There's a healthy list of failed Barnsley managers plus one or two who didnt fail (eg Jim Iley) who got dogs abuse from the fans. I've never heard a single one make a statement like Poya just did. If he truly said it it's an appalling indictment of the state those in charge have brought the club to.
Here's your weekly dose of "it's the fans fault". It was still called "football" when we had 24% possession at home to Swansea in his first game - and he was given the benefit of the doubt. It was still called "football" when we conceded late goals in three consecutive home games due to a Head Coach shitting the bed when we were leading with twenty minutes left. It was still called "football" when we approached a must win game against Huddersfield and had one shot on target before the 90th minute.
London road when we played a relegation rivial and set up for a draw not committing many bodys forward in attack and hardly having a shot on goal..
Surely the only reason they kept him on must have been to save paying compensation out twice in the space of a few months , that is the only conclusion I can come to .
Exactly. Poya's statement is bull. It's a man trying to save face. A man who failed. A man who lost his job because he failed. And, evidently, he's no better at being a man than he was at being a football manager.
Said other day was his comment on Sky about good clubs learn and change a dig at the board and this just reinforces that thought for me. Makes you wonder are coaches sold a dream which in reality doesn’t exist and why they don’t hang around. On face value only, 3 of our last 4 coaches have ‘chosen’ to leave after a relatively short period.
I think both those things might be true in this scenario we have a poor environment to work in, couple that with a head coach who failed at his primary task. I think Peterborough are a good example of a club who ultimately despite being relegated are looking ahead to next season under the same manager. That wasn’t the case here.
If he had said in March that he'd be leaving, then I can see why the club didn't get rid there and then, because that will have been just on the back of a better run of results. But, he should've gone after the Reading game, where his inaction cost us any chance of holding onto the 1-0 that we had, that could've made so much difference. We were never going to win a game under him after that, particularly given his comments after the match seemed to accept what we did.
The comments during the sky interview were interesting. Almost as he knew he was going and he got a few jabs in first . His comments regarding wanting to leave , in the owners eyes, will take pressure of them and puts some onus on Poya that he was not committed ♂️ Whatever happens Teflon conway and kaleed won’t take responsibility that’s for sure. with the amount of staff that’s jumped ship in the last 12 months maybe the working environment is pretty awful
with the amount of staff that’s jumped ship in the last 12 months maybe the working environment is pretty awful[/QUOTE] My thoughts too.
One thing I might be being stupid with is why would the club have asked an employee if he wanted to still be an employee? It's not like his contract was ending or anything so seems a bit weird. Not once has my boss come up to me at work and asked if I still wanted to be an employee in a few months time.
It happened to me at Linpac whilst I was an apprentice. I was always walking round with my face touching the floor and pretty miserable. Bunking off college on a Monday and going to the pub in the afternoon because I'd failed my HNC. I stopped working Saturday mornings and other engineers stopped taking me on break downs. I knew the operations manager really well as I drank with him in the club after football on a Sunday. He pulled me into the office. I had my rep from the Chamber of Commerce with me. He asked me why I wasn't the smiling happy chap I was with my mates and him in the club? I told him because I wasn't there. He then informed me that he knew I'd been bunking off college for a while and the company were ending my apprenticeship. He asked me what I thought should happen next? I told him I'd breached my contract and should be down the road. The Chamber of commerce rep gasped and asked to have a quiet word with me in another room and asked to have the meeting suspended. She took me in and bo llocked me. She told me that I was cutting my nose off in spite of my face and to think of the money if nothing else. We reconvened and the Operations manager offered me a technicians job on an NVQ Level 3 (I already had a GNVQ). I turned it down. We shook hands and he told me he couldn't just get rid of me and that I couldn't go on breakdowns anymore. It would be just run of the mill jobs with the yard lads whilst I found something else. I started applying for other jobs and put my notice in a week later. My relationship had also broken down with my colleagues.
It was probably when I first realised I had mental health issues mate. I didn't even work the last two days notice because I couldn't stomach a leaving do. I was told later in doing so I'd forgone quite a big whip round. I doubted it somehow.
Makes you wonder if Poya engineered his own departure by purposely using negative tactics and poor substitutions to ensure that the club got rid of him with some kind of compensation rather than him having to breach his contract to leave.
