Romared Match Thoughts Barnsley v Mansfield Town

[perkytyke]

Agree Shad but rinse and repeat is what we will get!

[animallittle3]

I agree with everything you have said but what worries me is if this happens then once again the blame gets deflected from where the root problem festers, we pay out more brass on a rince and repeat sack and replace model, money what needs to be invested in the team, this model has been in operation since these clowns took the reigns and we are going down a gradual slope and we all know that does note bode to ending well.

I tried yesterday to go down to Oakwell with an open mindset , it's well over 12 months since my last visit and the last thing I actually wanted to do was to justify why my interest has diminished and totally slag the club off from top to bottom , I was hoping to be rejuvenated and a light come back on because I'm often at a loss as to why someone such as myself who followed us everywhere for decades could feel like they do today .

I've always thought that it was more the case the club left me rather than the other way round but that's just a symptom of football today because of the way football is now and the club have become a casualty in all of this , the club isn't the club it once was and that's nothing to do with success or failure on the pitch it just simply doesn't feel like the club it once was but then neither does the game today .

It didn't happen overnight either it took several years before one day I realised that there wasn't anything left that I could identify with anymore , the last championship season was the final straw when everything came to a head , totally out of our depth on the field and Conway running things and I use that term loosely ultimately killed off what enthusiasm I had .

It went even further when some of our fans on other platforms mounted a campaign against Luke Goddard who wanted to start a fans protest group against Conway and was vilified for it , it turns out he was right all along about Conway and if the truth be known we've never really recovered from his skullduggery but certain fans preferred to round on one of our own at the time and it's something I've found hard to forgive about a section of our fanbase .

My experience yesterday was one of sheer disbelief , I understand since Neerav took over he's put in 20 million pounds to keep the club going and yet you'd be hard pressed to see where a single pound coin had been spent , it's ridiculous but as I've stated that's simply a symptom of the game today but none the less all it does is underlines why I feel like I do about the club and the game today itself.

Matt Ellis at Wakefield Trinity has this off season built a new club superstore and a clubhouse for the fans complete with match day bar meals , it wasn't even a new build , he's stripped an older building back to the bare bones and completely rejuvenated it , it's amazing and he's the thing , he's a businessman and his investment will make money whilst giving the fans top facilities and that's how it should be .

I see nothing at Oakwell that's getting invested in other than money disappearing down a black hole , never to be seen again whilst things deteriorate every season both on and off the field , it's utter madness .

Matt Ellis at Trinity ain't no sugar daddy , our ST'S aren't the cheapest in Super League but he's got it right because we are seeing top quality players joining the club and the match day experience is phenomenal , you are getting it back and you don't mind spending on drinks , food and merchandise because Matt is doing his bit too .

That creates a connection with the fans , we are all in this together .

It doesn't feel like that at Oakwell but it's possible if the club had a plan and connected ownership with fans , maybe they just don't get it .

[BarnsleyWhites]

Feel really sorry for you animal but to be fair you could read comments on lots of other fans forums and see the same comments. Even here at Bolton not everyone is happy with the football being played. After a promising start under Schumacher we also seem to have dropped back into the sideways and backwards rubbish that did for Evatt. What is it with these young managers that they seem to have to try to imitate PL systems with 3rd division players? You watch the EFL highlights and the number of goals conceded by teams fannying about at the back instead of when in danger just putting it in Row Z is incredible yet it continues. Get the ball forward quickly and into the opponents half is obviously too difficult for them. Chopping and changing the team every game, disrupting the flow by making five unnecessary substitutions to keep -layers happy, all illustrations of the “modern” game. It’s the same everywhere at the moment animal and sadly isn’t going to change any time soon so we just have to like it or lump it.