There seems to be the owd opinion of
A Cheap player = a Poor player.

That’s not the case.
And Barnsley have proved this time and time again.
Mads and Kitchen are the latest examples to disprove this.

IMO - we have a squad that should be now sitting in 1st or 2nd place in this division.
But we arn’t.
Why ?
Because the head coach has altered the style of play.

A good example of this was an incident involving Kane in the 1st Half.
He was facing our goal while stood about 10m from the centre circle - and received the ball from one of our defenders - there wasn’t a Blackpool player in 20m of him - but instead of turning and driving at the opposition he chose to pass the ball straight back to the defender that had just given him the ball.
Another clear opportunity to drive forward wasted.
This would not have happened under Ismael or Duff.

But that type of thing was happening throughout the full match until the panic button was activated 20 minutes from the end.

The - urgency - drive - dynamism - has been taken out of this team.

IMO if Ismael or Duff were still in charge we would be sitting 1st or 2nd in the league now.
The players we have have shown in patches that we are good enough to do that.