8000 Barnsley fans cry out for experience and an end to short term loans

Barnsley bring in a lad with 10 league starts on a 2 month loan.

Brad Abbott has 3 times as many starts to his name than he does.

You couldn't make it up

 

Indicative as to where we are are as a club!

 

It aint 11 Barnsley academy lads he wants anymore its just 11 of anybody elses, ours keep falling down the pecking order.

 

Somebody, somewhere knows what's going on. I've lost interest.

 

Well he COULD BE the new John O'Sullivan. He's got a decent pedigree and is not a teenager like some we have brought in. Could be a good replacement for Watkins, and then Harris.

Let's give him a chance at least!!

 

How can he be a replacement for Watkins and then Harris? He is one player

 

Sorry, I didn't think I needed to explain that, but here you go...

Watkins is out injured, so he replaces him in the short term
Harris is going back to Cardiff soon, so he replaces him until at least January.

I know you like to get angry about just about everything going on at Oakwell, but I'm not sure why.

I don't like to see us getting beaten by some of the dross that we are playing now, but I've been around long enough to have seen MUCH worse so, on the whole, it's at least good to see some good football. Now, if they can produce a bit more of that, and some aggression in front of goal, we'll be ok

 

Decent signing

 

On paper, certainly half decent. I prefer to give players a chance before writing them off. Even the likes of Keith Treacey

 

Well if we have borrowed a vastly inexperienced player who takes us over our loan quota based on him replacing another loaned when his loan expires in 6 potentially 7 games time from now then we are crazier than I thought

 

I suspect we will find more than one or two on their way back soon. He surely can't persist with Wilkinson much longer. Harris goes in a couple of weeks. Crowley might get recalled by Arsene for his Champions League campaign

 

Loans are an essential part of football nowadays,especially in the lower leagues. Just the way the game is now. If everybody around us were signing young premier league loans and we stuck to just buying there'd be uproar on here. Damned if you do,damned if you don't

 

Show me evidence that says 8 loans by this point in the season is an essential part of league one.

By the way today's opponent have loaned 5 players less than us

 

Its easier and cheaper to get rid of bad loan signings than it is get rid of permanent bad signings by having to pay up there contracts.

 

I've probably been one of the biggest critics of our use of the loan system but I'm not sure what else you want us to do outside of the transfer window when our wide players are injured and Harris is seemingly going back.

 

Low risk, low return. You can't sell for profit what you don't own.

I'd love to know the sales figures for shirt printing of loanees names as well. I can't say I've seen a single loan players name on the back of a fans shirt

 

joke.....club is a joke

definition of madness.....find summat that does not work so keep doing it.

ffs Leejay...last chance motel for you boy

 

Harris' loan doesn't end until something like the 22nd November and there are 6 games until then.

What I want us to do is either sign an experienced player or to actually try one of OUR young players instead of everyone else's. Unless we have bizarrely run an academy without a single wide player in it which can't be true as we had them playing in our friendlies just a few months ago

 

He's 22, not a 17 year old kid. And we do have great players coming through but not necessarily wingers. And getting experienced players on loan isn't easy.