Quote Originally Posted by pass_and_move View Post
Worrying thing is that they've taken running costs to levels that I never thought possible without breaking FFP. I'm still flabbergasted how we've amassed these kind of annual running costs. It's unbelievable considering we don't spend a great deal of money and i wouldn'thave thought that our wage bill would be in the top 4 of league 1. Surely that is total incompetence and the responsibility lies with those in control. Why aren't we been given answers on how the hell this kind of thing has been allowed to happen? Surely the club has an accountant who must've seen that expenditure by far exceeded income when the breakaway occurred 3 years ago. Didn't that set alarm bells ringing and the powers that be look to reduce the wage bill, cut costs etc?

Something doesn't make sense here. Even if the club gets promoted next season, we will still be losing money despite a bigger television deal for being in the championship. That only leaves player sales to make up the balance. A huge gamble considering our current squad is as poor as I've ever seen it due to our poor recruitment and the lack of investment in the squad over these last 2 seasons. I certainly don't see any 7 figure bids coming in for any of our current players. The question is- what are the clubs aims in terms of turning this financial mess around and what are our long term plans?

Are they clinging on to the unrealistic hope that they'll sign a non league defender on a free and unearth the next John Stones? Or is it the hope of an Academy player emerging? Let's face it, the statistics of the academy producing successful 1st team players since it's being in existence is very poor. Seeing that it is statistics that Neerav so obviously believes in, then I wonder, what does he think of the lack of success from the academy over its 27 years existence? It simply has not produced enough.

It boils my blood that the club is in such a financial mess and the Chairman and board should take full responsibility and put it right before the club goes into oblivion. They're now well into their 3rd full season and we were told by the Chairman 'judge us by our actions' almost 3 years ago. The only actions to judge so far has been the steady decline of the club through some poor decisions throughout.

Do they really believe in statistics that much? Is it a wind up or summat? I mean really......come off it. If it was that easy to succeed in football then dont you think every club would be at it? Surely even the owners can see that this is certainly not working and not working by a distance. Everything points to decline from the clubs finances to the playing squad, to our credibility as a club, to the loss of support which will become abundantly clear come next August when there's 6 to 7 thousand inside Oakwell on matchday.


I really don't know what to say apart from that something so obviously needs to change. A major rethink in our strategy is an absolute must. I just don't see it happening and I suspect most supporters share that view.
The self harm at this club is off the charts Pass , I got to thinking this morning about how events outside your control can conspire against you if you haven't got the ownership nous to overcome setbacks .

When Windass scored in the last 30 seconds of the Play Off Final we most certainly didn't deserve to lose it ultimately unearthed and exposed the ownership for what they were , they enjoyed their piece of luck that season hiring Duff and were also thanking their lucky stars that Andersen , Kitching and then Thomas proved to be exceptional defenders to boot .

We've never really replaced anybody from the Duff season to any great effect , not even close .

Play Off Final events have conspired against this club before , Barnard's penalty miss , Hristov's header that somehow was kept out by the Ipswich keeper whose name escapes me .

Within 18 months we were relegated to league one and in administration but the difference was that the club had no control over the collapse of ITV Digital and unfortunately had a bank who pulled the plug on them when they should have worked with them instead .

John Dennis made mistakes certainly but he was done for by events rather than incompetence .

The situation today is purely down to incompetence because there's a huge difference between losing a Championship Play Off Final and a League One Play Off Final , to say the least .

There was absolutely no reason why we couldn't have emerged from the Windass kick in the teeth with a better squad of players the next season and won promotion last season , none what so ever .

We are here today because of incompetence and judging by Neerav's interview absolutely nothing is getting learned by the countless mistakes that have contributed to this sorry state of affairs .