Realists? Defeatists? Or pessimists? Been watching em long enough to admit this season we are gone. So whats that make me?
Doesn't make you anything at the moment. In a month or so it'll make you either right or wrong. I think we'll probably be relegated. Before the Leicester game I thought we'd survive, now I don't. Not because of the result, but because of the injuries and the strength in depth of the squad. But I don't know for certain, because as bad as we are, we're still only 3 points from safety, although it may as well be 4 with our goal difference. I wouldn't admit we were definitely relegated if that was the situation with two games to go, so I'm not going to do it with eleven still to play. If we do manage it, it'll be no great victory like last season. We'll have spawned it thanks to three other pathetic teams, while the squad we'll be left with isn't fit for purpose in the Championship. I doubt it'll do much in league 1 for that matter. We're in a mess, whether it's relegation or survival.
For what its worth, I think we'll be down with a few games to spare. And next season's team is only going to have a handful of this season's squad in it, so whoever is going to be in charge needs to be able to build a team from scratc and with very little money, hopefully not relying on loan players, players past their best or players that clearly never wanted to move to Barnsley in the first place. With hindsight we have wasted a lot of money on the players we've brought in since Christmas, the most annoying part being that it has led to players like Digby, RNL, Rose, Cywka and Paddy not getting games.
I remember going to Ipswich, with about 4 games of the season left about 7 years ago, I watched us get spanked 5-1 and though to myself, that's it, we're down now. I remember going to Coventry the season after, during a spell of really bad form and see us get hammered 4-0, and thought to myself, we're fecked. I remember watching us lose 6 of the first 7 games of the season under Simon Davey, thinking we hadn't a prayer of doing anything that season either. Don't get me started on last season, at Christmas nobody would have given us a chance, and after we got beat at Hillsbrough with everyone around us winning, I knew for certain we weren't going to stay up that season either. Thing is, the difference is 3 points, as silly as it sounds a win on Saturday and results to finally go our way, and we're our of the bottom 3. Yes we've been dire this year, but it isn't over until its physically impossible for us to go down.
It'll take a turnaround in players attitude of biblical proportions to save us Whilst that could happen, in my opinion this current lot are just the culmination of years of poor management at a higher level. It has seemed to me that we've gone season to season on short term contracts, loan players etc and not looked 3,4,5 years ahead and put plans in place. We're forever firefighting, reacting to events and look where we are. If that hasn't been the case then I haven't seen any evidence to the contrary, happy to be educated. A massive opportunity to re-establish ourselves pissed away. Just about had enough, **** it.
Re: It'll take a turnaround in players attitude of biblical proportions to save us I hope that's not a dig at the man who saved us? We wouldn't have a club if it wasn't for him. Apparently.
Re: It'll take a turnaround in players attitude of biblical proportions to save us It's not a dig, just an observation as I, as a mere fan have seen things. I don't know the decision making process and management structure at BFC, I just see the results.
Re: It'll take a turnaround in players attitude of biblical proportions to save us I hope the club takes on board the comments of some of their long standing supporters, irrespective of whether we're relegated or not. It's fairly obvious that there's a great many that have simply had enough of year on year struggle and reluctantly will look to spend their disposable income elsewhere. These people are ones who have been going for decades, not simply on the jaunts to Wembley or the Millennium Stadium. If the club can't convince these people they are valued, needed & wanted, then it's highly unlikely it'll be capable of attracting new fans with little connection to it.
Re: It'll take a turnaround in players attitude of biblical proportions to save us Something was lost for me when we went through the Admin process, I thought we were getting it back when Ritchie & Holden got us promoted, but since then, in my opinion, the club's lost its way on and off the field. There have been some disastrous appointments in the board room and the dugout in my opinion, and I think we're ******.
Re: It'll take a turnaround in players attitude of biblical proportions to save us For whatever reason, there's a massive contrast in the effort of the players in last season's run-in, with that of many of those in the red shirt I witnessed on the pitch at Watford. Can Danny motivate the likes of Mellis, Frimpong and others to play flat-out for 90 minutes for the cause? I do wonder, and if he can't extract some passion from ALL the players in this run-in, we're as good as down. An example of an almost indifferent attitude is that of Mellis for Watford's third goal. He played a very casual pass near the edge of our area which was easily intercepted, and then made a half-hearted attempt to track back to make amends, was easily beaten, and resulted in their third.
Re: It'll take a turnaround in players attitude of biblical proportions to save us I know you do, mate. You are putting up a reasoned argument as why you feel as you do. There'll be other long standing fans not posting on the BBS, who'll be thinking along exactly the same lines that'll simply stop (or have already stopped) going. The club can ill afford to lose these supporters, never mind look to bring in new ones.
Re: It'll take a turnaround in players attitude of biblical proportions to save us Get f.ucked you boring old *****.
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