Matchday megathread, Bolton Wanderers v Barnsley

Losing 1-0 but a massive improvement on the last game.

 

You must have said this at least 10 times already this season

 

Russell is playing well

agreed. To disallow our goal was a complete joke.

 

Smith must be bad to not get a chance

 

McCarthy unlucky there. Should have been leaving the pitch with a goal and no yellow card.

We’re actually doing quite well going forward, just look vulnerable every time they attack us. Russell, who I wouldn’t have started with and don’t really rate, is playing well. If we can keep the ball away from our box we could turn this around.

 

They need to up the performance considerably in the second half. Wasteful in attack, huge gaps in midfield, comic defending. At least we have Nwakali, Cotter and Cosgrove to strengthen. At the moment for me there is only Connell, Pines and Russell who can be reasonably pleased with their performance.

 

This game is made for Nwakali

 

Doesn’t look like a bunch of players who would run through brick walls for DC.

 

We improved as the half wore on and created a couple of chances but you just know we’ll concede again, it’s just a matter of time. Defence and keeper both looking very shaky….

 

Nowt in it. We scored from a corner but the ref blew for a foul, which it was, but then I see players holding each other like MDG did, not just every week, but at every single corner. They got a shot in from the edge of the box which our keeper should have saved, but he didn't. We had a shot from the edge of the box, it even took a deflection to wrong foot their keeper, and their keeper saved it when it was much further away from him than the one that Killip failed to stop.

 

I've got the Newcastle game muted in the background. The way the Villa player just grabbed his face and fell to the ground to get the other player a yellow was shocking. Nowhere near his face. I hate this about the head injury rule, as they fake it so much.

 

He'd blown for a foul by MDG before the ball went in maybe even before McCarthy's header. Whether MDG having his arms round the Bolton player was a foul is a different matter but then again if you do that you're giving the ref to opportunity to give the foul.

 

You’re probably right to be fair, he’s the luckiest manager ever. Losing as many as we’ve won in this league is absolutely pathetic but because the board are also a disaster it deflects away from Daryl….

 

At least we know we can score. We've already got 3 goals (one an Own Goal) in 4.5 matches this month. Yippee!

 

if it was a foul then every single corner kick up and down the country would result in a free kick.

Don’t get me wrong I would rule out grappling completely but it happens at every corner kick you’ll ever see and goes unpunished

 

Better performance than Saturday, but I'm not thinking we'll get anything today, or any points until Crawley game.

 

Sad really cos this performance is so much better all round.
When your luck is out it's out.

 

Entertaining game so far that we can still get something from, we just need our Strikers to step up.
Next goal is vital.