‘We’re s*** and we’re staying up’
No, not us. Them. The evil enemy. I am about as depressed as I have been all season after watching THE worst game all year and having it all compounded by 4000 odd DL fans rubbing our noses in it. ‘How s*** must you be, we’re winning away.’ ‘That’s why you’re going down, that’s why you’re going down’. ‘You’re going down, you’re going down, Barnsley’s going down.’ Too bloody right. As some bloke said on leaving the ground, ‘We deserve to go down just for that performance alone.’
It was going to be all so different. Results had gone right for us on Easter Friday…Charlton, Yeovil, Donny and Blackpool failing to even register a goal. We’d beaten DL in our last 4 home games…only beaten once in 9 off those ****s (and that a penalty given for a foul outside the box). DL on an appalling run of form themselves. 3 points and we’re above Blackpool and possibly out of the bottom 3 for the 1st time since…??? How it all fell apart.
What is there to say about this game? If you can imagine 2 teams unable to keep the ball longer than 2 passes, then banging it down the pitch to no-one in particular…for 90 minutes…you’d get a fair idea of just how appalling this match was. In a way, we should be grateful for Ross McCormack, DL’s star striker, for providing the ONLY piece of class in the game. 15 mins in DL banged another long ball down the pitch, their massive striker (Matt Smith?) flicked it on and McCormack flicked it past Crainie with one touch, ran on to it and crashed the ball home in the far corner.
So, we now HAVE to score, just to eke out a draw. We’ll REALLY have a go now. Errr…no we won’t. We’ll bang long balls to O’Grady, who is outjumped every time by their giant centre half. But even if he wasn’t, what’s he gonna do against 4 (count ‘em!) defenders? By my reckoning, that should mean that SOMEWHERE on that pitch, we’re outnumbering them, but I couldn’t see where. We’d get the ball, maybe knock it square or backwards a couple of times, while DL got men behind the ball and we’d be left with a long punt up field. Repeat to fade. God it was awful. Then once DL had the ball, they’d do the same. God it was awful. Awful.
*** No-one. Sponsors MOTM was M’Voto. Well, if the opposition insist on banging ball to M’Voto’s head, of course he’ll head a few back. But in terms of distribution, Jean-Yves was part of the problem. King of hoofers.
** No-one.
* No-one. Anyone voting for M’Voto presumably must put in a vote for Steele too, cos he never put a foot wrong. No chance with the goal and had FA else to do.
Despatches:
Don’t play McCourt, Paddy McCourt, I just don’t think he understands. It seems harsh to call your worst players the subs, but have I ever seen as hapless a cameo as this? Couldn’t dribble, couldn’t pass. Could barely run. The man’s an embarrassment. Then Wilson puts Proschwitz on and not only has he no pace, but since he seems unable to jump, couldn’t win a header either. A chocolate fireguard of a player.
Cywka appeared to be trying to get up in support of O’Grady…but was either too far back to start with or too inept to make a difference. But at least he had a shot. Jennings had a couple too, the closest we got to scoring. He got a header in on target, which gently plonked into the keeper’s hands (it was Butland, by the way, a fact I was completely unaware of till Jonesy told me on the way home) while the other was a clever flick with the outside of his right boot. Had Butland anticipated a cross, it might have crept in. Instead, it trickled into the alert keeper’s arms. Dawson huffed and puffed, but could never get the ball under control whilst pressured. I thought our best stuff came down our right, from McLaughlin and Etuhu, until McLaughlin went completely off the boil 2nd half and Etuhu was taken off, presumably a ‘tactical change’ (which didn’t work).
So there we have it. 5 home games without a goal (one chance missed: M’Voto’s header) and never at any point during those games have we looked like getting a goal. Concede and we might as well go home. Don’t concede and we might as well go home. How have we scored so many away lately? Well, maybe it’s that the opposition have to come and attack us (being that they’re at home), leaving a bit of space. But certainly our shooting has been better away, as we’ve seen 5 or 6 20 yarders…while at home shots are going 10 yards high or wide. We absolutely deserve to be going down, no doubt about it. Those away games have camouflaged what has been a woeful season and the cows are now coming home to roost. We’ll only go down by a few points and we’ll feel sorry for ourselves that we didn’t do this, didn’t do that. In particular, O’G has had NO support up front and I don’t understand why he hasn’t been given a smaller, nippier player to play with. Dagnall? Danny Rose? ABU (Anyone But UselessProschwitz). Or maybe I CAN understand: the midfield is so s*** we have to play 5 there to fail to do the job 4 of them couldn’t do. At the same time, the defence has never looked better (despite Kennedy), the renaissance of M’Voto being of particular significance. He’ll do well in division 3. Grrrrrrrrrrr.
Drink du jour: one bottle of your finest Absolut, complemented with Tropicana, between the 2 of us. What with beers in the pub beforehand and afterhand, I guess you could say we probably WERE a little 'tired and weary'.
See youse at Crawley.
A
No, not us. Them. The evil enemy. I am about as depressed as I have been all season after watching THE worst game all year and having it all compounded by 4000 odd DL fans rubbing our noses in it. ‘How s*** must you be, we’re winning away.’ ‘That’s why you’re going down, that’s why you’re going down’. ‘You’re going down, you’re going down, Barnsley’s going down.’ Too bloody right. As some bloke said on leaving the ground, ‘We deserve to go down just for that performance alone.’
It was going to be all so different. Results had gone right for us on Easter Friday…Charlton, Yeovil, Donny and Blackpool failing to even register a goal. We’d beaten DL in our last 4 home games…only beaten once in 9 off those ****s (and that a penalty given for a foul outside the box). DL on an appalling run of form themselves. 3 points and we’re above Blackpool and possibly out of the bottom 3 for the 1st time since…??? How it all fell apart.
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What is there to say about this game? If you can imagine 2 teams unable to keep the ball longer than 2 passes, then banging it down the pitch to no-one in particular…for 90 minutes…you’d get a fair idea of just how appalling this match was. In a way, we should be grateful for Ross McCormack, DL’s star striker, for providing the ONLY piece of class in the game. 15 mins in DL banged another long ball down the pitch, their massive striker (Matt Smith?) flicked it on and McCormack flicked it past Crainie with one touch, ran on to it and crashed the ball home in the far corner.
So, we now HAVE to score, just to eke out a draw. We’ll REALLY have a go now. Errr…no we won’t. We’ll bang long balls to O’Grady, who is outjumped every time by their giant centre half. But even if he wasn’t, what’s he gonna do against 4 (count ‘em!) defenders? By my reckoning, that should mean that SOMEWHERE on that pitch, we’re outnumbering them, but I couldn’t see where. We’d get the ball, maybe knock it square or backwards a couple of times, while DL got men behind the ball and we’d be left with a long punt up field. Repeat to fade. God it was awful. Then once DL had the ball, they’d do the same. God it was awful. Awful.
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*** No-one. Sponsors MOTM was M’Voto. Well, if the opposition insist on banging ball to M’Voto’s head, of course he’ll head a few back. But in terms of distribution, Jean-Yves was part of the problem. King of hoofers.
** No-one.
* No-one. Anyone voting for M’Voto presumably must put in a vote for Steele too, cos he never put a foot wrong. No chance with the goal and had FA else to do.
Despatches:
Don’t play McCourt, Paddy McCourt, I just don’t think he understands. It seems harsh to call your worst players the subs, but have I ever seen as hapless a cameo as this? Couldn’t dribble, couldn’t pass. Could barely run. The man’s an embarrassment. Then Wilson puts Proschwitz on and not only has he no pace, but since he seems unable to jump, couldn’t win a header either. A chocolate fireguard of a player.
Cywka appeared to be trying to get up in support of O’Grady…but was either too far back to start with or too inept to make a difference. But at least he had a shot. Jennings had a couple too, the closest we got to scoring. He got a header in on target, which gently plonked into the keeper’s hands (it was Butland, by the way, a fact I was completely unaware of till Jonesy told me on the way home) while the other was a clever flick with the outside of his right boot. Had Butland anticipated a cross, it might have crept in. Instead, it trickled into the alert keeper’s arms. Dawson huffed and puffed, but could never get the ball under control whilst pressured. I thought our best stuff came down our right, from McLaughlin and Etuhu, until McLaughlin went completely off the boil 2nd half and Etuhu was taken off, presumably a ‘tactical change’ (which didn’t work).
So there we have it. 5 home games without a goal (one chance missed: M’Voto’s header) and never at any point during those games have we looked like getting a goal. Concede and we might as well go home. Don’t concede and we might as well go home. How have we scored so many away lately? Well, maybe it’s that the opposition have to come and attack us (being that they’re at home), leaving a bit of space. But certainly our shooting has been better away, as we’ve seen 5 or 6 20 yarders…while at home shots are going 10 yards high or wide. We absolutely deserve to be going down, no doubt about it. Those away games have camouflaged what has been a woeful season and the cows are now coming home to roost. We’ll only go down by a few points and we’ll feel sorry for ourselves that we didn’t do this, didn’t do that. In particular, O’G has had NO support up front and I don’t understand why he hasn’t been given a smaller, nippier player to play with. Dagnall? Danny Rose? ABU (Anyone But UselessProschwitz). Or maybe I CAN understand: the midfield is so s*** we have to play 5 there to fail to do the job 4 of them couldn’t do. At the same time, the defence has never looked better (despite Kennedy), the renaissance of M’Voto being of particular significance. He’ll do well in division 3. Grrrrrrrrrrr.
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Drink du jour: one bottle of your finest Absolut, complemented with Tropicana, between the 2 of us. What with beers in the pub beforehand and afterhand, I guess you could say we probably WERE a little 'tired and weary'.
See youse at Crawley.
A
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