Oh Bobby Hassell, you are the love of my life…GET IN THERE MY SON. Another week, another seat on the bench for Sir Bob. But what’s this? Long Throw Rory (Rory ra ra ra) gets himself injured early on and the Ginger Prince finds himself on the park at right back. And things go from good to great when he only goes and bags the only goal of the game, a free header from a free kick. F***ING YES!!! Aside from that, Bob didn’t have the best of games, getting booked for being slower than he thinks he is and kicking some bloke in the air after being sold (well) short. Much improved though after the break, as he and Wiseman swapped and Hassell proved…sorry SHOWED, cos Hassell simply can’t PROVE owt to this manager…that he looks comfortable in the middle of defence and can play with anyone (today: Crainie).
Anyway, we were the better team throughout. Watford may be 2nd (they didn’t look it) but we bossed it. It was yet another example of a 2nd division team being unable to pass it around when we pressed them. These are not Man City (or Swansea, when they battered us last year). Perkins won plenty of ball, but I lost count of how many times they’d try to cut inside Etuhu and he’d just nick it off them. Do they never learn? (No.) Unfortunately, we weren’t quite as good IN possession as we were out of it, though we created what chances there were.
*** Crainie. Won absolutely everything, stepped forward to intercept balls, laid balls off to team mates. A supreme performance at centre half.
** Etuhu. As above. Sponsor’s MOTM.
* O’Grady. Held the ball, put himself about, took alot of physical from Watford, coulda scored. Shoulda scored?
Despatches:
Here’s a question. How much would you take to sell Mellis? This came up on the train. The answers were a) 5 million, b) 3 million, c) 2 million or d) £250,000? To my mind, a bloke who’s in and out of Barnsley’s team can’t be worth more than a quarter of a mill, but based on a decent half at Man C (after they’d won the game) and a decent game out wide yesterday (cos he ain’t good enough to be in the middle) he’s worth millions. In the words of Dave Selwood ‘Tha knows nowt.’ We weren’t even drunk (well, I wasn’t.)
Good job we DID bloody win tho. By my reckoning, the bottom 11 teams recorded 8 wins and a draw. And one of the 2 defeats was against another of the bottom 11 (Bristol at Wolves). Still, for those doom mongers who feared the worst when we had the top 7 to play of our last 11 games…well, we’ve now beaten 2 of them. It’s playing sh*te at the bottom (like Washday) who'll cause us problems.
Drink du jour: No messing about today, none of your running out of spirits by Peterboro…a bottle of JD and a bottle of vodka pls, between about 5 of us. Dave stuck to some weak bitter, fearful of the consequences. Not that I drank much. I just wasn’t feeling on form all day (heavy night).
Great atmosphere at Oakwell too. Don't worry...'bout a thing!
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