Season Ticket - The Unknown Season 2020/21

[animallittle3]

Totally get the laughing all the way to bank bit.. I would have bought a shirt anyway. I’ve renewed because I want to . Not because they offered a shirt. I don’t want to lose my seat, and if they let the club go bust, then I’ll be sorry, but bigger businesses than us go under with wealthy owners not prepared to bake them out. That’s life. I’m sorry we haven’t got owners that have the same passion for the club as most of us do........but They run it as a business. Not as a charity to the fans. That’s fact, something they’ve always said, they haven’t lied in their stated intentions..
If I see ten games after January, it’s £20 a game. Absolute bargain.

If I don’t get to go again ever, and the club goes under, then I will have done my bit. It’s a bit like buying from China ( and we all do it)... We don’t like the owners, and how it’s run, but we have to.

I actually disagree with some of your post Jules especially the point regarding charity .

If your business is strapped for cash then it falls on your shoulders to guide the business to safer waters , its not the job of the customer .

The business from a financial point of view was paying for itself pre pandemic .

What the owners aren't factoring in is that the pandemic affects everyone and will affect its customers further down the road when we get hit with a massive recession .

The owner's don't own the effects of the pandemic alone .

Capitalism for profit ..... socialism for the losses is going on here .

The oldest trick in the book using fans emotional ties as the tactic .

Your talking about the collective wealth of the ownership which is around £9bn putting the emphasis to fund the club in a town which is one of the most deprived areas in the country heading for a huge recession under a tory government with absolutely no guarantee they will see a ball kicked inside Oakwell .

Ya havin a laff Jules .

[DOOALI]

11/10 animal bang on 👍

[pass_and_move]

They should get their hands in their own fekkin pockets, they're filthy rich and its their business and responsibility. I'm sure there's other ways of getting their business through this pandemic and pending recession without bleeding the fans dry and preying on their love and loyalty.


Of course we all want things to get back to normal but at the same time we've got to be realistic and so have our billionaire owners. It dunt tek a genius to work art that most of us will be scratching our arses for money in the coming months.

[Jules88]

They said from day one the club has to be self sufficient. When it isn’t, they’ll sell, or let it die. I’d prefer to keep it alive. So hopefully the former occurs. There’s bigger clubs than us in financial trouble with rich owners who won’t bale them out. The days of “ Loyalty to the town and it’s people are over, with clubs being owned by businesses, rather than local “football mad rich people”. I’m not saying that’s right, but it’s how it is these days. I can’t think of many clubs that are now owned in the “family business” style way. They will close the club down if it’s becomes an albatross. These type of business people won’t hesitate I’m sure.

[pass_and_move]

They said from day one the club has to be self sufficient. When it isn’t, they’ll sell, or let it die. I’d prefer to keep it alive. So hopefully the former occurs. There’s bigger clubs than us in financial trouble with rich owners who won’t bale them out. The days of “ Loyalty to the town and it’s people are over, with clubs being owned by businesses, rather than local “football mad rich people”. I’m not saying that’s right, but it’s how it is these days. I can’t think of many clubs that are now owned in the “family business” style way. They will close the club down if it’s becomes an albatross. These type of business people won’t hesitate I’m sure.

They also said they were here to build for the long term Jules. I guess we'll have to see

[Jules88]

Credit to you Jules and other Season Members who renewed. You can walk the streets of Denby Dale with your head held high. When your club needed you, you stood up to be counted.
Pond life like me don't deserve to breathe the same air.

(Love the "bake them out"---the club will be toast in a year or two )

My apologies if you think I alluded you to be pond life. You have your opinions about the owners, I share most of them....Your renewing or not is non of my business, you put plenty in over the years.

Wouldn’t be seen dead in Denby Dale though.

[Jules88]

They also said they were here to build for the long term Jules. I guess we'll have to see

Build for the long term, as long as it doesn’t cost them. As I said, I’m no big fan of them.

[SBRed48]

Build for the long term, as long as it doesn’t cost them. As I said, I’m no big fan of them.

I didn't think you thought of me as pond life Jules. I was trying to draw attention to the danger of the notion developing that those who renew are proper, "reyt" fans but those who do not renew for various reasons are less worthy of being called a Barnsley FC fan. It's what can happen when the "emotional attachment" and "pleading poverty to save the club" cards are played by the owners.

Look for the tongue in cheek face in Post 20

Stay Alert. Don't Drive if your Vision is Impaired.

[animallittle3]

They said from day one the club has to be self sufficient. When it isn’t, they’ll sell, or let it die. I’d prefer to keep it alive. So hopefully the former occurs. There’s bigger clubs than us in financial trouble with rich owners who won’t bale them out. The days of “ Loyalty to the town and it’s people are over, with clubs being owned by businesses, rather than local “football mad rich people”. I’m not saying that’s right, but it’s how it is these days. I can’t think of many clubs that are now owned in the “family business” style way. They will close the club down if it’s becomes an albatross. These type of business people won’t hesitate I’m sure.

Jules the club may exist in bricks and mortar and it's open for business but for quite a few fans it disappeared years ago in an emotional sense .

It would be sad but it wouldn't be the end of the world either .

[Jules88]

You are right Animal. Folk are dying, and losing jobs and livelihoods. Horrible times.