Think he gets a lot of unnecessary stick myself. Defensively he has been ok. We haven’t let loads of goals in. His attacking play has been poor when it comes to final pass or shot but that’s a confidence thing. Not seen a lack of effort myself.
Quite a few times when our defence has been turned, he's just jogged back and let runners go. He did it a couple of times against the blunts. Certainly not at the levels of energy exerted as last year.
Spot on. Rewriting history to suit a personal agenda. Everyone played in empty stadiums. Everyone could use five substitutes. Dike played from the beginning of February onwards. I assume Conor Chaplin was our bulldozer of a striker prior to that(!) Valerien Ismael managed to get far more out of our players who were at his disposal than Marcus Schopp has managed, irrespective of injuries.
If Ismael had been managing this team this season we'd be nowhere near the relegation places, injuries or otherwise. I doubt if we'd be pushing for play-off places at this stage, but we would be comfortably mid-table, simply due to the fact that we'd have a coach who was more than capable of maximising his available resources.
I have criticised his performances this season, but like the rest of his team mates, it’s certainly not for a lack of effort
Even for all the defeats and baffling team selections and subs. I'm still behind the team. Schopp's inconsequential for me now. Schopp isn't ruining the club, the venture Capilatists are. I didn't want Schopp. I don't rate him at all n' had a gut feeling he was a duffer from pre-season. I gave him some slack after best half of football I'd seen in twenty years away at QPR. I'd be more behind him if his line-ups tactics and subs were spot on. If we were just getting beat by better teams. Fair enough. However, losing to Millwall, Luton and Blackpool and drawing with Birmingham just feels like a waste. I hope things improve because I think the time for sacking Schopp has passed. I'm getting behind him and the players because we need 5 wins from 9 relatively kind fixtures otherwise we're down.
Good post. Like you and many others, I was taken aback by the superb quality of our football in the first half at QPR. It's astonishing just how great the contrast has been with the rest of what we've witnessed thus far.
Not really but read JLWBigLils comment on it I think its spot on. I've heard enough excuses about playing hard teams, injurys etc 1 win in 15 and bottom bar derby's dedication isn't good enough the performances aren't some games not even a shot on goal. If we don't win Saturday he has to go.
"Let’s get on with it, do what we do best, forget the politics and get behind the lads." Sod that im getting older and have become a grumpy elitist and im comfortable with that. "Get Rammell on....Illey out" etc etc!!
Barnsley have the highest number of away defeats of any club in the football league (since records began, not just this season). We’ve almost always been terrible away from home. But take the crowds away, and all of a sudden our relegation-fodder team became world beaters.
If you think our success last season was simply down to their being no crowds, then there’s no point discussing further as you won’t understand
Of course it wasn’t SIMPLY down to there being no crowds, but if you think that had no effect, then I’m afraid the statistics suggest otherwise.
A lot of people on this forum completely underrated Alex Mowatt. There’s plenty on here & they’ll know who they are who were bizarrely calling for players like James, Kane & Palmer to start in place of him a year ago & yet many of these who are the same ones calling the manager clueless at the minute. He’s one of the greatest players we’ve had in my lifetime. Take him out as well as Dike, Morris & Anderson from a side that nearly always only won by one goal & it’s no wonder we’re struggling. That’s 4 of the best 8 players in the team last season.