This here ‘our luck’s run out’ mallarkey...

Anyone would think we are a team that’s been carrying luck all season. Well that’s not the team I’ve been watching. Far from it. We’ve had some terrible luck with injuries, referreeing decisions etc. Times we’ve had blatant penalties not given and then soft ones given against us. People seem to count other teams missing chances against us as lucky on our part, but dismiss the luck element when we miss chances . Yes, of course we’ve had luck at times, but the bad luck far far outweighs that. Indeed,If their was such a thing as a luck bank whereby you bank your luck, then I’m afraid we have zero balance or probably very much in debit. We have not been a lucky side at all this season, so I definitely do not buy that our luck has run out. If we fail to get promotion, then we fail, but to say it’s because our luck ran out, is way off the mark. Just to summarise in case you missed my point, we are not, and have not been a lucky side this season.

 

I don't think anyone means we've been lucky. It's just a turn of phrase. For example, we've pushed our luck too far only having two strikers in the squad who we trust to play.

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I've really enjoyed this season. We've had some cracking wins and fully deserve to be where we are.

Yesterday was the first time I've felt really dejected, but that's because we now look so ordinary compared to what we were.

As you say, not a matter of us being lucky. We were just really good and also hard to beat. Neither of those applies to us currently.

 

Yes, pretty much way I see it but I’m hoping thing’s can turnaround.We’ll see.

 

Luck is getting 2 red cards overturned and scoring a Wednesday amount of last minute goals

 

And having a ball cross your goal line twice and still not being given.

 

Normally a team throughout a season gets better we,ve gone the opposite way.
We,ve been galloping along at the front most of the season be a crying shame if we don,t see it through,the injuries have been a large part of it I suppose.

 

Well we were quite away behind Pompey and Sunderland for a period. Don’t think we’ve ever been as far in front of either of them as they were in front of us.

 

I don’t doubt that there a those on here who term the phrase lucky exactly as you have posted. However, not everyone on here thinks that way.

 

Got to say I’ve seen the exact opposite when it comes to referees & decisions.

I’ve seen us get away with shirt pulling offences in the box, a couple of offside goals in our favour, Cavare running the ball out of play in the build up to a goal of ours, Pinnock only getting a yellow for a clear red card offence in the first 10 minutes of a game we went on to win. I’ve enjoyed it, it’s made a nice change from feeling like we get shafted when we play the big clubs.

Yesterday alone Bahre should’ve been sent off & a Burton player got booked for diving when it looked a stone wall penalty to me.

 

I disagree. For the majority of the 40 years I've been watching Barnsley I believe (although I am biased, obviously) that we end each season in deficit as far as refereeing decisions go. That is, we have more decisions go against us than for us. This season, for once, I think it's been the opposite.

Not that I think it has anything to do with luck. I don't believe in luck, I don't think it exists. I put it down to the fact that our club tends to punch above its weight. We play a lot of our football in the Championship where we are usually one of the smaller clubs. Referees (people) are influenced by prestige and power. So, as we're usually the team with less influence in such areas, we often to get the sh*ttier end of the stick. This season we're usually the bigger club, the most prestigious, and I believe the decisions have come our way. Not all of them, it doesn't work like that, but I do believe we're well ahead. Not that I'm complaining, we were definitely due.

I don't think our luck has run out either. We've just not been playing very well and we met a team capable of beating us when we're not at our best.

 

Spot on.

 

We were riding the crest of a wave until Kieffer’s injury and the double suspension blow at Southend.
There has been a steady decline in performance and results, largely down to a lack of goals, changing personnel and tired legs.
Teams can get jaded at the end of a tough season, even, perhaps especially, a team as young as ours, without the experience of similar campaigns and unaccustomed to the pressures, both mental and physical.
I know it’s against club policy but wouldn’t now be the time for a couple of older heads to have steered the young uns home. Adam Hammill, rallying the troops in the trenches?
But we are where we are and should now embrace the status of underdog, pile the pressure back on our rivals and give it all we have, saving the premature post mortems and recriminations, should they prove necessary, until the last ball is kicked rather than hanging them around our necks as we face the prospect of the final push for promotion and, at the very worst, the excitement of the play-offs.

 

Well you wouldn't if you dont think it exists!

 

Your right with Lindsays shirt pulling he has been fourtunate not to give at least one pen away Wimbledon at home if I remember right was nailed on.
But on the other hand pinnock makes an inch perfect tackle on mcgeady at the SOL the ref has no clear view to see either way but gives a pen.
Coventrys 1st last week mowatt gets fouled nothing then their player gets brought down the ref let's them take a quick free kick from no where near where the foul was committed.. they score.
Wycombes pen that shouldn't have been.
Donny away pinnock gets wrestled to the ground in the area.. nothing

Swings and roundabouts mate but I'd tend to agree with you we have had more in our favour but not by much. I think the standard of refs has been poor.

 

Alternatively we could start a thread about which of our players aren't good enough for the Championship. That'll be sure to motivate them.