So It's Birmingham That Want Roberts

Hoping to sign him at the third attempt with a loan before buy deal according to our mate Nixon in The Sun. Wouldn't sell him in January and definitely wouldn't be loaning him to them until then before they buy him in the new year. Hope we tell Gary Rowett to **** off

 

I wouldn't move if I was him. He's playing week in, week out at a club that will challenge play offs this season alongside a centre half who he's gonna learn **** loads off from a technical point of view.

He should stay here until January, assess the situation then and see if it's the right move for him. I don't think he's good enough for Championship football and needs to realise that he can't go into a game daydreaming like he has done the last two league games.

On the flip side, Gary Rowett seems to have got something special going at Birmingham potentially this season and with them being a big club, even for that league in a tier above, who would blame him come January if he wanted to bail?

 

Errrrrrrrrrrrrr he'd go for more money, in his back pocket every week!!

 

If the money is good for BFC, then he'll be sold, if the money is also good for Marc.

This is the current BFC masterplan. To recruit cheaply, sell on for huge profit.

Don't get attached would be my advice.

 

I agree Andy but where does this leave us with the plans to build a team? It feels like the best we can expect is to tread water. I understand that better players get started sold but it's going to be difficult progressing if we're always back at square one.

 

He will be gone in January

 

You've answered your own question MK

 

If folk don't already realise it, things for Barnsley supporters will not get any better, not unless/until the big clubs, big leagues implode. That dream season of 96-97 will never be repeated. We will continue to be a struggling second tier club when up there, or a middling to successful L1 club when down here. Because money does talk.

Of course, we may well drop on a great manager who somehow cobbles together summat special, but any good players within that will always be sold eventually, and that is indeed what the club are hoping, because it's a self-sufficient strategy. Which is why you have to implement a long term strategy and stick with it, even in choppy waters. The head coach thing is a clue. Not manager. With a fully integrated, long term, overarching strategy implemented, you can continue on the same path even when changing head coach. The hope is that the head coach only changes because he's been successful and moved on upwards.

I just want to see a positive BFC, passionate lads giving their all when wearing our shirt, playing attacking football whether home or away, regardless of opponent. I'd rather they were our lads, not temps. But I understand some of the reasoning behind borrowing players. I look forward to matchdays, because the 90 minutes is just one part of that matchday for me. I'll be at as many games as I can get along to within the boundaries of my personal circumstances, and would continue regardless of the division we're competing in.

But I will always take the piss. I will sometimes feel angry and frustrated. I'm occasionally elated. I'm human. And we make mistakes. Not a ******* clue why I've rambled on like that but not deleting it. So to answer your question, mate, yes I think treading water is what we'll probably always do. We're Barnsley FC and in current football terms, we're a tiny little fish in a big ******* resevoir.

 

Any good players we have will be gone like always... Thats why we have now a scouting network, to keep the conveyer belt moving.
The best you hope is watching players like Stones and Crowley get blooded... and a bit of success before they move on..

Would it be too harsh to say, to survive we are a feeder club.

 

You obviously are privy to a lot more detail on this than I certainly am, so I'll bow to that superior knowledge. I wasn't aware of him turning down Birmingham this summer to join us. I thought it was Mawson who'd turned down the Championship clubs. So aye, I'll happily withdraw my suggestion that if the money is good for both player and club, he'd go.

 

Are you doing a 'not a Podcast' this week Andy?

 

No mate. I've no broadband until the end of the week so downloading and uploading stuff is impossible. Will do one next week all being well.

 

You say us but I'm sure he stated he signed because of Johnstone and the fact it was his hometown club was an extra bonus.