I know it all sounds very negative and I seriously hope I'm completely wrong, but in my opinion they don't look like a squad capable of going straight back up. The defence looks solid, which will be important but the midfield look lightweight. Goals looked a problem but let's hope Lita can solve that. And Whitey, your comment is so childish, if you take the time to read my posts I haven't 'written them off' but it's easy to dismiss someone's opinion isn't it when it doesn't match yours?
What a strange post... And you're the one who usually argues in favour of debate and that everyone's entitled to their opinion and yet you resort to pathetic 'p*ss taking'... Grow up.
We will not be promoted this season. If we do I willingly will donate £100 to a Charity of Redfearn's Bars Choice. I will be happy with a mid table finish.
Nothing childish about my posts, mate. I find it incredible that a few of you are seemingly dismissing all the new players based on a few pre season games and one competitive fixture. Then, to top it off, a couple of you go on to state that you're not attending until it gets better or whatever. I made my feelings clear in my blog post yesterday. I wasn't exactly impressed on Saturday and I said as much. But I refuse to make predictions based on that one game. And, I'll be right behind the team and manager no matter what because I called for this exact scenario. I'd be an hypocrite otherwise. As for dismissing your opinion, I didn't. At all. I was responding to a few of you, not you solely. And not dismissing any of your opinions. I responded to you all, with my take on it. And my take on it was that it was a tad early to be judging things as you were. And awfully pessimistic. I mean, you gave a little summary of each new recruit but each was focused firmly on what you deemed to be their negatives. Hardly fair. But you're entitled to your opinion and I wasn't dismissing it nor ignoring it, otherwise I wouldn't have replied. Maybe I'm just not that arsed about things as much as you are? Happier to go and support the lads and see how **** pans out. Things could be as glum as you suggest, and perhaps my rose tinted specs are stopping me from seeing it? Anybody who knows me knows I can't stand it when folk agree with me, they also know I chat ****. I know no more or no less than thee, pal.
Not piss taking, mate. Just having a laugh. Chill the **** art and get thi sen darn to Oakwell tomorrow night and cheer the useless ******* on to victory. And no. I refuse to grow up. I'm only 32 (on Wednesday.. don't forget my card). Plenty of years ahead of me where I can be a miserable lovely person. Year 33 won't be one of em.
Genuine question - are you ok? This sounds very much like something I would have written when I was suffering from depression last year. Do you find yourself feeling like this about things in general or just BFC? I know we've been a bit rubbish lately but you seem to have taken a negative opinion across the board even when positives could have just as easily been found for some players. Turnball for example is only injured for the one game and Danny has said that this injection will cure it, it's not something that will reoccur. If it is just BFC getting you down then I apologise!
To be fair, how we're all not depressed after the last few years is a bloody miracle. I take copious amounts of drugs me like, but other remedies are out there. *Disclaimer* I don't do drugs really.
My two penneth Is simply that's far too soon to judge. It seems to me you've deliberately selected all possible negatives to write a negative post. I can tell you 10 crap things about my life, or ten brilliant ones, and paint whatever picture I want, but it wouldn't be a balanced outlook if I did that. Berry for example, is not a right midfielder. Do you think the Conference isn't physical? He got on okay there if that's your basis he'll be no good. Treacy brings some undoubted quality to the party. He might not always put the biggest shift in, we'll see, but right now most fans think it's a good signing. He can't have been that bad at Burnley seeing as he featured 31 times in a Championship promotion winning side. How on earth do you know Winnall was going to be third choice at Scunny? Did Russ Wilcox tell you? Bailey isn't big? Well he's 6 foot, how big do you want him to be? Hemmings ought to be given a chance; he can't be that injury prone, he played 39 games last season, scoring 24 goals and was voted the best player in his league. And Turnbull, as someone else has said, wasn't released by Doncaster. I'm sure our staff have done the required medical tests on him. Supposedly he may play tomorrow. So, all in all, you can look at things both ways can't you? I agree pre-season was a little hit and miss to start with, but we had to be patient to get the players Danny identified he wanted, which is surely better than panic buys/signings? We had two friendlies against higher opposition then, neither of which we lost. Give them a chance.
Not all my summaries were negative... I said Hourihane looks decent, Bailey and Winnall might come good, that Turnbull has undoubted quality and that Lita might prove to be the goal scorer we're looking for. Plenty of ifs and buts... My main gripe is that our summer seems to have been poorly organised and the squad were not ready for the first game and that I believe they look pretty lightweight for a tough physical league. Crawley were physical and other teams will be too. The trip to Italy wasn't what Danny expected it to be - clearly he wanted the bulk of his squad to be in place by then, which it certainly wasn't. Getting Steele, O'Grady and Kennedy off the books took far longer than they expected and that messed things up big time. That's put us on the back foot and will make Danny's job a lot harder. No doubt he missed several targets in the summer because his hands were tied until money was freed up.
It's a bit much to ask if someone is depressed just because they're not gushing with praise for every little thing the club does.
And just an example as I came across it at the weekend, Luton, who won the Conference last year by a mile, lost their first game last season. You may ask what the relevance of that is, and you could argue very little. However, it does show that one result doesn't decide a season.
Maybe, though seeing everything possible in a negative light, bar Lita, could be argued to be depressive behaviour. Disclaimer: I'm not for a second suggesting anyone is actually depressed...
Re: My two penneth All fair comments tbh and I hope you're right. Didn't know Bailey was 6 foot...he looked smaller from the back of the east stand upper tier!
And that wasn't anyone's fault, and is exactly the reason why they all deserve some time and patience.
It's not that he's not gushing with praise, as other people have pointed out, it seemed as it he had found a negative for every single player. Maybe it is a bit much but looking back I wish people would have asked me if I was ok a bit more often as I most definitely was not; it might have helped me come out of it sooner.
Plus it was someone else who made the comment about Winnall being third choice... All concerns about my mental health are very gratefully received, but I can assure you I'm not depressed and never have been despite watching Barnsley FC for the last 40 years...
I can't see your GP recommending counselling or prescribing lithium if you went to him and said "I'm not reight confident abart Tarn's chances this season". Before anyone says anything I am not trivialising mental illness but we must all be bi-polar if we're being mentally assessed based on our posts on here.
