Things to be optimistic about

After my post, I just want to ask people what they think are positives about the club at the moment. Take away wins and losses in the short term. What are the pluses at the club?


Mine.

I like the way we look to operate in the transfer window with a club plan rather than being on a manager’s whim. I look at other clubs that are underperforming at the moment and I see a lot of that.

Now I understand Barnsley are but I think we can get back on track soon next season and look to start and get momentum.


I like that we have a CEO that will listen to the fans and is willing to engage at regular intervals with fans. Also, I like having someone within the club that’s got contacts with other clubs.

He had a hard start with coming into the role later than the fans would have hoped for but he’s in now. Let's hope the owners will come out, speak about what they need to soon and let him deal with the normal things a CEO should deal with.

 

We've just cheered ourselves up by booking flights to Malaga on monday for a week to stay with my sister, only £97 with Jet2.....

 

It's their plan that's made us underperform and the CEO is the boards mouthpiece nothing more.

 

We’ll be in League One next season but (surely, please, if not true then I don’t know what I’ll do) we’ll score more goals and have more points, parking will be easier, tickets for away games cheaper and when we lose it won’t be so visible everywhere as it is now.

 

We still play at Grove St stadium.
We still currently have divisional retention.
There's an international glut of flatbreads forcing prices down.
Seasonal passes look likely to be cheaper next year.

 

I honestly don't think there's much to be positive about at the minute.

I suppose we aren't yet relegated, and that the West Stand is now open again.

Plus, I like Madri which we now serve.

Oh and Devaney and Bobby seem to be doing well with the young uns.

 

We are off there in April

 

Wind-up merchants are not as plentiful as they used to be?

 

Death eventually. After a lot of misery & pain.

Being a Barnsley fan us usually a bit crap, ups & downs. This season has taken things to a new level. A coach with a 0% win record. He won a cup game against a team that was third bottom of league two in extra time, having been 2-0 up & Barrow being reduced to 10 men. I'd resurrect Jim Iley if I had the powers. Iley In.

 

The transfer approach is an interesting positive to call out.

The last transfer window, with the club desperately in need of strengthening they chose to bring in two loan players on the final day, one with a total of 183 minutes playing time and one with 92 minutes. Both loan players and in contradiction of Paul Conway’s view that ‘we wouldn’t develop players for other clubs’ - clearly policy has changed.

So what is the transfer policy? If the claim is to buy cheap, develop and then sell on then at profit the evidence to support that has yet to develop. Under their ownership the only player to sell on at a significant profit is Kieffer Moore, the other transfer successes were at at the club prior to their arrival.

For me, and it’s only an opinion, the transfer policy has not been successful. Some of this is down to external factors such as the pandemic impacting transfer fees but fundamentally their policy, to date, hasn’t been a plus point to me.

Biggest positive has been ey up and down, a great source of amusement.

 

Cheaper season tickets, cheaper away tickets and not getting treated like a criminal at away games in league one!!!

 

I’ve got to say I love League 1. When I think back to some of the away games we did in those two seasons with Wilson, Johnson and Hecky, they’re my favourites.

One major positive is every passing day we are closer to that West Brom game that will put us out of our misery. They’ll be flags up at our house to celebrate the end of what I think has been the worse season I’ve ever experienced as a Barnsley fan.

 

Not even close to putting lipstick on the pig there mate.. the club is a ferkin utter shambles.

 

I’ve seen this mentioned a few times by Barnsley fans recently. I think that was arguably the most difficult transfer window for most for a while. The transfer activity starts from the top and when you look at the top 4/6 teams in the country it was quiet.

The two Manchester teams did 1 deal between them. Liverpool one in late and Arsenal couldn’t get anyone in after being desperate for a striker and Central Midfielder.

I think this was the reason for 1, the Loan deals. Clubs can get better quality in with less risk for the player OR the club and 2, why they were late. Remember Dike was signed on the 31st of last year.

 

Looking at this squad of players ,we would do really well in league 1.
Somehow I don't think half this lot will be around to proof me right .

 

I think the deal for Moore was agreed before they took over.

 

There is nothing positive about the way we approach transfers.

 

I'm glad you like it Higgy. I have a different view, that the 'plan' you refer to is part of the reason we are where we are this season, with a team that is woefully short of the qualities required. I hate the fact that we apply the same approach to recruiting managers as we do players i.e. how much money can they make us in the future. And it makes no sense imo to employ a manager (whose opinion on the team you'd think they'd consider valid and important) and then ignore (or fail to deliver, it doesn't matter which because ultimately the result is the same) their requests to address the obvious deficiencies.

 

Accrington away next year other than that I’m out.

 

All Football clubs work to a model of selling assets and when clubs don’t they can often become major problems like the 1 billion Dollar debt issue that FC Barcelona have.

I’ve been listening to a lot of sports radio recently and if you look at two cities in the North. Manchester and Liverpool. Red and Blue. Red and blue operate in similar ways in the two cities.

Everton > United. Liverpool > City.

Both spend a similar amount to close city rivals. Two of the clubs are Forward-thinking. Two-run on managers whims or have for the last 10 years.

Take the passion away. And let the clearest heads win. For those that watched the Statsbomb video from Victor Orta and James Cryne then you will have seen James Cryne talking about not letting passion cloud judgement I believe.