My take on Poya...........

The way I see it is the ONLY reasons we started picking up points are Quina and Bassi who have been signed and have brought a bit of skill and a lot of effort and running. I believe the results have picked up because of these additional players not because of the manager. In fact I think it's in spite of the manager who's game management is some of the worst I've ever seen.

His apologists always point to a lack of options on the bench but we are a championship football club with a whole squad of players plus an academy who we seem to sign a dozen players a year for but see nothing from. Yesterday he chose a bench that he clearly had no faith in and no intention of using but they weren't the only players available.
Marsh got the man of the match the last time he was seen at oakwell but he's been banished from the squad in favour of Iseka who is so bad that Asbahgi would rather bring on oduor than him.
Hondermarck got good reviews from pretty much every fan who's seen him play but again he's been banished in favour of the likes of Palmer and Benson who are so bad - and have been openly criticised by the manager - that Asbahgi would rather leave Bassi on the pitch absolutely knackered than take him off to bring one on.
he is the most negative manager I remember. We conceded a goal yesterday and he did absolutely nothing to try to get a vital second to retake the lead. He only cares about draws

 

I don't think the problem lies ultimately with the coach.
It is with the boards recruitment.
Trying to make a silk purse how of a pigs ear worked last season.
Teams would have worked us out this season.
We needed quality championship players brought in to compete.
Unfortunately these lot have let us down not the coaches.

 

It's both. Awful recruitment but that doesn't excuse negligent management. The recruitment didn't cause a knackered Bassi to sit in front of the defence at the end of Saturdays game. Poya did.

 

He might have thought a knackered Bassi was better than anything on the bench .

 

He chose the bench and they weren't the only uninjured professional footballers employed by Barnsley football club on Saturday. You can't select your team then complain that what you selected wasn't good enough. Sure he might have THOUGHT that it was the best option but he has THOUGHT wrong many times so far.

 

How can you say he will learn from this when its hopenned how many times now? Wee dropped about 10 points through sitting back or poor subs and lucky not to be more given some lf the other games we clung on to win. He only started alowing shooting after we went mental about it and he promised to be attacking next game. Mans ignorant and stubborn and probably not one to admit hes wrong.

 

What underpins all this is the boards lack of investment.
And will come to haunt the club next season.
By the sounds it's not all hunky dory with the sponsors.
This lot have put our club back 20 years.
Their recruitment in players coaches and lack of insight will cost us dearly.

 

Struber Mk 2.

 

YP jerno sez 12 points in the last 15 mins of games. That would... even in a 5hite season like this... would put us on 41 points
This man would never get you promoted.

 

My overriding view of him is that he's exceptionally naive. Thinking that we can rely on our defence to keep a clean sheet, without ever posing any threat ourselves. On top of that, I think he's now terrified of making changes, because of the reaction in previous games.

He saw Morris have to drop deeper, because he was injured, and Bassi acting as a target man, yet still didn't bring either of the centre forwards off the bench. But he probably thought he'd get pelters for taking Bassi off for Victor, even though he was spending most of the second half trying to win headers against their defenders.

In previous games, I think he had a right to expect better from Cole against Stoke, Benson / Palmer against Fulham and Moon against Coventry. But while he might've been entitled to expect Odour to close down Swift before he put the ball in on Saturday, it was only a matter of time, because he didn't do anything to change the pattern of the game. He seemed to content to let Reading control it and hope our back 4 does the job, and what sort of plan is that?

 

If Cole was on the bench, then he'd be right. Who was on the bench on Saturday? Serious question, as it's got to the stage now where I don't even bother looking who the subs are nowadays.

 

The only sub who come off the bench and shown any ******** is Marshy.
Yet he can't get near the bench.

 

Adeboyejo and Iseka. Given Bassi ended up playing up front and having long balls lumped towards him, I think that's a role that Adeboyejo would've been a tad more effective at than Bassi.

 

Given whats at his disposal, I think he's the worst coach/manager we've had in my lifetime.

Schopp was poor, but I felt he had some bad luck and bore the worst of the brunt of the close season disaster, nor was he allowed or able to bring in coaching support to help him. Morais was bizarre. But we still picked up points, though not enough.

I think Asbaghi has us more organised defensively, but he seems to be content with that. We rarely look like keeping a clean sheet. We tire badly (more legacy of the close season nightmare) and have players for one reason or another with limitations and make the starting line up weaker. And as for our attacking play, its just awful.

We're reliant on a lucky break of the ball or brilliance. And its little wonder we score so few given the minimal amount of attacking play. I think the players are better than what they are showing. Granted, some need to take a long hard look at themselves, but the head coach has to take responsibility.

A team who has Collins, Helik, Andersen, Styles, Bassi, Quina, Morris and Woodrow in it (despite some absences for injury) shouldn't be getting relegated, even more so in what is perhaps the poorest championship I can recall.

In most seasons, we'd be down already and I'd be extremely surprised if any of the relegated teams breach the 40 point mark.