There’s bound to be a reaction. We’ve had plenty of options to choose from, with Benson and Palmer back, as well as Kitching. Playing a team below us in the table and we played awfully. We concede chances and can’t score goals. We looked like relegation fodder today.
I’m too lazy to research things @SuperTyke knows…. But surely there has been a worse performance in years. is it perhaps the several hundred pounds that are (probably rightly) upsetting you?
The people who think that was the worst Barnsley performance ABSOLUTELY DEFINITELY have not been watching us a long as I have!!!
I didn't go yesterday, but everything points to a poor performance. What's the comparable though? Altrincham? Grimsby? Think they're the worst away days I've experienced.
The money is a small part of it. It’s the wasted time. The planning that went into the trip, the early start, the late return, the weekend taken up, my youngest daughter’s first away game. You go, in full knowledge that you could lose, but what really upsets me is The lack of a plan The toothless display The strange team selections But most of all The pathetic tactics. We’ve totally destroyed something that was working well, and replaced it with something that neither works, nor is pleasant on the eye. It’s just dull. It took less than 45 minutes to pretty much silence a party atmosphere of 3000 fans and replace it with a party atmosphere in the home ends. I honestly don’t know what our best team is - I do know that it doesn’t involve Odour as a striker. We have had many bad displays over the years, but this one feels so bad because I can’t see a way out of it with this manager.
Actually thought he was one of the few positives in the second half as Blackpool put ten men behind the ball and shut up shop/Schopp. Looked lovely, kept the ball, probed, but ultimately had no one making runs. When players made runs we actually looked a decent team. Was far too rare though. I have no issue with us controlling possession and controlling the tempo of the game. That’s not the boring part. It’s our criminal lack of width that made yesterday so frustrating to watch. We’ve got the possession, I even think we’ve got the players, but not if we try and play football in a telephone box. Williams and Brittain should be hugging the touch line or coming inside, only for someone else to hug the touchline. It’s far too static up front other than Woodrow who gets involved in every move we have because he’s always showing for the ball and wanting to get us going.
#betterfanalert Is there a competition to see who will have the most patience? I’ve seen nothing to suggest this manager has any hope of recovery whatsoever. It isn’t histrionics just because you don’t agree. If we’d lost more games and got less points, but there was a glimmer of improvement and/or a sign of exactly what he was trying to achieve I’d have more hope. But it has been continuing dross, different players in different positions, no sign of a game plan, no sign of improvement. Nothing. Nada. If he doesn’t win one, probably both of the upcoming home games, we are bang in trouble.
I disagree with the main point of the OP. A lot of the negativity is coming from level headed people who are generally very patient. It's not just the usual glass half empty people.