Neil Collins (sacked)

[Frank Lincoln]

Barnsley have today sacked Neil Collins as their manager with just one game of the season remaining. They are on a bad run, but are still fifth in league one, so it seems strange to sack him now. What is the point of doing this when the season is almost finished?

 

[lobodelsur]

Barnsley have today sacked Neil Collins as their manager with just one game of the season remaining. They are on a bad run, but are still fifth in league one, so it seems strange to sack him now. What is the point of doing this when the season is almost finished?

So they could be going into the play-offs manager-less. Very strange, especially as they were minutes away from winning at Portsmouth a couple of weeks ago.

 

[WeAreTheWolvesII]

Thought it was strange as well.

However, fan reaction seems almost all positive and convinced it's given them a chance of promotion.

 

[SuperGran]

Great we can get him in when Gary leaves for West Ham/AC Milan/Celtic

 

[WolvesAndCows]

Very weird. Must have been a bust up.

 

[Monketron]

Neill Collins: Barnsley sack head coach with one game to play

League One Barnsley sack head coach Neill Collins with one game of the regular season remaining.

www.bbc.co.uk

5 without a win is poor form but seems super harsh. None were by more than a goal too so not like they were out of games.

 

[Kingswood Wolf]

Mystic Meg here, this is what will happen:

Barnsley will ultimately fail to go up this year, and Collins meanwhile will secure a job with someone like Huddersfield. He will duly do the double over Barnsley next year and get someone promoted whilst Barnsley languish in League 1. Which they would deserve.

And no I haven't forgotten or forgiven Barnsley and/or Danny Wilson for 1997. Or Palace. Or that useless **** McGhee.

 

[Norman Bell]

Mystic Meg here, this is what will happen:

Barnsley will ultimately fail to go up this year, and Collins meanwhile will secure a job with someone like Huddersfield. He will duly do the double over Barnsley next year and get someone promoted whilst Barnsley languish in League 1. Which they would deserve.

And no I haven't forgotten or forgiven Barnsley and/or Danny Wilson for 1997. Or Palace. Or that useless **** McGhee.

McGhee gave that Barnsley team their greatest ever team talk

 

[Mile End Wanderer]

Collins will get another gig he’s done well with them. Regardless of a bad run of form they was never ever going to catch Derby or Portsmouth

 

[the genius]

Great we can get him in when Gary leaves for West Ham/AC Milan/Celtic

Add Liverpool to that list as of this morning according to one of the fan channels

 

[the genius]

Barnsley have today sacked Neil Collins as their manager with just one game of the season remaining. They are on a bad run, but are still fifth in league one, so it seems strange to sack him now. What is the point of doing this when the season is almost finished?

Modern football never ceases to amaze me

 

[Mile End Wanderer]

Modern football never ceases to amaze me

Maybe they will go for the old war horse Neil Warnock

 

[Frank Lincoln]

It seems that Barnsley fans are pleased that Neil Collins has left the club. I can only presume that anything but automatic promotion was not good enough for them.

Aren’t football fans a strange bunch?

 

[Perton Wolf]

It seems that Barnsley fans are pleased that Neil Collins has left the club. I can only presume that anything but automatic promotion was not good enough for them.

Aren’t football fans a strange bunch?

The football they played under him was turgid, apparently.

 

[Frank Lincoln]

The football they played under him was turgid, apparently.

I read that his style of football wasn’t to the fans liking, but he was getting results. Maybe he thought that they couldn’t get out of league one playing pretty football so went back to basics.

What can a new manager do in one game? Surely the time to make a change would have been a lot earlier or wait until the season was over.

 

[Perton Wolf]

I read that his style of football wasn’t to the fans liking, but he was getting results. Maybe he thought that they couldn’t get out of league one playing pretty football so went back to basics.

What can a new manager do in one game? Surely the time to make a change would have been a lot earlier or wait until the season was over.

Indeed, it's extremely odd timing.