For **** sake, COG..(Barnsley forum)

[c0lz]

Oh Dear
Some Barnsley fan’s are upset over COG comments.

“I will always give everything, no matter who I’m playing for, but having played for Leicester City and Sheffield Wednesday in the past, I know what it’s like to play for a big club – and Brighton certainly fall into that category.
For **** sake, COG..

http://bbs.barnsleyfc.org.uk/showthread.php?213188-For-****-sake-COG

JamDrop
I don't know that's it the fact that he called Brighton big that is the problem, it's that he named 2 previous clubs as examples and not us.

Whitey
“I will always give everything, no matter who I’m playing for, but having played for Leicester City and Sheffield Wednesday in the past, I know what it’s like to play for a big club – and Brighton certainly fall into that category.
There was no need for the Leicester and Wednesday part of his comments. I don't really care, but I saw it and thought it was worth sharing. and Brighton aren't a big club. Never have been, and unlikely to ever be.

Jimmy cricket
Looking at things in the here and now is perhaps not the way to look at things though. I mean Swansea were beastly out of business 20 years ago. Who knows where they will be 20 years from now. Having spent a lot of time round Brighton for family reasons. It's not a particularly fervent place for football. They have even had to basically invent a rivalry against Palace to find a derby.

Conan Troutman
In 1997-8 we had a bigger average gate than Brighton, Cardiff, Hull and Swansea combined.
That's massive.

 

[midnight_rendezvous]

Brighton isn't a fervent place for football? That'll be why we have the highest average attendances for the last, what, 3 seasons? They're just sore because he didn't call them a big club.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

It's already been covered in post 80 on this thread

https://nortr3nixy.nimpr.uk/showthread.php?305206-COG-The-BFC-lowdown-(as-promised)/page2

 

[GingerBeerMan]

"Invent a rivalry with Palace". Clearly doesn't know his football history very well.

 

[Frutos]

What an appalling forum design.

I thought setups like that stopped being used around the turn of the century.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Why do some get so upperty about a club's perceived 'bigness'.

It's a very subjective and abstract concept, particularly when ancient history starts being dragged into it.

 

[Brian Fantana]

Despite their dalliances with the Premier League, Barnsley will never be a big club. They're in the non descript group of Yorkshire clubs for me, alongside Rotherham etc.

 

[albionite]

To be fair we have been crap for 20+ years, going to be a generation for fans to stop seeing us as tinpot.

I still see clubs like Wigan and Reading as tinpot (even though they have been above us in that time)as that is what they were when i was growing up.

Will also take a few more years of Leeds, Forest and Wednesday being shit before they stop seeing themselves as massive.

 

[shaolinpunk]

Personally, I quite enjoy it when fans see us as a small club. The annoyance that comes with losing to little old Brighton is great value

 

[Mackenzie]

We were small, then got bigger, then went really small, now we're getting bigger again.....Tony Bloom is like viagra.

 

[Soulman]

Is this the same Barnsley that brought 254 fans to the Amex on a sunny Saturday afternoon. Now either a lot of their fans were holidaying in Mabelthorpe, or a celebrity from Ferrets weekly was opening a state of the art pigeon coup in the area, with a flat cap and a barm cake as first prize in't raffle thou nose.

 

[Surrey_Albion]

Barnsley only got "big" in the 90s. Had this conversation with my son about Fulham he was shocked they got relegated as they are a "big" club I told him growing up in the late 80s fulham were commonly found in division 4. Times change Blackpool beqing another example were big-were s### for decades-were big-and them today. Football always changed its a shame that nowadays with all the money in prem its not so common place for lots of teams to change places every couple of years but now the same names bounce up and down

 

[DNB_Seagull]

We're not a big club tho. Lets be honest. But seriously... Barnsley.

 

[rouseytastic]

Is this the same Barnsley that brought 254 fans to the Amex on a sunny Saturday afternoon. Now either a lot of their fans were holidaying in Mabelthorpe, or a celebrity from Ferrets weekly was opening a state of the art pigeon coup in the area, with a flat cap and a barm cake as first prize in't raffle thou nose.

Great post. Chocked on me fag!

 

[Soulman]

Great post. Chocked on me fag!

Whippet out quicker next time..........has any NSC poster ever been to Barnsley, non football only, iv'e never met anyone that has visited Barnsley.

 

[studio150]

Isn't ever club in Yorkshire massive!

 

[DNB_Seagull]

Whippet out quicker next time..........has any NSC poster ever been to Barnsley, non football only, iv'e never met anyone that has visited Barnsley.

Yep. Live in Bradford and the Barnsley pool is alright.

 

[Bob!]

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Conan Troutman
In 1997-8 we had a bigger average gate than Brighton, Cardiff, Hull and Swansea combined.
That's massive.

Really?

 

[dingodan]

We may only be a semi right now, but barnsley are positively flaccid.

 

[Stat Brother]

Really?

I would have thought so, it would only have taken 5 fans.