Quote Originally Posted by SBRed48 View Post
After ten games it's W5 D1 L4 from six at home and four away. We are 7th but have a stack of clubs a point or two behind us generally having played a game less.

I have found the football, in entertainment terms, average at best, sometimes underwhelming. The owners have made great play of here at Barnsley we have a policy to play a high paced, high press style and appoint HC's that follow that philosophy. Collins does not play that style, the build up is slow with players not having the technique to play slow possession football well.

The managed decline in where we recruit from, now down to inexperienced free transfer/ non league/ loan levels is beginning to show, particularly in defence. We are "old manned" out of games by the better clubs with more experienced players.

The Board get away with such things if they drop lucky on a good coach who can get the best out of the players dealt to them and they can ride on his coat tails, such as with ismael and Duff. If the HC is ordinary or poor such as Schopp and Asbaghi the chickens come home to roost. I fear we may well have appointed an average coach in Collins who will struggle to develop and organise the young players sufficiently.

A key feature of last season was beating the better teams at Oakwell. Four defeats already to teams likely to finish in the top ten does not bode well.

My initial view after ten games is to be underwhelmed, occasionally bored, by what is served up, the Port Vale freak and Wigan away excepted. I fear we may drift into an upper mid table outfit, especially if/ when Cole and Styles go in January.

I hope this initial view is wrong and good performances at Cambridge and Exeter this week show the way we are going and what kind of style, formation and players represent the Collins way of doing things and it begins to reveal itself. At the moment I am not sure what Collins is aiming at producing.
This was always the thing to be extremely concerned about .

The way the club is run and hiring a HC who is clearly out of his depth , a perfect storm coming in and in this case from across the Atlantic .

As you've alluded to SB we've been here before when Schopp replaced Val .

I understand Schopp said all the right things at the interview stage about how he wanted to play and then did exactly the opposite once that campaign began .

I suspect we are here again with Collins and whilst I don't believe for one minute we will have a season like we had in the last championship relegation season I see little evidence of progression either .

Personally it's not so much the results that's driving my view we need to make the change , Duff had some iffy performances and results early last season , the difference is you could see what he was trying to do and not only that in my opinion he inherited a far worse situation last year than Collins has .

I've absolutely no idea what Collins is trying to do and I believe he doesn't either and as a consequence neither will the players .

I'm not normally one for sacking HC's this early but in my opinion a clear error of Schopp proportions has been made hiring Collins and if I'm in charge at Oakwell I'd want to rectify that before the season becomes a total write off .

We finish half way up league one playing this style of football and the ST sales will drop off a cliff .

The board need to act , they need to act now because they can't afford to keep Collins on if the truth be told .

Mark Bonner at Cambridge has done a tremendous job on two bob , knows the league and gets the max out of the players at his disposal , Duff esque .

Total no brainer for me .