Davey has failed to deliver.. what has he failed to deliver! We are still in the championship. or are you saying we are such a big fooking club now because we had ONE season in the Prem that we should be in the Prem!!!!!!.. i don't get it.. please enlighten me..
I think we should aim for more than just avoiding relegation every year. Not saying we should be expecting the Prem, but upper/mid table isn't too much to ask for. It's also the way we play, the tactical ineptitude and the lack of decent attacking football. Davey has delivered last-ditch survival twice, and looks like doing it for a third time. We're way ahead of where we were in the dark days of League One but I think Davey isn't going to take us any further. I hope I turn out to be wrong. If we had invested in a striker who could score 15 goals a season and not stuck with Odejayi for so long things might have been different. Burnley, Bristol City, Swansea, Donny etc are all small clubs who have either recently been in League One and/or are of similar size to us. They aren't achieving anything that we shouldn't be aiming for.
RE: I think we should aim for more We played attacking football today. We spent over 1 million on Hume who was to be our 15 goals a season striker.
Shouldn't we be looking to improve year on year? I don't take 3 successive relegation battles as sign of improvement
BUT thats the life of a Barnsley fan.. fook this midtable ******, i want excitement and edge of the seat stuff LOL
SD claimed that he would make the team more competitive and he certainly has done that. In my opinion that is improvement in itself.
RE: I think we should aim for more But how often have we played like that in the last 3 years? Or even in the last season? And once again we didn't score, which is our biggest weakness. I'm not saying we don't play well in patches, but nothing wrong with wanting an improvement.
Burnley are on a **** or bust attempt at the premiership. they are around 130% of their wage budget as reported on here. Bristol City get higher home gates than ourselves thus can attract players with a higher salary on offer, swansea have had loads of invest ment and have a bigger turnover plus a manager who's signings have all come off as good buys. Doncaster had a spell since christmas, lost the last three
Perhaps but if we're content with finishing just above the relegation places every year, then we've had three very successful seasons...
always want to move on and i would settle for being a consistant mid table club. I think the squad is two players from being this.
I'm a Davey fan.........but he has failed to deliver this season Last season we had the FA Cup run that clouded things We aint had that this season and yet we are still relegation fodder Therefore we haven't improved from last season Why? I dont know whats happened behind the scenes but I would guess that new players in the close season were chased and nothing came of it. Leaving us with a very very poor ability to score goals both up front and from midfield. That was solved to a certain degree at Christmas but by then the losing mentality had set in. It was too late to solve the problem. I think no matter what, if we stop up or get relegated..........Simon Davey will be sacked at the end of the season Or, at the very least, if we stay up he will be given a warning, say a revue of his performance in October. Its still 50/50 that we will stay up
When you look at the quality this season though, it's been dire. 37 league goals in 38 games is dismal and we've got NIL in 17 league games this season. Davey has been a bit unlucky with injuries this season but even then the football he dishes up is awful to watch generally.
It would not matter who the manager was Ady! 3 seasons of struggle is not progress, In my opinion we are better than that. We were a championship side (previously Div2 granted) for some 20= years which involved a season in the premier league. If we were English second tier for so long then thaqt suggests we are capable of that. The problem ? well thats simple , the admin period which arguably was caused by the Prem season. The instability I feel is not at the team management level , but Higher up.We have had a series of board changes and to me thats the biggest root cause of the instability. OK lets stick with Simon, fine. yes its reeeeally Dragon saying that. Hopefully as our board gains stability so will he too..lets just hope its not at the cost of a trip to league 1 though.
