Matchday Megathread, Barnsley v Burton Albion

We’re 9th and can potentially fall to 15th if other teams win around us, with stockport, huddersfield and rotherham up next i can see that being the reality. It is really that bad

 

I actually thought he was petty poor today. A couple of decent passes but thats about it, Phillips made a couple of beauty passes which were much better. Defensively he is all over the shop, hence why I think he didnt start often. He looks like 2 different players, most games he comes off the bench he looks a world beater, but when he starts he looks a shadow of himself. Stevenage, Leyton orient, 2 prime examples

 

Who actually owns us chien lee, conway, cryne jr , khaled

 

Lee, Conway or Khaled have nothing to do with club anymore

 

Lee and Conway still have shares

 

Perhaps I’m making too much of your rant about him the other day. Anyway, happy to leave it there because he’s the least of our problems.

 

They have nothing to do with the club though, haven't done for ages

 

Didn’t you notice him saving a certain goal then?

 

Ok yeah you are right, he had an excellent game

 

He did indeed.

 

Or the two defence splitters that put Phillips clean through in the box (ok Phillips wandered offside for the first one).

 

I know it’s easier to just blame the board, and they have to take a fair share of the blame but the squad is far better than it is showing and that’s on the boss.

Tactically inept in every way. I don’t often call for a manager to be sacked but it’s time. When the dog keeps collapsing and is walking into walls it’s time to put it out of its misery.

 

Oh aye

 

Bye bye play offs. Burton were happy with that draw, and we performed as though we were too.

 

Looking on today I get the impression that the better players in the squad have lost belief and are just going through the motions. There was a definite lack of passion spirit and fight in the performance several times players had their heads down after a wasted pass there was just a resignation that that's the norm.

 

I thought that, when he hit the shot that came back off the keeper, he just turned and walked away instead of attacking it again. Looks like he has no interest.

 

Were you listening to OLD SHEP when you wrote that mate?

 

it was obvious after 10 mins we had come out with no tempo or urgency and thats on the manager especially after the debacle at Wycombe the other day

 

TLDR; I’m still teetotal but BFC are challenging that.

It’s a tough watch isn’t it? Not an enjoyable experience at all.

So many immobile footballers who need far too much time to make a decision. Then, the few players I’d say are technically decent, they are proper slow. That’s in all areas of the pitch too.

Yes, Nwakali has great composure and a decent technical base with better than average passing range. But he can’t move with the ball. Watch him. He refuses to do it. I wish some others would copy him actually. Because we’ve two or three who love trying to move with the ball and run into dead ends. Maël, Earl and Humphrys. Simple pass on, slide someone in, just retain possession. No, f*ćk that. I’m going to run into this fella and cough up the ball.

I like DKD. He’s not a world beater. I think this is his level. But he tries, and we know there’s goals in him. I also understand why he comes deep at times. But when you’re already playing Humphrys (probably a decent winger at the level) up front, you end up with neither of them occupying the centre halves. So it’s all ahead of them. At times, we had (from left to right) Lofthouse, Russell, DKD, Humphrys, Phillips and O’Keeffe in a line. 40 yards out. A six man lateral line of players. It looks completely mental. Honest, from a tactical perspective, there’s massive alarm bells going off for me.

Just thankful that Burton were as useless as their league position suggested. Because as ever, we presented them the ball in and around the box two or three times only to somehow survive. New ‘keeper made one big save, and looked at least as good as Killip. But it wasn’t an impressive shut out for us defensively. We still looked far too easy to get at. Fortunately, as said, Burton are a relegation outfit.

Would have liked to have seen young Dyer get 10 minutes. Why not? Instead, we saw Gent replace Lofthouse and look equally out of his depth. And I’ve no idea why, but we got eight minutes of Connell as holding midfielder in place of Nwakali. The booing then, and the boos at full time are becoming far too familiar.

Phillips my player of the match. Selling him over the next couple of days would be proper Banter FC.

 

Well that was proper pants. To put a cherry on it, all trains from Barnsley were cancelled so I got a bus to Rotherham which took me on a trip down memory lane through Wath, Manvers and Rawmarsh. I'm now on a train from Rotherham to Sheffield