Sheffield Star

Try and wind Terry up.</p>



New boy makes Hayes in the Oakwell sunshine </p>



SWINDON manager Andy King was offered the match video. Shove it where the sun don't shine was more or less his response. His team, complete with big, proven players Gareth Whalley, Jamie Cureton and Tony Thorpe, were a shadow of this Barnsley outfit on League One's day one and he knew it. On a scorching afternoon, Barnsley were good value for the points in a good-value game for the punters. Two goals, missed penalties at either end and a red card made for pretty compulsive viewing. The hardest thing to comprehend was that, with one exception, these were the same Barnsley players that had underachieved over the long months of last season. As starts go this was good, miles better than last season's grim opening games. The challenge to new boy Paul Hayes was fill Michael Chopra's boots. He succeeded. He scored one and had a hand in Chris Shuker's goal. Barnsley manager Andy Ritchie was impressed. He wasn't alone. &quot;Paul has got everything in a striker,&quot; he said. &quot;A bit of pace, his control is good, his set-up play is good, his finishing is great. All he has to do is hone every little bit. &quot;He scored despite a lad holding him back. He controlled the ball and lobbed it into the back of the net. A short time after that he could have got a second. He was unlucky with another lob when he knew the keeper was off his line.&quot; Hayes' goal arrived the instant after Antony Kay blocked Jamie Cureton's goalbound shot after keeper Nick Colgan had failed to collected a penalty-box ball. Kay was only in the back four beside Matt Carbon because Paul Reid failed a fitness test. He ended the afternoon a man-of-the-match contender. Colgan in goal meant young England keeper Scott Flinders had been dropped. It was a decision by Ritchie justified in the second half as Colgan blocked a Cureton penalty after Robbie Williams stopped a shot on the line with his hands. By then though Barnsley had wasted their own penalty. Daniel Nardiello got his chance from 12 yards after Sean O'Hanlon had gone in on Hayes' heels. Nardiello's penalty wasn't good, Rhys Evans blocked it too easily. Within two minutes of the second half Barnsley had gone 2-0 up. Hayes centred along the deck, Nardiello prodded a short pass to Chris Shuker who blasted in from sharp angle, short distance. The red card and penalty offered Swindon routes back into the game. They took neither and, with Nicky Wroe on in midfield and only one striker, Barnsley on the pitch at the end came through comfortably. Ritchie was rightly more than pleased. &quot;I thought the lads, especially when we were down to 10 men, showed a lot of character and discipline. They didn't lose their shape,&quot; he said. &quot;We had everything today, two penalty saves and a bit of incident. &quot;In the first half for our penalty maybe their lad should have been sent off. I don't know how the referee saw it, we just had to get on with it. We're very, very pleased to come out 2-0 winners.&quot; He added: &quot;Last season if we'd have gone down to 10 I think we might have crumbled.&quot; Said King: Mistakes cost us the goals and when we were playing against 10 I don't think we played in the right manner. &quot;We should have played the ball out and used the extra man. Instead we played it long.&quot; simon.meeks@sheffieldnewspapers.co.uk 08 August 2005 « Previous PageNext »Page 1 of 1 More Sport </p>

 

we should post him a video of the match

 

If just for the likes of him, I pray we do well this year.</p>

 

Ponty is obsessed with the way Nardiello runs. Back problems apparantly. It's more likely his pelvis was knocked out of kilter by some frantic post awards boffing

 

Ppppffff.

Sssssshhhhhhhhhh.
You aint seen me - right.

Nardy was cack in the 1st half - and very good in the 2nd.
To my amazement Nicky Wroe was excellent when he came on.
Again - Burns served absolutely no purpose at all.
Good result, poor quality.

And Nardy will play 20 games tops.
Runs like a Deacon.

 

You mean Ponty was staring at Nads arse all afternoon ? No surprise there like.</p>



Yes, but I heard that horizontal gymnastics actually strengthened the lower back. Hence I have a physio on retainer. </p>



I bet Ponty accused Ritchie of negativity.</p>

 

RE: Ppppffff.

Your comment about Burns shows you for the buffoon you are.

 

I bet Ponty didn't.

I also bet Ponty barely got even in the slightest bit excited throughout the 90 minutes.

I also bet that I had a pie & sausage roll at half time.
And I bet that I spilled most of the pastry down the back of the poor geezer sat in front of me.

Jay talks knackers.

 

I have no opinion on Burns

Or any other player at Barnsley FC.

 

Yes.

You are right.
He is fine.
His positional sense is fine.
His tackling is fine.
His ball winning is fine.
His passing is fine.
His defending is fine.

He's just fine.
Everything is just fine.

 

RE: I bet Ponty didn't.

Not the first time you've spilt your gravy down some strangers back

 

Makes Chris Kamara sound like a tactical genius

 

Since when did pastry = gravy ?

You make me sick - twisting actual events just to get a laugh from your foolish friends.

I also had a strawberry ski, which I dropped to the floor - so I gave it to Jay.
How I sat back in delight as Jay wolfed down my filthy yoghurt.

 

Jay & Dillinger

Waldorf & Stadler - or whatever they called the two silly owd feckers off the muppets.

I'm just amazed that they have actually attended a game before.
'So - who is that bloke in the black kit?' & 'so - why have they stopped playing after 45 minutes?' were just a few things I heard uttered.

Big gay witch & his underage albino cat.

 

Kev said

There was a particularly well endowed young blonde lady sat in front of him last Staurday , who pricked his interest . Did any of you guys notice her too ?

 

That was Dillinger.

It was 23kg of Tofu under his shirt.

I'm waving my fist at you all.

 

So , in other words ,

My old fella is losing his marbles ?? Yep , I'll go along with that !!!ff

 

Also ...

... I have no opinion on the PAM system in the East Stand.

Now you know why I usually sit up there, spadger.

 

Jacob Burns

Jacob Burns.</p>

 

RE: So , in other words ,

He'll be losing his 'marbles' if he keeps gawping at Blonde Bints with massive hammers, if you know what I mean.

I did have a sneaky look.
But I'd forgotten what she looked like by the time I got in the shower on Setdi neet.