We can say goodbye to the playoffs after that

What an abject performance, we hardly created anything.

If we can't win at home to Bournemouth I can't see us getting anything at Huddersfield or Oldham.

And to whoever awards the MotM - stop picking names out of a hat. McPhail played well in the 1st half but did his usual disappearing act in the 2nd - in fact I think that's why he had to change his shirt because he'd become so anonymous!

 

Yep, you saw the same game as me, utter garbage.

 

There's nowt like differing opinions

I thought we created 2 decent chances first half which Richards seemed to strike well, and the keeper pulled off 2 good saves. We also had a goal disallowed.

Funnily enough I thought McPhail wasn't in it first half, but played well the last 20 minutes. After the first half Devanney was imho MOM, but he too kind of 'lost it' second half, so I suppose picking the name out of a hat might have been best.

Admittedly not the best performance of the season, but we are still in with a chance.

 

We can stamp our feet and moan and groan as much as we like, but the facts are we just aint good enough. When the opportunity was there today we just couldn't take it. The first half you would have thought that it was an end of season game with nothing at stake, there was no urgency at all. Now the pressure is on there is no one who wants to take any responsibility and grab the game by the scruff of the neck (except maybe Howard). We were pedestrian in midfield, powderpuff up front and apart from a couple of early runs by Devaney non existent down the flanks. Now that plan A is not working, we do not have a plan B.
Ah well Hudders here we come, but with a horrible, frustrated feeling that the life is being slowly strangled out of our season.The summer will be very interesting and we will see just whether Mr Ritchie can hack it as manager. Some clever work in the transfer market is gonna be needed cos I can't see this league been as weak next season.

 

RE: There's nowt like differing opinions

I honestly don't think Ritchie has the bottle for the playoffs, he's a weak knee'd, tactically inept, I'm everybody's pal, Paul Hayes lovin, Nardiello hating, transfer dodging tool.

 

I would say we were crap but we werent even that

We weren't good, we weren't bad we were just average all over the pitch.</p>

The forwards showed no movement and the midfield were static. </p>

It has to be said that the decision not to strengthen the squad is looking more and more foolish. We were crying out for a midfielder that would move and get stuck in but unfortunatly he was in Poland. Note to Ritchie, if Howard etc werent good enough to get into the team a month ago then they are clearly weaker players. </p>

Having said that we werent crap, we were just boring, uninterested and seemed to be happy with doing the least amount as possible and taking the draw. </p>

 

Jacob Burns

Are we on about the same fella here?

Jacob Burns who was on our books for three fecking years, and yet only discovered he could play football when it came to the season he might get noticed for the World Cup? The Jacob Burns who, when told that he would not be considered whilst playing for a League One club, then immediately slapped in a transfer request?

Is it just me, or does this not sound like the kind of hero we need? To me, tt doesn't really sound like Barnsley's promotion push was desperately important to Jacob Burns. So I can't help but wonder if, had we forced him to stay, we would have seen him return to the mediocrity of his first two seasons here.

As for the decision not to pull out all the stops to draft in a replacement before deadline day, only time will tell.

 

fine sell him then but you have to replace him

You cannot sell him and then just bring a reserve in (no offence to howard but that is what he is) at the most important stage of the season.</p>

By my reckoning we had 200k sat in the bank (windass money) plus whatever we got for burns and yet out of some bizarre claim of loyalty we wont replace him.</p>

 

Replace him with who though exactly?

 

well what you do right is you make a signing

all the other clubs have signed players so there were obviously people available.</p>

Strangely we 'just missed out' on somebody again. Its odd how that always happens to us but we wont name them dont you think?</p>

 

RE: well what you do right is you make a signing

A signing is surely only ever worthwhile if he's going to improve the team, fair play i agree we could've done with strengthening, but if the management didnt feel the neccessary quality in the right areas was available, then why sign a player for the sake of it.
As for 'missing out on players' i'm not always convinced that those claims are always true, I mean richie always claimed before the deadline that he wasnt going to sign anyone, then thses rumours of missing out on someone came out..i dont know..im not sure there was a player we missed out on, of course what do i know though...

 

Does it really matter what Jacob's motivations were?

There HAS been something missing in the midfield since his departure. It's difficult to put a finger on it - as both McPhail & Howard did well today.

Burns had been a good player for us this season - whatever his reasons for this were.

I do think AR was worried about the goals output with both Burns & McPhail in the team. If Jacob has scored a few more goals (and he has shown he can score), there is no way Ritchie would have let him go.

 

RE: well what you do right is you make a signing

I don't think anybody believes the claims from the club that we just missed out on someone. Every time there is a deadline the same news story gets trotted out. All it does is leads to bad feeling and a lack of trust from the fans.</p>

As for signing a player, good, able replacements that would strengthen the squad have been available but we have just said no. Like Ritchie himself said, he simply wasnt interested in signing anybody and with an attitude like that we could very well miss out on the playoffs.</p>

How can you just make a blanket statement that you dont want ANYBODY? Fair enough to say that you dont think there are any players available that would strengthen the squad but it is just down right bad management to say you arent going to sign anybody at all. The players can all take their foot off the gas now, Ritchie has told them all he is going to be loyal to them and they arent getting replaced, I think that sends out  agreat message to them.</p>

 

Of course not

What matters is getting the promotion push back on track, whatever it takes.

I am merely putting across the point that it cannot be taken as read that we would be in a better position had we hung on to Burns.

 

disagree with that

I thought Howard and Mcphail had  a good game, we just couldnt score because of the poor strikers.</p>

 

Craig Rocastle

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only midfielder thats gone on loan to a league 1 side, we obviously missed out on a great signing</p>

 

they did have good individual games (well average)

But as a unit they didnt and thats where we have a problem.

 

Your welcome to your opinion but i strongly disagree with your comments

Hardly any chances??

McPhail not worthy of MOTM??

Were you asleep??

I agree we should be beating sides like B'Mouth at this stage of season,we are still well in it,sure Oldham have made a charge but if you're honest you must have expected one of Oldham,Donny,Forest,Chesterfield to put pressure on us

Have faith,we might just come away from Galpharm with all 3 points and the picture changes again

 

Thank the Lord somebody has spoke sense on this Burns issue.I bow down to you

(worship)

 

Howard a reserve?

Best midfielder we have