Haven't posted in ages but...

I have to get this off my chest somewhere.

Watching another season end with us like this and Wednesday celebrating is awful.

The club is rotten to the core, absolutely amateurish, run like a charity. Every year the same thing - anything half decent, sold. Not even for a great deal of money. But off they go. We never, ever build forward. We start every year with a new manager and we have to construct something hastily in the ashes of whatever didn't get flogged off in the window.

We buy lottery ticket players. Scratch cards that we hope will be much better than their cost. We hope that by the end of the season we'll sell them for a profit.

Nobody cares about building a side that keeps players together, builds momentum from one season to the next, or gradually becomes more likely to succeed at a higher level. We throw it all together at the start of another season and we hope for some success in the playoffs.

To start this season having sold two quality centre-halves, and replaced them with nothing like, and then hope for the best is ridiculous. We've got a three man defence made out of garbage. We concede 2 or 3 goals per game and expect to win? We can score three and not win.

Nobody within the club is animated or angry about the situation at all. They sacked a manager that needed sacking - but there was no contingency planning. They didn't do it with a replacement lined up. I love Martin Devaney - wonderful memories of him as a player - but he's not got a clue about what to do and it's not his fault.

It is sickening being a Barnsley fan. Next year half the first team are out of contract or going back to their clubs because their loan deals are over. How are they going to care about what happens against Bolton? What are we going to be left with as a consequence.

This business plan is taking up down the toilet. It costs money and investment to maintain and build a football club. This board of directors have failed. This club is on the slide. We cannot continue to exist one season to the next. This is a huge lesson in how it is not done.

 

Very well put

 

Yawn……
We have a newly appointed CEO and Director of Football. That suggests to me an intent to improve the current situation. Let’s at least give them a chance.

 

You’ve said it better than I ever could. Great post.

 

And what is said here are exactly the issues the new CEO and DOF should be addressing and doing it with appropriate publicity to ensure that both fans and players have a sense of confidence as to the vision and direction of travel for the club in both the medium and the long term. Conor Chaplin syndrome is too prevalent amongst the players and may even tarnish our attempts to recruit suitable players in the close season too

 

Beat me too it. Was just about to put, what has this so called new CEO and DOF done of note? Couple of cheap punts with no experience to match our player recruitment I bet.

 

Couldn’t you have just replied to another thread with this? You’re not saying anything new, just making those that arent as easily upset feel more surrounded.

 

And perhaps they will, but it will need patience. There's absolutely no point in underlining what commitments or strategies we have, because undoubtedly they would have changed somewhat significantly depending on what league we would finish in.

I also think it's unfair saying we don't get decent money for our players and they're off straight away - this hasn't been true under the new board. Coventry tried & tried for Kitching, and we didn't accept until we got fantastic money for him. Almost double they initially offered. It's been an issue for years but since they've took the reigns since the start of last season, it seemingly has been rectified, and long may it continue.

Claiming nobody within the club 'cares' about building a side or whatever, is just daft in my opinion. But even so, it will take time to see if we will under this leadership, which I assume will link with my previous paragraph about what fees we receive. Even if they cared for the 'wrong' reasons, i.e just to get promoted and actually make a profit personally for them (it'll take time after how many millions they've pumped in), it's still mutually beneficial.

I get the frustrations and I agree with a lot of previous posts. But this board almost got it spon on last year when they took over. Duff, Connell, Norwood, Thomas, Cadden and so on. Had it not been for a dodgy ref at wembley this might be a completely different board now. Unfortunately though, this year has been tougher, despite still achieving our goal of getting to the playoffs. We just don't have the Premier league/top 6 championship quality defenders & goalkeeper we did last year and I think it's proven to be a lot worse than the board realised - but as mentioned above, there's people in positions now, not 1 bloke doing everything on the football side and the financial side. Hopefully, they'll learn.

Everybody is tarring this current board with the same brush as Conway & Lee, and I get why. But if we are to succeed, I think we all need to pull in the same direction, and unfortunately, I think that's miles away from happening at the minute.

They've made a lot of mistakes this season after getting a lot of decisions correct last season, and now they need to show us they can correct those mistakes and get us all back on side.

 

We as fans need to change their philosophy, their plan has had some success. We need them to think about our club as we do, we need experience, young hungry talent on loan to blend with their stats’s signings. We want passion and entertainment not concentrating on profit, that comes hand in hand with success.
Currently we don’t seem to see players as part of our journey but as profit or discard.

 

The issue here TTTF is that the OP to whom you've replied won't see the absolute sense of your argument.
Forgive my naivety but how the hell can anyone come to tbe conclusion that the Club is rotten to the core? It beggars belief.
I'm trying to resist temptation by not posting on here. However, I've failed.
I'm posting because I'm really urging all the ne'er sayers to understand that we win some and we lose some. That's football.
Rotten to the core my ******* arse.

 

I think we need to be more even handed with criticism. We all knew the team we were going with at the start of the season, and most had low expectations.

Despite everything, we won 21 games and were in touching distance of the top 2. Very little mention of the board for most of that time, but the football wasn’t to peoples liking so Collins got the flack.

With Collins gone, it’s back to the board and if it wasn’t them, it would be something else. It’s always been thus. Some just handle disappointment really badly, even when they expected it to be **** in the first place.

 

Listen up.
If its sickening being a Barnsley fan then don't be a Barnsley fan. Just stop. Desist.
Really. If its making you feel sick then do something else in your spare time that doesn't make you feel sick.
Do something else with your time.
Go shopping or go to to Swillsbro.
Try thinking about how you could spend your time doing things that dont make you feel sick.
Youll be a happier human being finding that thing. Let us know when youve found it and we can then all relax.
If you really think that "this is a huge lesson in how it's not done", then please respond and tell us how you think it should be done.
Share your knowledge
Jesus Christ!!

 

"Yawn" how long you going to keep yawning yer gret pilerrrk, everything posted above is bang on the the money, wake the **** up.........sithi.

 

I’m not sure about this narrative that everything is terrible and we should pack in. We were in the playoffs last year. We’ve finished the playoffs this year. We’re going to lose probably but this “managed decline” narrative seems bonkers.

I dread to think how our fans would react if we were Charlton. Also look at Portsmouth and see how long they were in this league. But of course we should be promoted straight away.

 

Champion standard defense swapped for a kid from ponte colliers, a kid from the French non league plus a a defender from the arse end of the national leugue and a centre back who couldn't get in a ******* awful Rovrum team plus we fcucked off a championship standard keeper for a bench warmer at best from Luton then then another bench warmer if he's from lucky from Boro'.......sithi.

 

It’s one for the conspiracy theorists amongst us.
Someone on Twitter yesterday suggested the owners don’t own the club. How’s that work?

 

Is Mr Lee still the majority shareholders? ........sithi.

 

I accept it could have been spent better (not that I know how) but it’s money isn’t it. That would solve all the problems.

Loads of the disillusionment on here and in general is a result of us spending less than our counterparts. I appreciate there are things we could do operationally or commercially better but they aren’t needle movers. The owners are ensuring we still exist at this level.

the teams promoted from this league this year (Portsmouth, Derby and presumably Bolton) have bigger budgets than us. That is unfortunate but it won’t put me off actively supporting.

 

I haven’t a clue, I don’t care. He said ‘the owners don’t own the club’ . How are you ‘owners’ if you don’t ‘own’? I asked who owns the club and he didn’t reply, so do we take it the club isn’t ‘owned’ by anyone?

I think Parehk is majority shareholder from doing a bit of Googling, not that it matters in the context of this post.

sithi

 

Must be John Dennis still ;-) ...........sithi.