WE’VE MOVED

The future is at:

www.barnsleyblog.com

All new activity is going on there now, not here. If you come to this website regularly, I thank you from the depths of my heart, and ask you to instead come to www.barnsleyblog.com.

If you’ve linked to this site anywhere on the internet, I implore you to change that link to www.barnsleyblog.com.

Oli.

Cardiff Away Match Preview

The last two weeks have been a disaster, and you could easily claim that Cardiff isn’t the place to go after that. We have just lost three in a row, and those losses have come in a spiritless fassion. Even worse has been our away form, where we have lost 5 of the last 6.

It doesn’t speak volumes of hope, really. Cardiff are 5th, and are one of the form home teams in the league.

Video: Goals of this Year

Yesterday’s match report was my 100th post, and after that amount of time it’s time this blog evolved a bit. I’m working on moving to a new domain, which is now under beta testing.

I’ve moved the entire archive over, and all posts are now going up on there too. The address is www.barnsleyblog.com.

Within a few weeks I’ll make the final move, and leave this area as an archive. Go to barnsleyblog.com and tell me what you think of the design, and what could be improved.

If you know anyone who might be interested in marketing to a sizable audience of Barnsley supporters, the majority in South Yorkshire, then send an email to oli@barnsleyblog.com.

Scunthorpe 2-1 Barnsley, Disappointment

 3 losses in a row, our worst run since Davey. That’s awful. Although I don’t actually think this was so, so bad; certainly nothing on Plymouth. It wasn’t good enough though. The player mostly managed to do their individual jobs respectably. The problem came in the teamwork. No two players were on the same wavelength, and I can’t remember a single passing move. Going forwards Teixeira was the wolf in a flock of sheep. He did lots right, putting the ball in the box time and time again without anyone helping him. 

But, as I say, this was poor, not abysmal. Colace played well again, which will always give us a platform. For a mostly uneventful 45 minutes we successfully resisted the Iron’s advances, only to find ourselves totally inept going forwards. We couldn’t create anything, because noone wanted to work together. Anderson and Hammill both looked good, but neither passed it soon enough, or made the right runs. Andy Gray was pointless, leaving the Portugese man to contend with a solid Scunthorpe defence alone.

Barnsley 1-3 Plymouth

I said Reading was the worst we played under Robins, but it is no longer. This was truly useless. On Friday I said that nothing less than a win would acceptable, and I stand by that. Perhaps I didn’t even go far enough. As the 4-1 early this season and also Plymouths league record show, they are not a very good side. We made them look promotion candidate.

The first half wasn’t so, so bad.  That wasn’t because we were good, just because Plymouth were worse. On reflection, we deserved a half time lead, but it’s a wonder that we got it. Teixeira was the only attacker reading from the right hymn sheet, while the forwards and Hallfredsson were devoid of ideas and movement. He reason we got the lead was that our defence had been good, and hadn’t really made any mistakes, and they were added by Coyle, particularly the Argentine, who took his goal well.

At half time I was looking upwards. Perhaps this was naive, but we had just scored. Anyway, we always play better in the second half, don’t we…