Steady away at win, top scorer in league, top scorers…….but……..

In all the years I’ve been watching Barnsley, I’ve never known our home atmosphere to be as bad. To be fair, the away atmosphere isn’t great either when we go places.

 

Here he is. Borey O'Cotter. Ready to tear up the league then be sold to Luton or Coventry in January. I reckon we should get him an agent and start touting him around straight away.

 

It’s worth bearing in mind that Duff to took over after the disaster that was Schopp/
Asbaghi, and could hardly help looking good at the start, whereas Collins by contrast came in after that brilliant last season.

 

One thing Duff had in his favour as far as winning fans over goes, was that we'd been so diabolical before that, that even playing basic football to a reasonable standard would have been an improvement. Collins is under much more pressure as far as expectations go, considering that Duff had built a superb side for this level and he was expected to carry on from that, having lost two of the most defenders ever to play at 3rd tier level in England (3 if you include Bobby Thomas who was sold for £2 million), plus a midfielder who'd walk into most Championship sides. That's a very tough ask.

I'm massively frustrated by the home defeats, but we're actually far closer to the top two than we were at this point last season. I agree that we seem to be playing at about 60% right now. What remains to be seen is whether we'll find the other 40% as we did last season from January onwards. If we do, we'll go up automatically. If on the other hand this is what Collins's style of play looks like and there are no more gears then so be it. We're still unlikely to finish much below 6th, just because we've got a lot of very good players for this level, and most of the division is absolute dogger.

 

That's Carry Botter.

 

...would you be happy?

 

Carry Botter. Korey Beef. We can just keep cloning them until demand dries up. I think that we should also make a clone using the worst bits of Dave Regis, Brek Shea and Paul Gibbs, and sell him to Sheffield Wednesday. He'd still probably walk into their first team.

 

Always happy me SD, like I said, it wasn’t a dig, just a genuine question…….I can’t seem to fathom out what our style of play is

 

Me neither but my response was nothing to do with your post mate. The thread title reminded me of that Harry Enfield fishmonger sketch.

 

Lots of panicking over nowt. We’ve just been unlucky that the fixtures dealt us 4 of the best teams in the league at home early doors whilst we were trying to bed in a new keeper & defence.

 

I can't either. At times we are slow and tippy tappy across the back, at others we go forward like lightning.
Sometimes we go almost entirely through the middle and sometimes almost entirely down the wings and cross it in.

It's a good thing in a way because if us fans can't predict our style of play then the opposition have no chance.

 

Agree with you in general. Blackpool and Pompey really rankle though. An absolute brain fart of an opening 20 minutes against Pompey, plus nothing running for us, but even then we still should have drawn. That match could feasibly cost us automatic promotion or the league title at the end of the season. Pompey were also absolutely excellent in that early spell, fair play to them for burying their chances. Blackpool we weren't at our best but I thought that they were not great. We did more than enough to get a point though.

 

At the start of the season it definitely seemed like we pushed our wing backs really high up the pitch and got them bombing crosses over. Then a couple of teams caught us out defensively.

I’d say now we look to get the midfielders centrally on the ball a bit more. I thought Kane, Styles and Russell were all very good last night. McAtee was okay as well, certainly put a shift in.

Second half wasn’t that great last night but overall I can’t complain. Hopefully another one like that on Saturday with a similar score line.

 

2nd half we made plenty of subs and were looking to just see out the game.

Sat-Tues-Sat this week - you have to manage energy levels and try not create injuries.

We are slower and more patient this season - it’s probably not as good to watch compared to last year, but we’re doing well so no complaints. And, we’re effectively protecting a new-ish back 4 as well. If Anderson, Kitchen and Collins were still present, I think we’d see a little more urgency.

 

A winning one by the looks of it.

 

I was impressed by MDGs speed last night, he ran faster than Williams to track a player down last night.

 

Entertaining? Think you’ll find even Man City were labelled as boring when Pep first took over . What our fans seem to forget this is 3rd Division football it’s going to be a bit crap as away teams try and stop us playing, we have a long way to go,results wise we’re doing alright COYR

 

T’is true that I suppose

 

Just take my response out of context then and don't answer the question. I was responding to the lack of atmosphere comment. My belief is that there was no atmosphere because the football was generally dull and lacklustre. It is not purely about goals.