Would you rather...

I want us to be as high up the league system as we can possibly get.

Clearly, we have totally fvcked it this season. But the second-tier relegation-avoiding seasons contain many of my best memories of watching Barnsley: an incredibly stressful midweek night at home to top-of-the-table Wolves when it was so nerve-shredding I couldn't watch it. They battered us all night but we won 1-0. Ferenczi at Stoke (that shot was further out every time I think of it), a narrow win over Steve Bruce's Birmingham. The same manager bringing his team to us when I think a win would have seen them promoted, and we turned them over.

I'll take 21st in this division over 1st in League One, all day every day. Not happening this time, though.

 

Championship is way to expensive to go to every game, away days are massively over policed which ruin the atmosphere for me. Plus every club has arrogant A$$hole fans which I can't stand!

League one was brilliant I loved every minute and every away day (apart from Wycombe). But that said if we go down there's no guarantee we will storm the league or even do well enough for the top 6. League one wouldn't be as fun or exciting if we weren't winning majority of games and the away ends are empty. I'm not sure what id prefer if i'm honest.

 

Fully agree OYT. Having seen what this current squad have to offer, it's hard to see , unless quality is
added in January, how we might be a viable contender for promotion from league one next season.
Our best bet is to preserve our status this season and build for next, but as some have said, it will take
a mammoth effort to get sufficient points to enable us to stay up.

My 12 year old grandson has had his first ever season ticket this term. Through talking to him, you sense
that like us, his enthusiasm is beginning to wane. He attended his first ever away game ( Forest ) and after yet
another defeat, his Dad asked him which league he would prefer to be in. Having seen the majority of our home
games during 2018/19, his understandable reply was emphatically in favour of League One.

I can empathise. I don't know about anyone else, but the main reason "we " get down to Oakwell is to be
entertained and hopefully lifted by seeing "our " team win as many games at home as they can.

It's a mystery that following the opening day win against one of the best teams in the league we've been
unable to replicate that result since. It really is depressing to come away from the ground having lost week in
week out, especially when it's obvious we are conceding too many goals to dead ball situations, inept
and downright careless passing, loss of concentration and glaring misses of relatively easy chances at
the other end.

 

And what is worse is that it is all utterly self-inflicted. If we couldn't bring ourselves to make most of our defence and our Captain honour the contracts they freely signed with us then they should never have been let go unless or until we had suitably experienced replacements. The current struggles are totally unnecessary, and call in question the owners' commitment to the club. As for the OP, smashing up clubs in League One is not particularly appetising when we should be competing in the second tier where the standard of football is higher. This is my last season for sure.

 

Just because we had a great season in League 1 last season doesn't mean it will always be that way.

Option A

 

I'd prefer to stay in the championship but only if our owners decide to run us like a championship club. If they don't then I'm not sure how much longer I'll bother.

One good season followed by a season of self inflicted embarrassment and meek surrender is not really what I want in exchange for my time, money and commitment.