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General consensus among Barnsley fans appears to be that Ismael benefited from the good work and foundations laid by the previous manager. That season was obviously an aberration - his managerial career is a litany of failure that somehow made him worthy of a 3.5 year contract at Ewood

By Barnsley fans, do you mean that one mate who "played at a high level?" He finished 5th which was a very, very impressive achievement considering the size of the club. Its very difficult not to rate that particular season, maybe theres some resentment that he left. His career since has been a shit show, I dont think hes a good manager and that Barnsley season was a while a go and quite probably a one off. But I dont get this angle that he wasnt rated by the fans of a club where for once in his career, he actually did really well.

6 defeats from 8 in all competitions.

That doesnt have to mean defending most if not everything they do, avoiding or skirting around topics concerning the indefensible and making out that everything is good.

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I've banged on about the need for majority fan ownership of clubs before but for some reason not many seem to like the idea. I suppose they're happy with the alternative, which is the likes of venkys, that chansiri fella and this fucking prick owning our national culture and heritage outright. Guess I'm just not a real fan, or something.

The club are taking full advantage of people with this mindset. I don’t think there are many who have not yet seen the light and there will be even less, when we go down again.

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I would be surprised if they do! I don't think building a stronger squad is on their agenda - IMO, it's all about slashing costs and getting rid of the 'dissenters' in the club whether it be players, football staff or other staff.

rudi and pasha do think they are the only ones

To be fair, you often seem to skirt around and avoid where possible any threads in the immediate aftermath of big breaking negative stories, and then seem reluctant to criticise. You mention patience but its safe to say that not all of the signings we made will be good. Are there any that you are happy to suggest you dont like the look of? Or is it just a case of the one or two that look good, you see as positives and the rest just require more patience?

Anyone still think the squad is stronger than last season?

I particularly liked the idea of wanting your local rivals to do well.

He's managed to cover everything I hate about modern football and overseas owners in one speech, fair play.

have they allocated stoke the whole darwen end????☹️

Lots of lovely commission

That smug incompetent (100% underqualified) ****er… yes, if you’re reading, Rudy, I would like to congratulate you (and your Boss) on destabilising and relegating a well performing team and club - perhaps the first professional club in history to be sacked by a manager twice in 365 days (?). A great achievement indeed. Really, really sad stuff this, but a part of me is also enjoying watching the complete failures created by the current setup. I’m willing to chip in on an embarrassing Indian paper advert the day league 1 is secured.

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Lost all of their home games so far, which is a very quick way to get the fans to turn on you.

can`t believe how bad norwich are despite having a top class centre forward and a very good team,russell martin clone manning will be getting the chop soon i think,spent a lot of money on some excellent additions but look as threatening a new born kitten

I dunno, sounds like you nailed it to me. So strange how if Dolan had moved in the UK we were due pretty decent compensation. If he was 4 days younger but moving abroad we were due bog standard compensation. But if Bloxham had moved within the UK we were due nothing, yet when he moved abroad we were due what, for him, was pretty good compensation for us. It's almost like the authorities are just making it all up as they go along with no cohesive, rational strategy...

Think Ruben just needs more time.

It had a bad defence for sure but that squad contained Danny Graham, Charlie Mulgrew, Craig Conway and a few others all of who are a level above anything now. Doubt Mowbray or even Eustace would do anything with this lot.

I hope he’s not on the EFLs negotiating team… https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c5yv8qj0y0zo

Into the relegation zone we go. Lost more games in 7 matches than Sheffield Wednesday have in 8 - a team whose fans are in open revolt against their rogue owner, who are regularly having to play u18s due to barely having an eligible squad to pick from, who have been under a transfer embargo all summer, whose players often aren't even being paid... we've lost more matches than they have so far, having played one game less. 5 defeats in 7 matches, absolutely pathetic when we haven't even been playing most of the better teams in the division yet. That's coming soon, though, and I expect things will look even more grim by then. Exciting summer indeed.