Detach yourself from the personnel, you can still love the club without getting bogged down in placing any feelings on the players or staff. The sooner you start thinking like me, the better you'll feel when folk inevitably jump or get sacked. People are temporary.
How? I couldn't imagine that. I agree all players and managers will leave but I like to enjoy them while they're here?
Due to the increasingly quick turnaround in managers and players, I tend to agree, but this is slightly different in that we shouldn't be saying goodbye to another manager only months after the board claimed to have had such a successful window. It's worrying that we all knew he would have a really tough job on his hands, but they didn't. Even more so that there are people at the club who know the league and are either not advising them or are being totally ignored.
It's not that Daniel has gone (although I'm very sad to lose him), it's the plan that is killing it for me. The stubborn myopia with regards to players and the impact this has on any opportunity to not only be competitive in this league but to challenge and progress.
I’m not attached to anyone I just would like my football club, our football club to be run in a decent way, not as a vehicle to line the pockets of already wealthy people. a football club should not be viewed as a commercial vehicle, but a community asset. In my humble opinion..
Ok then. I'm not attached but I definitely have favourite managers and players and it's not very often you go from good manager to good manager straight away
The general point I agree with and I don't tend to get too attached to the people at the club. Sadly that detachment has now extended to the club overall. The club don't seem to be learning from past mistakes. I keep throwing money at the club expecting a different outcome I wouldn't be learning from mine. Things may turn around, a new appointment might be a masterstroke and all my worrys prove unfounded. At the moment though for the first time in my adult life I don't feel like I should renew my season ticket at the end of this season. I have been to one away game, the last time I wasn't in double figures for away games in a season i would have been at school. For me it's not a player or a coach, but rather sadly I feel I am falling out if love with my Football club.
I agree that you can’t really get attached to someone you haven’t met on a personal level. however Daniel had this brilliant trait where he made us all feel like he was our mate. He embraced the town the club and our fans within days of being appointed. he’s one of our own, and when one of our own get treated unfairly it pisses us off. Once this is announced I can feel a split in the fans and that’s the last thing we need.
Think I’ve ever had one TRUE player attachment ( goes misty eyed as memory of stocky bloke in a number 4 shirt drifts by) so it’s not that. But on this occasion I thought we had finally got a very likeable charismatic manager that players would want to play for!There has to be something to make us stand out from the crowd to attract players. Now I’m just sick to death of this seemingly endless obsession with having the youngest team and trying to prove it works. What would hurt so much in having eight or nine young lads alongside 2 or three experienced older heads to provide onfield guidance and protection. It’s like we are part of an endless experiment by a team crazed scientists too blinkered to see the bleeding obvious
Managers come and managers go. Daniel is a bit special. You could appoint another ten managers and not get one close to him. He has the most refreshing and engaging personality of any one who has been in charge at Oakwell in my long experience. He is also a top coach . The only consolation I can find in this whole dreadful business is that he would have almost certainly left us at the end of the season I for one will try to keep an eye on his future progress and hope that he enjoys a lot of success