Barnsley 2-0 Leyton Orient, Saturday 20th December 2014

'This lot are s***.  Thank god.'

Welcome to the Pleasuredome!

This is what it should be like every week in division 3; winning comfortably with the minimum of effort against a side who couldn’t look dangerous against 10 men.  Let’s be clear here, Orient were simply the worst side we’ve seen at Oakwell all season.  Ok, they were without their entire forward line – and it showed – but, really, they have to be nailed on for relegation.  One less place for us to worry about, then!

Grove Street

The match was over before half time.  Hemmings played in Hourihane, who rounded the keeper and rolled it home, while Cole collected from Jennings and finally slotted a one-on-one.  And that was it.  We wasted endless chances to break, 3 on 3, as Orient lacked the discipline to stay in position and piled men up before losing it.  They were terrible.  Yet they did get one slice of luck when another ball over the top led to hesitation by Crainie (and Ramage?) and Turnbull left in no-man’s land.  Just like Chesterfield away.  This time, Turnbull pulled off a great save, but sadly he was 10 yards out of his area.  Off he went and the resultant free kick was chipped into the crowd/empty seats behind the goal.  Did I mention how s*** they were?  Orient then had 20 minutes (including 5 mins of injury time) to test a side who hadn’t won a Satdy home game since….?  AND had Adam Davies in goal.  They created f*** all and if anyone was gonna score, it was 10 man Barnsley.

Easy Easy!

*** Jennings.  Beat players, set chances up, tackled back.  Sponsor’s MOTM.

** Ramage.  Dealt with everything at centre half.
* Holgate.  Never put a foot wrong at right back.  This kid is the find of our season so far. 


Londontykes top 3:
1. Jennings
2. Holgate
3. Berry

Despatches:
Nyatanga had a decent game at left back, Berry flicked his hair in midfield (actually, he was pretty good as well) while Bailey made the odd tackle (before giving it away again).  The jury on Hemmings appears to be that he really is s*** and shouldn’t be near our team.  But I never really noticed him.  (Though he did make the the kind of throughball for Hourihane that Hourihane should be making for himself.)  The rest either had nowt to do, or didn’t do owt.

Bit sparse in the Ponty...

Applause also rang out around the ground in the 82^nd minute.  No idea why.  Has someone else died? 

Drink du jour: in amongst the Erdinger, there was a bottle of JD and coke drunk in 1^st class, though I can’t say I was in a drinking mood, still recovering from Friday.  I spent most of the 1^st half falling asleep…

Away: 490.  Allegedly.  Including Jonesy’s old pupil and dad, who we met on the train.

Damage: train £36, programme £3

The Os (no apostrophe needed).