Barbers Programme Notes

[clapham_gull]

Sounds reasonable, can't find issue with any of that.

Yes but it reads like at best like an email from work or at worst a sermon.

Restrained but mildly passive aggressive. Straight out the human resources textbook.

Yes obviously very professional but that's what grates.

He has a done a brilliant job getting the finances under control but I find it odd he is doing the programme notes.

 

[Dick Head]

And still Sami Hyypia was named as manager on the back cover...

Too late to get it changed.

 

[TheBigUnit]

Too late to get it changed.

Ahhhhhhh, the lesser spotted Dale Stephens 6

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Wrong man, wrong club. Still.

This. And this again.

 

[tweenster]

Welcome back to the Amex for the final time in 2014. Reading's visit is, of course, our first Boxing Day fixture at the Amex and the first at home on December 26 in half a decade.

I’m writing my notes for today's programme having just arrived back from the West Midlands where the team battled hard for a well-deserved point against Wolverhampton Wanderers at Molineux.

Anyone that made the trip to Wolverhampton would have seen first-hand just how much effort is going in to turning things around on the pitch.

And, not for the first time this season, our players' performance deserved better than the result we secured.

Once again, our travelling support for the team was excellent and it was great to see so many Albion supporters making the near 400-mile round trip just a few days before Christmas.

It's also great to see that nearly 3,000 fans will be getting behind the team at Fulham on Monday evening.

We are, of course, very well aware that our supporters are very disappointed with our current league position. And, yes, it is cause for concern for everyone in the football club.

It is a fact of modern life that some people will take to social media to express their opinions. Others will vent their disappointment at our games.

With expectations for the season so high, we understand why this is happening.

Nobody at the club is immune to the disappointment of our season so far - everyone is frustrated and everyone is hurting - but singling out individuals for personal abuse or taking frustrations out on our staff simply doesn't help anyone around the club, least of all the players.

We now have a lot of work to do to improve our league position. The very best chance we have of doing this, starting today, is by all of us pulling in the same direction, supporting each other, and, most importantly of all, getting behind the players as vociferously as possible.

The matchday atmosphere at the Amex is a hot topic of debate for fans and the club's staff alike. Last week, we hosted around 50 supporters to start a discussion about how, working together, we can improve the noise levels throughout the stadium in 2015.

This dialogue will continue into the New Year and we will involve more supporters as ideas and thoughts start to take shape. Thanks to those supporters who gave up their time last week. It was an extremely valuable and worthwhile start to the process.

We are totally open-minded to moving people around the stadium, if this helps and those supporters likely to be affected by such changes are willing. We are also open to other suggestions to generate more noise if our ground regulations can accommodate them.

Finally, with a busy programme of matches ahead of us in the next few weeks most of which are on the road in London - I want to take this opportunity of thanking you for your support in 2014 and, on behalf of everyone at the club, to wish you a happy, healthy and prosperous 2015.

Is that really how it was written? If so, shockingly bad layout - single sentence paragraphs? Heaven forbid!!!

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Sounds reasonable, can't find issue with any of that.

" but singling out individuals for personal abuse or taking frustrations out on our staff simply doesn't help anyone around the club, least of all the players."

Oh for **** sake. We pay absolute top dollar, get served up total and utter shite by ridiculously paid staff, and he expects us to just sit back and accept it? #PlanetBarber

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Too late to get it changed.

Nathan Jones is listed as caretaker manager on the second page.

 

[Lincoln Imp]

" but singling out individuals for personal abuse or taking frustrations out on our staff simply doesn't help anyone around the club, least of all the players."

Oh for **** sake. We pay absolute top dollar, get served up total and utter shite by ridiculously paid staff, and he expects us to just sit back and accept it? #PlanetBarber

Agree, especially as the precious Mr Barber knows full well what some of those inside the bubble think of the supporters who've been standing by this club since before they had even heard of Brighton & Hove Albion.

 

[brighton bluenose]

Agree, especially as the precious Mr Barber knows full well what some of those inside the bubble think of the supporters who've been standing by this club since before they had even heard of Brighton & Hove Albion.

Explain please?!

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Calling Barber "precious" on this thread is amusing.

 

[Tooting Gull]

They actually aren't his worst programme notes, not by a distance. Barber and Andy Naylor seem to be having a competition as to who can have the most unnecessary digs at the supporters. He can say what he likes, but on Hyypia and Burke the fans were right and Barber was wrong.

Let's hope the change of manager hasn't come too late in the day. The recruitment is largely stuffed for this season, but there could be some damage limitation in January with the right moves.

 

[Lincoln Imp]

Explain please?!

Let's just say it was a general point.

 

[brighton bluenose]

Let's just say it was a general point.

Sorry mate but without even a hint of an explanation it sounds like absolute tosh?!!

 

[Lincoln Imp]

Sorry mate but without even a hint of an explanation it sounds like absolute tosh?!!

A perfectly reasonable assumption to make.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Is that really how it was written? If so, shockingly bad layout - single sentence paragraphs? Heaven forbid!!!

I bet Barber writes his essay as just one big paragraph. The formatting is probably from the subbing and page layout team...

 

[Brighton Mod]

Thats nice general, saying nothing piece, a space filler of non content, its pretty much on par with what we get from him. So what about that ...king text I got on Christmas morning from the club that woke me up! of course the club care about me enough to wish me a merry Christmas at home on the 25th, but fail to provide parking in Bennets Field as per my original deal, can't supply a pie at all at most matches, send me two Christmas cards that I don't want, sell and put out on loan the players I want to watch and bring in those who are not entertaining or motivated. Paul its about one thing THE FOOTBALL, your missing the point.

 

[HantsSeagull]

Since Barber arrived, ignoring the treatment of Gully's Girls, AITC and clackers, fright night, "Be Bold" etc:

We've sacked one of the best managers in the history of the club, in fact paid him to go and sacked him live on TV - one of the most embarrassing things I've experienced as an Albion fan.

We've had two other managers resign in less than a year.

It's taken the entire 2 and a half years to get rid of the bloke who has been reliably wasting our transfer budget on utter gash - and to be fair that was probably down to Tony anyway.

A full house has turned into 10,000 empty seats.

Serious & genuine playoff contenders are now 22nd in the league at Xmas. Amazing how a new CEO can **** up the club on such a monumental scale.

....and all this, while the club has sold its soul, ignored its fanbase, turned the Amex into a "soulless bowl" (as described by countless other fans this season) and the clubs philosophy has become one that is all about commerce and merchandise - "one club, one ambition" indeed.

...sorry I forgot his success with FFP - the financial restrictions imposed on and passed by a majority of the football league. Well done mate, totally worth having you here, while you ruined the club in virtually every other respect.

whilst i don't necessarily disagree with much of what you say, it would be hard to pin all of that on barber. what is embarrassing however is your persistent insistence that the club were at fault for the Gus fiasco and that Gus was perfect and Gus could do no wrong. change the record.

 

[The Stout Yeoman]

Sadly my programme is wetter and more stuck together than my old copies of Razzle. Which interestingly were also a load of old w**k.

The Airing Cupboard is your friend ...

 

[n1 gull]

" but singling out individuals for personal abuse or taking frustrations out on our staff simply doesn't help anyone around the club, least of all the players."

Oh for **** sake. We pay absolute top dollar, get served up total and utter shite by ridiculously paid staff, and he expects us to just sit back and accept it? #PlanetBarber

Totally agree, he wants passion but only positive?! We are football fans and the team he is serving up is shite. He loves sending out an email when we win an award for best stadium, academy etc but when the one thing we care about ie: football is shit he basically has a go at us. Barber out!

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Totally agree, he wants passion but only positive?! We are football fans and the team he is serving up is shite. He loves sending out an email when we win an award for best stadium, academy etc but when the one thing we care about ie: football is shit he basically has a go at us. Barber out!

This.