is Danny wilson

D. Tactically clueless
E. In a job purely based on something he achieved back in the nineties

 

There was something funny in the sky last night.

 

I should've said 'still in a job..'

I agree the options available were poor, and I didn't think it was a bad appointment, at the time. However, if anybody else had us in this position, playing this awful, effortless football then they wouldn't last as long as Danny currently seems to be doing.

 

Can't disagree with that.

Question for anyone that has a closer ear to the ground, I don't live in Barnsley and so may not see and hear everything, but I have seen nothing to show any reason to be patient and wait.

What, exactly, is being done off the pitch and behind the scenes to avert this stagnation? What evidence do we have of improvements in the club generally?

If this is a long term project, and we need to be patient, and whichever other sound bite we can throw at it, what evidence do we have that anything is any different?

Previous seasons we have struggled towards the bottom of the table, and have used a conveyor belt of loan signings in panic to try and 'improve' the team and results. While never settling on a formation suited to everyone and generally playing players out of position.

In previous seasons <insert whichever manager it was> loved to make excuses about low budgets and how little old Barnsley can't compete in the championship.

This season our budget is relatively competitive. So now the excuses, sorry, explanations, are that we are a club in transition, that we spent too long doing the same things and so we have to change ethos, results may take a while to come.

The changed ethos and improved strategy is signing a conveyor belt of loanees when struggling toward the bottom of the table, playing a formation that seems to suit nobody and playing players out of position.

The only thing that has changed is the division we are in and the quality of loanee to my eye.

What has changed?

 

Agreed. Commentary team yesterday couldn't understand why our top scorer was not in his natural position. Said he was struggling in the formation yesterday and then on posts I was reading last night Hourihane was given 3 / 10. Players do have to win the matches but the manager HAS to put them in their strongest positions.

 

That's correct. The thing is Hourihane would see his move here as a platform to better his career, as all professional players do. If Danny persists in making him play in positions that doesn't show off his skills then Hourihane will get pissed off with the manager which I think is what is happening with other players. Loanees are fine but when kids end up shifting you out of your place without earning their place would piss me off.

 

Our biggest problem this season is that the formation and correct players to fit into it weren't sorted in the summer. This has left us with the constant chopping and changing and desperation signings on short loans that do nothing for the so called building of the team. The writing was on the wall in the Crawley game when we played 442 with Berry on the right wing with a centre back supporting him. I cant wait for this season to finish it has been a total let down.

 

Let's have a go at teams , especially away from home . We are playing negative and for a point and it ain't working . The one up front doesn't work with the players we have

 

D) Making a team with one of the best budgets in the league look like a team with one of the worst.

 

Shhh dont mention budgets that was only relevant in the championship.