Match thoughts - Blackpool v Barnsley

[perkytyke]

I thought I would put this up as animal is away, hope that's OK.

I think this will be more difficult than league positions suggest!
According to their support Bruce is shoehorning players into a rigid 442 formation and it's not working and he needs to change his thoughts or get the sack!
They have spent a lot of money this season, and have some very good, dangerous players!
I think it will be a very tight game with the odd goal winning it, we are playing well and a win with Cardiff playing Bradford would see us definitely 2nd and with a draw there we would go top!
But we all know that we tend to kick start other teams and players not in form, plus our record there isn't the best!
If we are on it from the start and cut out the individual errors I can see a win, but my head says is our defence good enough?

[Shadrack the Red]

I thought I would put this up as animal is away, hope that's OK.

I think this will be more difficult than league positions suggest!
According to their support Bruce is shoehorning players into a rigid 442 formation and it's not working and he needs to change his thoughts or get the sack!
They have spent a lot of money this season, and have some very good, dangerous players!
I think it will be a very tight game with the odd goal winning it, we are playing well and a win with Cardiff playing Bradford would see us definitely 2nd and with a draw there we would go top!
But we all know that we tend to kick start other teams and players not in form, plus our record there isn't the best!
If we are on it from the start and cut out the individual errors I can see a win, but my head says is our defence good enough?

All good points you make Perky to which I agree with basically everything you have said , with Bruce at the helm I feel it is only a matter of time before Blackpool kick into gear, lets hope it is not today. I always fancy the Reds on the road and despite being hopeful of a good result I have that uneasy feeling in my stomach that today we might come unstuck. We have a big following today and our team are playing with confidence and turning out some great football so hopefully we have enough in the tank to see us through but Blackpool to me will be in the mix at the end of the season are in a false position , a fast positive start would be great and as Perky said try and keep the silly individual mistakes out which seem to haunt us and we should be fine , but make no mistake this is a tough fixture , we will see !!!!!

[perkytyke]

Gutted to lose with the last kick of the game, as was said we have kick started Blackpool's season!
Very comfortable 1st half, but unsually off the pace in the 2nd.
My first moan of the season against Connor, his substitutions baffled me? Takes off Vickers and replaces him with Farugia rather than Cleary, Yogi for Bland, and Yogi just trotted around like a show pony! If Hourihane wants 100% commitment from players he did himself no favours today, soft in the tackle and not tracking back!
No shots on target either against the leakiest defence in the league!

[Shadrack the Red]

We had chances in the first half but never hit the target once , in the second half we were awful and once again we never worked the keeper once , fair play to Blackpool , they worked very hard in the second half and in my opinion deserved the points , its no good holding inquests we should leave that to Hourihane , we lost lets hope we learn from it and we move on , we cannot change what has gone its what we learn from defeat , lets hope it was a blip but it is certainly a back down to earth with a bump message for both the players and some of our fans who were getting carried away with a good early start to the season , we move on !