See the West Stand has been refurbished then...

Having occupied every last bit of the West Stand side for the last 45 years may I make an impassioned plea to leave it alone.

It epitomises everything I love about the club in this era of modern toss and I would be distraught were the heart and soul to be ripped out for another mechano monstrosity.

I still miss gazing across to what was the Brewery Stand, watching the fire flies of fags being sparked up as the old Barnsley Bitter signage refused to give way to John Smiths in the gathering gloom.

I see beauty in the crap scoreboard, the unrivalled West Stand bogs, the smokers’ corner at half-time, the old gantry and the superbly naff new sign, for to me it is the Barnsley I know and love.

So please let us be, avert your eyes if you must but know that we are here because it is our place, where we have always been, where we choose to be.

Get them coming down the proper tunnel again and my work here will be done.

 

Tell you what, a simple coat of white masonary paint on that brickwork would look a lot better imho.

 

I look out from the WSU at the three "new" sides and to be honest I could be anywhere .

 

I missed it too. It's bloody terrible.

 

Can't polish a turd to be fair.

 

There is nothing to be proud of with anything you have said, you are simply nostalgic back to your youth and these things remind you of it. That doesn't make them better.

I get nostalgic when I see old ford Corrina's and nissan Sunnys but I wouldn't want them bringing back

 

After initially standing on the terrace in front of the West Stand and then years later have a seat in the upper section, I can’t wait for its demolition and replaced with a new stand.

 

GUYS GUYS GUYS give it a rest...fancy pulling whiteys attempt at building a den to bits ...hes got to have somewhere for him and his mates to play

 

Says a man in a shed ....

 

Of course it temporary.

Maybe those criticising would have preferred that they'd left the advert for Christmas trees up

 

Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be, or so said writer and satirist Peter De Vries (sounds like a Dutch Eerste Divisie transfer target).

And I’m not harking back to what once was but defending that which still is, a thing of simple beauty about which I remain genuinely and justifiably proud.

You only need to look at the vandalism wrought on our town centre over recent decades to appreciate the folly of the tear it all down brigade.

We don’t fill the 3 plastic stands we have already so why destroy the last original part of the ground to build another?

Get it listed, give it a lick of paint and then leave it alone.

 

Change & Barnsley....

 

Yes they did to be fair ... looks like we are to become the poundland of the football league if the sign and the rumor of the new manager are to believed. Lol

 

Poundland’s doing very well on the high streets ,

Just saying