Is this the worst team since...

I've been watching Barnsley since the Viv Anderson days and I cant remember a side with so many weeknesses as this team. We need upgrades in almost every position.

 

You don't remember the team under Glyn Hodges? nt

 

Is that a joke? ..... try the team that got relegated .....

.... from this league and the teams that p*ssed about in League One for the last 3 years before we got promoted.

We may have weaknesses now but we've had plenty of excitement and attacking football over the last 12 months or so, believe me we have suffered a lot more in the past than we are at the moment!

 

When did you start watching? nt

 

RE: Is that a joke? ..... try the team that got relegated .....

i've mentally blocked those years from my mind.

 

RE: my point is...

Relegation this season wont take any fan by suprise, but when we got relegated last time nobody thought it possible.

 

I did, it was nailed on all season last time!! nt

 

post about worst team etc are so over the top

becasue some of the football i have seen at oakwell this year beats that of promotion to the prem!

 

RE: my point is...

Our 'relative' position in the division is much weaker than last time around though. We're weaker financially as a result of administration and subsequent rebuilding and our squad consists largely of players who are stepping up to a new level for the first time.

Previously, we were an 'established' club in this league (we still hold the record for the most years spent there, I believe) so relegation was always to be seen as a drop below our 'natural level'. Realistically, at the moment, our 'natural level' is most likely as a yoyo club between the two leagues.

One thing that is very apparent to me this season is that there are far more 'big clubs' in this league than before. I suppose this is a consequence of 'small clubs' (for want of a better phrase) like Wigan, Reading and Watford being in the Premiership. We were never one of the 'big hitters' in this division, even after we'd come down from the Premiership, but this year the financial gulf feels huge between ourselves and the vast majority of other teams.

Also, the Premiership deal has moved on from the time we were there (and will apparently do so again this summer) so the teams that come down and are on parachute money are, relatively speaking, far better equipped to cope financially than we ever were.

The gap is huge already, and is growing.

 

RE: yes yes what he said...

that was my point...we're not as equipped to survive as we were last time. We're now small time, where as before we were an ex prem team.

It makes me sick to think of all the money we squandered. £4m for Ashley Ward...where did that go? What we could do with that now.

 

Depends which team you mean ...

Ritchie's team were very entertaining losers.
Davey's team are negative, clueless losers.

On the other hand - I'm sure McCann & Mattis will sort things out.

Witmaptochesterfieldart.

 

How do you think we paid for the White Elephant , I mean North Stand? nt

 

I was talking about our last relegation .....

.... from the Championship. Ritchie, Davey, are you on drugs? they were merely a glint in the chairmans eye at that point!

 

Not much of that in the last 11 games however.

I hope we aren't going for the "digging in" approach to survive.

 

Aye.

Popped my response in the wrong hole by mistake.
That's what I keep telling Mrs Ponty anyway.

Probably the least entertaining team I've seen was Hart's deluge of dosile central defenders.
The most inept was Parkin's bretheren of basement league battlers.
The least likely to string a set of passes together was Spankman's melee of midfield mis-fits.

Davey's set of second division spackers look pretty clueless to me though.

 

Erm...no!

What about the team under Spackman, Parkin and Hodges - as someone said above this team has played some really good football. The mentality has changed over the last 10 or so games but it's certainly not the worst football I've seen since Anderson.

 

You ain't been watching long enough

I've been attending a long time down at Oakwell and believe me this is nowhere near the worst team - not by a long chalk.

 

RE: I did, it was nailed on all season last time!!

Yeah, can remember the Burnley away game that season, we drew 3-3. After the final whistle had gone, you and your mates were singing "time to go" at Spackman when he was walking towards the tunnel with his arm round Lumsden

 

yes - i wish we had the magical Paul Gibbs roving down the left wing

or Lee "the wizard" Crookes playing for us again

ffs