In the summer BFC should......

1) Relieve the current management team of their duties thank them for their efforts and wish them well.

2) Employ a manager with a track record of management at this level whether he's a dinosaur or not. Bassett was and he got us to within a penalty miss of the premier league.BFC have a track record of setting unknown / unexperienced managers and crossing their fingers that it works.Ritchie and Wilson obvious exceptions. Steve Parkin, Viv Anderson, John Hendrie, Nigel Spackman were massive mistakes and the fans should not have to stand for this level of gambling again. If we can afford to give an unproven manager a 4 year contract after a few cup wins then we can afford to give a experienced manager a one or two year deal to get the club heading the right way back up the division. And nobody will ever be able to convince me that 'nobody wants to come to Barnsley' utter ******, people always want jobs and a challenge. And the whole 'we are a small club we should be happy with what we've got' why should we? why the hell when you are shelling out £325 a season be happy with 18th 19th 20th best??? whats wrong with wanting more?

3) Close the Academy and accept the fact that we hardly ever have anybody of real quality come through because the youth of S.Yorkshire no doubts have bigger clubs to join namely our bitter Sheffield neighbours and Leeds. Its not worth the money and effort put in to it.

4) Bring back an ex red legend to act as an ambassador / technical director / coach. Whatever!!! But somebody who knows what the club means to the fans and the local area, someone for the fans to identify with.

5) Allow fans to buy a piece of the club and own a % and elect a supporters spokesman who can represent the fans at board level.

6) Recruit as a matter of urgent priority a chairman to front the club and let Patrick take a backseat from anything at all to do with hiring and firing, transfers etc like he would prefer. The chairman dosen't have to be from a football background (they never are anyway) hopefully someone who is young and dynamic and can bring fresh and modern ways of thinking to the very 'old fashioned' and 'out of date' way BFC do their business.

7) Remove themselves from the 'same as every bugger elses' official website look and go independent. Scrap this whole 'Barnsley World' ****** and never again expect fans to subscribe to a service to hear commentry on THEIR football team when playing away from home, interviews etc etc. Employ fans to run the site who are obsessive, anal and total anoraks to create the ultimate FANS site. Just try to be different for once, try and be unique try and be club for fans where fans feel part of the club.

Now i agree i am being probably totally naive on certian if not all of the above points, but WHY THE HELL NOT? we are pay our money year in year out and its about time we had it our way. Football has turned into a total money orientated ugly monster that is ripping the soul out of the man on the street.

If none of the above happen i would find it very difficult to justify to myself buying a season ticket and indeed commuting a 200 mile round trip for every home game, nor would i want to. Can i face another season of dour home games, nothing happening at the ground to entice you to arrive early and entertain you and struggling to follow the fortunes of my beloved side from a distance due to poxy contractual regs i.e internet and radio

 

3) the academy thing. Alternatively get Dave Hancock out of the picture and get new people running the academy.

5) Buying a share in the club. This was put to the club and barry 'the genius' taylor said it wouldn't work

 

Come on as your meer friend would say, surely its "Simples" nt

 

I imagine there is a lot of red tape and criteria to be met for a share issue. We may not be able to do it in our current position.

 

1 & 2)Hignett Factor and Who is out of work and will take the club forward without spending huge sums of money on either his wages or a new squad?
3)THe academy has been mis managed. The club should be using it as a marketing tool. " look we are a small town club with the coutries best facilites and coaches and your kid gets a game"
4) Who would you bring back? big eric? no thanks needs someone that younger fans can relate to and will have seen on the telly in colour.
5) nice idea
6)One of the problems is seems that people have on this board is the current regeime lacks footballing knowledge due to them being 'outside the game'. Would a young dynamic chairman from outside the game improve matters excluding basic marketing skills?
7) Contract issues. But its something I agree with

 

As I now seem to be subject matter expert can I point out another further inaccuracy. Dave Hancock as I mentioned yesterday has the role of "Academy Operations Manager" at the club. This means he is an administrator keeping the mandatory records required by the FA for Academy boys (with some coaching responsibilities for the younger kids) but is not in overall charge of the Academy, which has a strict hierarchy to comply with FA rules. The Academy Manager and his Deputy run the academy and Dave is therefore subordinate to them

 

Are you sure? I thought dave sat on the chairmans throne according to the world on here!

 

Steve Parkin wasn't a mistake, he took over a club in absolute turmoil & wasn't given a chance.

He was roundly f.cked by BFC & it's administrators as well.

 

I would agree with most of your points

1. I would do this earlier to avoid relegation.

2. Would agree a Manager with experience, there are plenty around and do not understand that any BFC supporter is happy to languish in the lower half of the tables or leagues.

3. The Academy needs to be 'productive' for BFC all we seem to use it for at the moment is to produce players then get shut of them for peanuts i.e. Rob Atkinson.

4. We have a 'Legend' already employed or partially employed Spud Murphy would not want any of the others suggested except perhaps Glavin

5. Not sure about fans becoming shareholders. Just imagine the uproar
on this site if some of us were 'shareholders' they would create a 'nightmare' for the club.

6. Would not be in favour of any watering down of Patrick's role but agree a better board structure would help with an experienced football brain on the board. Somebody who has done it with success.

7. I would start by burying the hatchet with Radio Sheffield and make the Barnsley World commentry a 'free service'

I do think there is a a need for a proffesional PR man at the club all we seem to get is 'unofficial' leaks., not good for popularity.

 

Good post

Agree with most of the points on there, just can't see all of the above happening because i cant see the club giving too much control to the fans, or turning down the opportunity to make more money.

 

Unfortunately 7 will never happen

The website is provided by FLPTV - a Football League venture. BFC is under contract to them for the forseeable and so will continue to use their templates for the content.
The League hold the copyrights for match highlights etc, not the club, so the club are not in a position to offer such things free of charge.

 

RE: Unfortunately 7 will never happen

Do you know how long the contract has to run? The most recent articles about it that Google finds are from 2004, which state a 3 year deal so presumably a new contract was negotiated then. But for how long?

 

Cheers, thought as much nt

 

shall we do what charlton did ,release curbishley who had took them as far as they could go ,where are they now thru squandering millions on managers,and ambitious fans ,lets leave patrick to it let him make the decisions its his money invested patience and we will progress,not sack managers who are doing ok,look at clubs who ave got rid of managers norwich ,plymouth,charlton ,watford,we aint a big club if your not happy with what your spending on season ticket leave it in your pocket .

 

what a load of b!"£$%^s

 

Its not PC's club its ours.

Without us there is nothing.Chairman/owners come and go.

 

Point on 2)

Paul Hart. Premiership manager.

Just that.

 

I remember a similar post a year or two back

Ended up in all sorts of nastiness.

 

Look at the Mess No5 has caused down the road! No Thank you!!! nt

 

!n 1966 with the club languishing in the 4th Division

the Board of Directors tried to raise 40K share issue. I understand that less than 3K were provisionally requested by our fans. Two members of the Board put in money to buy Thomas and Evans and the rest is history.