Can’t see a match day thread for Barnsley v Rams

Agreed. We should have been on a high and full of confidence yet the manager was scared shitless and set us up with the hope of trying to defend defend defend. It's negative and generally speaking only ends one way which is defeat.

 

We were second best today. Derby were very good, we were very poor. Disappointing and saddening to be honest.

But the gap remains the same. It's not over.

Huge 10 days ahead of us. We can't get out of bother in that time, but we could end up dead and buried.

Reaction needed.

 

Whilst you hate losing vital games like that, it's the manner of it that grates most. A loss when you've gone for it, given your all and left nothing out there is much more palatable than a lifeless, insipid, mistake-strewn nothingness of a performance.

Clearly, set-up over-cautiously and defensively with absolutely no fire put in their bellies for such a crucial game in which we had the opportunity to really make a statement to those above us and at the same time almost knock Derby out. And no changes made to system, approach, attitude, personnel nor passion at half-time. No excuses, just poor that.

Derby are bang average and a half decent side would have been 3 or 4 up at half-time instead of 1 but, if anything, we looked even poorer after the break. Rooney had the luxury of being able to substitute and protect their best player, Bielik, who ran the game at an absolute canter and old man Davies at the back could have played the game in an armchair given the lack of pressure on him and his painfully slow young partner.

Hope I'm wrong but I can't see us troubling Fulham so wins against Stoke and Bristol absolutely imperative now and if they come then maybe we can put yesterday down as a 'bad day at the office'. Fingers crossed.

 

Yea pretty much agree with all of that. Derby were far better than us and should have had more goals. They are no fab team and that hurts....the fact we were so flat. Going into this one I thought well we have momentum here....I actually thought a draw would be good before the match but a poor showing from us maybe their coach did a number on us again....whatever no complaints about the result.....need a big improvement like the boro game, who were /are a very good side.