At the end of the day Barnsley have been crap. They have. No good blaming the ref as has already been attempted in this thread. No threat. No creativity. Swansea's keeper has not had to do anything. The manager HAS to change tactics and start moving Swansea's defence. Midfield have to be more creative and stop lumping balls. It doesn't work in this game. Attackers have got to be more mobile and make better runs. Create something please
The service to our "forward line" has been very poor. The 3 up front are currently wasting their time being on the field. I feel now that our system of play has exhausted itself. Gone are the shock and awe tactics to be replaced with huff and puff with little or no result. If we pull it back second half then i will be pleasantly surprised. But for goodness sake lets try to play some football. Swansea must love playing us.
Well we finished 2 points off Swansea, and finished in front of Bournemouth, not much of a gap really. Don't worry, be happy
Well I’m blaming the ref for giving a free kick to them that clearly was ours,and led to the goal. just because we’re not playing well it doesn’t mean we have to sit back and accept such poor decisions against us.
Saying that was a poor first half from us is an understatement and I don't think we can play any worse in the second. I don't think we've won a second ball yet. At the moment I can't see where a comeback is coming from but let us hope there is still some big Val magic left to sprinkle on this team.
Could have had Messi n Ronaldo up.front and I still dont think we would have scored. The balls forward have been shocking.
He needs to **** in mean it then. If he doesn't do that this season has been in vein. We need to move forward. Like it or not the next step is winning the Play-Offs or automatic.
We're persisting with the rapid hit and hope tactic, seemingly not realising this is the Swansea centre halves' bread and butter.
We’ve had nothing out of these all season long & it doesn’t look like changing now. I think we all know, these were the ones we wanted to avoid. Shithousery, decisions, poor defending, all that aside we’ve simply not been good enough over 2 legs so therefore get what we deserve. I know who I’ll be cheering on in the final barring a miracle 2nd half.
I want to put tonight to bed. Take positives and go up automatic with Valerie at the helm next season.
the intensity of the press was winning football matches for us. vertical football without an intense press will not win football matches. Valerian rocket up the arris needed.
Yep, its poor tactics. Down to the manager. It's him that has to reorganise the team and change approach