Barnsley matchday thread

[Wodin]

love the Walsh comment

[Crawley69]

Clean sheet is a huge positive as well.

[Crawley69]

I thought JG sounded a bit flat in his post match interview considering the win Maybe he was just knackered.

[Red, Red & Red]

positive start lets keep it going tues and lets all get behind team.regardless of score throughout game. encouraged by result. We are goung.up

[Crawley69]

I reckon JG was over come with relief today. Fair play to the bloke he has done bloody well to get a win there with our team.

[David R]

Very happy with that, perfect start. You Reds.

[Simon]

Cracking result. Great start to the season. Will silence a few of the moaners, for a while at least.

[compsdakeeper]

Great result.

The game itself was pretty dull. IMO a draw would have been fair, but I will happily accept the win. We were very direct, lumping the ball up field for Mcleod to chase, which he did amd worked hard. We looked solid at the back which was pleasing, Jenson looked a great addition to the squad and the club as a whole. Shaking hands with supporters at the end was a nice touch.

I predicted we'd go down, haven't seen much to change my mind, but haven't seen anything to say it's a dead cert. Beyond our first 11 we have very little, which could be our downfall.

[Peter]

Some post-match reaction.

JG talking to BBC Surrey - https://audioboo.fm/boos/2384444
Izale McLeod talking to BBC Surrey - https://audioboo.fm/boos/2384451
JG interview on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owd02zSXHn8
Izale McLeod interview on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPvC9mObEto

[Cakeburner]

i dont want to sound too positive here but without Simpson in the 2nd half i thought it looked like the Teams that will finish 23rd and 24th this season, cant moan about 3 points, but that was dire.

[lee 66]

I listened to it on the radio and it sounded very much like the midfield was over run just as we were in the Chelsea friendly.We clearly have work to do in this area but it is only the first match so can hopefully improve sooner rather then later.
The defence sounded ok and we have a very very good keeper who will talk to his defenders and give them confidence.
Our strikeforce will score goals so no need to worry there.We should be worried by Lewis Young though.He struggled in pre season and had a poor game against Barnsley.I want him to start on Tuesday against Ipswich so we can have another look at him.
Overall a good 3 points away from home so no moaning from me (plenty of games left for that).

[BFCJay]

Congratulations on the win. Not a lot between us, we both looked like teams filled with new signings that were still trying to form an understanding and any kind of cohesion, which is exactly what we were.

Our player headed his chance up and over the bar, your lad headed it down and in to the goal and that was the difference.

Scrappy first half, but in the second we looked to take the game to you, as we should being the home side, while you were content on soaking up the pressure and hitting us on the break, which did result in you creating chances. Your game plan worked perfectly, it was well executed, apart from the header you limited us to half chances and scored the goal from a set piece. There may not have been much quality on show from either side, but is was a perfect away performance. I saw much worse teams in the Championship last season, including us, than Crawley.

Can't say that I was impressed with the sending off, but who is when one of your own is shown a red card. Jennings was angered by the tackle, it was a poor one, but he didn't strike out, he squared up and gave a bit of a push. That's usually a yellow card at worst, famous premier league players get away with that sort of thing without even a ticking off. Very harsh in my opinion.

Hope those that made the journey enjoyed it. Best of luck for the rest of the season.

[oldcodger]

[far2jammy]

From everyone comments sounds like we are missing Bulman in the midfield

[BFCJay]