I'm sure that's not a minority opinion. What might be more controversial, however, is that I believe we have deserved relegation for many seasons - and we have had more than our fair share of luck and good grace in avoiding the drop since we got promoted. The management of the club has done a miserable and feeble job of consolidating our position, and year after year we have done little more than play reasonably well for half a season. I can imagine that the rest of the football league - if they are bothered - ought to be delighted to see us go down because there is a certain justice in it. We charm our way out of the jaws of relegation year after year. We have never taken the opportunity to build contructively on the opportunity. For me Barnsley FC has become a wretched imitation of what it once was. We only seem to play to stay up. We have no aspirations to become anything more meaningful, exciting, or substantial. It has been a shameful chapter in the club's history. The club has been drifting like a rudderless ship for years. let's be honest, being a Barnsley fan is crap. The club rests on the loyalty of born and bred fans and has no ambition to reward us or expand the fan base in a constructive or progressive way. We have pub league written all over us. That is how we are run, so that is what we will be. I have no expectation of coming back up for many a long year. I am entitled to this opinion - I have been a barnsley fan thirty years, never supported anyone else. Never had a 'second club'. If the club folded I'd not bother with football anymore.
Absolutely spot on mate, no wonder Mark Robins walked away, he wanted to be ambitious, but no we wanted to try and survive with league 2 players, and that's where we are going to end up. We need a clear out, for that very reason. To start a new era at the club, we need a young ambitious manager, in the Karl Robinson ilk (not him) and we need to start using our home grown players. It might take us a few years to get back in the second tier, but with the right structure in place it won't take too long.
Can't agree on the deserved to go down as I'm a big believer of you are where you are not where you think you should be,ask my Wendy supporting workmates. And also there's only three relegation places and obviously in the past three other teams have deserved them more than us. However we may deserve to go down the season time will tell
Mate, every time we get anywhere near a decent player we bend over the managers desk and give them a contract not worth the paper it's written on. We have had several exciting and talented players through our hands in recent years, all borrowed, loaned, or on feeble short term contracts. We always allow vultures to pick our bones and we always get treated with contempt in negotiations. A player worth £5 million quid in the open market would sell for £700,000 from us because of some absurd release clause that no other right minded club would have agreed. We have failed to anchor the best players that have come our way - every season we start from scratch with the ***** that gets left behind. No pride. No expectation. Short term bouncing around. New managers. Chopping and changing. Shameful.
Best post of the season. The board have finally got what they deserve. Change of ownership might bring a different mentality.
I've been a supporter for 50 years and it was always like this. We've always been a 'selling' team and we were before I started going - we've had a long line of selling players cheaply - Tommy Taylor and David Hirst being prime examples. I was at Charlton on Tuesday and couldn't help but contrast their stadium and ours and the match day experience. Food and drink cheaper down there than at Oakwell. Having spent a good few years living in London the cost of living down there is astronomic compared to this neck of the woods so I would expect to see food and drink at Oakwell far cheaper than it was at The Valley. Their season tickets can be had far cheaper than Oakwell with adult season tickets starting at £150.00. A decent scoreboard with pre-match fan interviews.
