Unpopular BFC Opinions

We can replace Mowatt.

 

I like Collins's sheethousery as it takes the pressure off. I agree about us not hanging on the ball though and hoofing it when we could pass. There were times last night where it just invited pressure.

 

The hoof ball tag from some opposition and our fans is lazy observation imo .
We don’t hoof it without purpose then fight for the second ball (although this happens now and again) we play it into an area where we fight for first ball and then play one touch football in the correct (from our point of view ) areas of the pitch .

 

If you don't like the style of football... and I'm not keen on it, it goes against the grain of everything I associate with the Reds at their best.. then I suspect history will offer a solution. One way or another, managers only seem to last one season at Oakwell.

 

To be fair hecky had joe williams and Harvey Barnes and it was hecky who brought in all the midfielders and played Bradshaw as a lone striker.

 

Every red button game, Watford (H), Tranmere and Chelsea. Last night had plenty of hoof, especially in the second half. And I define hoof as aimlessly kicking the ball up the field into touch, to the opposition keeper or just anywhere in general.

The annoyance is there are pockets where we can look good on the ball and thats when we look most threatening. But they are much in the minority over a 90 minute period in the games I've seen. And they include matches in the last few weeks.

 

I don't really have an issue with the style of play at the moment. We've got to remember this manager hasn't had a pre season with these players and since he's joined we've pretty much had 2 games a week so very little time to work on everything - we're very much work in progress. We know the team have the talent to play a more possession style game as they proved under Struber. It would be good to think that in the coming 12 months they can combine that aesthetic with the resilience and pragmatism that we're currently seeing. At the moment though I'm just enjoying the ride. I love this team - it's work rate and the camaraderie is unsurpassed and I hope the composure will improve as the team develops and progresses.

 

We certainly play less attractive football than we have for a number of years, but I suspect most of us will live happily with that while the results are great, and we don't tend to get ambushed by teams who press us as we try to pass it about between our defenders any more - Preston at Oakwell last year springs to mind.
The worst football by far in my 40+ years of watching the Reds was the season just after we got relegated in 2002 . There were extenuating circumstances I know - we were in admin and struggled by with free transfers of players nobody else wanted. Glyn Hodges was the manager and we were pathetic. I remember one match against Northampton - they were absolutely terrible but we were even worse. We lost 1-0 and deservedly so. For much of that season we looked like goners. I still have nightmares remembering those times.

 

The performance against Norwich was superb. Millwall was hoofball.