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you could say the same about crack.

 

I’m sure Gally is fending them off.
Is it still locked down to new members?

 

My daughter worked for Poundland and they weren't bad to work for either, not perfect but definitely not tinpot.

 

Agreed, I've never ever bought a lottery ticket for that very reason. It's the exact opposite of the Robin Hood principle, as you point out.

 

At Oakwell on Saturday and for the first time in ages, it felt like we were getting back to being a normal club again. Obviously, things aren't perfect and the team isn't where it needs to be, but there seems to be an acceptance from most that it will take time to undo much of the damage Conway caused.
While lacking quality, the performance had the organisation and effort that both Duff and fans expect as a minimum and that has been missing for so long.
The annoying thing about this whole sponsorship farce is that it's another off-field thing that will put the club in a bad light when it's still trying to rebuild bridges with the fans.
As others have put, the club's social media is being flooded by bots /Hexicans who are throwing insults at the club and any supporter who dare question it.
The whole thing seems ill-thought out by the club and I can't see it changing into a positive for Barnsley unless the club act now to cancel it

 

Probably a three year deal that we can't get out of. That and the oversized logo, may as well have put Obbi Oulare's name on the front of the shirt.

 

Surprised JAQ hasn't responded yet to the negative feedback as she's been more than made aware of it. She's done a tweet about the shorts sponsor and the replies are about Hex. It can't keep being ignored.

 

I knew this would put a Hex on us.

 

It's a hex of doom.

 

Is that the way you'd want the CEO of a company to respond Ben? He sounds more childish than my young un!

 

The sad thing is I came away from Oakwell on Saturday feeling better about MY CLUB than I've felt for ages. Then I start to read all the comments on Twitter and here about the new sponsors and bang back to feeling like our club is run by a set of complete morons who see nothing but money. This is just the latest in a long line of incompetent decisions that they've taken and will no doubt be a PR disaster of the highest order and I'm guessing from the responses from these Hex characters any attempt to get out of the deal will be very messy end up in court and be ruinous for the club. I see some are blaming the CEO alone but I"m guessing this would have to be sanctioned by the board so they are all at fault. It's a mess yet another mess.

 

At least some money goes into supporting some sports and cultural events.

 

It's not just the CEO the board will have ok"d the deal and we have a board made up of people who are supposed to be successful business people running hedge funds and the like yet they appear once again to have walked the club straight into a disaster unfortunately it looks like a case of new board same as the old board just with different names.

 

This is a bl00dy awful quandary.

On the one hand, a sponsor of questionable morals / principles / methodology. On the other hand, sales could go through the roof with all these weird 'Hexicans' on Social Media clamouring to buy a shirt.

 

Incredible. Devil's in the detail.... $10,000,00 isn't an actual, correctly formatted number???

And so much for being a community club. Is Mr Heart going to sneer at families of our supporters for their lack of conspicuous wealth on their wrists when he's invited to watch a match?

If he tried pulling that in Courthouse on a Saturday afternoon I think he'd soon be encouraged to mend his behaviour and wouldn't be quite the confident chap he is on the internet.

 

Will the board have authorised it or rubber stamped it? If you've got a CEO on around 250k a year, you'd think his level of responsibility would stretch to authorising a sponsorship deal and therefore checking it over first.