End of August last season I said we just won’t score enough goals, not enough quality / legs up too, certainly without Morris. Now one game in it looks exactly the same!! Like last season, we won’t get battered much, but we will have a load of narrow defeats and draws. We still don’t have enough quality up top, and lost Woodrow and Morris.
I understand letting them go without having anyone ready because they couldn't risk being stuck with high earners or missing out on the cash their decisions had meant we were short of. However they really should have had quite a long list of targets because relegation has been on the cards since con ways 4 year term ended last year
Agree, nowhere near enough goals in this team. Without any new additions then I think we will find ourselves towards the bottom of the division. Duff has a huge rebuilding job to do.
We have done nothing but bad business for the last 4 seasons . The owners and new board are not intelligent enough to run the club successfully
Chipping hopeful balls up to two players that are isolated won't yield many goals, on the very few occasions we did play out wide and supported the strikers we did at least look slightly threatening. Tactics were far too negative yesterday and we never had a foothold in the game because of it
I could be mistaken, but I seem to recall having read that James Cryne was awarded 1st class honours in Maths at Imperial College, London, one of the top universities in the world, and you are questioning his intelligence?
I'm not sure that is particularly relevant to all the minutiae of running a football club. I certainly wouldn't have worded as not intelligent enough but it's clear numerous mistakes have been made and often repeated. Moreover if we are look at the Cryne family dealings then selling the club to this investment group itself must be judged as a mistake. They have had to negotiate a lower price than originally agreed, not received payments, court proceedings and ultimately had to take back a more prominent position in the running of the club. I think it's fair to say they backed the wrong horse.
I don’t think Patrick had either the benefit of time or hindsight really on this one. I’m sure he thought he was leaving the club in capable hands. I totally trusted him to have the best intentions for Barnsley fc.
Agreed, I'm sure the intentions were good. However so far it appears the club isn't in capable hands, the family are still involved and haven't even been paid correctly for the purchase, so a mistake. That's all I was saying. I understand why the decision was taken and it would have been with good intention.
I don’t think Patrick had either the benefit of time or hindsight really on this one. I’m sure he thought he was leaving the club in capable hands. I totally trusted him to have the best intentions for Barnsley fc.
Does that equip him to run a recruitment dept at a professional football club or would he be better suited teaching maths at a local comp or working in the accounts dept of a local company.
I've literally NEVER seen anyone say this. On here, on twitter, hearsay, anywhere. You must surround yourself with some right happy clappers.
It was the clumsy wording of the post that I was criticising. I am certainly not denying that big mistakes have been made. I actually think that our most successful recruitment period occurred when Patrick Cryne had put iSoft behind him and had more time to concentrate personally on player recruitment. Hourihane, Winnall, Watkins, Mawson, Roberts, Scowen, Brownhill and the masterstroke of Hammill all happened at this time. The loan signings of Ryan Kent and notably Harvey Barnes also happened towards the end of this period. Patrick's tragic illness put an end to this brief but excellent period in the club's recent history. Clearly he backed the wrong horse when selling 80% of the club to the people to whom he did sell it, but he was critically ill and virtually no one else was interested in taking over the club.