A big sign Davey will be manager next year.

Word is that senior members of the Academy have resigned due to his running of the club, releasing perfectly good youngsters and stopping their progress by not having a reserve team.

Would these people have resigned if he was going to get the boot?

 

In fairness...

They would not know either way.

But I fully expect Davey to be in charge next season, regardless of Division

 

I think he'll be given the chance to bring us back up.

And thats part of the reason why they are leaving - if of course it turns out to be true.

 

I can't see him in charge next season - I think there is too much pressure on him now.

Even if PC didn't think it was PC to let him go, you need to appease the masses and if the masses are unhappy, then he will prob go.

 

Releasing perfectly good young players?

Which good players?

 

I believe Atkinson is the issue.

The academy staff were disillusioned with the way he was treated and not given a chance when Davey was investing in untried unproven foreigners.

 

If they don't get rid of Davey...

...we're absolutely stone cold dead in the water. Not just this season, but next season. If that clown is in charge with his 'creative' formations (including JCR playing anywhere and everywhere) we will not impress the first division. It's a tough league - ask Leeds - they have really struggled to make a proper bid to get out of it. The gap between the Championship and League One is far closer than the gap between the Prem and the Championship. Don't get me wrong the I'm not saying the football down there is good - but it is competitive and hard. Davey's tactics fundamentally just don't work - they don't work in the Championship so why should they work in a lower division? Shall we patronise the clubs in League One by suggesting that they are so bad that our brand of 'create no goal scoring opportunities, but flatter to deceive' football is actually going to cut some ice, simply because we think they're all poor football teams?

The simple facts with Davey are that he lacks the courage and the back bone to play to win. He is scared to death of losing, so he'd rather draw our way to relegation. If he opens us up with two wingers pushing on to create chances he is absolutely convinced that we'll lose the midfield battle and get beaten - he doesn't realise that we might actually score goals (yes plural).

Can he not see the bigger picture? Oh well done Simon - we can 'hammer' Derby 0-0. We can play Watford off the park 1-1.

I'd rather see us win a few and lose a few - you're much more likely to hit the magic fifty if you're working in multiples of three, rather than solitary 'hard won' points and moral victories which count for nothing.

The scarey thing for me is that Davey has proven that he knows how to draw a game of football. He can do the 'we must not lose this game' thing brilliantly. But when he sets out to win a game - he's a massive liability, because he does not know what to do or how to go about it. Who knows what he will think up - JCR as a sweeper? We need 4-3-3 going forward and 4-5-1 when we defend, Bogdanovic on the wing (even though we have three very good wingers) etc etc We invariably fail to turn up for the first half, don't get going until it is too late, and look far to paranoid, uncomfortable and cagey throughout. Did the Cup run last year underline why Davey is a good manager? Think about how we played against Cardiff in the Semi-Final.

At best we'll always be teetering with a 1 goal lead (awaiting the inevitable equaliser), or worse, sat on 0-0 waiting to go a goal behind OR EVEN WORSE STILL that feeling you get in your stomach when we go one goal down and you just know, you are just certain, that the best we are going to get is a draw and that is highly unlikely. 2-0 down and you really feel like that game is pointless and the referee should just blow the whistle.

This man will take us to the foot of the next division - cautiously drawing our games, not creating chances, picking strange and ridiculous formations.

I love Barnsley F.C. - I've never been interested in any other club, it is a major part of my identity and how I see myself. I was one of those that sat in the East Stand and watched them building the North Stand in awe. I fell in love with the club as a child and grew up in an area where everyone else supported Leeds, Liverpool or Man United. I've had wonderful memories, and painful ones too... thick and thin. I come from a family of Barnsley fans and my two and half year old son will get taken to Oakwell in time, for his first game and a shirt (and it's one of the first things I thought about when I got told we were expecting him!).

It pains me to see us in this way, but I won't go back for one more match so long at Davey is still in charge. I'm voting with my feet. I want a proper manager - the team is in the hands of certificate collecting, half baked, excuse for a professional. Get him bloody sacked!

 

RE: If they don't get rid of Davey...

Davey should have had the courage to stick to his guns and continue with Colace, Anderson and Andranik in midfield. It wasn't pretty, there wasn't a lot happening in the final third and there was certainly no width, but we looked safer and were picking up points. In changing things around, he's weakened central midfield without improving our threat in the final third.

 

best read on here for years...

...agree wholeheartedly.

i'll be there next year and the year after, so will my 14 year old son for his 5th season ticket.My youngest son is 1 and he too will be a season ticket holder at the 'well.

i have seen the latter machin / hart / spackman / parkin eras (no-on from clarke first time around was as bad as these 4( can't comment on Iley - i was too young)) my eldest has known the davey era - thank god my youngest will not have seen the worst manager we have had certainly in my life time.

whilst wanting change many a time, I have never hated a Barnsley manager - until now. the bloke is a clown.

i am so bored at games i can't even bring myself to chant 'Davey out'.

we thought melvynm's latter days were entertaining - this feller beats him.

i love working away, beer and wine. maybe that's what is spurring simon on. after all he is working away from his home town?

 

absolutely and totally 10000% spot on...but had I posted that.....

I woulda been slated from the highest ..errm Slating point.

 

RE: absolutely and totally 10000% spot on...but had I posted that.....

The Big Sign he will be manager was the 4 year contract he was given.</p>

As for the senior Academy coaches leaving, I thought that was what many of the posters wanted. So whats the issue.</p>

 

RE: If they don't get rid of Davey...

Absolutely brilliantly put, agree with every word.....until the last sentence.
I'll never turn my back on my club (whilever I can afford to go). No one man would force me out no matter what a clown he is. BFC will be here long after Simon Davey has departed and so will I.

 

define proper manager...

 

Paul Ince ?

 

i'd take him however if Cubishly or Pardew were interested!

 

Paul Ince as he may take it as for the other two... no chance

they'd take it and I don't think I'd want them</p>

Mark Robbins could be an option</p>

 

i do not want darren moore to ge tthe job at all, even in the short term but mark Robins id fancy our chances of getting

 

because you would not have put it so elequantly and so well though out

It woul dhave been a basic slating.

 

excellant points well put mate

hopefully the upper echelons at the club think the same.