The Don

My first post so hear we go. Should pc think about getting rid of the don,
It seems year on year he seems to put his foot in it. Any trouble or problems down at our club seems to be instigated allegedly by the don. Shorely all this transfer fee problems regarding vas should be the straw that broke the camels back. Time to say bye bye Mr Rowing

 

Welcome aboard/back. Personally cant see owt changing with regard to Don.

 

I doubt it.

 

Totally agree with you, the guy just seems to be so unprofessional its a joke...

 

I think that a lot of things get blamed on Don, when it isn't necessarily his fault. Don is the public face of Barnsley FC's board, and therefore will be personally blamed for decisions made by a group of people who collectively have the interests of Barnsley FC as their priority.

The decisions taken won't always be seen favourably by the fans, and some of the decisions won't be understood by the management but I have no doubt that they will have been made for the right reasons.

As fans we seem ask for ambition, but ambition is directly related to risk. As a club, and in the financial mess that football is in, we can't take undue risks. Don Rowing, Patrick Cryne and Barry Taylor will have full faith in the signings that Keith Hill wants to make - but just because Keith says they're good enough to be sold on for profit it doesn't negate the fact that they could suffer a career threatening injury and we lose our "investment". Let's not forget the last big investment we made - £1.2m for Iain Hume. I was never convinced we'd get our money back for Hume, but in the end we lost the lot due to his injury - something the board probably couldn't fathom at the outset.

Keith Hill will continue to do well for us, and hopefully he'll be backed in pre-season to bring in the players he really wants. The board are playing a low-risk strategy at the moment, but don't blame that on Don.

 

Why what exactly has he done to warrant him being sacked? Aside from the Liverpool ticket fiasco which he held his hands up about he hasn't done too much wrong IMO. I think there is a culture of him being blamed for many things that are wrong with the club - he seems to be an easy target.

 

He does. Sometimes he makes it easy like, but the phrase "fall guy" springs to mind.

 

Totally agree.

 

thanks for registering just to make a pointless attack on one of the clubs staff. im sure with support like that he feels all his hard work is highly valued. im looking forward to your second post.

 

The don is a clown pompey red

That gud enuff for ya

I do hope this helps

 

I think a club our size is a bit beyond him, especially with no other board members involved in the day to day running of things. No disrespect to the fella.

 

Why don't we have a bigger board?

 

The board are not there to run the day to day things, Michael Spinks, Gerry whewall and Mike Patzelt were always the ones doing the admin backed up by office staff, the way it seems now is Don left to manage with sharon and a couple of others. probably a cost cutting and money saving exercise. Employing more staff must mean less cash to spend elsewhere

 

The Don's a board member though isn't he?

 

Piss up and brewery spring to mind... And please don't get me started on Sharon ffs

 

Dunno? Ask me one on Barnsley matches between 1995-1999.

 

And you could all do a better job!

Blah blah blah

Get me the panadol someone.

 

Re: And you could all do a better job!

Whilst he makes mistakes, he does come across as the whipping boy. It wouldn't harm Cryne or even Taylor to give an interview once in a while. Don doesn't help himself with comments like.......

http://www.barnsley-chronicle.co.uk/sport/article/4907/rowing-sometimes-we-have-to-sell

"I’d like to see more loyalty but it’s money that talks and there’s always some clubs that are prepared to give more than others. It’s sad really but that’s where football has gone and we have to compete with that."

Yes we lose players due to lack of loyalty but we also gain new players through lack of loyalty. Guys leave us to join a bigger club for more money, yet we get players through the same method. It works both ways. We've got ourselves guys this week from Leyton Orient and Exeter City, who will have fans thinking just how we have about Vaz Te and Drinkwater.

 

My sentiments exactly..well not exactly exact i might have put the odd "and" and "the" in a different place but other than that It's spot on

 

Re: And you could all do a better job!

Leyton Orient offered the lad a bigger wage deal than we offered him to stay but he moved for the higher level and to be back up north.