Untenable now for me - he has to go.

I've never really been certain of my position with regards to Davey but after today, I am.

The team selection. Leading goalscorer playing on the left hand side. The slowest striker I've ever seen playing on the right wing. Well, I think they were on the wings. I think by the second half, they weren't actually sure where they were supposed to be.

As for the defence, Kozluk (again) was absolutely shocking. Slow, disinterested and brainless. Got caught in the first half and was lucky that their winger slotted the ball wide. Its frustrating because he HAS had good games at some points in his BFC career - where as El Haimour is probably just not technically good enough. Moore looks like he's carrying so many injuries that he literally can barely move - even worse than he would be if he was fit. That leaves Foster, who by his standards is having a slow start to the season, to defend practically on his own.

Campbell-Ryce seems to have had his confidence completely shot to pieces. He can't beat a man - he seems sluggish and his first touch is bouncing off him more than Odejayi's used to. He's obviously not going to be helped by playing in central midfield again today - another man out of position.

Halifredsson played nicely in spells but again seemed to be looking for someone to pass to at times and seeing very little - much the same as Anderson Silva this season. Colace was doing nicely until his inexplicable square ball which led to the equaliser, which seemed to send the whole team crashing to their knees psychologically - we were never in it at all after that.

I don't know whether the 2nd goal was a penalty but Steele had no need to come flying out there to try and deal with it, and the third goal was just a defensive disaster.

For a while the argument for Davey has been that the players were behind him and had belief. To me, it looked like that belief had completely gone from those players in that second half. For me, that makes the position untenable - he's never ever going to turn the fans around now, and if the players have gone, whats left?

Davey out - two weeks to find a replacement, before it really does start to look like its too late after two tough away games in our next two league games.

 

I have to agree on the whole.

bastud.

 

I take no pleasure in it mate...

Unlike some, I genuinely wanted Davey to come good and succeed. I just think its gone too far now and the whole lot of them just looked shot to pieces at full time. It was painful today.

 

RE: I take no pleasure in it mate...

Agree with that completely. I have never wanted Davey to go simply because I didn't like him - I wanted him to do well, but it is obvious now that it is not going to happen.

I genuinely think that he will make a decent manager for somebody, but it can't be at Barnsley - he now will NEVER win the fans back and that is an untenable position.

 

Sadly, I have to agree

It's impossible to see way forward after today.

 

There just comes a point...

where you see the belief literally dissolve out of the side. I saw it when Alex Pearce scored that equaliser - and it just never came back. The players looked gone, and they DO deserve criticism too, it isn't just Davey - but the situation is now untenable to me.

 

I agree

I have wanted some stability. We have sacked managers too easily, and it hasn't worked.

But now I can't see how we are going to improve. 3 games at home, and no sign of a decent performance, or even a scrappy point!

I wish I was wrong, but SD must go now, before we are so far adrift, we can't pull back.

At the end, my team looked like it had no idea what to do. And I'm afraid that is the manager's responsibility.

 

Guess that proves it WAS untenable. nt