Would you stop going if Flitcroft got the job?

I really don't understand why they would consider Flitcroft for the job. It's nothing against him but the club have taken the decision that they need a change, that it wasn't working - so just how is keeping half of that management team making the change they say is required?
To me, if they give the job to Flitcroft it's a pure cost cutting exercise,

 

Re: This season has been a severe test on my loyalty

Same here. Habit and going with my mates keeps my going and that's it.

 

Yes I have done lets face it looks like he has the job they would have got shut by now lowest crowd for a fa cup third round game ever 4 000 if that a joke

 

I think within a season or two that'll be irrelevant

We won't have a club to go to.

 

Same here

Been going for over 40 years, but totally disillusioned with BFC and football in general. It's too expensive, mediocre players get paid too much, the club is run in an amateurish way from top to bottom, fans are treated like **** at times, simple business concepts like customer service, PR, promotion and advertising appear to be too much to hope for.

Even the website doesn't work, although I believe that's not entirely the club's fault.

Not getting a season ticket next year for the first time in many years, got too many other things to do. Will probably go to the odd match, but the fire's gone.

 

Well it's a good job all the players did turn up and put a f.cking right shift in. I think it's about time supporters did too.

 

Thousands have already got out of the habit of watching us. Many more will if we go for the cheap/inexperienced option as per usual. Getting in an experienced man might just save us and show those who don't turn up we still have some ambition. I don't care that yesterday was supposedly an improvement. We still let one of the worse sides in the league score twice like they did at our ground and do the double on us.

 

Q. What's worse than the statistically worst manager in the history of the club?

A. The statistically worst manager in the history of the club's muppet.

 

It wont stop me going as I support BFC not the mgmt. BUT I will be seriously peed off if it is flitcroft. A change is needed, surely even you can see that Dyson?

 

As it stands i'm not going on saturday. Staring at thousands of empty seats with 4k others in unreserved seating when we haven't won at home in four months just doesn't appeal. Playing a team we recently played in the league doesn't help either. Would have been more likely to go even with a lower league club. At least it would be the chance to see us play a team we don't that often.

 

Was looking forward to the Leeds game, after Hill got pushed. Won't be going if Flitcroft is still here.

 

I can, but I still think we need continuity. We've spent 6 years chopping and changing managers, styles, players, strategies etc. It's not worked. It's about time we showed some bottle and stuck with a plan.

Keith lost the plot come the end unfortunately but the plan's the right (and the only one) - bring in lower league players, give 'em chance to develop and then see what happens. With that I don't want us to bring in lumpers, has beens from the prem/championship and pay 'em **** loads. If we get relegated, so be it. But sticking with a manager and creating a certain style is the best way for us in the long run.

Clubs we talk about emulating are Millwall, Wigan & Swansea. Millwall haven't changed their manager in 5 years. They were in a similar position to us last year. They stuck with him. Continuity.

Swansea have had 4 managers in those 5 years. But each have had a similar style, philosophy so when one did move on they could keep building. We've gone from Ritchie to Davey to Robins to Keith. No continuity.

Wigan - 2 managers in 5 years. Continuity.

Those clubs have one thing in common. It's about time we looked to 'em and said 'hold up, we're doing something wrong here'.

If it's Flitcroft, so be it. At least it is a form of stability. If not, it has to be someone who can come in and build on what has already been done. Don't bring in someone who will just get shut of every player that we've worked hard to develop these past 18 months and start bringing in loan players that we'll never see again. I'd rather we went down sticking to our plan than put us back 18 months, again. Geniunely.

 

Honestly would sooner change manager every year than have kept the ones that were going to get us relegated. That's football life unfortunately.

 

i was one of the fans that thought hill and filcroft were the best management team we have had but sadly i must admit that i was wrong. it turned out he has more excuses than simon davey who i thought wrote the book on excuses of what the fans wanted to here his constant changing of the team could not have been doing any good for the players confidence and dropping players who scored in the last game was unforgivable.but i will not spend my hard earned money on watching filcroft doing exactly the same damage as hill time for a decent manager S.O.D would be my choice

 

But then in the long run things aren't going to change - we're very unlikely to see any improvement on 4th bottom unless someone pumps a couple of million quid in.

With us only spending what we earn we're always going to struggle, even more so next year unless we find 750k from somewhere.

 

No, im a Barnsley fan, ill support them through thick and thin regardless who's in charge.

 

I admire your positivity but to play devils advocate what is the point if we lose regardless of how we play. Good teams play badly and win, but regardless of whether we play badly, well or indifferent the outcome is exactly the same. Money isn't easy to come by at the minute and its getting more and more difficult to justify going. I'm in my 40's and for the first time in my life I am considering not going to games for reasons other than work or family.

 

I completely understand that mate. I just think that there's an air of resignation about the place (no doubt came from Hill and the club) but if fans already think we're down and are talking about not coming back next year then I can see why we're struggling.

What happens if we stay up next year? Crowds of <9k. Then people will continue complaining about lack of quality signings - that's when it will take a miracle worker to keep us up.