Matchday Megathread, Barnsley v Blackpool

The Club is not being run by what I would call Football People. People who know the game inside out, have connections and contacts and can target and bring in the right players. The present recruitment guy is an analyst. I’ve been going to Oakwell now regularly for over 70 years. Religiously. I’ve seen worse than this, but the writing is on the wall. It’s very poor stuff. It needs root and branch overhaul.

 

**** me that’s an absolute shambles.

 

Well, that was as bad as I've seen all season, in a season full of bad performances. Especially at home.

Big credit to the head coach today. Knowing he'd got players missing, he decided to alter the shape slightly and ensure our most dangerous player was relegated to the fringes throughout. Great tactic. And I applaud the in-game management too. Deciding not to change anything at the break despite the game heading only in one direction, then when going a couple of goals behind, deciding to change it. Outstanding stuff.

Forgive my sarcasm. But that was a shameful performance from all involved. If the score had ended 7-0, I'd have felt we were lucky. So we have to be thankful it was only 3-0. At home. Against a side below us. In the third division.
Tactically shown up. Beaten for pace. Outdone on desire. This is the team who were just six points off the top six before kick off. Who then looked like they were playing walking football. Or 'stood off watching' football.

Humphrys put in another great performance. Just had a peek at the statistical websites. He's got the lowest rating in the team, for about the 10th time this season. Lower even than Bayley McCann who played for about 10 minutes at the end. And today he was playing in his favoured position. Some laiker.

To be fair, I don't think any of them played well. Another abysmal effort.

Player of the match though, for me was Barratt purely because it was his first start.

Stats to follow...

 

Stats

Touches:
McCarthy 86
Roberts 71
O’Keeffe 60

Aerial duels won:
Roberts 4
O’Keeffe 4
Humphrys 4

Tackles won:
Farrugia 4
McCarthy 3
Russell 3

Pass completion percentage:
Farrugia 95%
Russell 94%
Nwakali 92%

Shots:
Humphrys 5 (all off target)
Keillor-Dunn 4 (1 on target)
Roberts 2 (1 on target)

Best three players from WhoScored:
Farrugia
Russell
Roberts

Best three players from Opta:
McCarthy
Roberts
Farrugia

 

Blackpool had nine decent chances today. It was lucky we went in at half time not behind.

 

Some great observations there mate. We just have to accept that Humphrys is one of DC's favorites.

 

Under the right manager in the future (not at Barnsley) I think Humphrey’s has what it takes to be a great player as a winger (where he wants to play actually).

 

Opta might need to recalibrate their computer if they have McCarthy as one of the best players for us....

 

I agree To me, only Roberts deserves any credit today. Too much fannyiing around in front of goal with no one willing to take responsibility , too slow build up play and defenders making mistakes and then just sitting back. Fuming!

 

Our midfield plan - DM (Connell) drops deep to collect the ball from GK or CD's, other two midfielders push so far up they are effectively forwards so that when we immediately lose the ball the opposition have a clear run at us. Wing backs are also so far up the pitch that we have no cover there either.

Genius. Fupping genius. I wouldn't even play like that on Football Manager.

 

Same when Nwakali comes on. Just give him ball and hope he can ping it long and find one of the wing backs thats been sent forward and hope they cross it to someone. That's it

 

Laughable 1st half. They pinged a lovely ball in; first man dived under it, 2nd man dived over it. We looked lost and like you say, some big misses first half.

 

Well I’ve been home a good couple of hours to reflect - and the altered thoughts cheer me up in no way whatsoever.

Three nil flattered us. Five, six - even eight or nine could all have been on the cards.

I will reiterate what I said earlier.

Mladen Sormaz has to go. Has to. He’s a leech, a cancer within the club and he’s killing it.

Those owning/running the club - I honestly think they have good intentions. But they couldn’t organise a piss up in a brewery.

They need someone in the club who knows the game. A technical/sporting director who isn’t a basic analyst given a role way beyond his ability - to advise the board of directors, control the footballing side, and to have the remit to utilise the budget, however limited it may be. Move players and coaches on, bring others in.

The fear is they won’t do that. That Sormaz is still liked and rated - and that they’ll let him have another summer to royally **** the club up even more than he already has.

Neerav, JAQ, Jean, even Flatman - get him out of the football club, bring in a footballing brain, and turn the operation back into a functioning football club.

 

First half could have been 10 0

 

I decided to give it a miss today. It can’t have been worse than the Leyton Orient game, can it?

 

Oh it was

 

Absolutely no faith in this lot to remove Sormaz, Khaled was afforded way too much time despite been way out of his depth. The worrying thing is Mladen Sormaz is even worse.

 

Time to get his coit