Pulis sounding very down and out on Radio Dee Dar Duck

[Ponte_Steve24]

That kind of thinking puts clubs into massive debt you need lots of money and top notch international sales teams and big crowds to buy your stuff on top of top players. running costs use to be about 6 million to play in the championship must be 10 million now the prem your talking 60/70 million a season over 100 million for ya top 6, in the top flight we wouldn't even be minnows wed be plankton swallowed up with massive debt.

I might as well chalk f cuk on it now then and start following Tottenham.

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I might as well chalk f cuk on it now then and start following Tottenham.

I think supporting football clubs is abart endurance and can test your resolve to a certain degree. Every club and its supporters has it's own set of expectations. Like owt else in life thy ez thi ups and darns, rough wi the smooth etc.

To use an analogy, Barnsley FC are honest working class who drink a pint o beer. The Tottenham's, Chelsea's, Arsenals are middle class who sip champagne. Different gravy mate and they can keep it.

Av tried both and a know which I prefer. There's the appeal at first of trying the so called higher life but the novelty soon wears off because it's just not within us or what we're abart as people. That's not me pulling us down either by the way. People in the so called higher bracket have their identity just like we have ours and it doesn't mix in my opinion. Gimme a pint o Sam Smith's Sovereign over a Dom Perignon any day. It's our identity, it makes us special and unique.

Many dont get it, they pull towns like Barnsley down because they're probably insecure abart themselves in my opinion. It's an easy thing to do for many and its generally born out of ignorance.

A tell thi summat mate it's music to my ears when people actually do get it. Bruce Dyer for example sez himself that he didn't even know where Barnsley was. A Londoner who came up here and this town simply got him. He made his life here and still resides up here helping the community. Brilliant. It breaks down barriers and breaks the mould. Many other players have come here and also 'got it' and won't have a bad word said against us.

I see Burnley breaking the mould in the Premiership and bloody good luck to them. They're like us, darn to earth working class people. Could we emulate them? Of course we could but it does really matter at the end of the day? Deep darn they know that they are only visiting. We would be too.

We are a championship club both historically and in stature. Nowt wrong wi that at all. It dunt mean to say that tha can't be ambitous. Part of the beauty of being a Barnsley fan is our honesty and identity. What you see is what you get, we pull no punches. It's simple.

[Ponte_Steve24]

I think supporting football clubs is abart endurance and can test your resolve to a certain degree. Every club and its supporters has it's own set of expectations. Like owt else in life thy ez thi ups and darns, rough wi the smooth etc.

To use an analogy, Barnsley FC are honest working class who drink a pint o beer. The Tottenham's, Chelsea's, Arsenals are middle class who sip champagne. Different gravy mate and they can keep it.

Av tried both and a know which I prefer. There's the appeal at first of trying the so called higher life but the novelty soon wears off because it's just not within us or what we're abart as people. That's not me pulling us down either by the way. People in the so called higher bracket have their identity just like we have ours and it doesn't mix in my opinion. Gimme a pint o Sam Smith's Sovereign over a Dom Perignon any day. It's our identity, it makes us special and unique.

Many dont get it, they pull towns like Barnsley down because they're probably insecure abart themselves in my opinion. It's an easy thing to do for many and its generally born out of ignorance.

A tell thi summat mate it's music to my ears when people actually do get it. Bruce Dyer for example sez himself that he didn't even know where Barnsley was. A Londoner who came up here and this town simply got him. He made his life here and still resides up here helping the community. Brilliant. It breaks down barriers and breaks the mould. Many other players have come here and also 'got it' and won't have a bad word said against us.

I see Burnley breaking the mould in the Premiership and bloody good luck to them. They're like us, darn to earth working class people. Could we emulate them? Of course we could but it does really matter at the end of the day? Deep darn they know that they are only visiting. We would be too.

We are a championship club both historically and in stature. Nowt wrong wi that at all. It dunt mean to say that tha can't be ambitous. Part of the beauty of being a Barnsley fan is our honesty and identity. What you see is what you get, we pull no punches. It's simple.

I still want to see us in the Premier League again.

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I still want to see us in the Premier League again.

I would too but if it dunt happen then it's no biggy

[perkytyke]

I agree what’s the point if we aren’t playing to get as high as we can to test ourselves against the best? So what if we come back down? So long as we haven’t broke the bank to try and stay there!
I have never got why clubs who get promoted feel the need to make loads of signings? You see it every season, a Championship club beating Premier League clubs in the cups but when they get promoted the players are suddenly not good enough to beat them!in the league?
I understand a couple of players to strengthen the squad but 8 to 15 players.....really!
Give the players who got you there a chance to show they can keep it going first, up their wages but not by astronomical levels, sign a couple to strengthen within budget so you are not left with a massive headache if you go down then so be it! Bournemouth, Burnley and Stoke did it well like this for years, Stoke eventually fell into the trap, Bournemouth haven’t so much and top the Championship so far and Burnley are still there, however they will come a cropper eventually but still they don’t chase the big money signings that could scupper the club!