Barnsley 2 - 1 Derby County

Joe Wildsmith not well before the game

In that case I take my criticism back View (although kicking is not W's forte at the best of times.)

I thought we were very unlucky to lose that game. We weren't at our best and we squandered a few situations but we were never put under any real pressure. The goals apart Wildsmith had no saves to make. We are down to the bare bones up front and it showed. Frustrating but if it came to it I would back us over 2 legs against Barnsley.

Meanwhile in the rugby...........

comment by lastapostleofvidal (U1491)
posted about 14 hours ago
I thought we were very unlucky to lose that game. We weren't at our best and we squandered a few situations but we were never put under any real pressure. The goals apart Wildsmith had no saves to make. We are down to the bare bones up front and it showed. Frustrating but if it came to it I would back us over 2 legs against Barnsley.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
We missed Collins willingness to drop into midfield & help out to force the ball up the pitch

It was a make do and mend sort of forward line. Sibley was game enough but he doesn’t have the speed or physicality to trouble defenders in a scrappy game. NML also needs the ball to his feet so we had no real “out” ball from the keeper or defence and Barnsley were too good at pressing to allow us to play out.

I expected Warne to bring back Hourihane but not for the first time the game largely passed him by. I thought that any of the other midfielders available might have given us a bit more in that department. That said we largely nullified Barnsley and on another day could have been lauding Warne for setting up the team well to grind out a vital and hard-fought away win. The frustrating thing is that such an outcome looked very possible for much of the game. Yet again there is so little between most of the teams in this division. If you had no prior knowledge you might easily have been fooled into thinking this was a relegation six-pointer rather than a promotion one. Whoever gets one of the top two spots will get it by nicking these sorts of games rather than blowing teams away.

Did anyobe else think that the lino on the left was an utter and complete waste of space?

For him to signal a Derby throw-in, only to subsequently change his mind when looking at the ref was farcical.

comment by 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 HebridesRam (U2909)
posted a day ago
Meanwhile in the rugby...........
----------------------------------------------------------------------
A very drab Warwickshire town....

Jolly good school though...........

A reminder to anyone that didn't know, the Coventry
maidstone United cup much is live on Channel 26 iTV 4