Barnsley v Cheltenham, match thoughts

[animallittle3]

Benson and Wolfe missing through injury and Kane long term gives us a problem in the central midfield area tomorrow .

You could argue that the central midfield area is a problem with everyone fit but that's probably another debate .

I think Luke Thomas may well start with Styles and Connell .

Williams and Cadden providing the support .

I think McCarthy , Andersen and Kitching will be the back three .

Whether Norwood starts tomorrow I obviously don't know but he needs to in my opinion even if it's only for an hour .

I'd kindly suggest a decent performance , some sweat on those Red shirts and hopefully a win wouldn't go amiss .

Anything resembling last week's lacklustre effort and result may find the paying customers getting rather agitated even this early in the season and a supposedly new broom .

Keith Hill lost his first two home games with a budget cut to next to nowt and didn't receive much sympathy and that was in the championship with lower expectations .

Be lucky Michael .

[Acido]

Its a risk starting with Styles as his attitude and effort has been questionable.
Id like it to work out for Thomas, but once again its also down to the player, and hes had his issues.
I dun't know if Norwood will start, but has he got 45 minutes in him at the moment. Maybe the new lad Tedic could be somebody to throw up front in the last 15 minutes of games, and surely he can't be any worse than messrs Cole and Iseka and Oulare!.

[pass_and_move]

Benson and Wolfe missing through injury and Kane long term gives us a problem in the central midfield area tomorrow .

You could argue that the central midfield area is a problem with everyone fit but that's probably another debate .

I think Luke Thomas may well start with Styles and Connell .

Williams and Cadden providing the support .

I think McCarthy , Andersen and Kitching will be the back three .

Whether Norwood starts tomorrow I obviously don't know but he needs to in my opinion even if it's only for an hour .

I'd kindly suggest a decent performance , some sweat on those Red shirts and hopefully a win wouldn't go amiss .

Anything resembling last week's lacklustre effort and result may find the paying customers getting rather agitated even this early in the season and a supposedly new broom .

Keith Hill lost his first two home games with a budget cut to next to nowt and didn't receive much sympathy and that was in the championship with lower expectations .

Be lucky Michael .

Whilst I probably share the same views as you on Keith Hill judging by what's been written by both of us on here over the years, I have to stress that the boos after his first two home defeats came from a minority.

I think the vast majority of Barnsley fans can appreciate the job that Duff has taken on here and know that there's no overnight fix to the problems that we have. However, I also understand how the modern day football fan thinks. As with KH, a chorus of boos from a minority after three games does make loud noises even though it doesn't reflect the overall feeling by any means. I reckon Duff is aware of the task in hand here and is comfortable with it, otherwise he wouldn't have taken this job on imo.

As for the game tomorrow. Who knows? What tactics will we employ? What are the confidence levels like? Will complacency perhaps play a part or is there enough hunger there for a fight? Will Cheltenham come here with added impetus and a point to prove following the departure of their much loved manager? Are we still hung over as a football club after last seasons debacle?


There's lots and lots of unanswered questions in which only time will tell as to whether we can answer them in a positive fashion. Who knows? This is a difficult period for the football club and we need some big character out there from the whole squad rather than players who hide away from responsibility. Duff has to instill the correct attitude and we take it from there. Results are secondary to me at this point. I just want to see heart and fight out there and whatever will be will be.