Had a lovely day today

Nice.

 

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Also available as a tax disc holder.

 

I think the difference between now and at other times in the past when we’ve been poor, is that previously we could point to certain players or a manager, but thought a change there could improve things as the board would want the team to be the best it could be, in this situation we all feel a change in manager isn’t going to change a thing, and the board have no intention of altering the structure the manager works in allowing a new guy to bring his own people/players in to ‘shake things up’.

In essence there isn’t a hope we can cling to, unless the board communicates with us, acknowledges things are not working and explains what they are going to do to improve the situation. This is why I’m amazed they havent attempted to placate the fans, they are fostering this apathy.

 

Men against boys.. by our own design.. Fool hardy

 

I'd settle for that right now because surely ambition, or at least a vision to try and compete, would follow.

 

It's through thick and thin when the primary motivating factor for everyone connected to the club, be they fans, owners, directors, staff, is to win football games. That very often we haven't isn't for the want of trying. We've tried to win, we've just been crap. So you keep supporting, hoping they'll get better, everyone with the same aim.

Winning football matches is no longer the primary aim. The aim is to sign cheap young players and sell them at a profit. To make money. It's not a lean time at the minute because we've tried and failed to build a successful Championship squad. We didn't try to do that. We sold everyone who was worth something for whom we received an acceptable bid and replaced them with players we hope will be worth something in a couple of years time. How they would perform this year was pretty much irrelevant.

We're not going through a bad patch, we're not even trying to compete.

 

This explains it perfectly. I’m used to supporting little old Barnsley when we’ve always put up a fight and tried our best. Our board aren’t now interested about us being our best, just what’s best for the bank balance. Doesn’t matter to them if that translates to being a competitive team on the field.

Literally everything that’s happening is exactly what Nice fans complained at Chien Lee etc we should have more mindful.

 

Nah tha just a train spotter watching them new Azuma trains whizzing past

 

Through thick and thin mate

 

I'm missing Friday's match as I'm in London with the family on a traditional half term break we've done for years, it's the switch for Sky that's done for me on this occasion. Had it been a Saturday game, I'd have been there as usual, getting behind the players but expecting nothing other than a long 90 minutes. It's the apathy that's awful, will have a good couple of hours with the lads and kids who I've gone to Oakwell with for years, but genuinely saddened by what I'm seeing on and off the pitch at present.

 

Sad that after all these years there are fans that feel like this. These owners are killing the club.

 

Thin and thinner

 

Exactly!

 

The players want to compete there just struggling at the minute...

 

So why have u stuck with them all this time. Surely over 40years u should know what we are like.....

 

the players do the board do not.

 

We haven't always been like this. We have tried to compete in the past but we haven't always been able to. Now we have no hope of competing because of the lunacy of this plan.

Not to mention that this is the first time a very well liked and respected manager was dismissed, for reasons yet to be given, and without the basic courtesy of a proper statement ending with a thank you.

 

Ultimately, I support the team.

Not Chien Lee, not Paul Conway, not Daniel Stendel, not Adam Murray.

I'll continue to support the team, but it is hard at the minute. I hope it gets better, but if it doesn't, it doesn't. There's nothing I as an individual can do about it.

 

I think this also sums up my situation pretty well right now.

The Sky coverage on Friday makes that decision very easy too.

Ultimately, the fact that there has still been no meaningful information from the club since Stendel's sacking, and the disrespect I feel as a long-standing season ticket holder as a consequence of that, is the overwhelming factor in all this.

There's clearly no urgency to appoint a head coach, and the names being circulated don't inspire any confidence that we'll see any ambition shown. The inevitable next step will be the January player exodus of anyone still worth caring about in the squad.

The option of enforced apathy is preferable to the overwhelmingly negative emotions of trying to stay invested in this season.

 

I'm trying to forget about football full stop because when I think about football I think about Barnsley F.C.

Our lass was on about me taking our new born to Oakwell when he's older. I will out of Bravardo but living in Rotherham I won't discourage him from going to Hillsborough, Bramall Lane or the New York stadium with his to be mates to be made miserable at Oakwell instead.