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  1. Acido Tyke

    Acido Tyke Well-Known Member

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    I've got some old 70s flares in the loft, and they are very slack, will a pair of them do ?. :D
     
    Acido Tyke, Jul 4, 2023
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    Valencia, stick your finger up your bum n' whistle through your Barcelona :).
     
    Stephen Dawson, Jul 4, 2023
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    I've never envisaged being an egg chasin' b u mm er.
     
    Stephen Dawson, Jul 4, 2023
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  4. Gol

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    You could be right pal, who knows? I guess o was one of those who felt extremely let down by BFC after Val left (the happenings that followed, not him leaving) and I have absolutely no faith in them to get it right whatsoever.

    What worries me is the similarities to the season we appointed Schopp. The club was on the way up, reached the play offs when it wasn’t expected but then we lost our gaffer, we lost our best player, our top scorer was a loanee and left, we went into pre season with no gaffer, lost the entire spine of the side, short on numbers, appoint a complete numpty as a manager…. 9 months later, we’re relegated to league 1.

    Im genuinely concerned about next season.
     
    Goldthorpe-Red, Jul 4, 2023
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    I sorta agree but they do seem on a perpetual mission to build up goodwill then destroy it all and then have to start again.
     
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  6. Marc

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    Definitely get why you would draw the same parallel, and you may be proved right. I guess the key difference is a) you’d like to assume we won’t be stupid enough to repeat the same mistake and b) we don’t have Conway making the decisions

    but yeah, if we do end up sleepwalking into exactly the same bad decisions, I’ll be the first to come back and say you were right. I just find it very unlikely this new board will do that.

    we’ll see
     
    Marc, Jul 4, 2023
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    You're properly reaching here. Christ.
     
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    No matter how many years we’ve supported Barnsley, we’ve seen many ups and downs, Wembley/Cardiff trips, relegation fights, bankruptcy, good and bad managers, plantpots on heads and helicopters on the pitch.

    Every season we’ll lose good managers and players and every season we’ll argue our differences blaming owners and money etc etc .

    We are Barnsley and it will always be this way
     
    x11barnsley, Jul 4, 2023
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  9. Marc

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    I’m not in total agreement with everything they’ve done. I think the comms through duff and to date, haven’t been good enough. I also totally get why people feel we’re back to square one. They could be right. And I honestly don’t know how we break that cycle, if we don’t get promoted. Duff leaving has created a ripple effect of instability IMO, which may be more damaging than we realise. But I genuinely don’t think there’s owt we could have done to make him stay. His ‘fly by night long haul’ comments will forever be remembered by many as utter b0llocks.
     
    Marc, Jul 4, 2023
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  10. Gol

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    Can I just say, I’ll take zero satisfaction if I am right. It just knocks the **** out of you when you feel like it’s happening again.
    I can take managers leaving, players leaving or whatever but these mass exodus’ that we seem to have every other year are really tough to take. I don’t want the club to overspend and jeopardise the club, and I can accept we’re not one of the big boys. I just sometimes feel we’re the masters of our own downfall, and I can’t do another year like that Schopp year. It was absolute torture from start to finish.

    Have I overreacted? Absolutely I have, but I can’t help that. Watching the club slowly drag itself from the doldrums of last summer just got my blood flowing again for everything BFC, and I just fear all that hard work will be undone.

    What we all need is some good news, be it the new manager getting announced or a new face to lighten the mood.
     
    Goldthorpe-Red, Jul 4, 2023
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    I think we can all get behind that
     
    Marc, Jul 4, 2023
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    Anyone who thinks we could get relegated next season is completely overreacting.

    Get a grip.
     
    wombwell-red, Jul 4, 2023
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    I always find forcing staff to work for you when they want to be elsewhere is the very best way to motivate them. He's been offered a boatload of cash and championship status. It was never going to be any different. To think otherwise is not based on any sort of reality. At what point in the season do you think he and his agent can't see a bigger deal on the table from a championship club to the point they will sign a contract that would stop them from achieving that deal? He talked about loyalty but actually had zero. **** him. He's not worth getting worked up about. We move on. Time for new heroes.
     
    Gally, Jul 4, 2023
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    Absolutely with bells on.
     
    Bazza, Jul 5, 2023
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    Why? I not saying we will but 4 weeks to go we've no manager sold our best center half lost a decent player in thomas, isted who was going to sign has gone to a rival. The windows been open weeks other teams have strengthened were still looking for a manager. Who ever comes in now there up against it.
     
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    We had all this last summer though. Helik gone, Woodrow gone, Morris gone, Brittain gone, Styles out on loan, Quina and Bassi back to their parent clubs, no manager, and people predicting a double relegation. The appointment of Micky fly-by-night and some shrewd signings meant we were okay. I predicted a top 6 finish, and I reckon we'll finish top 6 again. Obviously we need to get a move on and history tells us that appointing the right man at the helm is key, but we'll be reight :)
     
    Redarmy87, Jul 5, 2023
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    Bloody hell @Gally
    Never known you swear before
     
    Jay, Jul 5, 2023
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    Gi oor wi thi lad, we will be reight.
    We been here season after season losing good managers players .
    Continuity is the key whenever head coach moves on.
    We got some cracking young uns coming thru.
    The only problem around football is ,success as got to be yesterday.
    Giving players coaches and time to gel as long gone due to coaches under pressure to get instant success.
     
    Bazza, Jul 5, 2023
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    Sometimes a club who misses out on promotion via the play offs has a hangover. Mk dons play offs 2 seasons ago relegated last. Huddersfield survived by skin of their teeth after been finalists season before. If you were a betting man you wouldn't back against it
     
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    I will tell thi what if we get relegated this season ,100% show mi arse on Tarn Hall steps.
     
    Bazza, Jul 5, 2023
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