come out with some sort of statement about the future of Simon Davey. If he leaves the fans without any idea of what his plans are, i'm affraid season ticket sales will be almost non existent and the fans will become even more demoralised. What are your thoughts Mr Cryne?
Cryne the mute has to explain a lot of things, the Davey situation, the lack of a chairman, our ambitions, ect. Stronger together?
Cryne 'the mute', is the main reason BFC is still a viable football club playing Championship level football. Cast your mind back to administration. Would you have taken this if someone had shown you our 2009 back then? Cryne doesn't do this for the glory like some chairman, he does it because he loves BFC, and its the best we have and will have for many years to come. If fans continue to give him a hard time he will walk because he doesn't need this and he isn't in it for the 'buzz'. Let him do his job and when someone else is in a position to take over the reins, with more money to inject and more passion and ambition to offer, then, and only then, should we criticise. Until then we need to respectfully acknowledge his efforts so far. He isn't looking to fleece the club or strip the assets and I'm eternally grateful for that. He isn't short sighted, nor is he looking for a quick return. How lucky are we? What's the alternative MarioKempes?
anyone who disses Mr Cryne is a total and absoulte pillock The man is a legend as far as i am concerned
We need a chairman, fact. He's running the club like a cornershop which amazes me considering how successful he was in business. The small minded approach will catch up on us no matter how much good will there is - sentiment will not keep us in the championship. Yes he did save us but that does not place him above question and criticism.
Look at the clubs below us in the league.Ambitious clubs with much better resources and better supported (double what we get) and realise we punching well above our weight.
look at the teams above us - Burnley, Doncaster, Blackpool all with lower crowds than us and Preston averaging slightly more than us The three teams who went down don't have a pot to piss in between 'em
I'm not saying he should be above question or criticism. I'm saying he is the best thing that happened to this club in many a year and I don't see anything else on the horizon to change that view. If we lost him we would be struggling big time and would be League 1 or 2 (Div 3, 4) for sure. We aren't a big club, our attendances are well below the league average, and whilst it might be a bitter pill to swallow, we are punching above our weight, largely due to Cryne.
no one is questioning is loyalty all we want is a statement of intent for next season Davey in or out
But Southampton signed a player for £1.3m I believe in the summer. Norwich must have spent a fair whack on wages for all those loan players, a lot which seemed impressive signings at the time.
well said AIRTyke,but I do feel there's a lot of frustration being generated by the deafening silence and I don't just mean as a result of today. I think most of us appreciate our saviour and I'm very sincere when I use that term but, will ,imho, continue to be left with this situation for sometime. At somepoint somone somewhere associated with the club will come out and put us straight. Until then we are left to play the guessing game , to conjecturise about whats been said by an uncle who has a friend who works at Tesco and has good relationships with someone who cannot be named, at the well. Finally, there will be those who enjoy and are convincing rumourmill merchants and who will try to convince everyone that Davey is to be sacked and replaced by a dynamic new manager. I think it's beeen like this since the Days of Tim Ward but, we don't seem to have been left in the dark for as long as we do in these modern times. Perhaps thats the way it is. Just so happy to retain our division status.
Exactly People may not be happy with Davey, but after everything Cryne has achieved with the club so far, I entirely trust his judgement on this one.
RE: But Who was that? Let's not forget we signed a player for £1.2m We have brought plenty of loan players in as well - the thing about these deals is we have no idea how much they costs i.e what percentage does the loaning club contribute to the player's wages??
RE: But It was some French midfielder, Morgan Schneiderlin or something. This bloke played the whole season for them as well, ours was finished after a few games. You could say the team that finished the season was built on a shoestring on that basis. In fact, most of the players out there today were free transfers.
Cryne will always be a legend for us. However there's plenty that needs looking at. Including......... 1) Why we don't have a chairman. 2) The Barnsley One website and the whole Mark Stokes thing. 3) The lack of quality merchandise in our club shop. 4) The lack of chip and pin machines in the club shop. I believe there's only one. 5) Why tickets are so difficult to get ordered over the phone or online. 6) Why season ticket prices weren't available for next season a long time ago and allowed to gain interest with the money sat untouched in the bank. 7) Why official coaches are so much more expensive than pub ones. For the little cash we will make from the high prices, it's surely better to sell tickets at break even which would result in more fans going. 8) Why the Barnsley World team and subscribers have to deal with a sub standard product. People deserve better.
I'm not criticising Mr Cryne in any way But why are we punching above our weight? We've spent the majority of our history playing at this level of football. I believe we've played more seasons at this level than any other club. The vast majority of that we managed without Mr Cryne. That's not to say what Mr Cryne has done is not appreciated because it is, but we were a viable second tier club for decades without Mr Cryne and I fully expect us to be one again for many, many years long after he is gone.
RE: I'm not criticising Mr Cryne in any way I think money plays a bigger part in success today than it probably did 20 years ago. I agree with you we have been a div 2 (in old money) club traditionally, but I think over the last 15 years or so, success and financial clout have become tied much more closely. Whilst it's not 1:1, if it were football would be truly doomed, I think its a much stronger correlation than it was, which is what I mean when I say we are probably punching above our weight.
