Read here as to why this is such a surprising piece of news. They're a basket case club at the moment, but this is a positive step for them. https://barnsleyfc.org.uk/threads/the-slow-death-of-football.334912/page-2#post-3399819
Crazy move, the owner is a right **** currently playing at Buxton with no fans as they've boycotted going, staff and players not paid on time, pitch dug up and sold, the guy is an absolute wrong en. Crackers decsion from redders. I follow the lad Ellis Platten who runs the away days channel on YouTube go check out his video/take on the situation
He will be fine. He's had a fair few managerial pay offs in his time. He's had more clubs than Eldrick my all time favourite.
Farsley haven't paid their part-time bar staff in almost a year, so I doubt the prospect of another pay-off is high on his list of reasons for taking it on.
They also set up fake teams in Veterans and JPL to secure academy status. First game of the season and they had no players registered and were withdrawn from the league, but the status stayed. My Vets team were due to play them.
Let's just hope they can move back sooner rather than later. For the fans sake. They've groundshared closer to home apparantly till the artificial pitch issues are resolved. I can only think rent is an issue.
It's not a rent issue. They were sharing with Bradford Park Avenue initially, but the football authorities insisted that Farsley's fixtures had to take priority over BPA's as they were in a higher division, which obviously was something that the host club couldn't agree to.
I was talking to a chap in Filey this morning who's a Scarborough supporter. Farsley are playing their home games at Buxton. Bit of a trek if you're a home supporter.