Fed up Oakwell boss to step up quest for new blood.

<div id="contentmain"><div class="columnholder"><div id="column08"><div class="premiumoff" id="divFrozen"><div class="priemiumbox noborder"><div class="paddingpremium"><div class="leftpremium"></div></div></div></div><div id="viewarticle"><div class="headline" id="ds-headline"><h1>Fed-up Oakwell boss to step up quest for new blood.</h1></div><div class="viewarticlepanel"><div class="on" id="ThumbDiv"><div class="thumb"><a href="javascript: ShowThumb(0);" /></div><div class="thumb"><a href="javascript: ShowThumb(1);" /></div><div class="thumb"><a href="javascript: ShowThumb(2);" /></div></div><div><div class="MPUTitleWrapperClass" id="ds-mpuTitleWrapper"><div id="ds-mpu"><div id="mpuholder" style="display: block">By Neil Goulding</div></div></div></div></div><div class="ds-firstpara" id="ds-firstpara">If there was ever a day when Simon Davey could justify to his board the search for a new striker, then this was it.</div><div class="va-bodytext" id="va-bodytext">Davey fielded three forwards in Barnsley's starting 11, and brought another on when the going got tough.

Jamie Cureton, Jon Macken and Maceo Rigters all started, while Kayode Odejayi replaced the latter for the last 12 minutes.

But the Welshman was left cursing his luck after seeing chance upon chance go astray, and ultimately three points as David McGoldrick completed the ultimate smash and grab by converting one of the visitors' few opportunities of the 90 minutes.

Straight after Saturday's game, Davey set his sights on a new striker, if not two.

The result, and the manner in which it arrived, certainly made the Jamie Ward saga all the more galling.

It may be that Davey yet re-ignites his interest in the Chesterfield forward, while he could do worse than turn his attentions to somebody like goal poacher Andy Bishop who has just rejected a new contract at Bury.

&quot;Southampton had their chance, and they took it,&quot; said Davey, reflecting on what he had witnessed.

&quot;We did not take one of the 10 or 15 opportunities that we had.&quot;

&quot;It is frustrating, and we have had three strikers out there for most of the 90 minutes who you expect to put one away. We are very disappointed, but we need to move on.&quot;

Cureton and Rigters were both guilty of missing first-half chances that you would not be surprised to see on a Christmas bloopers DVD, while there were a whole host of home players who volleyed high and wide from distance.

Cureton, a scorer in the last two league games, wasted his chance as early as two minutes when he swivelled on a deflected Rigters shot that wriggled its way through to him 12 yards out.

And Rigters was off target, spectacularly, on the half hour when he found himself clear in the box, only to slice well wide with just the exceptional Kelvin Davis to beat.

&quot;Jamie Cureton had chances, Jon Macken had chances, Maceo Rigters had chances. Every player we expect to put the ball in the back of the net didn't do it,&quot; continued Davey.

&quot;I am not sure how we have lost it. We need to put those chances away, and we should have put one in the net. Football has a habit of kicking you when you least expect it to do so.&quot;

There was absolutely no way that Barnsley deserved to lose this game - but the longer it went on without them taking a chance, you got the feeling that a sucker punch may just be on the way.

Steve Foster had a header well tipped over eight minutes into the second half, Dennis Souza saw his 72nd minute header hit the post, while Cureton had another shot from close range well saved by Davis a minute before Southamp-ton's opener.

The Saints, who lost 3-0 to Manchester United in the FA Cup last weekend, had not won in eight league games prior to this clash.

But McGoldrick nodded in his eighth of the season with 14 minutes on the clock from a Lee Holmes right-wing cross.

The groans around Oakwell were considerable.

To be fair to Southampton, they defended manfully.

And they dropped deeper and deeper as the time ticked by.

They could, and should, have paid the ultimate price when Nigerian substitute Odejayi was wrestled to the floor in added time.

How referee Tony Bates, who was well positioned on the edge of the box, missed the incident is a question many Barnsley fans will be asking for some time to come.

&quot;We just don't seem to get those kind of decisions, not even at home,&quot; said Davey. &quot;I just don't understand it.&quot;

The Reds face a crucial clash against Norwich, who hover just above the dropzone, at Carrow Road on Saturday.

It remains to be seen if Davey is able to name a new signing or two, but the manager did add: &quot;We have to move on now, and we have to be firing on all cylinders when we travel to Norwich next week.&quot;

BOSS'S VIEW:
&quot;We had the possession and chances, and could have won that game three or four times over.
&quot;If you do not put them away, that is what can happen.
&quot;We did not take one of the 10 or 15 opportunities that we had.
&quot;It is frustrating, and we have had three strikers out there for most of the 90 minutes who you expect to put one away.
&quot;We are very disappointed, but we need to move on.&quot;</div></div></div></div></div>

 

He's Finally Realising Is Davey

For months on end he would back the strikers and support them. Now he's more like us fans in being openly critical of the front line and realising we need strikers in and the ones we have aren't good enough to play for New Lodge.