Greetings from a Barnsley Fan & Drinkwater

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I tried posting on the foxestalk forum due to a number of ridiculous posts on there belittling little old baaarnsley, but couldn't, so here I am..

Well done on signing Drinkwater. He had been on loan at Cardiff and Watford I think in the last couple of seasons. He went to Huddersfield last. The noises we heard from Huddersfield fans were that he was basically an average league one toiler, good in the tackle but not much else...I think he played most the season for him. His career appeared to be going nowhere and he came to us.

Keith Hill and David Flitcroft are without doubt the best management team outside the Premier League. They seem to have a talent for spotting individuals, knitting them into a team and getting the very best out of them. You will have seen that last week. We didn't play particularly any better than we have for the majority of the season last week and by right should have had no chance, but thats Hill and Flitcroft. We can only hope they take us up before someone takes them from us.

If Drinkwater continues in the vein he has played under Hill you have yourself a good player. Great desire, strong in the tackle, superb shot - I suppose the only concern for you is whether he has only been playing well because of Hill and plateaus under an inferior manager in Nigel Pearson.

Good luck for the rest of the season and I hope you manage to stay up.
 
barnley1 said:
I see what you've done there, youre obviously an intelligent lad.
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No, seriously, where is it?
If he doesn't come on and personally greet us here, then he can just about **** off as far as I'm concerned.

I'll give him till midday tomorrow.
 
barnley1 said:
I tried posting on the foxestalk forum due to a number of ridiculous posts on there belittling little old baaarnsley, but couldn't, so here I am..
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You had a lucky escape. It's safer here.
 
barnley1 said:
Hi

I tried posting on the foxestalk forum due to a number of ridiculous posts on there belittling little old baaarnsley, but couldn't, so here I am..

Well done on signing Drinkwater. He had been on loan at Cardiff and Watford I think in the last couple of seasons. He went to Huddersfield last. The noises we heard from Huddersfield fans were that he was basically an average league one toiler, good in the tackle but not much else...I think he played most the season for him. His career appeared to be going nowhere and he came to us.

Keith Hill and David Flitcroft are without doubt the best management team outside the Premier League. They seem to have a talent for spotting individuals, knitting them into a team and getting the very best out of them. You will have seen that last week. We didn't play particularly any better than we have for the majority of the season last week and by right should have had no chance, but thats Hill and Flitcroft. We can only hope they take us up before someone takes them from us.

If Drinkwater continues in the vein he has played under Hill you have yourself a good player. Great desire, strong in the tackle, superb shot - I suppose the only concern for you is whether he has only been playing well because of Hill and plateaus under an inferior manager in Nigel Pearson.

Good luck for the rest of the season and I hope you manage to stay up.
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We have our own resident Cardiff fan who says he's nowt special but your own views are appreciated as players, especially young ones, do improve as they gain experience. Another thing is that I think we know Nigel Pearson better than you, enough to know that he is great at rooting out young talents, he's done it here beforeand he did at Hull too. Correct me if I'm wrong but Pearson has a better record than Hill, he had us in the play offs and won a promotion with us at the first time of asking and his assembled Hull side are currently sitting in 6th - to call him an inferior manager at this point is just a bit stupid!
 
barnley1 said:
Hi

I tried posting on the foxestalk forum due to a number of ridiculous posts on there belittling little old baaarnsley, but couldn't, so here I am..

Well done on signing Drinkwater. He had been on loan at Cardiff and Watford I think in the last couple of seasons. He went to Huddersfield last. The noises we heard from Huddersfield fans were that he was basically an average league one toiler, good in the tackle but not much else...I think he played most the season for him. His career appeared to be going nowhere and he came to us.

Keith Hill and David Flitcroft are without doubt the best management team outside the Premier League. They seem to have a talent for spotting individuals, knitting them into a team and getting the very best out of them. You will have seen that last week. We didn't play particularly any better than we have for the majority of the season last week and by right should have had no chance, but thats Hill and Flitcroft. We can only hope they take us up before someone takes them from us.

If Drinkwater continues in the vein he has played under Hill you have yourself a good player. Great desire, strong in the tackle, superb shot - I suppose the only concern for you is whether he has only been playing well because of Hill and plateaus under an inferior manager in Nigel Pearson.

Good luck for the rest of the season and I hope you manage to stay up.
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I shouldn't be feeding the troll, but...

What a lovely thinly-veiled attack on our club. Firstly, Drinkwater was at Huddersfield before Cardiff or Watford. One might say that showed signs of progression - from League 1 to the Championship, his career was hardly going nowhere - I'd actually say that the step backwards was the one he took when he signed for Barnsley, something which he appears to agree with seeing as he signed for us within about 24 hours of hearing our interest.

Secondly, what has Keith Hill ever achieved as a manager, seriously? Before he came to you he'd been at Rochdale since 2006 where he achieved precisely feck all. What has he achieved at Barnsley? You can moan about your financial situation all you like, but surely the best management team outside of the Premier League wouldn't need unlimited resources to achieve more than mid table mediocrity? I wouldn't mind, but when you call Pearson an inferior manager... well the mind boggles.

Pearson's achieved more in about 4 seasons than Hill has in his entire career as a manager. In his first season he saved a Southampton which looked nailed on for relegation. In his first stint here he took this club from it's lowest ebb to the brink of promotion to the Premier League in two seasons before he was dismissed by shortsighted owners. When he went to Hull he took a side full of overpaid, veteren players, cleared out the deadwood, slashed the wage bill and turned them into genuine promotion contenders. Pearson and his staff spotted and developed players such as Tom Cleverley, David Stockdale and Mark Davies who are all playing in the Premier League after successful loan spells at our club, thanks to our manager.

Drinkwater came to us because we're a better club, with better prospects. No-one likes a sore loser. I suggest you get your facts straight, keep your thinly veiled insults to yourself and head back off to wherever it is you came from. I'm sure we'll manage to stay up. What exactly have you got to look forward to for the next decade apart from mid-table finishes in the Championship?
 
indierich06 said:
I shouldn't be feeding the troll, but...

What a lovely thinly-veiled attack on our club. Firstly, Drinkwater was at Huddersfield before Cardiff or Watford. One might say that showed signs of progression - from League 1 to the Championship, his career was hardly going nowhere - I'd actually say that the step backwards was the one he took when he signed for Barnsley, something which he appears to agree with seeing as he signed for us within about 24 hours of hearing our interest.

Secondly, what has Keith Hill ever achieved as a manager, seriously? Before he came to you he'd been at Rochdale since 2006 where he achieved precisely feck all. What has he achieved at Barnsley? You can moan about your financial situation all you like, but surely the best management team outside of the Premier League wouldn't need unlimited resources to achieve more than mid table mediocrity? I wouldn't mind, but when you call Pearson an inferior manager... well the mind boggles.

Pearson's achieved more in about 4 seasons than Hill has in his entire career as a manager. In his first season he saved a Southampton which looked nailed on for relegation. In his first stint here he took this club from it's lowest ebb to the brink of promotion to the Premier League in two seasons before he was dismissed by shortsighted owners. When he went to Hull he took a side full of overpaid, veteren players, cleared out the deadwood, slashed the wage bill and turned them into genuine promotion contenders. Pearson and his staff spotted and developed players such as Tom Cleverley, David Stockdale and Mark Davies who are all playing in the Premier League after successful loan spells at our club, thanks to our manager.

Drinkwater came to us because we're a better club, with better prospects. No-one likes a sore loser. I suggest you get your facts straight, keep your thinly veiled insults to yourself and head back off to wherever it is you came from. I'm sure we'll manage to stay up. What exactly have you got to look forward to for the next decade apart from mid-table finishes in the Championship?
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Add to that, Jay Spearing.
 
indierich06 said:
I shouldn't be feeding the troll, but...

What a lovely thinly-veiled attack on our club. Firstly, Drinkwater was at Huddersfield before Cardiff or Watford. One might say that showed signs of progression - from League 1 to the Championship, his career was hardly going nowhere - I'd actually say that the step backwards was the one he took when he signed for Barnsley, something which he appears to agree with seeing as he signed for us within about 24 hours of hearing our interest.

Secondly, what has Keith Hill ever achieved as a manager, seriously? Before he came to you he'd been at Rochdale since 2006 where he achieved precisely feck all. What has he achieved at Barnsley? You can moan about your financial situation all you like, but surely the best management team outside of the Premier League wouldn't need unlimited resources to achieve more than mid table mediocrity? I wouldn't mind, but when you call Pearson an inferior manager... well the mind boggles.

Pearson's achieved more in about 4 seasons than Hill has in his entire career as a manager. In his first season he saved a Southampton which looked nailed on for relegation. In his first stint here he took this club from it's lowest ebb to the brink of promotion to the Premier League in two seasons before he was dismissed by shortsighted owners. When he went to Hull he took a side full of overpaid, veteren players, cleared out the deadwood, slashed the wage bill and turned them into genuine promotion contenders. Pearson and his staff spotted and developed players such as Tom Cleverley, David Stockdale and Mark Davies who are all playing in the Premier League after successful loan spells at our club, thanks to our manager.

Drinkwater came to us because we're a better club, with better prospects. No-one likes a sore loser. I suggest you get your facts straight, keep your thinly veiled insults to yourself and head back off to wherever it is you came from. I'm sure we'll manage to stay up. What exactly have you got to look forward to for the next decade apart from mid-table finishes in the Championship?
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I do love a wind up..I'm sure you will stay up, but I think, in any view, you will need to improve on last week's dismal showing.

btw Hill achieved a lot at Rochdale mate, took them to their highest place ever I think, inherited a team destined for conference at christmas and had them in the play offs in May. Remember the name, I am pretty sure he will make a big impact in the next 10 years.

What have we got to look forward to? Lots. We have different expectations than you guys. Taking on, and beating, clubs that have spent millions and are blinded by their own arrogance - that gives us a lot of satisfaction. Not that I am putting you in that bracket of course. We may sneak in the play offs perhaps? Perhaps we won't - but if we do it would be so much more of an achievement than if you did.

Good luck with your relegation battle.
 
You won't sneak into the play-offs, I'd be certain of that. As for arrogant clubs, that has got to be one of the most overused and meaningless phrases in football.
 
Are you a Barnsley fan because your name is nearly the same? It's a bit of a coincidence Barnley
 
barnley1 said:
Are you proposing I should go unicycling whilst reading James Joyce's ulysses around Rotherham instead? I did consider that, but its a bit nippy.
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I think we'll keep you for a bit. If Jeff say's it's okay?
 
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barnley1 said:
Are you proposing I should go unicycling whilst reading James Joyce's ulysses around Rotherham instead? I did consider that, but its a bit nippy.
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Be more rewarding than trolling I'd say.

Exercise your mind and body instead of just acting the twat.
 
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