Romared Match Thoughts Barnsley v Stevenage

[Barnsley Chop]

Good un Kane do it just one more time = 3-1

[Doggydo]

Cotter, best yellow card this season

[POGGYWELL]

Good win edged it.

[animallittle3]

A good result without me thinking we are anything special .

Officials absolutely appalling .

Another hard watch for me personally but as I say a decent result .

[POGGYWELL]

Well I’m not complaining.
The first comeback win on home soil for more than two years
Not even achieved with the long haul man in charge with his stronger squad of players.

[Shadrack the Red]

Awful match , shocking officials , good 3 points

[Young_Nudger]

Trouble is Animal we are nowt special also.

And neither are you.
Contribution ……… ziltch.
If yer going to add to the thread then try to think of something other than Young Nudger.
I know it might be difficult but at least try.

[Jules88]

Today was a hard watch. In all honesty, i am of the opinion ( and one without any beer involved ) that I wouldn't be much bothered if a good four of five of the squad left in a fortnights time.
Williams, Kane, Styles , Cole, looked as though they had just turned up for a run around, until the ink dries on contracts with their new clubs….
and I got to thinking that maybe these players arent the mix to get us automatically promoted, nor via the play offs…..Collins or no Collins. Add Cotter to that list too.
Sell them, spend every penny made, and bring some fresh blood in. Im not talking all youngsters, some older experienced players needed too.
Today’s performance was a poor affair to watch.

[Barnsley Chop]

TBH my apathy towards Barnsley FC currently means I have only bothered to watch a handful of games this season yesterday being one of them.

Happy for the 3 points of course but we look pretty average as a team at present, but as others have mentioned on a few occasions we are just staying in or around the play offs in a generally poor quality division 3 league.

Who goes and who comes in during the transfer window always of some interest but like you Jules I don't really care who goes at present, but do hope we can bring in a bit of experience and better quality players than we currently have.

[animallittle3]

It's inconceivable in my opinion that this current team ( squad ) would take any points off the three promoted sides from last season .

I just can't imagine ourselves right now doing the double over Wednesday including a pulsating 4-2 victory at Oakwell , a statement 3-0 home victory over leaders and champions elect Plymouth Argyle or even going to Portman Road and getting a point .

I can't even contemplate this group beating a play off rival such as Derby County 4-1 at Oakwell and cementing our place in the top six and a serious potential play off winner .

I read many comments about this team on other online platforms that we've got this many points compared to last season and we've scored this many more goals too which in reality is an attempt to portray that everything is rosey in the garden and there's nothing to moan about .

The truth is and many posters on here have picked up on it is the fact the league is a shocking standard and if you added last season's promoted teams to this season's league one we'd probably have 9 less points .

Why does this matter ?

It matters because as ever it calls in to question once again the club's ideology , we sell our best players and we become weaker as a consequence , just like we have done on several other occasions in the past .

Selling our best players is something most of us accept , no problem but as ever the recruitment strategy to replace them is the issue .

The quality of player you need to get out of this league and give yourselves at least half a chance of staying up in the championship is easy to identify because we've seen the required standard in successful league one season's of the past .

You need the Sam Winnall's , Connor Hourihane , Marc Roberts , Alfie Mawson , Adam Hammill , Josh Brownhill , Josh Scowen , Ethan Pinnock , Liam Lindsay , Alex Mowatt , Kieffer Moore , Cauley Woodrow and Jacob Brown .

The players currently at this club are a mile away from those standards and that's not how this model was supposed to work .

We might get lucky in the January window with four good loans and retaining the best of this squad and win a play off final .

That's probably the best outcome that we can currently achieve but that's not how this model was meant to work .

These people running this club seriously don't have a clue .