[Official Site] Club Statement | Cameron McGeehan

That's the thing, we have got away with things hundreds of times.
In this case it's nothing to do with that. I genuinely don't believe he did anything wrong at all.

 

Give what a rest? Sorry, not really sure what you mean .

 

Sure its been put on before but why this one incident only?
Not the tackle from behind on dougall or cavare and green slammed into the adverts!!
Why did sky and the pundits only pick up on that one? mmmmmm.
I would still either compiain again or ask for another review. Seems to me sky are , judge, jury and executioner.

 

Not sure how it can be fair to use Sky footage when not all games are on sky. It's like some games having VAR and others not, it wouldn't be fair. If they can't use it for all games they shouldn't be able to use it for one.

 

Sunderland used footage shot by a production team for the Netflix documentary to get one of their players out of a red card charge earlier this season. The whole thing is messed up tbh.

 

No he couldn't or he would have. How can you possibly in a fairly high tempo game, mid air decide to change direction when someone moves their leg underneath your landing position.

If it is not a stamp then it is not a punishable offence? Football is not a non contact sport and from the glorious HD pics I have seen working in broadcasting sorry but zero intent. This should have not been allocated for a 3 match ban. However a panel of people who do not have to account to anyone select the incorrect option. I would be saying the same if it was an opposing player on of of our lads.

Letter to FA with the other incidents they decided not to make charges for. Plus I'd like to know who this panel is made up of.

 

Just shown ar lass it n she know's nowt abart football, she's says not deliberate or violent, that'll dooo fo me.

 

Fair play. It’s all opinions....

 

It's just opportunist from the FA. They've had the footage shoved under their noses, so they'll dish out the punishment and get the money. Win win.

I doubt they will have gone out of their to look at anything else from the game and give it any consideration.

 

Could see this happening because it didn't look good and they probably took into consideration his disciplinary record as he gets booked a lot. But it is unfair that it is seen as worse than some of the unpunished incidents lately like for example what they let Harry Kane get away with probably because they don't want to upset the England captain.

 

I know that and can’t help thinking the panel were smiling to themselves when they made this outrageous decision.

 

The number of points we've got in the last couple of months is irrelevant, it doesn't stop the January window being a poor one for recruitment. The same will apply if we go up despite it. We've made the job more difficult.

 

How do you judge whether a window was good or bad then If not by the points gained for the rest of that season?

January 2017 was terrible. We barely won a game after. But January 2019? Nope.

 

If we somehow manage to eke out enough results to go up automatically, it won't be because of good judgement in January. Leaving the squad so thin was short-sighted and reckless. The repercussions are still unfolding, so quoting points mostly gained with a fully fit squad is somewhat missing the point.

 

You're a reight barrel of laughs.

 

But he's got a very valid point.

In my opinion, the second half display at Southend was one of the best performances I've ever seen from a Barnsley team. Ten men, already without our main striker, on the back of an unbeaten run that stretches back to... I can't even remember. It was very special. But that great team hasn't been given adequate back up.

When this team play well, they're up there with Wilson's team and Hunter's team and Clarke's team and Bassett's team and Johnson/Heckingbottom's team. They don't play as well as those teams as often, undoubtedly because they're so young, but what this team has that the others didn't have, is that they still tend to win when they don't play well. That's completely unheard of in the time I've been watching Barnsley. I've never seen us play crap and win before, but this lot do it. That's a compliment by the way, they know how to win ugly. Our great teams of the past didn't.

The manager and the players are giving everything they've got, but we've come to a period in the season where injuries and suspensions are beginning to take their toll. We haven't been hit badly by any means, I'm sure most other clubs have had it much worse than we have. But we're just about out of options. I don't think those in charge of recruitment have done nearly as well as the playing/coaching staff because we're going in to the critical stage of the season threadbare, and that shouldn't have happened. And, unfortunately for us, there are three other teams in Luton, Portsmouth and Sunderland who are also having excellent seasons.

That doesn't mean we won't make it. But it's going to be a lot more difficult than it should have been. We went into January a player down. Woodrow was a replacement for Bradshaw (a much, much better replacement) but we also wanted another striker on the books. I don't blame them for missing out on him, they tried but it didn't happen. We came out of January losing Potts, who started almost every game, Moncur, who played a part in almost every game, and Isgrove, who played a major role in our promotion last time round. Green replaced Isgrove, no one replaced Potts and Moncur and we didn't get that third striker we wanted back in August. We came out of January three players down, crossing our fingers that we wouldn't get any injuries or suspensions.

We've made no secret about our ambition, we want promotion. If we're not promoted, it's not the manager's fault, or the players, it's not because Moore got injured or McGeehan unjustly suspended, it's because the board sold players, didn't replace them and left us way too light on numbers and quality after January. We're under-equipped sent in to a promotion battle. It was very poor.

 

He's right, though.

We've only got three centre-backs, one right-back and three strikers (of those, one is an impact sub, and one's out for the season.) We needed a couple more signings in January. We might still go up but the job is a lot harder now.

 

Hemsworthesque.

 

How many do you think we should have? Three centre backs? We've got the best pairing in the league and a very capable replacement who would probably be a starter in any other side.

We've got 3 strikers, again one of the best pairings in the league. We've also shown that we play very well when we play one up front and other players make runs off him. Why would we sign a 4th striker when it's proven we can do well with one (at this level).

I agree with right back, but you can't go stockpiling players for League One. FFP doesn't allow it (as corrupt as it is) and even if it did, it would be financial suicide.

We've got adequate back ups for most positions. McGeehan stepped up and made the shirt his own whilst Dougall was out. Perhaps Kenny will do the same?

We've had a freak injury up front, but our record without Moore shows that we know how to play to Woodrow's strengths with players buzzing round him.

We didn't need to strengthen the squad too much in January. (We also didn't need to sell to our rivals, but that's a whole different issue).