Do You like watching good football or are just interested in the result

I actually get enjoyment out of watching the whole game unfold, I take pleasure in watching TARN and the opposition (to a lesser extent) play good football. Don't get me wrong, I'm gutted if we lose, but I can still enjoy it if we play well.

 

It's got to be both

I want entertaining and a result, but when push comes to shove the result is more important.

 

agreed

because if you play good football and dont get a result, you will get relegated and the football will be poor.

 

Is it though?

Ultimately it's entertainment, something to watch on a Saturday afternoon. Whilst I want to see the side win I'm not sure how long my interest would be sustained in seeing them win 1-0 in boring, defensive games. We'd then be moaning that we weren't entertaining. Barnsley are never going to be one of the top sides winning stuff, we might at best flirt briefly with the top division, so it comes down to being entertained and I'd rather see us playing quality football and flitting between this division and the one below, than being mid-table in this division all the time but playing crap.
Of course that doesn't mean the 2 can't go together and have quality football from a winning side.

 

There are two ways of looking at this.Do prefer the Reds win 6-0 aginst 9 men eg PORTSMOUTH or 5-1 against BLACKBURN 7-1 aginst HUDDRESFIELD 3-0 against PIGS OR my particular best beer hazed game 4-2 against ROTHERHAM at that tip called Millmoor

 

Good post.......couldn't agree more

 

"Barnsley are never going to be one of the top sides winning stuff"

not wanting an all out arguement on this, and I can see your point...

but there are teams in the Prem who not so long ago, where in a lower position than us, had lower gates than us and are now established prem teams doing relatively well...

ie
Bolton
Charlton
Portsmouth
Blackburn
Wigan

not to mention

Watford and Reading


All these teams when in similar position to ours, got similar gates etc

Barnsley probably initially set off the "belief" in smaller clubs getting in the top flight, and since then there has been many get there too...

I refuse to believe that "one day" we will never be established (and sustain) and compete at a higher level and begin to gradually keep getting higher...

I have what, probably 40/50 years of watching BFC left (if It don't take me earlier), and for people not to beleive that one day we can make it, well whats the point in going now!

its a belief thing, and maybe whats happened to us the last few years has really hit a few people hard. But dreams and belief/Hope are what many still cling to, if everyone took the stance of, we are never going to make it, then whats the point. (although this probably explains our ***** attendances)