Biggest game of Jose’s career

[EastStandRed]

Jose Morais is viewing Sunday's trip to Derby County as the biggest game of his managerial career and says the build-up reminds him of being involved with some of the biggest occasions in world football.

The Portuguese head coach won the Champions League as well as the Spanish and Italian titles while an assistant to Jose Mourinho at Inter Milan and Real Madrid. But he says the queues outside the Oakwell ticket office this week – leading to a 3,000 sell-out of the away end – have given him the same feeling of anticipation ahead of Sunday's 12.30pm match.

After moving out of the relegation zone with a 2-0 win over Brentford in their final home game on Saturday, the Reds can secure their safety with another victory at sixth-placed Derby. Barnsley could still stay up with a draw or defeat, depending on Burton Albion and Bolton Wanderers' results.

Morais told the Chronicle: "It is one of the biggest games of my life. At the moment, it is the biggest game. I have had fantastic and great moments in my life, but that is in the past and I am looking at this game. It is a fantastic possibility that we have in front of us, we want to enjoy it.

"I saw a very interesting image this week. It was a line of people waiting for tickets. It was incredible because these are the same queues I have been seeing in big clubs when they have really big matches coming up. I could feel the love of the people who are supporting us. I could feel the belief of the people who want to go to the last game. It made me really want to win for them, even more than before. If I could give all the fans tickets to the last game, I would buy them.
"They have the same feeling that I have that everything is possible and, with their support and positive energy, I think we can make great things happen. I know the fans will stand behind the team in the 90 minutes whatever will happen."

After Paul Heckingbottom moved to Leeds United in February, Morais was brought in with the remit of keeping Barnsley in the Championship. He is confident he will achieve that, saying: "I really believe that we can do it, we have it in our hands. May everybody believe and, with a little bit of help from God, we can stay up. This is what the players, the fans, the board all want.

"It would be a fantastic achievement in my career but it would not only be because of me, it will be an achievement of a group of people who believed until the end. The confidence exists among the players, we have been increasing it since we came and things are happening. The players are committed, they have will and they want to achieve the goal of the club which is to stay in the Championship."

Barnsley could have already been down if they had lost to Brentford on Saturday and Bolton had won at Burton. But both games finished in 2-0 home wins which moved the Reds out of the bottom three. Barnsley's victory was their second at home under Morais and their fifth at Oakwell in 23 league games this season.

Morais said: "It was a big lift. Every time you win is a big lift for the players, fans and the club. It was one of the proudest moments that I had in my life in Barnsley. The players wanted to reward the fans with a win in our last game at Oakwell and I was very proud of the team. The way we performed against Brentford was something I was expecting to happen many more times than has happened.

"We have deserved to win more than just two home games while I was here. I have always known the will and quality of the players but for some reason it doesn't come out until now. The shadow of negativity I found here has vanished and we can perform in a positive way and believe in ourselves. We have not made the fans happy as often as we want to but we want to give everything for them."

[SBRed48]

"I could feel the love of the people". Aye O' reyt, a shud wait until 2.15 on Sundi owd c0ck.

"The shadow of negativity I found here has vanished" very unprofessional disrespect to previous coach who has achieved more at this club than he has.

[EthelRed]

All good stuff that Jose so don't feck around with team selection again.

[Ponte_Steve24]

Just watched Luke n' Steve on tykes t.v and gee'd mi' sen' up can't wait buzzin' for tomorrow now bushka

[Acido]

Just watched Luke n' Steve on tykes t.v and gee'd mi' sen' up can't wait buzzin' for tomorrow now bushka

Then your in for yet another big disappointment Ponty kid, because we don't play tomorrow.
Ive been watching all the Tykes tv stuff as well, especially the after match comments from Satdy. Theres something therapeutic about listening to them, whether they're moaning or not lol.

[red flagged]

wears his heart on his sleeve this bloke, nice touch to mention the fans, I've warmed to him.
Biggest game of his career cos he's sacked Monday morning if we go down.

Believe.

[Acido]

I believe he should be sacked RF but not on Monday, its bank holiday so lets give him till Tuesday eh lol.
If he keeps us up then fine, maybe he does deserve to be given a second chance. But I think bad coaching on his part has kept us where we are, and with some more common sense we could have been where Hull and the Fowls are now.

[animallittle3]

wears his heart on his sleeve this bloke, nice touch to mention the fans, I've warmed to him.
Biggest game of his career cos he's sacked Monday morning if we go down.

Believe.

He needs a transfer window or two before we can judge him in my opinion .

At least a good go at shining the turds Billy Boy will be delivering him .

And trust me they will be some turds arriving this summer , they will make last season's crop look like Real Madrid s Galactico's by comparison .

Believe .

[Acido]

This is meant to be a new fresh start for us though isnt it Animal, a summer of rebuilding etc (and how many times have we seen this before). Do we really trust Jose even though we dont know much about him, to head the summer recruitment and bring in his own choice of players.
Yes I go along with the idea that he deserves at least 1 'window' as we call them now, but what worries me is his poor track record of never staying at clubs for too long. What if we let him stay on and he spends X amount of money, and then he decides to leave before the end of the season for whatever reason. We'll be back at square one yet again wont we and probably struggling to stay up. I cant face all that again.

[animallittle3]

This is meant to be a new fresh start for us though isnt it Animal, a summer of rebuilding etc (and how many times have we seen this before). Do we really trust Jose even though we dont know much about him, to head the summer recruitment and bring in his own choice of players.
Yes I go along with the idea that he deserves at least 1 'window' as we call them now, but what worries me is his poor track record of never staying at clubs for too long. What if we let him stay on and he spends X amount of money, and then he decides to leave before the end of the season for whatever reason. We'll be back at square one yet again wont we and probably struggling to stay up. I cant face all that again.

He won't get a say in who the club bring in , it's the Billy Beane show now .

Won't be anything to do with him , ok the blokes an idiot but at the end of the day and he gets another 4 or 5 Knassmullner's to work with then how's that his fault .

Hecky at least had a say this bloke won't even get that in my opinion .