[BFC SITE] Darrell Clarke Pre-Blackpool Press Conference

In December Darryl Clarke said the squad was too big and we needed players out. At the same time he also said Lopata and Shepherd were better staying out on loan. (https://www.barnsleychronicle.com/a...r-early-business-while-balancing-ins-and-outs)

He now seems to have had a massive change of heart and is suggesting he would have done it differently if he’d had a say. Either he was talking bull**t in December or talking it now.

I suggest he needs to get a grip and suck it up. Injuries and suspensions happen to every team. It’s his job as a coach to make players better and make it work, so get on with it.

 

Is he? Sounds more like he's saying that if he knew what he knows now he would have made a different decision

 

To whoever does these...

If you don't also include the question you asked, it doesn't make any sense. Take the second paragraph for example

"They are very doubtful, until we get scans back and scan results back, I can’t say much, I'm not trying to withhold information, I just tell you when I can get the actual facts, but they're very, very doubtful."

I have no idea who he is talking about. Who is 'they'? You obviously asked about specific players, but then didn't include the question you asked. How are we supposed to make any sense of it?

 

It’s all AI speech to text conversion, with the odd tweak. It’s been the same since last year - hence why it doesn’t always make sense and sounds poor.

 

We play 5 at the back. On the books in December we had:

Cotter
O'Keefe
Gent
Earl
MDG
Pines
Roberts
MCarthy
Shepherd
Lapota
Lofthouse

I think its fair enough to say we had too many with 11 and 5 spots. And its fair enough to assume that within an 8 week period we wouldn't lose Cotter, Pines, Earl, Gent to injury and don't forget Roberts and MDG to suspension in that time too.

It's unlucky but its been good to see Barrett get s run out and McCarthy some games too. It'll be right.