Quote Originally Posted by renno View Post
let me tell you i enjoyed last season far more than this one and we're trying to play football this season, yet the disillusionment at Oakwell is the worst I've known it in over 30 years. Ask any Barnsley fan what they'd rather watch

If you dont win in the next 5-10 games trying to play football I will guarantee some sections will want Bruce sacking. In general football fans have no patience at all. Your clubs problems are deeper within me thinks and the manager is just the tip of the iceberg.

As for the weakest championship, I'd disagree. The bottom section (us included) is weaker , the top end? It's getting more and more stacked up with ex PL clubs, as is L1. I hate to say it but its that level of delusion that leads you to want managers sacking so quickly. We are what we are - a low end championship and decent L1 club if we're brutally honest. From the outside looking in, WBA are a low end PL side at best and competitive championship team. Many a team in recent years have fallen through the Championship trap door or flirted with relegation - you could well be the next ones because you have players who's attitude's seemingly stink to high heaven.

You've fallen into the trap like West Ham have/did - this 'West Ham' way mindset. As though the club should always be playing silky football when unfortunately the game has moved on and you (As we are even more so) are decades behind sides that we were once in front of. This means you have to adapt. To sack a manager when in 5th is ludicrous. As I said a while back, many sides have dropped or struggled straight after going down and you could have easily done this as you'd lost nearly 60% of your games last season. This year youd lost around 27%. You only won 13% last season, this year you'd won 43% and had 1 bad run.

I will repeat it again..Be careful what you wish for!
We were sold a project by Val but it got worse and worse and worse; we're now 9th and Val had led us to something like 3 wins in his last 13...so don't give me that 'you were 5th in the league' crap. The only thing Val was successful of is turning a promotion contender into a bottom half side.

He led us to not scoring in 8 out of 12 games, so don't make out he's some sort of victim of fans wanting Brazilian football. We want the bare minimum of what should be expected from a club our size.

To summarise why he was sacked....the football was sh*te, the results were sh*te, it was getting worse and he not only lost the dressing room...he couldn't bloody find it in the first place.