So we're currently bottom

Spot on Helen and that's exactly what are owners are hoping for. Even the CEO basically said just keep coming even if you don't like the owners.
It's not the vocal angry fans who they should be most worried about, it's the silent ones who just stop coming. A lot of them will just move on and never come back.

 

I know you didn't ask me but I'll give you my answer.
I'm not happy that any supporters feel they have/need to stop attending games, I'm sad about it (this includes myself)

I'll be equally Sad if these Owners responded by running the club into extinction (seems unlikely)
However let's run with it for a moment, even if that were the case I would accept it rather than return my financial backing to the current ownership.
My plans for next season are to attend some away games, however I already have offers from friends to go watch the Rec and Penistone Church respectively.

 

I don’t live in Barnsley, going to the games is the only time I get to see my mates every other weekend. I’ll be buying a season ticket and still continue to attend games no matter what league we are in or who the owners are, does that make me a happy clapper or someone who supports the owners?

I get that the majority want the current lot out but who is going to takeover? There doesn’t seem to be anyone willing to step in. The Conway Out movement was a joke, it seems to have faded away after a few weeks which coincided when we won a few games.

I’m not a fan of the owners, they’ve made the match day experience a shambles since fans have returned but I suspect that isn’t all their fault.l due to difficulty in getting staff in. They made a monumental error with the west stand situation and that has alienated a lot of fans.

Personally I think all this anger against the owners would not be there is we had a better transfer window and/or had the current playing squad/manager available all season. Since we win our first game in forever against QPR we’ve got 16 points from 12 games gives us an average of 1.33 points per game and would give us 61 points over 46 games. I know that clearly isn’t the case and you don’t judge a season over 12 games but it shows that Poya has got something out of the players and I’d say 60 points would be about our level.

Schopp was a disaster and in my view the reason we are in the mess we are in. I blame the board for appointing him and for not sacking him sooner.

 

You can't just count some of Poya's games! I'm just counting Schopp's win against Coventry that gives him maximum points and he gets us automatic promotion! As to having a season ticket, that's down to everyone to decide for themselves but I fully understand why people don't want to give more money to owners who couldn't care less about the club or it's fans.

 

I divorced supporting BFC from the owners years ago

 

In your head - yes. But your money didn't. That still goes straight in their trousers.

 

Us and Mosvka comfortably sat on the bottom. I wonder if Conway was in charge there as well?

 

Hence why I said you can’t count 12 games. I was just highlighting our recent form isn’t as terrible as the rest of the season.

 

Because they're better players mate.

 

Need to think of a few more ST gimmicks now

 

Has Khaled from the supporters trust considered relegation yet

 

I noticed the typo straight away, but now I see I got it wrong. I thought you’d missed the word ‘sorry’ but now realise you actually added the word ‘for’ ,,,,My bad!!

 

Barnsley FC will exist whether fans go or don’t go.

So will Derby, Reading, Birmingham, Wigan and all the other clubs that are currently up to their eyeballs in debt.

It may result in points deductions or even liquidation but the fear that the football club will disappear is one that attracts investors to clubs and is a fallacy. The belief is that no matter what they do there is a core support who will provide a revenue stream.

In reality clubs continue, in recent times Rangers, Wigan, Middlesbrough and ourselves along with many others have gone though administration or insolvency.

There will always be a Barnsley FC the question is how long the current owners stick around.

 

I said weeks ago, in a more typical season we’d have been down already and given all factors, we deserved to go down. Nothing has changed (or was ever likely to) and we are where we deserve to be.

It gives nobody any joy, we just have to hope that those who’ve failed so miserably this season can find a way to do better from here on in, if they are still with us. And that’s at every level.

 

Is there a single club in recent times that has ceased to exist?
They all restart as a phoenix club.

 

In my head the money i spend on a season ticket goes to paying the wages of the fine staff that work to keep the club going and enable me to see my football team, without which they would be unemployed and we wouldn’t have a team to watch . People who keep saying the current or previous owners pocket all the season ticket money and keep it themselves are in my opinion stupid

 

So who's money did they use to take £750,000 out of the club then if it wasn't from the money put in by fans?

 

Agreed. Better players on massive wages that the clubs can’t afford. They took Andy yiadom for wages that we couldn’t afford and neither could they. Rinse and repeat. We have a team that could quite easily have stayed up this season if we continued to play the tried and tested hoof ball with a bit of shape and belief. What we are incapable of doing is out footballing other sides when they have generally got £30 grand a week players on their sides which they can’t afford. This league is all about smashing the ball forward and hoping for the best, a tactic that we have discarded at our to our league positional detriment

 

That money was already in the accounts from previous player sales , tv money ,advertising etc , its not our money is it , what part of ‘promotion bonus’ don’t you understand anyway , its part of an agreement between the investors , we may not like it but that’s what it is . AS of yet we aren’t in the same position as many other clubs where the owners load the club with massive debts that are realistically not going to be paid back . That might change next season if they can’t balance the books with sales but it still wont put us out of business .