Oakwell

No wonder our home form is terrible, the atmosphere at Oakwell is always poor and as soon as we concede a goal even if we are still winning the fans are a chorus of doom and gloom.

Yes they fell apart yesterday but that will happen occasionally, it happens to even the best teams.

Oakwell can only become a fortress when the fans stay behind the players no matter what the result. After the game if the result is awful then boo them as loud as possible but getting on their backs during the match only helps the opposition.

Sorry about the rant but if nothing changes then Oakwell will never be a fortress. Just a good away day for everyone else.

 

Oakwell has become a chapel lol or a Lol chappell one or tother.

 

Supporters getting behind the team means nothing . If you pay to sporting event and you don't feel the team are giving you their all then surely you have a right to show your feelings .


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Cska had no fans at all yesterday and they came from 2-0 down. Portsmouth get 15k fans week in week out but they don't get the results the fans deserve . How you can get behind a side that throws away a very winnable game with some terrible defending Is harder than it seems


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how can anyone blame the fans?

we could be the best fans ever ever but if the players are carp the fans cannot score for em.

if we are a great team, its the players who do it and deserve credit. again if the team is ****, then its the players who are to blame.

its easy really folks, the players play not the fans.

they are well paid so I am afraid the pampered fekkers will have to live with it.

hth

 

So you're surprised that people paying a ludicrous amount of money to watch performances like last night, this after 8 seasons of dross in the division above, aren't always eager to voice their joy when their team throws away a 2-0 lead at home in League 1?

Do you not think the team on the pitch ought to give the fans something to cheer about seeing as, you know, their wages are being paid by them?

 

I agree the team haven't given the fans enough to cheer but they do well away from home where the fans back them throughout.

At Oakwell the team concede a goal even when they're still winning and it turns into doom and gloom and apart from the groans you could hear a pin drop at times.

At some grounds home teams can be 3-0 down and the fans still sing their hearts out.

 

ludicrous amounts of money dunt wash with me, dunt matter i got 3 seasons tickets for me and my kids for a little over 300 quid this season in the family stand, and yes the players need to give us something to cheers about , pretty much like the first 20mins last night, but fans do not have to pay any amounts of money should they so wish, nobody is forcing them to go down to oakwell on a cold tuesday night in october, there are lots of things i would do with my family that are a lot more costly than going down to the well, but i choose not to as i cannot afford to do them,
football is crazy sometimes like last night , 2-0 and bossing the game then losing, but we are in league 1 for a reason !

 

Mr Reev with another straight to the point ,
Nail on the head post.
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And yet the fans were absolutely superb at Peterborough - constantly singing throughout the game.

 

2-0 up at home & fans booing because we're keeping possession. Makes me wonder what some of our lot have for brains.

Best thing to do at 2-0 is keep possession & make the other team work. We'd rather our lads keep bombing forward in numbers & put our defence at risk

 

I wasn't there so I can't say with any certainty that you're talking ********.

But really? People were seriously booing after going 2-0 up in 12 minutes just because we were passing it around?

 

Yup, afraid so, mate. Some were sat a few rows from Jay & myself in the Ponty End.

 

I didn't hear booing at any stage. Some mutterings, for sure, but not pressing on brings the somewhat inevitable result that followed.

 

It happened. I couldn't believe it. Don't get me wrong it wasn't full on booing like you get when you get hammered & the full time whistle goes but there was plenty at it.

I don't really get it. Ramage & Cranie went back to the goalie a few times when there wasn't a forward ball on but we've got Winnall who tries but wins little & Cole who doesn't try up front so what's wrongs with moving it around the back & working the openings? The irony is the second goal came from steady build up play from the back yet they were still moaning & groaning 5 mins later.

I was cringing at it.

 

Fair enough, was a bit sceptical that some of our fans could stoop to even that level of idiocy but others have said it happened too.

I like to see us break forward with pace and verve but I understand that when the forward pass/run isn't on it's much better to retain the ball than just blindly punt it forward and give the other team the ball, especially if we're winning and aren't desperate for a goal. I'd have had trouble keeping my thoughts to myself if the people in front of me were booing us keeping the ball. At 2-0 up as well!

 

I mentioned this to my Dad at the game. If you watch Premier League and Champions League football, the back four will enjoy a heap of possession. One of the centre backs or full backs will receive the ball from the keeper, pass it square if that's the only option until there's an easy ball available through to the midfield. A quick direct ball to a centre forwards head is all but extinct.

However, if Barnsley even try to attempt this style of football it's met with howls of derision from the crowd. I understand if it's passing for passings sake or if we are putting ourselves under unnecessary pressure but as people have said we were 2 up at the time and Notts County weren't even pressing our back four.

We don't have a target man, that's a fact. So the crowd are going to have to show a little bit of patience with this approach. I've no issue with giving them some stick at full time or after schoolboy defending has cost us a goal but I though some of our build up play was the best I've seen at Oakwell for a long time. Whoever get's picked, we've got four ball playing midfielders let's play to our strengths.