Can't for the life of me seeing us having enough to win today. MT adds mobility over COG, but reduces our size/weight against Brum, who are usually physically imposing, to say the least. Must be some doubt about him being fit enough to start in any event. If Brum beat us, by 5.00 pm next Saturday we'll have lost another three. 11 points from 57. The way this squad stacks up, I don't see us repeating the Great Escape. They're all too comfortable (including the Manager). It'll be an awful long way back from League One, as Blunts, Bristol and Coventry will attest. Question is: how long will the Board wait?
Lose today and there is no way back for Flicker IMO. I don't think a draw is enough but the board may give him a bit longer if we don't lose.
I get that the results so far haven't been good enough. I get that, based on those results, some people think the manager should go. I don't agree with them, I think it's too early, but I understand where they're coming from. What I don't get is people predicting our downfall and claiming the manager has to go based on the results of matches we haven't even played yet! I'm going to the game this afternoon hoping we'll win. I hope Paddy dances through the defence and slots one home. I hope Pedersen, now he's back to full fitness and had the chance to rest after an intense period of games, is firing on all cylinders and bangs in a couple more. If we lose feel free to go nuts, but I don't see the point in predicting doom and gloom before we've played the match. If we all had that attitude I'm pretty certain we would lose due to the negative atmosphere we'd create in the ground.
We need a little run, don't we? It's Saturday morning of a home game, so my optimism starts to fill up (strange how that happens, innit)........come on Flicker, let's get a dominant 3 points and get some vitality and positivity back in this great Club of ours.
For me it shouldn't matter yet at this stage. I really think the excellent second half of last season should have earned him a full season this time around. Make a decision if necessary then. We have great fans on the whole at Barnsley but its amazing how fickle some are, if he was the right man for the job in August he isn't someone else by Christmas.
Don't think I said there that the Manager has to go, Jay? My question was how long will the Board wait? For myself, I'd love to see Warnock as DOF because I think he could help in the areas where Flicker lacks experience (he could be in charge of the bollockings, for a start!). As for atmosphere, that's a two way thing and the team needs to perform to a level that generates some excitement, surely? As for "going nuts...". Not really my style, but as things stand, I don't see another 300+ of my hard-earned going to a league one club next season. But like you, I hope we win!
Except that it appears in this case he is. Gone is the pressing, attacking football in favour of a return to a more pedestrian, limited style. Neither the manager nor the team appear to be the same as the one that finished the season and gave us so much hope over the summer months. i don't want flicker sacked. I want him to succeed because by extension that means that BFC is succeeding. I want him to succeed because I genuinely like the guy despite him sounding like a loon at times in post-match interviews. That said, I can see him getting sacked if things don't change for the better soon and if that's the decision that's seen as best for the club's future then I have to trust in the people making that decision.
IF COG does play, and our first supposed attack has us sticking said COG up the left hand side where TK tries to find him with a 40 metre punt, we should collectively invade the pitch and commence a sit down strike. And not be moved till someone promises a Plan B. (This collective encroachment activity can properly be described as "cause and effect", and not incitement to create public disorder, just in case A Plod reads it)
