MATCH THREAD: BARNSLEY v CARDIFF CITY " MATCH THREAD

I know rubin scored but think second half we need to swap him with his brother , we need a bit of fight in the middle of the park and rubin dont bring that to the midfield

We change the whole of the back four, but still no improvement.
Our poor defensive play in recent weeks could cost us dearly.

The last 25mins they tore us open time after time

Ng going missing at the far post twice
They are confident now and we are complacent, not good since they equalised, we let them take the initiative, kellyman s quiet
As is Rubin, need Joel on

Currently back to 11 points clear of 3rd.

11 points below Bolton are Wycombe in 9th; for some context.

NINTH.

Calm down, we'll smash these in the 2nd half.

Just totally capitulated
Freak goal against the run of play in a morgue and Cardiff just stopped playing
Seem like a no plan B team
Ok if allowed to fanny around with it, otherwise crumble

Perry ng nowhere to be seen for there first goal and mc goldrick wide open but thankfully missed but no perry ng again stay in your right back position

The problem is down our flanks they have had joy because we insist on playing this full back and winger hugging touchlines going forward yet nothing in the middle when we are on the corner of there box so it goes backwards or sideways. Toothless in the middle up top as kellyman must be listening to instructions as he's picking the ball up deeper than our central midfielders at times just to touch it. We don't use an out and out striker because that's what BBM likes it play now somehow but once we are pressured we go all to pot because of this system he refusee to change unless we are losing. We have no plan b once pressured just keep tapping it about then lose it with a shit pass

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Get Rubin and tanner off. Get Joel and ashford on. Play Kellyman upfront.

We seem to have lost positions, its play anywhere time

Robertson and Lawlor were so out of position for their goal

Get Rubin and tanner off. Get Joel and ashford on. Play Kellyman upfront.

Isn't Kellyman the striker?

A few of us agree here. Take off RC and put on Jc and push Kellyman forward. Also Replace Willock with Ashford. Then we win comfortably!! Easy when we are sat watching on tv . Ha ha!! D
BUT never put Robinson and RC on the pitch together!!!

What are we doing? We hammer them for 20 minutes or so and then gave a dreadful goal away, and we are now lucky to be still level at half time. The slowness out of defence is so boring, with Chambers the main culprit. His passing is poor as well, and invariably finds a Barnsley man, as do a number of our players. Apart from his goal Colwill has done nothing, and I think his brother should now be brought on. We can’t afford to lose this one, which was far from my mind for that first 20 minutes. I think Ashford should be brought on as well for Tanner, as apart from his assist for the goal, has not done a great deal.

Get Rubin and tanner off. Get Joel and ashford on. Play Kellyman upfront.

Isn't Kellyman the striker?

Playing more like a holding midfielder only times he's touch the ball is picking it up in our own half and running forward that's not a striker tbh. Coming deep constantly for a touch but he's told to do that I assume. Then It goes back to where it come from the center backs or full backs 95 percent of the time.

I am just not a tanner fan , the amount of good ball he has and in this league we should be 2 or 3 up plus we are soft in the middle and get caught on the counter . We dint seem to learn from this , in a better league I worry

Perry ng nowhere to be seen for there first goal and mc goldrick wide open but thankfully missed but no perry ng again stay in your right back position

Ng not getting back both for the goal and for the McGoldrick sitter. Nowhere to be seen.
City have panicked, the midfield have gone missing, our passing is poor and we look nervous as hell when Barnsley put pressure on the ball.
Chambers especially struggles when pressured, yet still likes the tippy tappy shit.
Stats don’t lie… loads of possession yet again but are down 4 shots to Barnsley’s 7.
It’s clearly what they’re instructed to do. Just wish BBM would encourage us to be more selfish and shoot more.

What are we doing? We hammer them for 20 minutes or so and then gave a dreadful goal away, and we are now lucky to be still level at half time. The slowness out of defence is so boring, with Chambers the main culprit. His passing is poor as well, and invariably finds a Barnsley man, as do a number of our players. Apart from his goal Colwill has done nothing, and I think his brother should now be brought on. We can’t afford to lose this one, which was far from my mind for that first 20 minutes. I think Ashford should be brought on as well for Tanner, as apart from his assist for the goal, has not done a great deal.

I think Chambers holds on so long it puts his teammates into all sorts of trouble. He is a liability

We really have to take the game to Barnsley in this second half.

We should be out of sight, but again defensive naivety could cost us more points. I wish he’d just pick a back four and stick with it.

Did Colwill go off after he scored?

Our corners are awful also but not as bad as trotts kicking from his area I think 1 in 10 long balls have found a blue shirt. I don't rate him really except his shot stopping at times in the past otherwise he's rooted to his line on anything in our box or even worse six yard box he don't come for it and when he does on a rare occasion I'm on edge from a lame punch Usually.

Bbm has to do something second half surely change players or the system just anything or they will just press us again i feel and score again from our own shitty tippy tappy at the back pass mistakes probably.

Passing passing but achieving Nothing

Cardiff corner

Lets shoot please

Kellyman gets wrestled to the ground Barnsley get a fee kick jesus wept what is the lineman watching and ref

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Barnsley deal with the danger and the corner is cleared.

Bit of a kerfuffle involving Connell and Kellyman as it came in but didn't look a massive amount in it, although the hosts not massively happy.

Need Subs

I firmly believe that refs in this league are competition winners of a raffle, local sunday leagues have better than whats on offer in league 1

Barnsley Corner

I firmly believe that refs in this league are competition winners of a raffle, local sunday leagues have better than whats on offer in league 1

Agreed

But the same for both sides Refs are

Trott with one of his usual shit long ball passes goes in to touch .

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