Interesting article, the interview with Neerav

[Young_Nudger]

I have a lot of time for Neerav. Given the right advice I believe he will get the club moving in the right direction.

His latest interviews on Radio Sheffield and the Yorkshire Post brought to mind something I read about Brian Clough when he was managing Notts Forest.
After a match Cloughie was laying down the law to some of the players in the dressing room - who should appear at the dressing room door but the chairman of the club.
Cloughie turns to him and shouts ?not now Mr Chairman !!!?
The Chairman quickly scuttles away.

This clearly indicating that there was a dividing line between the ownership of the club and the football side of the club.

That?s not what I heard in the recent interviews Neerav gave. It very much looks like our Chairman is embroiled in the everyday running of the club. He revealed that he knew all the stats on each of the players including the wages they were on.
In the Yorkshire Post he?s saying he didn?t realise how much time the running of Barnsley would take.

Admittedly when someone is putting that amount of money into the club then there needs to be a keen interest - but not to that extent.
He should set the budget and let the football people get on with the job.
It?s clear that he is listening to only one piece of advice and that?s coming from the DoF. Neerav should stand back and see a wider picture.
And if 99.9% of supporters are saying that we haven?t enough goalscorers in the team then he should listen to that - and not rely on stats that says we have.

My advice to Neerav is to create a small group of people he can go to for advice - and not be reliant on one or two employees within the club.
Sormaz failed with the last appointment of an HC.

As the next appointment of an HC is going to be ***** to the fortunes of the club Sormaz should not be the only voice allowed in the decision making about that appointment.
We used to be excellent at hiring HCs.
So what happened ???
Whatever happened it needs repairing urgently.

The next HC has to clearly understand how the club wants to play - and be capable of moulding the players (back) into that system of playing.

[animallittle3]

You can go on forever and a day dismissing the obvious whilst desperately hoping that things will eventually work themselves out .

Everyone is entitled to make errors but there comes a point when they can no longer be accepted and neither should they be tolerated .

It would appear from the car crash interview that Neerav gave that's he's run out of road and reached the end of the line with the vast majority of paying Barnsley supporters .

The stay away supporters will ultimately decide Neerav's fate with regards to his future ownership at Oakwell .

You can start as many different threads as you like YN , you can carry on defending him for ever and a day but unfortunately it will be the 16k empty seats at Oakwell next season that seal the Indian fellas fate .

His sealed fate will be the day he wakes up one morning and decides that it's just not worth the money he's having to pour in when a vast majority of fans no longer want him owning the club .

[pass_and_move]

Cloughie heavily disliked the people running football clubs- ie the Chairman, directors etc.
He said they knew nothing and he was/is right. Sormaz has a budget to work to which restricts his options too remember. However, another easy target for fans like yourself.

Why did we used to bring in decent head coaches? Both luck and a bigger recruitment budget to pay any prospective HC would be my bet. Also being a Championship club helped, it must be said.

Let's be honest and look at the Head Coach statistics since the consortium took over from Patrick Cryne Nudger-

2018 Morais- miss-Relegated
2018 Stendel- hit-Promoted
2019 Struber- hit-Survived
2020 Ismael- hit-Playoffs
2021 Schopp- miss- combined relegated
2021 Ashbaghi- miss- combined relegated
2022 Duff- hit-Play Off final
2023 Collins- miss (debateable imo)-Play offs
2024 Clarke- miss- Mid table




Out of 9 Head coaches we have 4 hits and 5 misses.

With Collins being a debatable miss I'd say it is almost 50/50 in HC recruitment success.

Interesting that out of the 9 Head Coaches, more played in a style which was not the 'Barnsley way' a type of football that the people such as Conway recommended.

As Cloughie correctly said once. "Football chairmen know sod all about the game, but they think they do. They should leave the running of a football club to the professionals"

[Jules88]

If Neerev has any white in his eye, he will bring a few well respected football men on board to oversee the football operations, and steer the direction and strategy.
Let them use his millions wiseley in the running of the club, rather than have ?data gamblers? waste his (and our) brass.
There is only one way this is ending if he and the now ?silent few? persist in this foolish waste of money and hope.