Despite all that's gone off in the last six months ie players sales, parting company with DS ,sticking with 'the plan'(all have which have disappointed and disallusioned me as the the board's intentions for the club) one thing I feel we must do is give the incoming coach all the support we can. His task is an enormous one -to keep Barnsley FC in the championship. We fans and the board need to back him in actions and in deed.
Not happening. He will be judged on whether he can get us back up next season, and beyond that whether he can live with the players he has developed being sold. If he looks at the manner of how our last three head coaches have departed he will run away from this job if he's any sense.
If and when we get the new guy in....he will be welcomed and backed by 99% of our fans. We know we need a miricle to keep us in the division with this squad of players but the fans WILL be behind him. As fitzytyke stated. ...will the board? I think most of us are so deflated at the moment we would welcome micky mouse!! but also some fans have gone past caring (due to how our club is run)...but he will be backed by us. Now ask the suits.
I've never cared less about a change of manager/coach at my football club. It feels completely irrelevant. Even if it was Cryne or Dennis in charge still, I'd be highly critical of losing one of our best ever coaches for no sensible reason. Let alone the extremist ideology at the root cause of it. But then we add in the disgusting contempt shown to the fans. It just doesn't matter. I wish him well, but that doesn't matter either. The only difference that can be made are the owners applying more common sense and putting emphasis on the pitch. But then if they do that, they've wasted a lot of time, resource and money finding someone that wasn't as good as what we had already. That seems crazy to me.
Well no matter who is appointed lets hope the board dont do as they did with Daniel Stendel. The board hung him out to dry in the summer by selling our better players and replacing them with inexperienced youngsters. If was nevery gonna work. I do hope they have learned something from this and dont do the same with Woodrow and Mowatt come January, otherwise I think the fans will vote with their feet. I must admit my confidence in the board is at rock bottom and I am not alone. Time will tell.
All he has to do is cover the basics. Assess the players, motivate them, adopt a system that gets the best out of them, select the best eleven, drop zonal marking, tone down the pressing game. Most of us know he's on a hiding to nothing this season, so I doubt we'll be on his back, unless he starts playing Woodrow at left back. If he keeps us up, great. If not, we can judge him properly next season.. if he's still around.
Spot on. And I don't think 99% of fans will feel positive - I think many will feel neutral at best for all the reasons DWLC sets out here.
I agree completely. I wish him well too and he'll have my support. But the coach hasn't been the problem so as you say it's largely irrelevant. I'll be interested to see how fans in the ground react if results continue as they have been. Will the negativity and chants aimed at the owners continue or be suspended given the new head coach? I think they probably will, but only for 3/4 games, after which it'll start again, aimed at the owners again rather than the coach (as it was with Adam Murray).
later today according to this https://www.skysports.com/football/...-be-named-barnsley-manager-later-on-wednesday
Good luck to him. He is the meat sandwiched between a board that seems to be flying by the seat of their pants, and a very young set of players, currently out of their depth. Will he get some help in January, or will he see our current best players sold from under him? Time will tell. He has only had 16 games with his current team, winning 8, and the average age of his players in Austria is only slightly higher than that of ours, but we all know, a year or twos progression can make a hell of a difference in football. He's being targeted because he's done well with young players, but they're not our young players or playing in the championship, and he's now got to pick up and run with a squad that's rock bottom in terms of confidence and league position. He's got a hell of a job on his hands.
