Official Match Day thread: Wednesday v Barnsley

Afe way theeur

 

I think you're reading way too much into that.

 

I almost think we would’ve been better pumping long balls to Woodrow 2nd half at least Chaplin & Thiam could’ve used their fresh legs to try & get on to the second balls. As it was we created next to nothing.

Wish the half time whistle would’ve come 10 minutes later as the only momentum we seemed to have came in the spell before the break

 

Whaaaay am theeur, U RRRRRREDDDDZ

 

SYP commented on twitter that the new precautions put in place to ensure a safe exit for home and away supporters was succesful.

 

There will be tonnes more weekends like this between now and May

We need to stick to our principles and game plan

 

I agree, we are going to lose a lot of games we have to get used to it. Desperately changing tactics and players will only make things worse.

 

THIS....

 

Yep I agree. If Weds took their chances it could have easily been 5-0 yesterday, I don’t think Stendel is one for panicking though.

 

This is what were going to come up against from time to time this season unfortunatley. Wednesday have spent millions over the last few seasons and apart from last week, not sold a player since 1948. Theyve had to sell their stadium back to themselves just to comply with the FFP rules (ironic), on top of making up ficticious companies to help pump more money in to pay the 40k odd wages they pay benchwarmers. Its another world to how we operate, living within our means, high player turnover, selling players to progress. Along with this ethos comes days like this in this division, some good teams made up from money we could only dream of spending. Thats not to say we cant do better than today, we did last week and we will do again, nobody said it was going to be easy and it isnt, but we'll be ok.

 

I agree if that game plan has proved to be successful. But sticking to something that doesn't work because those are your principles is daft.

I don't know if this slow build up from the back is a good idea or not. We didn't play like that last year when we were successful, it's a new thing. My fear, considering the skill set of the players who are being asked to adopt it, is that it will cost us a hell of a lot more goals than it will create.

 

What are you doing here on page 14? Thought you couldn't be bothered to trawl through this lot?

 

And I thought this thread was just for match days?
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I couldn't, I went straight to page 14, there may be dozens of quality posts in the previous 13 pages but I'll never see 'em

 

Trust me, page 14 is as good as it gets

 

I was looking for a conclusion, something to wrap it all up

 

The full-time whistle was enough for me. I only looked in here again cos the thread went back to the top of the board. I'd assumed that this was just a 90 minute thread, but I guess you can't keep a good thread down.

 

Perhaps we need a"day after the match" thread along the lines of:

Please post here any thoughts on any aspect of yesterday's match, that you've had time to sleep on.


It is important that we don't have lots of new threads with useful topic titles, on some sort of index page. It is far more streamlined and easy to navigate if everything goes in a small number of giant megathreads that you can trawl through manually for the bit that interests you.

Tomorrow all posts can go in a Barnsley Vs Carlisle United Preview thread and so on.

I think I'm getting the hang of how the forum is going to work from now on.

 

I agree in general with your point that there will be teams who’ve spent that much that they’re just too good for us, a bit like that Leicester team containing Vardy & Drinkwater when they got promoted to the prem & completely dominated us at Oakwell but I don’t think yesterday was much to do with quality or money spent.

Tactically Bullen got it spot on, they out did us at our own game, in fact he deserves massive credit considering a lot of them players come with big wages & probably big ego’s & he got them to buy into a strategy that relied on graft rather than using their quality.

I doubt for example the Fulham manager would ever be able to get Mitrovic, Knockaert & co to buy into a strategy like that.

It was a lack of quality particularly from Kadeem Harris that stopped it been a hammering as he had very little end product despite skinning Sibbick numerous times

 

Conclusion.....

1 up front. Woodrow as good as he is isn't a 1 man band.

We can play any formation we want. But 1 up front is ****. End of thread