<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="631" border="0"><tbody><tr style="height: 20px"><td style="width: 122px; height: 20px" colspan="2"><font face="Calibri" size="3">With Macken</font></td><td style="width: 76px"><font face="Calibri" size="3" /></td><td style="width: 64px"><font face="Calibri" size="3" /></td><td style="width: 64px"><font face="Calibri" size="3" /></td><td style="width: 117px"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Without Macken</font></td><td style="width: 46px"><font face="Calibri" size="3" /></td><td style="width: 78px"><font face="Calibri" size="3" /></td><td style="width: 64px"><font face="Calibri" size="3" /></td></tr><tr style="height: 20px"><td style="height: 20px"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Barnsley</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">1-0</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">Preston</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">W</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3" /></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">Barnsley</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">1-4</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">Coventry</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">L</font></td></tr><tr style="height: 20px"><td style="height: 20px"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Barnsley</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">2-1</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">Blackpool</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">W</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3" /></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">Colchester</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">2-2</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">Barnsley</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">D</font></td></tr><tr style="height: 20px"><td style="height: 20px"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Wolves</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">1-0</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">Barnsley</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">L</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3" /></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">Barnsley</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">3-2</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">Plymouth</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">W</font></td></tr><tr style="height: 20px"><td style="height: 20px"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Barnsley</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">3-2</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">Watford</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">W</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3" /></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">West Brom</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">2-0</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">Barnsley</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">L</font></td></tr><tr style="height: 20px"><td style="height: 20px"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Sheff W</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">1-0</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">Barnsley</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">L</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3" /></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">Barnsley</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">2-0</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">Scnuthorpe</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">W</font></td></tr><tr style="height: 20px"><td style="height: 20px"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Ipswich</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">0-0</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">Barnsley</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">D</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3" /></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">Stoke</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">0-0</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">Barnsley</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">D</font></td></tr><tr style="height: 20px"><td style="height: 20px"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Barnsley</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">1-0</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">Wolves</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">W</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3" /></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">Southampton</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">2-3</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">Barnsley</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">W</font></td></tr><tr style="height: 20px"><td style="height: 20px"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Barnsley</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">0-0</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">C Palace</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">D</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3" /></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">Barnsley</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">1-1</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">Cardiff</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">D</font></td></tr><tr style="height: 20px"><td style="height: 20px"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Sheff U</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">1-0</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">Barnsley</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">L</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3" /></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">Barnsley</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">3-0</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">Bristol C</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">W</font></td></tr><tr style="height: 20px"><td style="height: 20px"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Bristol C</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">3-2</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">Barnsley</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">L</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3" /></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">Charlton</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">1-1</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">Barnsley</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">D</font></td></tr><tr style="height: 20px"><td style="height: 20px"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Barnsley</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">3-3</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">Stoke</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">D</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3" /></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">Barnsley</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">1-1</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">Burnley</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">D</font></td></tr><tr style="height: 20px"><td style="height: 20px"><font face="Calibri" size="3"> </font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3" /></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3" /></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3" /></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3" /></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">Hull City</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">3-0</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">Barnsley</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">L</font></td></tr><tr style="height: 20px"><td style="height: 20px"><font face="Calibri" size="3" /></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3" /></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3" /></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3" /></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3" /></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">Leicester</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">2-0</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">Barnsley</font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3">L</font></td></tr><tr style="height: 20px"><td style="height: 20px"><font face="Calibri" size="3" /></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3" /></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3" /></td><td></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3"> </font></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3" /></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3" /></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3" /></td><td><font face="Calibri" size="3" /></td></tr><tr style="height: 20px"><td style="height: 20px" colspan="5"><font face="Calibri" size="3">P 11 W 4 D 3 L 4 F 12 A 12 Pts 15 </font></td><td colspan="4"><font face="Calibri" size="3">P 13 W 4 D 5 L 4 F 17 A 20 Pts 17 </font></td></tr><tr style="height: 20px"><td style="height: 20px"></td><td> </td><td></td><td></td><td> </td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table>
There are lies, damn lies & statistics !! We will see over the next few games without him, but I fear that the answer will be yes. He was awesome on Boxing Day and we have no other forward capable of playing to that level I'm afraid.
I'm not convinced about Macken Watched Stan and Macken on boxing day and both players are similar They hold the ball up well and both play with their backs to the goal But neither are natural goal scorers Theres better players out there than Macken...........we need to find one
If I were Davey (which I'm not) Macken gone back and Stan not scoring Then i would play Christienson and Kayodi and have Mosquito on the bench Christienson has the hight and power to hold the ball and flick headers on and Kayodi is faster than a greyhound over 50m
christensen is shyt. he has no future at barnsley football club. would bet my life on that. sorry but he's just not good enough.
RE: If I were Davey (which I'm not) Makes no differance KO's got no confidence to shoot and would probably fall over the ball after going round the keeper.
RE: If I were Davey (which I'm not) Odejayi should not even get in a pub team, might be fast, but so was Linford Christie, I would not have played him either! Mostto justy cant play in this team, he may do if the whole system we play is changed, but not until. Ferenczi is the top scorer, without him and Macken we are left with 3 goals from the strikers none of the strikers brougfht in pre-season look like they can cut it. 2 new strikers needed at least.
RE: Odejayi I would send him to play for Barrow for a couple of months. Old Stumpy would soon sort him out for us. Back to Macken............ http://www.barnsleyfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10309~1200579,00.html Losing him is a "crushing blow" S) A crushing blow to me would be one of our own players like Howard or Muller getting a long term injured. A crushing blow to me would be money worries again. What isn't a crushing blow to me is a loan guy going back one game early. What it is, is an opportunity for someone to step up. Kim should start, as he shows more than Ode and Mossto put together when he plays.
Im guessing that is Simon saying that he doesnt feel that the other players are upto the job that Macken was doing for us.
You can't possibly mean that.....We got a point at Colchester when he won us a penalty and he got us a point at Charlton with a goal. When he came on at Wendy we looked much better. That's just three examples of what he brings to us. You tell me three good things Ode and Mossto have done combined to deserve to be in before him.