Quote Originally Posted by Young_Nudger View Post
There seems to be a tendency here of blaming James with poor decisions made by Chien Lee.
The process of changing the identity of the club had only been running for a couple (3?) of years up to Chien Lee involvement.

The involvement of Chien Lee has since muddied the water causing poor decisions to be made.

Before the 20/21 Championship playoffs - Chien Lee himself said on television ‘win or lose the club will be stronger next season’.
He thought he could do that without the involvement of James.
He soon found out that he couldn’t.
Instead of the club getting stronger it dropped like a stone to the bottom of the Championship.

TV football pundits keep scratching their heads trying to understand what is happening at Barnsley.
They are doing it now - and they did it when Stendel, Struber and Ismael were head coaches.
These pundits are not realising that the power within the club lies with James.

The combined force of Neerav, JAQ and James is a formidable one.
You do realise that James Cryne found players that relegated this club in 2018 don't you ?

You presumably also realise he recruited another group of players who only stayed up because Wigan were docked points ?

Amongst those two groups of players were ones who didn't make it here , there's quite a few and I can list them if you want to .

Amongst that same two groups were ones who did well here .

It's a mixed bag and it will be a mixed bag with his current offerings too because some of these won't make it either if you judge it properly and not in a timespan that suits your argument .