Matchday megathread, Barnsley v Stevenage

Gent, O'Keeffe, Killip all equally responsible for the goal.

 

Wait for his after match interview.Listen Listen Listen Listen!!!!!!!!!!

 

How you blaming killip there?

 

If we sacked Clark, the new manager would have to play the same formation, which these players aren’t good enough to play.

Yet……nothing changes.

 

Positioning all wrong. Flapped at the ball which looped over his head. Great cross, but should have been dealt with.

 

Honking performance and even worse result.

Again another performance that shows at both ends of the pitch we are quite some distance from being decent

 

Positioning

 

After about 75 minutes I nearly typed "this has got 0-0 or 0-1 written all over it" but I thought no - why think so negatively? In the end I couldn't be bothered because it was such a hard watch that I barely looked at my screen. I was more interested in England trying to beat India in the T20.

Shocking, shocking performance all round and I am so glad I stayed at home.

 

Looked like robos man who scored the header.

 

Lost at home again what the **** is going on.

 

If we insist on playing with wing backs, we need much better than Gent and O'Keefe. Farrugia looks decent and tries to make things happen though.

 

All I will say is ffs!

 

I’ve only seen it from where I was in the east upper but it looked like it was dinked well over him

 

yeah awful defender but poor keeping too. To challenge we need a better goalie.

 

I'm beginning to sound like a broken record, but Clarke got it badly wrong again.

Roberts and Connell were dire last weekend. I appreciate Marc is only just back from an injury. But Pines didn't deserve dropping. We'd just won four games on the bounce. Luca has not had a good season thus far. Jon Russell has. Even his detractors must agree he's played better than Connell? But of course, as soon as Russell's level drops (last match), he's the one to make way. So we got to see that Connell isn't capable of playing further forward. Again. And Robbo did a great impression of Mike Flynn.

Then he takes Phillips off, who is always a goal threat. For Humphrys. Who isn't. We end up with him as a winger (see, he's not a striker) and DKD back on the left side, where Clarke kept trying to play him earlier in the season, with little success. The changes in personnel and shape served only to weaken us, and give Boro the nudge to go and win it. Happens most home games. We're shocking in the last quarter.

Stevenage are solid. Uncompromising, experienced and in the likes of Kemp, Reid and List (who came on) they have match-winners. They aren't going to win any beauty contests, and they do end up dragging teams into playing 'their' way. But they're a tough nut to crack and I credit them just as much as I criticise us. They saw their opportunity to win, made changes to do so and let's be honest, we could have had little argument if we'd suffered another 4-0 reverse. At home. In the third division.

The four-game winning sequence I'm starting to look at through a different lens now. It appears more of an anomaly than any sign of things to come.

Struggling to find anything positive from today I'm afraid. Farrugia perhaps? I know some are blaming Killip for the goal, but I felt he had a decent game, made some decent saves. But yeah. Another bleak offering at Oakwell. Like the visual version of toothache.

 

Gent's substitute appearance is possibly the rankest 20 minutes i have ever seen churned out by a professional footballer. Absolutely abysmal.

 

I think it's funny how certain people won't get criticism by certain posters no matter how ***** they play. Funny

 

I was thinking exactly the same, it's not as if we haven't seen it before.

 

He's played worse this season. He can't play.

 

So we win 4 games over the holidays and played very well,so why does he have to p..s about with the team selection.Dropping Pines for Robert’s was uncalled for.Any player who is out for a long spell has no diving right to walk back into the team when they were playing well