Matchday Megathread, Barnsley v Huddersfield Town

He often shouts and looks frantic on touchline but they clearly don't listen or he's shouting absolute nonsense

 

All the other coaches were motionless ,I think they can see he is out of depth

 

We should have capitalised more in the first half when Huddersfield were all over the place.
Second half lacked any intensity whatsoever.

 

I can't think of anything he did that was ok. his corners are crap, his free kicks are crap, his crossing is crap, his tackling is crap, he was even crap at getting subbed.

 

We've been like it all season doesn't make any difference what players are in there.

 

That bloke will be our interim coach when Clarke gets the push.

 

I thought that we pressed and played with intensity in the first half but that energy certainly disappeared in the second half.

 

We did. But I would argue that you could grab 11 reasonably fit young men off the street who'd be able to run and press for the first 45 mins. They'd certainly start to flag in the second half.

However, we're talking about people who are supposed to be athletes. It's their full time job to be footballers. They train and play 6 days a week. And they can't run for an hour, let alone 90 mins. It's poor. It's amateur. And that's a theme that runs through the entire Club.

 

Maybe they need some Val--esque hard core fitness training, starting 0800 tomorrow morning.

 

I didn’t realise he actually took them.

 

Maybe we should grab 11 reasonably fit young men off the street who'd be able to run and press for the first 45 mins and then replace them ALL at halftime with a different 11 reasonably fit young men grabbed off the street who'd be able to run and press for the last 45 mins, then in extra time bring in 11 of the regular "professional " players from our current squad?

 

Can't be any worse result wise than what we're achieving at the minute haha!

 

I agree that we should look fitter, Big Val had players running through walls but then had a structured plan to replace them as they tired, our substitutions now are random and make us look worse.

 

TLDR; Seen it all before. Bit of a whinge. Blah blah blah.

It's a game I've seen at Oakwell time and time again this season. Start alright, look the most likely, then fold in the second half. Honestly, have a glance through, game by game. Don't get me wrong, there have been occasions where we've held on for a point, or, against Wycombe and Charlton where we scored last minute levellers. But the amount of goals conceded in the second half is horrendous. That one today reminded me of Northampton, Birmingham and Wrexham. Now, they all ended in different results. But it was the same performance level. Retreat to your own box and hope to hang on, with your only tactic to launch it down the right wing. That would ordinarily point to a fitness issue. And maybe that is relevant here. But tactical terrorism doesn't help either.

What's the obsession with changing systems all the time? It doesn't work. Why are you bringing a centre mid on for a striker? I get that, when necessary, but not today. Not at all. Why do the players lose all composure second half and just go long? It doesn't matter if it's O'Keeffe, Cotter, Lofthouse or Lembikisa, each right wing-back just smashes it to the 'keeper or out of play. So it must be an instruction. Each defender goes from mildly competent to error-prone within a 20 minute half-time interval. And when they change shape, you end up with 'striker' Humphrys stood a yard ahead of whoever is playing wing-back that given week. Absolutely nobody to aim at. Hoping to scramble a set play or something. Although based on them today, probably not a good idea. Two horrific goals conceded again.

Great to see Lewis come on and instantly hug the touchline and look absolutely nothing like a forward. We didn't call Bullock, Devaney or Hammill forwards did we? They were wingers. As is Lewis, clearly. I've said all year that Humphrys is a winger too. It would certainly excuse the fact he hasn't scored for four months.
I actually thought Rodrigues started brightly, until he had to touch the ball. I don't think he touched it again for the next 50 odd minutes. Young Dyer showed more in his very brief runout.

It was a completely expected performance. The team look soft, easily beaten and lacking any kind of coherent plan. Is it six without a win now? One point from 18? In the third division. It's quite the predicament isn't it?

Oh well. At least our new forward who played on the wing has played against Messi. Swings and roundabouts.

 

First half we played like we wanted to win, 2nd half we were sloppy and lacked aggression. I'd have stuck Dyer on earlier personally, before Benson.
Oh well, no false hope to cling onto now, mid table obscurity it is!

 

Yep. What we're witnessing at the moment is what I can only describe as a "perfect storm". We've got owners that haven't got a clue how to run a Football Club, so are outsourcing important roles to people such as Sormaz and Flatman who give me the impression that they're chancers and are blowing smoke up Neerav's ar*e, and he's too naive to see it. Sormaz has knackered the playing side, and Flatman has yet to implement a single thing that improves match day experience.

Then we get to the footballing stuff. We have a HC who reminds me more and more of David Brent. I get the impression that the lads are getting away with murder all week in training as he wants to be their mate and not their manager. He's also tactically inept, which will always hinder a side. It's also the biggest job he's had, or likely to ever have, so really doesn't want to upset any of the higher ups by calling anything out.

It really is a dire state of affairs.

 

Totally agree about Dyer coming on earlier, he might as well given a go.
Benson drove me mad when he did that stupid foul in injury time, virtually killing the game dead.

 

Agree with a lot of that YT but as soon as we lose the upper hand the wheels fall off and for me thats down to the coach.I also think Humphrys could play as a number 9 he's got strength and the physique but the constant playing him out wide doesn't make sense when we've players already there.

 

It doesn't even bear a passing resemblance mate

 

I totally agree with the off field stuff but I was for giving Clarke the summer to try and balance the squad and give us some continuity but it's getting harder to justify keeping him.