I may well be in the minority on here, but over the last 2 matches, I was encouraged on what I saw compared to some of the previous matches. We are a very, very, young side, with hardly any championship experience. We are using a system of recruitment that before now, has worked well, we sell our best players, which we have always done and use the computer to recruit, and lets be fair- it has worked reasonably for us in the past. Ok this season it has failed somewhat- but they are young and will learn hopefully. Some of the movement up front has definitely improved- some good chances created but not taken this season. Changes of/to both management and board has not helped. Valarian, was unknown as a manager as were the previous 2 and that worked out ok for us. This time failed. Although this manager seems to be slowly improving us. We are going to have to accept the system from this management. They are running the club as a financial business, and not speculating with the finances. Although the 750.000 does stick in my throat. however the Glaziers did, does the same at Man utd. I.m.h.o. going down to 1st division is inevitable. However I do think that we will bounce back. We have to be realistic it happens to other clubs as well, the fowls still have better gates than us etc. and we play by financial rules. We all want Bfc. to be successful. The only way for us to get better players is by selling players for a profit. At least we are paying our way-we are the corner shop tying to compete with Aldi, Liddle etc. and no signs of administration or a buyout by Tesco`s, Asda but we might get a Spar, if the price is right.
I don’t think many Barnsley fans would argue we generally are a small fish in a big pond - even if some of the bigger fish have been taking illegal steroids. And that, because of that generally we will not finish top half all things being equal. But we can look at teams like Luton and say that given the similar budgets and fan base we should expect a degree of resistance and success even against bigger clubs. What we cannot and should not accept is the embarrassment of achieving the worse ever points total in the history of the league. That is simply not acceptable based on the players we have and the size of our club.
I think we stand in same place regarding the owners. We can't do owt about it so we have to suck it up. I'm waiting until the summer to judge them definitively. If they sell a few players and use season ticket sales to balance the books then fair enough. If they sell a few players and use season ticket sales to pay back some more of the £2.75 million to the Cryne's I won't be happy. In Chien's recent interview he makes out that the clubs in the portfolio are earmarked for investment based on their requirements but would ideally stand on their own feet. Hopefully they will make up the shortfall with the required investment.
I find myself thinking, based on Rov and Wycombe this season, that we'll probably ok, maybe challenging next season. But as for bouncing back, what's the point? This model, without some serious tweaking, is only going to lead to more of the same if we do get back up. If it were being applied as it was intended to, we would be building year on year and, by now, with the boost of Val's freak of a season, we should be firmly established in midtable championship lookong forward to the next forward steps. You only have to look at what Luton have done in the same timescale with a similar budget to ours. But thanks to a series of appallingly bad management decisions and incompetent recruitment on and off the field, we've now frittered away all the gains we had accrued and we find ourselves back where we were when these buffons took over. And facing the prospect of starting all over again. Except that we know that this time, because everything has to be done on the cheap, because we will continue to recruit badly (because the plan as it is being used makes that unavoidable) and because the same incompetents remain in control, the best we can realistically hope for is to be a perpetual yo-yo club. That's not what I want from my club, and I'm not sure how much more of it I can take.
There is a saying" you have to speculate to accumulate". Our current owners are doing neither at present. Thus we are "yo-yoing" between League 1 and the Championship. Without serious financial speculation we will have to put up with this scenario. I am not saying do a Wednesday or a Derby but we need a more money than the club can generate at least in the short term.
We need to be owned by someone prepared to run at a sustainable loss for as long as they are prepared to foot the bill. In an ideal world this would be someone who had already made their money in the hotel industry. Chien Lee perhaps? The problem is Chien Lee isn't and we aren't.
But that isn't necessarily the case. Luton, Blackpool, Coventry (?) all competing and establishing themselves in the Championship with no or little more money than us. I don't believe shortage of money is the problem, it's allowing idiots to spend it that is the root cause.
I don't think that's the solution and I don't think we need to run at a loss. We just need someone who isn't going to buy the club with club money.
What was encouraging about Huddersfield away? 1st half was as bad as ive seen and 2nd not much better should have been a cricket score and didnt have a shot on goal in 90 minutes?
We don’t need to make a loss and have someone foot the bill. There are other clubs getting along perfectly well on similar or lower budgets. We don’t have the 24th budget this year, I believe it is rumoured to be 18th or 19th. The club can sustain itself. Yes that might mean struggling and occasional relegation to league one - I’m not sure anyone doesn’t accept that. But the nature of the current owners is such that it was made inevitable by poor decisions and lack of care. Relegation I can cope with - but blind capitulation, nobody in seniority caring, and repeated decision making in the name of increasing player value only, not increasing or at least maintaining the quality of the team itself (as though doing the latter wouldn’t assist the former anyway) is killing us. We don’t need a sugar daddy, just someone who will steer the ship in a direction in which they are at least prioritising the team on the field, rather than the projected value of assets in 18-24 months down the line. I don’t want an owner to come in and write off debt every year. It isn’t sustainable and when they leave or get skint, the club is up s.hit creek. We’ve seen it many times before at countless other clubs. I’d just like someone who will let the club finance itself but not dictate what profile of player that money is used on completely; the plan would be sound enough if there was at least some flexibility to bring in some older pros to help the kids and a proper manager to lead them.
If they own the club it's their money. It's a 5hit way of doing things and unethical but it's their prerogative. I'd rather they ran it more like Cryne did before he panicked at FFP.
I hope you're right but don't think the comparison works. They were both more competitive last season than we are this. They had 42 and 43 points respectively, both won 11 games and lost 26 and 25. Atm it would appear we may be around 20pts short of their total, are very unlikely to win anywhere near that number and having lost 19 already will probably lose several more than them. Also, they kept the core of their squad together whereas I fear we'll lose our best players and therefore have a number of new faces in the squad and likely a poorer squad as we'll no doubt cut our cloth and pay lower transfer fees and wages. Fully agree that the management decisions have been appalling. The recruitment strategy, driven exclusively by potential return on investment is everything and not having a manager is the summer who was telling them he needed experience allowed them to return to the core of it unchallenged. I still believe that had Mowatt and Solbauer been replaced with experienced championship players we'd be seeing far more from the likes of Benson, Palmer Styles etc. It still might not have been god enough given how truly awful Schopp and Asbaghi have been but I'm pretty sure we wouldn't have been this bad.
Valerian wasn't unknown as a manager he managed a team competing in the Europa League. 2019–20 Austrian Football Bundesliga Ismaël was succeeding Oliver Glasner as the new head coach and sporting director of Austrian team LASK.[38] In the first few months of his tenure, he led the team to the best start in the club's history (17 points from 8 games). He also led LASK to a first ever appearance in the UEFA Champions League play-offs. After beating favourites FC Basel the team fell short against Club Brugge. In LASK's first ever appearance in the UEFA Europa League the team won the group with Sporting Lisbon, PSV Eindhoven, and Rosenborg Trondheim. After beating AZ Alkmaar in the round of 32, LASK lost against Manchester United.
We now have spells in games when we actually pass to each other and it comes off mainly when we aint being pressured for the ball. Big Val also had 10 months experiencing British football as a player so had more idea than the last 2 coaches.
It’s your opinion and you have every right to it. However, some of us are just sick to the back teeth at the way the club is being ‘managed’. And they certainly won’t be using any more of my money to ‘do a Glazer’ on us (although I don’t believe the comparison is actually valid anyway).
