26th January and all our CEO and owners have signed is a new menu for the chicken flatbreads- GO NOW

Went to forest last night and left when the third goal what a disgrace of a performance. Having slept on it the answer is still the same. The owners manager and ceo need to get out of our club quick sharp. The club is dying day by day we are a laughing stock. Nothing more than a trading platform for sweating assets and absolutely ZERO ambition for success on the pitch and to make strides, investment and progress off it. PROFIT PROFIT and more PROFIT is all these people want. When the tumbleweed goes across the pitch next season in league one in front of 4000 season tickets maybe then the penny will drop. Cannot wait for the yearly begging bowl season ticket letter to land through the door with the new chicken flatbread menu. The absolute irony of it.

MY CLUB MY TOWN ? MY ARSE

When will the crynes say something do something speak out give an opinion ? BFC is being ran into the ground yet we hear nothing from them ?

How about paying all those miserable sods like me who had the embarrassment of having to witness that last night their money back for their forest ticket ? Or at least a voucher for a chicken flatbread ?

According to the puppet of a CEO when Conway pulled the string on his back at the q and a “Catering has been one of his success stories” Jesus wept what about answering some of the questions that you had days do prepare and investigate.

26th January and nothing not one single player through the door to improve the squad. That says it all.

Loko any news on getting Conway in for a q and a so we can get proper answers and not politicians ones ? This bloke needs to face the fans now not some time in February or March.

imagine all the money you work hard for and placing it in the hands personally of the “billionaire” owners they then take your money and pay off their own debts to the club instead of putting their own hands in their pockets. Billionaire owners with no ambition who will not spend any penny of their own. It’s a disgrace.

Do not spend a penny in Oakwell if you want to make these owners and the CEO listen because that and that reason only is the only thing that will make these people listen to the fans and take any notice of us. Profit is the only reason that these people are here for and absolutely nothing else. All BFC and the other clubs they own (killing) are to them is a simple trading platform commonly used in the business world and they are here to sweat assets and turn profits. Do you want to make a difference and alter their master plan ? Want these people out of our club asap ? Then as fans collectively we have to stop giving them money. Just go to away games instead next season. Cutting their throats with stopping your hard earned money coming in to BFC is the only weapon that the fans have to get rid of them. That to some people where oakwell is a church for them I know is a massive ask but not getting a season ticket and not spending another penny at BFC has to be the sacrifice to stop these people taking the club into league one and possibly league two under this zero ambition zero investment sweating the assets business model they have.

#CONWAYOUT
#NOTAPENNYMORE
#KILLINGOURCLUB

 

All these rants about the owners are getting tiresome. Pointing out the problems is easy, coming up with solutions is much harder.

You can change the owners (or not - what alternative do we have?), change the manager (we already tried that), re-open the west stand etc, but it won’t change the fact that half our squad are nowhere near good enough for the Championship, and the other half clearly don’t want to be here…

 

Solutions
Stop lying to the fans
Stop falsely advertising products
Stop dictating that certain players must play
Stop trying to enforce new positions on players
Stop meddling in team affairs
Remove the stupid ban on over 23s
Return the three quarters of a million quid to the club and use it to get a midfielder in on loan sharpish



I suppose you're right though. As we can't actually implement any solutions we should probably all shut up and stop moaning. At least we have a club right

 

“Half this squad are nowhere near good enough for the championship”
This wasn’t true last season, or the second half of the season before. But all the changes in the summer with playing style and staff turnover has reduced them to rubble.

 

1. While the evasive answers and half-truths are frustrating, I’m not sure that brutal honesty will necessarily improve the situation. Do the fans really want to hear that we’re skint, crap and going down?

2. Do we have any firm evidence that the owners are actively involved in team affairs? They have their fingers in so many football pies - not to mention other business interests - that I can’t believe they are micro-managing what goes on at Barnsley.

3. Leya Iseka is 24. Obbi Oulare is 26. Please can we go back to signing under 23s?

4. The £750k is clearly contentious, but no amount of money could save us now.

 

1. We might not want to hear it but it’s bleedingly obvious and can’t be ignored. And I speak for many I reckon when I say honesty, transparency and for a start, presence would be welcomed hugely.

2. We appointed a manager in the summer who had never picked a team to play 3-4-3 in any professional game, yet he came here and did it despite not having any midfield players suited to it. Why? Coaches continually pick players who don’t look as good as alternatives, often out of position. Why? There is also a quote from Conway online where he talks about influencing not just style but team selection itself at one of the other clubs in the portfolio. Not convinced they’d do it at one club but leave team matters to their appointed yes man at Barnsley. So yes I believe firmly they are involved.

3. Those two signings are up there with Richard Kell, Mido and Emmanuel Frimpong as being the most batshit crazy in our history. Signed I believe when we had no head coach or assistant, no club Secretary and no ceo. Thanks Paul…

4. Save us from what? This is about a lot more than a bad season and being relegated. They have used the club’s money to settle a personal debt and by all accounts intend to make several more payments in the same way. We don’t want or expect them to throw a load of money in to the club. It would be nice, though, if the football club could use its funds to buy and pay wages to footballers and support staff, i.e be used to run the football club, rather than finance its own sale.

 

Hope it does and if it does please make the £750k question number 1.

 

This is good news, hopefully he doesn't squander his opportunity to get the fans back onside.

 

My biggest problem with this transfer window, is that we could've gone one of two ways. 1) Prepare for League 1 and the financial consequences, which would've meant at least one sale of significance or 2) Try to survive, which would've meant bringing some players in.

Instead, we've offloaded two fringe players that would've been out of contract at the end of the season anyway, with one of them being released, probably paid off.

 

And 2, 3 and 4.

Question 5 can be about the remaining 2.75m that is owed, and whether the club will be expected to foot that bill as well.

 

Morning Donks,

Respect your opinion my friend.

I have stated solutions and the biggest difference we can collectively make as fans is do not spend another dime in Oakwell or to BFC, this means collectively make a stance as fans = no more season tickets, merchandise, food, drink etc etc as it is clear that all the money you and I put into BFC just goes into the pockets of the owners for them to then pay off their own debts. This is the only thing that they will listen to - to get them out and gone before they totally destroy our wonderful club is to stop their golden pig...........which is the fans money coming in.

You mention the squad not being good enough (some of it) do you think under Val, Wilder, McCann, Holloway, Warnock, Ryan Lowe, McCarthy etc etc that they would play half arsed with no heart or grit every week like they are doing. We are supposedly a championship standard football club yet in the Summer after Vals departure you would not run a school tuck shop like we have and continue to be run. Everything is on the cheap, cost cutting, no ambition, no drive, no passion, nothing from the owners or the Crynes, the club dies a little more very day.

Conway needs to face the music and have a live q and a with supporters NOW, not in 3, 5, 6, 8 weeks time, the disrespect and lack of communication is criminal. The distain that they treat the supporters with is abhorrent. What did we learn from the CEO ? zilch, like the manger just another sooty and sweep yes man sat on the hands of the puppet masters giving politicians answers.

Who is picking the team ? is it being picked solely to enhance players selling fees or for the good of trying to stay in the division ?. I would now say to enhance fees.

My worry is even the team on the field seems to be picked by somebody who is clueless about tactics, positional strengths etc Moon with say 40 more appearances on his CV will command more money when he goes for sale ? might seem a daft thought process but nothing these owners do or say surprises me anymore, when profit margins and sweating assets is clearly the sole primary driver and business model.

Constantly moaning about the owners ? yes of course, - DAMM right Donks, this message from the fed up fans needs to be driven down their throats every single day and every match we play from the stands. The club we all love and generations before us have is being destroyed systematically for profit margins.

We need our club back, will there be other people waiting in the wings to take us over ? who knows, watch this space, but under these owners we are being sent back as a club years.

 

Funny most of them were last season ……..

 

So if we assume the players aren't good enough...who's fault is that?
If the managers haven't been good enough...who's fault is that?
The solutions may be difficult to come up with. In fact there's only one solution which is to find more astute owners. In the meantime do we shrug our shoulders and say oh well what can we do about it or hold the current board's feet to the flame and try and force a change to the succession of disastrous decisions they make.

 

I can appreciate what you're trying to do here Gally but for me, I'm no longer interested in the £750k, the West Stand, the lack of transfers, the flatbreads or the other 1001 things that don't work, won't work, haven't worked and will never work. Those questions suggest dialogue and some form of reconciliation.

The only two areas of questions that I'd like put to Conway are:

- what would it take for you personally, and the other Owners, to leave the Club?
- Is there anything we as fans can do to help create that situation?

Thank you.