Leon Wobscholl

I'll tell you what, i'm fed up of folk coming onto this forum and posting stupid made-up names because they think it will get a cheap laugh.

 

I’m honestly not bothered about being in the Championship. I just want to watch a team develop and grow, provide a bit of entertainment and produce the odd player that I really care about. That’s all.

 

Spot on.

 

I really don’t understand why everyone assumed Thalhammer would have been no good. I know no one would have put him up as a candidate because none of us had heard of him, but I still think he’s less of a risk than Stendel was, he’s got a great record in the Europa League for example with two unfashionable clubs.

I’d rather take a manager with that pedigree than someone who’s “done well under the circumstances” in League One or Two.
But all managerial appointments are massively risky, and who ever we get will need time to bed in and try and implement his own style.

 

And ‘massive debt’ ?

 

Like Dominik Thalhammer.

 

What about "clusterfook".

 

The academy teams have done well in the last couple of seasons, so again I think we’re just going to have to be patient in terms of youth coming through. No point hurling young lads into the first team, they need to be nurtured and protected.

 

Adam Hammill first signed on loan in February 2009 and left just under two years later in January 2011. Adam is probably the best example of where selling the club as a stepping stone worked out, he signed for us knowing full well we'd sell him when the time came, and tried his damndest to put himself in the shop window.

 

Hope so, I really do.

 

That wasn’t really my point. But I’m not naive enough to think that players don’t have ambitions to better themselves. To use a well-worn cliche, it’s a short career. But I would be surprised if he was told, prior to signing, that he would be on his bike as soon as the first acceptable offer was received. It may always have been implied but I doubt it was presented as a promise.

 

He had a release fee in his contract.

 

Wobschall

 

Yeah we lose money, but it’s not part of our business plan. An extreme example I know, but Reading were paying 218% of their turnover in wages as part of their plan to get back to the premier league. Between Readings numbers and ours there are lots of other clubs that regularly willingly make a trading loss in order to just stay where they are and keep their fans ‘hopefully’ happy.

If there is another option available that doesn’t include gambling with no surety of achieving anything, I’d be happy to hear it, as I’m sure would the owners.

 

The big red flag was the fact he was the source of the story breaking around his non-appointment, so not exactly trustworthy in hindsight. Also, judging by his interactions (allegedly) with fans on Facebook, he wasn't averse to sharing details with randoms who sent him friend requests. He seems to be something of a self-promoter, based on his social media profile.

I know that we, as a fanbase, want more information that we're ever likely to get from the club, but I'd prefer that the Head Coach wasn't a likely source of news leaking.

If we'd have started recruiting him at this stage, as a long-term appointment once our season had ended, it would have made more sense to me. Lining him up, as they did, to be the '4-game fix' plus the long-term appointment seemed completely wrong to me. The specs for each are totally different, and he fits the mould of the latter, out of the two.

 

That's the landscape that the Premier League has created for all the clubs that aren't in it, unfortunately. With each TV deal it becomes increasingly more difficult to exist in the lower two leagues. For us, the Championship gives us a chance to target breaking even, but that's likely via operating as one of the bottom 3 teams in terms of operating budget, so it will always be an achievement to stay above the relegation line competing against better resourced teams. Each season we spend in League One is a financial disaster waiting to happen, unless we significantly cut costs and become less competitive within it, or unless someone steps in to bridge the gap, as we've had for the last couple of seasons.

 

The thing is if they focused and concentrated on building a good side that does well in the league the rest would just take care of itself. They players would grow and level each other up, the fans woudl be on board and also grow in numbers further driving revenue and if we got promoted the value of the players would go even higher.

Right now they are buying a load of potential each season and hoping it comes good. The trouble is it takes 2 seasons to get them up to speed so they end up in and out of the side, loaned our or simply not good enough. If they do come good after 2 years we get a decent season out of them and then they are off or contract runs out and we have a rebuild on our hands again.

They need to build a nucleus of a squad capable of competing in the league we are in and buy maybe 2 or 3 they can use as fringe players to develop. And if the players they are developing do show promise and it looks like they will come good we need to be getting them on a new contract at that point to reset the clock.

And they need to play a brand of football the barnsley fans want to see - attacking press, ball on the floor with wingers with a classic CF like Cosgrove who could be great with the right service as Tuesday showed.

 

we did sell players after prem season Ashley Ward for one and we were going to sell Darren Barnard but he wouldn't go