Schopp stays in the dugout at half time

[Young_Nudger]

Give the blowk a chance. We are 6 games in ffs.

Very much agreed.
Sometimes things get a tadge melancholy.

[POGGYWELL]

Let’s ask Bill if he sat in the dug out at half time, he was there?
Bill?

It probably was Bill sat in dug out Perky. He most certainly deserved a decent view going all that way !

[animallittle3]

Very much agreed.
Sometimes things get a tadge melancholy.

8 players who were very much part of a top 6 finish last season started on Saturday and suddenly look bottom 8 and playing terribly and didn't look up to a fight backed by a sold out away end .

That can't be right in my opinion .

I think this conversation has it's place personally .

Yes it can come over as knee jerk , fair enough .

However .................???

[Arblasterfromthepast]

8 players who were very much part of a top 6 finish last season started on Saturday and suddenly look bottom 8 and playing terribly and didn't look up to a fight backed by a sold out away end .

That can't be right in my opinion .

I think this conversation has it's place personally .

Yes it can come over as knee jerk , fair enough .

However .................???

Yes fair point. But maybe it says more about the players that were missing. Sollbauer/Andersen, Mowatt, Morris/Dike. Experienced organisers.
Couple that with being 6 games into playing a new style against one of the best teams in the league and I can see it unraveling in that particular game.

[Ponte_Steve24]

You're light in numbers so you drop your best player (Benson). Start a left back up front with three strikers on the bench. Leave a central midfielder on the bench when you've dropped one for nothing.

You can't blame numbers for that. It's inept management.

[Arblasterfromthepast]

You're light in numbers so you drop your best player (Benson). Start a left back up front with three strikers on the bench. Leave a central midfielder on the bench when you've dropped one for nothing.

You can't blame numbers for that. It's inept management.

I was surprised when I saw Saturday's line up. I would have played Gomes instead of Williams. From the start of the season, I would have syed a striker instead of oduor (bearing in mind I haven't seen oduor play in that position yet). We don't know what's gone off with Benson. So I agree that we MAY have had other better options for the starting 11. But we don't see what Schopp sees behind closed doors. We don't know the reason for the argument with Benson (maybe that was strong management). We don't see the attitudes or fitness levels of players in training. The manager does have this knowledge; therefore I wouldn't call it inept because he may have good reason for his decisions.

[SBRed48]

There is only one man responsible for all the bad things in the world--Barnsley being 2 pts above the relegation zone, the Covid pandemic, global child poverty, Afghanistan, the climate crisis, plus many other issues--and that man is Paul Conway.

[Arblasterfromthepast]

There is only one man responsible for all the bad things in the world--Barnsley being 2 pts above the relegation zone, the Covid pandemic, global child poverty, Afghanistan, the climate crisis, plus many other issues--and that man is Paul Conway.

We can always count on you SB lol.

[Ponte_Steve24]

There is only one man responsible for all the bad things in the world--Barnsley being 2 pts above the relegation zone, the Covid pandemic, global child poverty, Afghanistan, the climate crisis, plus many other issues--and that man is Paul Conway.

I wanna be a rootin, tootin Cowboy...

[pass_and_move]

8 players who were very much part of a top 6 finish last season started on Saturday and suddenly look bottom 8 and playing terribly and didn't look up to a fight backed by a sold out away end .

That can't be right in my opinion .

I think this conversation has it's place personally .

Yes it can come over as knee jerk , fair enough .

However .................???

Animal, something you mentioned on another thread about putting an extra body in midfield and Schopp tweaking the formation, I totally agree with. The wing back positions are too exposed from a defensive point of view at times and the team has also lacked balance from what I've seen. An extra body in midfield would take the heat a little off the wingbacks from a defensive point of view and allow the ball to be played through midfield more. That I feel would suit the passing football Schopp is trying to implement.

Personally, if I were Schopp, I'd go with the same formation as the 96/97 team with the 2 up front but that's just my opinion.

As I say, we're 6 games in so still early days and obviously patience is required all round. In the long run I believe that the passing game is the correct way to progress the club but it waint happen overnight