Incomers?

A lot of posters on this site are Barnsley folk in exile.
Wonder how many there are like myself who have moved here from other areas.

 

Where you from mate?

 

I imagine you're in the minority certainly, can't say I know a single Barnsley fan not from Barnsley- not exactly the kind of club one would glory support.

 

Think you'll be pleasantly surprised mate tbh

 

Why not?
Some of us just like to support a true and honest football side rather than the soulless money laden clubs such as Chelsea/Man C or Man U.
That result on Saturday meant more to me than a Champions league win had I supported Man U.

OK I don't live in Barnsley as the OP mentioned but I do try to make the occasional visit and I do take an active interest in "my" English club through these boards.

Barnsley, A true and traditional football club.

 

There's quite a few who use this site who are dedicated Barnsley supporters who have never lived in the town and often with very little connection to Barnsley at all.

 

Interesting, never knew to be honest. The one name that did come into my head when I posted was Arabian Ian having seen him on a few forums over the last few years. I didn't mean it as a slight on Barnsley should be noted- I agree entirely with what Ian said further up the thread but I just feel most outside of Barnsley don't see it the same- especially when you have Leeds and the Sheffield clubs nearby folk from nearby places like Wakefield were hardly going to choose Barnsley over them.

 

I love Tomi's story of 'glory hunting'

It makes me laugh just re-reading it. In his own words (the post is now archived)...

I didn't really have any kind of a connection to begin with, I suppose I just jumped on the Premiership bandwagon like a lot of other fans.
They used to show Premier League games on TV here in Finland back then, the first Barnsley match that I ever saw was the 7-0 defeat against Manchester United. Maybe it was the masochist in me, or the fact that I've always liked to support the underdogs, but I really wanted Barnsley to survive after that, so I started following them. Well, they didn't survive, but luckily for me, the Finnish TV station lost the rights to Premier League games after that season, and started showing Division One games instead... so I was able to watch quite a few Barnsley matches again the following season!

I joined a Barnsley FC mailing list around that time, that was a great way to stay informed before the age of twitter and facebook etc... The mailing list is of course long gone now, but some of the people from the list actually still post on this BBS. Some of those people have helped me a lot over the years, and for that I'll be eternally grateful, and I can't think of a single bad thing to say about Barnsley fans... except that they can be such a miserable bunch of people sometimes, but that's a different story!

Even though I was already quite mad about Barnsley FC, there was one more funny coincidence that made sure that Barnsley would be my team for the rest of my life. In July 2000 Barnsley came to Finland during their pre-season tour, and they played a friendly match against my small local team...! (I think they may have been the first "big" foreign team to ever come here) I went to see them training the day before the match, and got to talk to Dave Bassett and all the players. Barnsley won the game 4-0 with Bruce Dyer scoring first, and then the super-sub Neil Shipperley scoring a 2nd half hat-trick...

I visited England and Barnsley for the first time in 2002, my first match at Oakwell was Norwich at home... yes, the game that sent us down to Division Two! Not the best possible timing perhaps for my first game, but again, in some sick and twisted way I'm happy that I was there that day, haha. I was a bit of a celebrity for a day too, as Barnsley Chronicle wanted to write a "little story about my visit to Barnsley", and to my surprise there was a huge photo of me with the story on the front page of the Chronicle the next day!

The promotion at the Millennium Stadium felt so much better after witnessing the rather abysmal performance that got us relegated (I had visited Barnsley a few times in between those two games - I felt that I had to mention that to prove that I don't only show up for the big games! ) and the depressing time during the administration. Nick Colgan's penalty save in the play-off final is still my favourite football related memory, and Barnsley have provided me with quite a few happy memories.

 

Re: I love Tomi's story of 'glory hunting'

What happened to him do you know? He still following us?

 

He's still on here

Probably some of his posts in the threads below.

 

I have never lived in Barnsley. Born in Harrogate, brought up in Lincolnshire, lived in Sheffield for 7 years and now I'm in Russia. Where I used to have a season ticket in the Ponty, there was a bloke in front of me with a West Country accent, and someone not far away who had a Scottish accent. Both as passionate about BFC as anyone Barnsley born and bred.

 

Probably something we take for granted because those of us from the town wouldn't expect an outsider to support the club. That's nothing against the club, it's the geography I suppose with a catchment area restricted by having so many professional clubs clustered together.

We won't have big numbers of fans from outside of the town although I do know the odd person from Wakefield who attends games and some who live on the other side of the "Welcome to Rotherham/Doncaster" signs but nowhere really that surprising.

It was unfortunate when I was growing up that a lot of my peers I'd play football with in the park would turn up in their Wednesday or Leeds kits simply because they'd been attracted to the local division 1/premier league club as opposed to the mid-table division 2 club, both were doing relatively well around the time I suppose with Wednesday getting to a few cup finals and Leeds had won the league so I suppose there was an element of glory-chasing which a lot of people seem programmed to do.

 

Born in Germany (army family) - Scottish parents - raised in Chester - studied in Sheffield - married a Barnsley girl - now domiciled? in Ardsley. Barnsley Season ticket holder for almost two decades.

 

Re: I love Tomi's story of 'glory hunting'

Still posts quite regularly. Follows me on twitter.

 

*like*

 

Re: I love Tomi's story of 'glory hunting'

The closest I've ever lived to Barnsley was York - I was born and now again live in the West Midlands.

Ended up supporting the club because my dad and his family are from the area. Oddly enough, I came to the reds quite late - I can definitely remember calling myselves a Wolves fan at one point.

 

Re: I love Tomi's story of 'glory hunting'

I was born in Barnsley, but left at 10 days of age to move to Wakefield, then Glasgow, then Croydon. Horsham, Kensington and abroad until I returned to live firstly in Harrogate and then to my current abour betwixt Huddersfield and Barnsley. So in some ways I'm an 'incomer'

 

Re: I love Tomi's story of 'glory hunting'

Born and bred in Sheffield. Choice of a couple of clubs there, but fortunately my Dad grew up in tarn so took me to Oakwell 25 years ago. After a few games watching the likes of Baker, Agnew, Currie and Thomas, there was no chance of me supporting anyone else.

 

Re: I love Tomi's story of 'glory hunting'

Family moved to Selby in 87 a couple of weeks before I was born but my dad assures me i was conceived in the Barnsley district! Moved out to carry on working at the pits and have been here since travelling back for every home game except two since the mid nineties and following away about 15 times a season. So though I've never lived in Barnsley it's something in my blood from my dads side (my mums from Worthing....don't ask) that me and my 12 year old brother have taken to and when my first born comes in November he or she will be an avid reds fan!

 

I am a West Yorkshire lad.... born and raised in Ponty but love the super reds!!!!

My dad aint from Tarn either....