Romared Match Thoughts Barnsley v Wycombe Wanderers

First half was poorest seen at Oakwell for many a month--and it's a very low bar.

Second half reached the point of "entertaining" at times.

I fear a goal every time an opposition attack bears down on our defence.

It would be interesting to know how many were actually there last night, not the published attendance of tickets sold, including ST's. Is the attraction of Sky+ increasing as winter arrives ?

The tactic of our keeper feigning injury on 70 mins to allow Clarke to give a team talk is becoming a little too obvious.

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Originally Posted by SBRed48

First half was poorest seen at Oakwell for many a month--and it's a very low bar.

Second half reached the point of "entertaining" at times.

I fear a goal every time an opposition attack bears down on our defence.

It would be interesting to know how many were actually there last night, not the published attendance of tickets sold, including ST's. Is the attraction of Sky+ increasing as winter arrives ?

The tactic of our keeper feigning injury on 70 mins to allow Clarke to give a team talk is becoming a little too obvious.

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Difficult to judge from where we sit, as you cant see EL upper tiers. However from the spaces I could see, Id hazard a guess at around 7k inside

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Originally Posted by Jules88

Difficult to judge from where we sit, as you cant see EL upper tiers. However from the spaces I could see, Id hazard a guess at around 7k inside

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From Sky+ camera in West Stand there were huge gaps in East Stand Upper and Lower Tiers. My son attended the game and I could pick him out sat with none of the "regulars" anywhere nearby. 6K to 7K sounds about right

The league still has to settle with only Birmingham looking nailed on.

Only three points separate Lincoln in 4th place and Huddersfield in 15th.

Despite Huddersfield losing four games on the trot a win for Huddersfield by two clear goals on Setdi would take 15th placed Huddersfield above 7th placed Barnsley.

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Originally Posted by SBRed48

The league still has to settle with only Birmingham looking nailed on.

Only three points separate Lincoln in 4th place and Huddersfield in 15th.

Despite Huddersfield losing four games on the trot a win for Huddersfield by two clear goals on Setdi would take 15th placed Huddersfield above 7th placed Barnsley.

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Doesn’t matter if we win or lose - it’s the performances that count.
And they are atrocious.
What’s point of winning at Hudders if we lose the following 10 games after that.

DC needs to get a grip of this squad because he will be sacked soon if he dosent.

I can’t see the directors hanging about like they did last season hoping that the HC comes good.

I said at the start of the season to get top two this season you'd need a team as good as Daniel Stendel had and to get 5th or 6th a squad at least as good as Duff had us playing .

We are an absolute million mile away , Clarke has his critics and deservedly so but that squad is too unbalanced and simply not of enough genuine quality .

The recruitment is an absolute joke but Clarke in my opinion isn't even as good as Neil Collins was , at least Collins got enough results to make 6th .

It doesn't much matter if Clarke gets the sack or not because the next man in won't improve that much anyway .

The truth is the club is stagnating and every passing season things are getting worse .

Nothing will be achieved under the present ownership , the club is now rotten to the core .

A return to the era of Peter Doyle isn't too far away .

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Originally Posted by animallittle3

I said at the start of the season to get top two this season you'd need a team as good as Daniel Stendel had and to get 5th or 6th a squad at least as good as Duff had us playing .

We are an absolute million mile away , Clarke has his critics and deservedly so but that squad is too unbalanced and simply not of enough genuine quality .

The recruitment is an absolute joke but Clarke in my opinion isn't even as good as Neil Collins was , at least Collins got enough results to make 6th .

It doesn't much matter if Clarke gets the sack or not because the next man in won't improve that much anyway .

The truth is the club is stagnating and every passing season things are getting worse .

Nothing will be achieved under the present ownership , the club is now rotten to the core .

A return to the era of Peter Doyle isn't too far away .

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There was no one who banged the drum as much as me on Collins being thrown under the bus , the owners let him down big time but then tried to put the blame on him tor the failings m sacking him with one match to go thus clearly trying to point the finger at him instead of fronting up to the fans and admit it was down to them that we fell short , with the squad he had he worked a minor miracle to get us within a whisker of wembley again, some of us could clearly see what happened whilst the more gullible towed the company line and used Collins as the scapegoat , fast forward 5 months and Collins replacement who was backed somewhat better is finding life pretty tough , we all want him to do well but I am afraid the Tinker Man is swimming against the tide and while the gullible will once again call for the managers head and eventually get what they want whilst once again the people who are implementing our decline are given a get out of jail card . When are the fans going to wake up and see by calling for the managers head all the time they are in fact making things worse, why not change tack and start to point the finger at the custodians of our club instead of the staff, they are clearly out of their depth and running a football club is beyond their expertise , I am sure as successful business people they will be able to move the club on, it is time for them sell up and go .

If yer listen to DCs after match interview it is clear that he doesn’t have much confidence in the players and doesn’t yet know what formation to play.

So is there any wonder that the players look bewildered on what they should be doing or where they should be playing???
We have got rid of the crab tactics of last season - but the team is still an unorganised mess.

Players need to fully understand their roles before they enter the field,
That’s why I liked Ismael so much.

As things stand now it looks like DC isn’t up to the job.
Fingers crossed he turns it around.