Leeds and Sheffield........new owners of Barnsley step into the VOID

What an opportunity for anyone with a bit of nous to get hold of Barnsley Football Club and make it a force !!!!!!

No debt and a HUGE HUGE potential of football supporters in the surronding built up area.

 

none of the yorkshire clubs have taken advantage over the last few years tbh.if one club had taken the oppertunity to take the intiative and tried to win over a region of success starved fotball fans and go for success they would have gained a fair few extra fans with the slump in fortunes of the yorkshire clubs

 

Its got no potential, everyone's skint, there's no jobs, and the town centre is a populated by dosser's that's been dragged up, so the last thing they can afford is £28 at Oakwell. I have to work 31 miles away to earn a decent salary. I hope to god they stop fecking about with this new town centre and make a start on it this year at least give folk something to be proud of.

A club with potential has been sold by Mr Ken Bates, ours clubs falling on its arse, if l was a billionaire l wouldn't touch it with a long stick.

 

The DON said something at the BBS meeting that I disagreed with completely but didn't say anything at the time because I didn't want to get into a long discussion about it.
He said - "Barnsley is only going to get about 13,000 fans no matter what we do".
In my opinion this is totally wrong and it is a totally wrong approach from the general manager of a business.
No matter what business you are in you should always aim higher.

There have been clubs in the Premeirship for years that have no bigger fan base than Barnsley - Blackburn, Bolton and Wigan being just 3 of them.

Barnsley has always lived under the shadow of Leeds and Sheffield. Football fans from Barnsley and the surrounding area have always gone to these cities.
Last Saturday against Sheffield Wednesday there were guys from Barnsley in the away end of the ground.

Barnsley is smack bang in the middle of a large conurbation. If Barnsley got any success then it would draw fans from not only Barnsley but also the surrounding area of population. This has been proved to be the case in the past.
When Barnsley was in the Premiership you had to have a season ticket to get in.
If Barnsley had a few seasons of continuous success then we could easily fill the WELL every home game.

As things stand at the moment people have been paying £25 - £28 to watch a losing team........and this has been going on for the last SIX seasons..................and people wonder why the attendances have been reducing !!!!!!

 

When Barnsley were in the Premiership you could buy a ticket on the day, it didn't sell out, it nearly did but we had around 500 tickets left in the North end of the West Upper. In today's climate and with todays fan base we wouldn't sell 15,000 season tickets if we got promoted, the home ends hold about 17,000. We'll sell out a few matches against the top teams but l'd bet we'd get under 20,000 for games v Wigan, Saint's, Fulham etc.

If the club had potential we would have been snapped up, instead the people on the outside see a town on its arse, a declining attendance average, a football ground that's been left to slowly rot away since being nicely built in the 1990's, a further stand that still needs building, a team that continually struggles against relegation and a fanbase that demands their manager to be sacked if their Championship status is threatened - a Championship league that is above their level financially and one that they're slowly being squeezed out of.

 

For that alone Rowing should be sacked.

 

And that's only part of the reason why Rowing needs replacing quickly. Absolutely clueless in almost every department. Rowing out.

 

Lik Turkeys voting for Christmas

as Don probably knows by now that he'll be the first casualty should any takeover go through.

 

Anyone really think a takeover will go through? We're trying to give the club away at the price Cryne is offering and we still can't find anyone. When you hear The Don say we've been on the phone with potential buyers but nothing concrete - Its a young un from Kendray doing prank calls "reyt Pete, we've done an Arab one, they sussed that out, then the Italian one we can't use that again, we did the Archibald and the Spanish one last week, what we got left? French try French this week, fecking hell, who can we use...erm Ginola" Matt Murray will now report we're in talks with a French consortium headed up by former star David Ginola.

Thee watch.

 

.............'a Championship league that is above their level financially and one that they're slowly being squeezed out of'...........we could compete financially if the directors wanted to put the club into tens of £££ millions of debt.
But the director chose not to - instead Barnsley made a profit of £30,000 last season. Some may say thats not alot of money - but its much better than being £££££ 50 MILLION +++++ in debt.

And I would say if you have only a maximum of 500 spare seats before a match then that means you are basically sold out - i.e. you aint got much chance of getting in.
Give football fans in Barnsley some incentive and they will be there - only got to look at he one off against Blackpool

 

We only had seats left in the Prem season because the rules state you can't sell every seat as a pass and you have to leave some spare for general sale!

 

Games did used to sell out, I could rarely get a ticket unless I planned a trip home well in advance.

 

Nivver heard that before.

 

Correct, I`ve seen that before.

 

I know they did but not all with season tickets (l was answering the point above saying that you had to have a season ticket to get in) One of the lads attended 90% of the home games that year buying his tickets on the day, usually at 1.30pm when it opened and l can't recall him never being able to get one, l specifically remember for the Leeds home game he got one from the box office 30 mins before kick off, and for the Man Utd home game he pushed through for nowt with me. (sorry Mr Dennis...)

 

Correct

The club were quite proud of the fact that they'd managed to sell out all the available season tickets and would've been able to sell the ones the Premier League made them keep behind, too.

 

If we got promoted with a good season behind us I reckon we'd easily sell out our home stands week in, week out.

We'd sell out on season ticket allocations as well.

 

I think we'd average less than Wigan in today's current economical climate and football prices, l don't think we would sell as many season tickets as 97/98.

 

We would easily get bigger crowds than Wigan....nailed on 100%

We are well located off the M1/M62 in the middle of the country to offer teams the 6000 seats in the north which again most teams would fill!!

 

Wigan seem to do oreight on an half empty ground.....