Teams like Barnsley

Looking forward to comments like this, again this season:

"How can we be an inferior footballing side to the likes of Barnsley" - Boro forum 15/09/2020

 

Hope so. Especially when the fans are let back in, if they expect their team to beat us and struggle, they’ll be faster to criticise which can only help us. Going away, hearing their fans belittling us and then beating them is one of the great joys of being a Barnsley fan for me.

 

It seems to me most fans only have a clue other than their own team about either local rivals and probably the top half if Premier league .
Looking in on the Wigan Forum for example and we actually get a mention from the clueless .
“Have they ever won anything”
“If they have must be during Boar(they’re spelling ) war “
“If they move to DW stadium they’ll get ten thousand extra fans “
They just haven't got a clue to the point that they don’t even get anywhere near ten thousand let alone extra or that we have better support in the Championship than they could dream of .

 

That's why I think Rotherham will stay up this season. They will be treated by other teams like we were last season. Only Barnsley, only have to turn up for three points, underestimating etc.

 

I like to know about other teams in the division, I mostly watch Quest other than when we have a really bad result plus of course noting their key players when they play us, one of the benefits of buying a programme

 

Teams leek Bornsley, leek. A corn't bolieve ut.

 

For the most part (311 days) they did though.

 

It's extremely disrespectful & ignorant. As it was when some Barnsley fans did exactly the same on here the last time we were in Division 1 and playing clubs they believed were inferior to ours.

 

I agree but in League 1 we are a big club and should be beating the majority of teams we face.

 

It's wrong for fans of other clubs to be ignorant and disrespectful to us and it's hypercritical for any of our fans to do exactly the same to others, irrespective of the Division.

 

I disagree, we have no right to be beating anyone.

 

So you'd feel no different walking out of Oakwell after losing to Sunderland than you would Crewe?

 

The team's name and history has no relevance. Say we were mid-table in league 1, and we were comfortably beaten by a Crewe team who were in the top 6, I'd feel marginally better than say if we were comfortably beaten by a Sunderland team at the bottom.

A few years ago, someone on here said it was embarrassing that we were in the same league as Crawley, and then a year later, Fleetwood. Why is it? Both them and us were at that level, at the same time based on merit. No team has the right to beat another based on stature and history.

Or to look at it another way, the Middlesbrough team last night had no right to beat us, as we were by far the better side. In the same way Luton had every right on Saturday as they were the better side.

Quick edit because I've explained my point badly. What I mean is, you have no right to beat someone based on the size of your club, it's what the 11 on the pitch do week in week out, that should be the barometer.

 

I felt **** that we'd lost to Luton on Saturday. However, I wouldn't have been bothered had we lost last night as I class Middlesbrough as a better team than Luton. Last season the disappointment at losing at Huddersfield and Charlton for me was worse than losing at say Forest and Sheffield Wednesday.

 

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No , not when we're in the same league

 

Really? Because Middlesbrough clearly werent the better team? And Wedbesday were ***** at our place, I was annoyed we hadn't gone full out for the win.

 

Point well made, we are all guilty of it. I personally have always liked supporting an underdog team & I've always found intelligent opposing supporters of "bigger" teams, i.e. Liverpool, Man Utd, Chelsea, Leeds speak very highly of us when we've beaten them. Obviously most people who support those "massive" clubs are not what I'd call true fans, prawn sandwich brigade, armchair supporter, whatever.

 

I felt **** we'd lost on Saturday, but because the performance was poor. It was nothing to do with losing to Luton. I'd have been equally as annoyed had we put in a bad performance last night and lost.

For me, the team we're playing against is just another team. Whether I'm delighted or disappointed, depends on the performance and result.

Now if we go down fighting to a strong Chelsea side next week, that's a slightly different story. But in a league game, particularly in the championship, for me, nobody has more or less of a right to be here than we do.

 

Cos like Huddersfield are a small club with no history - apart from winning the league title three times on the bounce, and being the first to do so.

 

'Insert name of club' has been in this division for far too long.

No they haven't. They're in the division they should be in.

That winds me up too.