Good post Animal
Agree with Anstonred , evolution not revolution .

I'm still struggling to work out what they see in BFC. We're debt free and up until Xmas were pushing for the playoffs but if they think a little bit more in the players contract offers will guarantee that they stay here or we can attract new players by offering a couple of grand a week extra and that will get us promotion they're being naive beyond belief.

Desperation to get on the English football gravy train is more like it in my mind after getting turned away by 3 or 4 other clubs . They'd need to pump in serious money , millions and millions just to get us regarded as a top half Championship club in wages and if they did that we'd be struggling against ffp and depending how they gave money to the club putting the club at risk if they were loans against the club itself .

Money guarantees you nothing in football but does help but a club Barnsleys size could never compete with the big city clubs for wages and they've said they're not going to pump millions in so not sure what they expect us to achieve. Definitely nothing in the short term unless we had a freakish season like Huddersfield.

Look at the hundreds of millions spent by the likes of Wednesday, Villa and Wolves etc and they've got absolutely nowhere. If we offered Hourihane £15k a week to stay he'd have still gone to Villa for £30k. If we'd offered Winnall £12k to stay he'd have still gone to Wednesday for £18k. We might have kept Watkins and I few more meh players but nothing much else would have changed.

They're either a bit naive to think a tweak here and there will make us competitive or they could be thinking soon a Premier League 2 will happen and we could make that .

I'm struggling to see where they can take us though realistically, but something has to change at Oakwell due to circumstances so we may as well see what happens. I'm just hoping the club will be able to hold its own in this division but don't expect much else.

A word of warning for them though , Barnsley if they do well have the potential to add another 6k or 7k to home attendances but at the same time it's not a rich town. If they start putting prices up and say pay and we'll get you the players in most fans won't wear it like they have done at Sheff Wednesday. The football club has a name of rolling the big clubs over on a small budget with low ticket prices. If they bump the prices up it will turn fans away but there aren't many glory hunter fans ready to come in and take their seats.

I don't see them pumping big amounts in , they only have to look down Sheffield Road to see that doesn't work.

Most fans are at their limit already with what they think watching football is worth in money .