Paddy McCourt

Possibly the worst effort I have seen from a player in a reds shirt yesterday...

talent, yes... Application nil... Offered nothing and took Cwyka out of the game who had been our brightest spark up top...

5 passes all to opposition. Awful!

 

Two of the most ineffective substitutions I've ever seen yesterday

 

He needs games and regular football.

Playing with no form or confidence. Play him weekly and we'll get something. Players like him can't just play 15 mins every 3 weeks and be expected to turn it on. And use him right for a start too.

But let his match fitness go and still playing is like Wilson saying that's why your not playing to cripple confidence even more.

 

This is what happened to Ethu and Mvoto and others. It demoralises them all round when not playing

 

Load of rubbish. The effort was evident. The guy was totally frustrated, he wanted the ball to his feet, but he was completely bypassed yet again thanks to our Hoofball tactic.
Our most talented player who can create things from nothing, just like McCormack did yesterday and he is totally wasted. Shame.
I can't forgive Wilson for leaving him out of the fight, I will always ask the question of "what if?" He could have played a part in keeping us up.
Poor management.

 

It's been a woulda coulda shoulda season from the start and a season of what if's.

Most frustrating season ever with both managers playing there parts in a negative season.

 

It seems some players have shown there great side and other have gone out of form.

O'Grady for example, was playing great under Flicker since Wilson has come in, he's not had the same effect.

Kennedy, **** under Flicker, great under Wilson, (well the defending part, attacking hes still useless)

 

I disagree, I think in a better team he would be better, but he has not played that many games during his career for your argument to be right! Sureley every manager he has had cannot be wrong ? Less than 250 games since 2001, tells its own story.
I dont think we would have been any worse with him in the side , but I dont think he would have made any difference either.

 

He had the ball at his feet on plenty of occasions and did **** all with it. Again. As Mark points out, there is a very good reason why he has only played 250 games in his career, a lot of those as a sub and at a lower level than we're at.

 

Hasn't played for months and knows he won't be here next season. It's too late to expect anything from Paddy.

 

That sums up his attitude towards being a professional footballer.

 

To be honest mate, that sums up the attitude of a whole pile of footballers today !

PS. I know that every week next season some posters are going to put threads on here about how well Paddy is doing at Grimsby or where ever else he ends up at. He has wasted a prodigious talent, or maybe all his managers have , who knows?

 

I see what you're saying Mark, but surely we would have had a better chance of winning our past 3 or 4 home games with him in the side more, not necessarily starting but having longer than 10 minutes to make an impact. The game against Brighton for example, we did everything right apart from unlocking the opposition defence, and a lot of the Brighton players were yellow carded early on, so surely it would have been worth bringing him on to run at the Brighton defence.

Anyway all ifs, buts and maybes, makes no difference now. Just very frustrating.

 

I love to see flair players, but thgey have to be in the right balance of the team. Some of our players are just not good enough to play with McCourt. He expects the others to be thinking like he does and that frustrates him, so he tries to do too much, then gets frustrated with that and then looks like he cant be bothered. But when he turns it on it is beautiful to see, if we had better players he would be a regular in the side.
When Danny Wilso first came to Barnsley as a player, he looked piss poor, constantly giving the ball away, because he was used to having Waddle outside him ready to recieve the ball, as soon as Wilson got the ball he would play it out wide and there would no-one there, he was frustrated and it showed. He took a while to adapt but Paddyu is a different player he is the one that is like Waddle always ready to get the ball, but we cant get him it in the right places and when we do their brainsd are not working as fast as his .
Frustrating , but that goes back to the recruitment of players last summer. I was hoping Frimpong and Woods would be the players to get the best out of him, but they dont look like they want to be here either.

 

You should always build a team around your best players. McCourt's technical ability is better than anything at the club at the moment. Yes he has issues as alot of gifted footballers appear to have, but Wilson has made a dreadful error of judgement by omitting him from the starting line up week in week out.
I will hold my hands up and say yes things may just have been the same or even worse, but what i cannot forgive is a Manager who has no intention of giving of giving other formations and players a chance after some of the most inept attacking displays i have witnessed in all my 35yrs supporting the club.

 

Can't fully agree with that . His application was off it, but not for the lack of trying, maybe the lack of game time is catching up with him again. Thought he looked bright when he came on against Bolton. To be honest he should have been on much earlier again, how is he ever going to influence a game without getting a fair crack.

There were several out there yesterday that looked well out of their depth, so I think you're unfair to criticise a 70th (ish) minute substitute.

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Wilson has undermined the confidence of, and ultimately wasted the talent of, our only player of genuine class. Whilst we were watching the biggest load of hoofball rubbish I've seen in a lot of years of supporting this club, he leaves him on the bench. Again. And then brings him on as one desperate act of last resort (other than Proschwitz which was even more desperate). It was noticeable that McCourt never tried to take a player on - in contrast to earlier in the season when he was going past players for fun. Exactly who is to blame for that? Possibly a manager who has made it abundantly clear he doesn't rate him while persisting with the talentless dross that's turning out every week? Or wasting the club's precious resources on the likes of Frimpong? When I think back to how elated I was when Colgan saved that penalty at Cardiff it makes my blood boil that this bunch of talentless toilers are throwing it all away.

 

No he beefsbeef

No he needs to go and find a different club compketely and leave us alone ...

 

I'm really sorry but his lack of effort and **** poor passes when he came in yesterday are totally indefensible.

 

As was the rest of the display from the majority of our players on the pitch yesterday.