Fancy meeting up for a few frames of snooker, a bet, compare formations n'team sheets and wait for next defeat n' a curry afterwards?
It was a bizarre omission, but frankly, he was bound to make one bizarre selection. Moon starting in midfield. Palmer and Benson on the bench. Hondermarck fit but not selected. Absolute clown.
That's not what the manager says. Are you suggesting he's lying and deliberately making himself look like an even worse manager for some reason?
How we've not switched to 3 in the middle & two up top is anyone's guess. We just stick with a formula that isn't working
Not seen nearly enough of him to know. However, when we brought him on last week it changed the game. From not having a midfield at all, we suddenly had one. Sheff Utd, who looked like they were going to go on and score six, were stopped in their tracks by someone challenging for the ball in midfield. It's rare there is such a dramatic shift in a game, where there's such an obvious swing from one team entirely dominating to the other. Sheff Utd then made subs of their own, but to a set-up with one purpose: stop Barnsley scoring. It worked, but if they'd started with that formation they wouldn't have won, it was simply to see out the game. If they'd started as they did and we'd started with Hoindermarck, Cole and Iseka in the team, 9 out of 10 times we'd have won the game. Our team with those 3 was better than Sheff Utds. Easy to criticise the manager when I'm writing this with the benefit of hindsight. If I'm being honest, I can't say I would have definitely selected those three in the starting 11 either. A week on, there could be no doubt in anyone's mind that we are a much, much stronger team with a midfielder playing in central midfield rather than a centre half. We'd seen it last week, we'd seen that dramatic shift from a team with basically nothing to offer, in either attack or defence, to one that can stop the wave after wave of attacks from the opposition and cause a number of problems for our opponents. You couldn't ask for a better example than that turnaround the week before. Schopp went with exactly the same midfield pairing that had offered zero resistance against Sheff Utd. A midfield that failed to make any worthwhile contribution, in a team that conceded three goals without managing a shot on target, and, without the changes, looked as though they would concede at least three more. And the young man that came into that team, that changed the game, that built a platform in our midfield that allowed us to attack and score two goals of our own, he was dropped from the squad entirely. Schopp is beyond incompetent. There's discussion on this forum regarding his position in the hierarchy of worst Barnsley managers. There is no discussion to be had.
