who will be left to sign

[millers888]

what the hell is happening here everyone linked to us has signed elsewhere.

if we dont do some business in the striker area we probably doomed .

i would go for cummings give him a chance .

[sawmiller]

We will not have a goalscorer in place by the deadline - a forward maybe, but not a goalscorer. Acido had a point - perhaps we need more time to build properly rather than constant firefighting - perhaps that is why AS has been brought in?

[mikemiller]

If anybody who works for Barnsley FC or Ipswich Town FC is reading this, we have put in a bid for Jordan Slew

[a123]

If that's the case why sack Redfearn last season who you could claim was following a similar path to Stubbs?

Why not take the pain last year and be well into the re-building phase and taking league 1 by storm now?

I think the last thing in Tony Stewart's planning is relegation to league one, the next 28 hours will show us just how desperate he is to stay up.

Anyone who thinks it will be easy to drop in to league 1, sign a few good young players and come roaring back by doing a Barnsley are showing blind faith, ask any Blades mates you have how easy it is to get out of league 1.

[rolymiller]

Unfortunately, he would be better than Madine Mikemiller.

[caytonmiller]

A123. You can't compare what barnsley did to Sheff u. Sheff u keep chopping n changing managers. Throw another 3 million on players. Sell ones at a loss. Then repeat.
Let's be honest. Barnsley were very lucky last season. It could and should have been 2 from the 3 who got relegated the season before who should have come back up.
Millwall sold several players and were still strong enough to make the playoff final.
Wigan cruised to promotion.
The gulf is massive. If Sheff u want promotion they need to stick to one manager for 2/3 seasons and pray.

[sawmiller]

A123. You can't compare what barnsley did to Sheff u. Sheff u keep chopping n changing managers. Throw another 3 million on players. Sell ones at a loss. Then repeat.
Let's be honest. Barnsley were very lucky last season. It could and should have been 2 from the 3 who got relegated the season before who should have come back up.
Millwall sold several players and were still strong enough to make the playoff final.
Wigan cruised to promotion.
The gulf is massive. If Sheff u want promotion they need to stick to one manager for 2/3 seasons and pray.

sound familiar?

[a123]

Barnsley are hardly the model of stability when it comes to keeping managers for any length of time and I agree they were very lucky last season to achieve what they did.

The point I'm trying to make is that there seems to be an attitude amongst a section of our fans that a drop to league 1 will be a easy season of pain before we come roaring back to take the Championship by storm.

I don't share their optimism and personally believe if we go down it will be several years before we are back.

Also the difference between league 1 and the Championship gets wider year on year which will make it even more difficult when we come back up and lead to us becoming the stereotypical yo-yo club.

[sawmiller]

Get Caolan Lavery please - young, hungry, good potential and at least he would put a shift in plus!

[rolymiller]

Thought he'd gone to the Blunts