be very bothered in fact. Now, because of these speculative capitalists the club isn't the same. As someone posted earlier it has no soul. Its a shell of what it once was and quite simply I don't feel part of it anymore. I'm completely disillusioned with the whole situation and the whole situation is created by the 80% mob. The club is toxic.
I would like to think I will recapture my 'botheredness' at some time in the future but I think that will only come when these charlatans have gone and genuine custodians step in to take their place (hopefully). So, at the moment I am not bothered and I reserve the right to come on here and moan as much as I like about it. That's what this forum is for, for fans to come and moan as much as they like. I'll probably moan again at some point simply because I'm not really happy that Im not bothered anymore. Part of my life has been ruined by these owners.

 

In a word


Meh.