Thing is, you are, aren't you? This week has been the worst in my memory. Those glorious years with Danny replaced by 'business rationale'. At times it has been so bad that I feel like it would be better not to be bothered but I'm afraid I still am. I'm very bothered. Really don't know where we are going to go from here. ****ing awful decision to sack Danny - awful.
It's like a parable for modern times. The rise of a business culture where everyone is a 'manager' not just an operative. Good people sacrificed everywhere for "business reasons". We have a club which is a business, but which has no soul. This is not my club.
Im bothered and worried after the oldham game we were all thinking about play offs now its terrible all because they were afraid of st sales dropping if we stuck with wilson they will drop alot more if we go to league two.
Said it a few times. If they aren't going to give Danny, with all his experience and a good record over 1000 games time to get it right - everyone following him is screwed. I dont like the message that sends out. That hard earned reputation of a good solid well run club under John Dennis looks a very distant memory. Yes, I guess football has changed, but not for the better.
no matter how unrealistic that was, the fact that it was even being discussed, only 2 weeks ago, in a season that was all along supposed to be about rebuiding for the future, shows just what a f*****g horrible awful decision it was to get rid of Wilson. When we sign some "up and coming" manager from league 2 because no one we have heard off will touch us with a shitty stick, i hope the 'success now' wilson out brigade realise they got what they wished for. its been 2 days now and i cant get over how angry i am at the ineptitude of supposedly intelligent people at the top of our club.
I think people are bothered, but after about ten years of continual struggle, managerial vacancy after managerial vacancy and lurching from one inept incident to the next, a fair few fans are now de-sensitised to it all. As much as I hate seeing BFC in this mess, I have almost been amused at the ineptitude and seemingly comical way this week has turned out. Good mates who are proper supporters are texting me basically laughing at the situation. They'd have been boiling over with anger a few years ago. Such is the apathy starting to set in. That's where the club has to be careful, because when long-term supporters begin to lose interest, it can be difficult to re-attract those people. I will say, I think sacking a manager with Wilson's record, who put together this team and over-saw such awful displays was entriely logical. I feel it was simply because it flew in the face of the club's rhetoric of rebuilding, plus the fact that Wilson was popular, that has created the furore. I found it hard to defend Wilson, but equally think the club has made a terrible mess of things. A complex web of ineptitude and apathy remains.
For God's sake look at where it all matters - on the pitch. Look at what you were having to watch. Remember the atmosphere at the last home game. Understand that the team were not doing the "business". And that summat quite understandably was done. I myself would have given him the whole season, for many reasons. But things had become awful, even before today.....
If (as inferred) the decision to sack Danny was made to get more pay on the day folks through the gates and to boost sales of early bird season tickets, at best its a monumental gamble, at worst its the biggest blunder this club has ever made. Unless they have someone lined up who is capable of immediately turning the team around and charismatic enough to win back a large chunk of the support who have been totall pissed off by the club this week, its likely to be the latter, cos a fair ratio of Bens begging letters will end up in the bottom of folks bins this year.
I understand that things weren't good. However, a complete consistent upward trajectory is as unreasonable to expect as it is likely. Most people recognised it would be a bumpy road but that the bloke in the driving seat was the best placed person to take us where we needed to get to. First sign of problems and we chuck him out, chalk **** on the plan and start again. All at significant cost. It's madness.
Look there were many like me armed with buckets full of goodwill and patience for our former hero, prepared to drop down a division, prepared to "consolidate", as long as we could perceive summat to give us a raft to cling on to. There was nothing. Even so, i'd have let him carry on to the end of the season. You mention a plan. What was it?
I am bothered. I hate what is happening. BUT I am not prepared to let things that are out of my control, wreck my weekends all the time. I can detach myself from this, because I'm liking football less and less.
Play youth, sign some young lads from lower leagues, build a team? That will, naturally, not be a smooth ride.
I care deeply. That deep that the slow death we are enduring is becoming too much to bear. I cannot see the owner and board turning it around. I can only see League 2 and beyond that ? Scary. Hope I'm wrong and the next manager is able to and is allowed to correct things. I think I've got this season and next to see a change and then I'm done. I'll watch for the results but I can't subscribe to this **** much longer. This isn't Wilson related but looking at what has happened since Andy Ritchie got us up. The owner's spent money and fair play, but in my opinion he's made a right ****** of it and I don't think he can change it. The club I felt a part of is gone. Anyway now i've said that we'll be in The Prem in 2 years. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
At the moment I feel Barnsley Fc are fast becoming Grimsby Town !! Talk a great talk but **** it up regular !Look where they are now , bleeding Conference side, but they do have a new electronic scoreboard,so maybe some good will come of it !
That's the fear. It wasn't so long ago we were in a par with GTFC, Stockport county etc.....who says we won't be next. Similar happening to Tranmere Rovers
True. There never was a team though. Nowt settled. Early doors Whitey's secret love child (1) was banging em in from acres out to get us points. After that we had Whitey's secret love child (2) to keep us above the water line. Just. Never a team. It became a ride hurtling towards the cliff edge. We might still drop off an all.