Do we really want this side to be promoted?

Its that weird question again, which was discussed on here recently.
Surely no fans would say forget this season, let's consolidate and go for promotion next season instead, etc.
Lots of clubs including ours, can't afford to be choosy like that. We've got to quite literally welcome and enjoy promotion if/when it happens.
Otherwise, what's the point!.

 

And yet off the back of this seasons results as stands. (Today we were relegation material admitted) We are in the play off places. ? . Let's hope summat happens in the transfer window that might push us on.

 

This.

 

doesn't matter what we want this team hasn't got a hope in hell chance of going up

 

We do need to get out of this league but we as sure as hell won't with this team. It's far from the first time we have turned out piss poor performances Huddersfield, Orient comes into mind. Today was again woeful and it's happening too many times this season for us to have a realistic chance of promotion. We are inconsistent as a team and have not got the quality of players capable of turning a game around eg Adam Hammill style. We will be lucky to keep a top six spot by end of February.

 

It is a tricky one. The longer spent in League One the harder it will be financially and attracting players and backroom staff. If longer in League One then it may be a decline and then oh we are in League Two. If they went up this squad is nowhere near good enough to be competitive and could foresee it being quite embarrassing on a weekly basis. Personally do not trust the board, DOF, whoever to get the right signings in.

 

Yes

 

Sommats already happened we’ve signed a player who’s no better than Lofthouse got Marsh out on loan and recalled Dallas! These clowns have had 26 days of the window and failed to do what everyone knows they should have on New Years Day.
It’s unforgivable, I thought we’ll wait till last minute of window but after how bad it was Oct/Nov/Dec thought no way we’ll mess about this time? Yeah I was a mug so typically Barnsley.

 

I’ve often thought this way in the past, but have another look at the quality of the championship. It’s currently garbage.

There is a ten point gap behind 4th and then they are all pretty much as bad as each other. Look at QPR shooting from relegation certs to within touch of the play offs in only a few matches; even Hull thrashing the blades away. Look at an awful Wednesday league one team managing to hold their own for yet another season….. the league isn’t as strong as it was a few years back, just isn’t.

A promoted side with self belief and a strong modus operandi could easily stay up….. but …..SiGn A sTrIkEr!

 

Yeeeeees from me, for the love of Barnsley F.C. an no because wer 5hite, at the mo.

 

A million miles off a championship side.Take a look at the subs bench yesterday,apart from Humprys no other options.

 

Staying in league one doesn't mean rebuilding and improving, it means death for Barnsley football club because of our unsustainable losses and poor businesses plan.

The only way for our club to succeed is to get promotion. Is the squad good enough to survive in the championship? Not even close. But the squad can be changed, the league can't.

 

Not on yesterday's lack of effort we weren't

 

We all (well almost all) want our club to do the best it can but I shudder to think what this squad would achieve in the championship. I understand that we would probably have made potentially stronger signings having gone up but for me without significant investment it would have been another season of been beaten week in week out. Maybe the time has come to accept without said investment we are top end league 1and if we have a good couple of years a bottom end championship side. I hope I'm wrong but it's how I see it other than the weird lockdown season and half the 2017 season are the only 18 months we are been competitive in the championship for a good few years.

 

Tbf , historically we've not been very competitive in the second tier, one promotion to the top division in a hundred years tells us that.

 

By competitive I ment not getting beat most weeks not been odds on for relegation by Christmas. You know all them years in the championship when we finished mid table and it was deemed boring oh to have them days back.

 

Im not sure thats true - i mean he appears to have 4 fully functioning limbs so its likely he is at least a bit better.

 

Clearly this squad would be some distance off but you can’t ever “say no” to promotion.

 

The longer the window goes on with no incomings it seems to me we'll be in the loan market. We may well prove to be the stepping stone for another generation's Chris Wood or Ivan Toney, neither of whom set Oakwell on fire in their loan spells.

 

We didn't recall Dallas, Barrow didn't rate him so sent him back.