Barnsley

Saturday was just weird. Every disaster has several causes. On Saturday the primary cause was that Newcastle are very good, but other causes include the Referee, Preece and our poor defending. Point is, it wouldn’t happen in another game, say, the one next Saturday.
I know it seems a bit early to talk about what’s happening next game, [...]

Perhaps it is the ridiculous view, perhaps it is the ridiculous stadium, perhaps it is the ridiculous defending, but this game just doesn’t seem real. We haven’t looked like that was coming up on us, and despite how I’m about to criticise large parts of the team, I must maintain that against any other team [...]

We spoke about Newcastle’s free-scoring form at St.James’ Park..

Tomorrow we play against Newcastle, you might have heard. Apparently Sky haven’t, because as everyone who’s looked at a TV schedule will testify, Newcastle are always on.
I feel sorry for the Toon Army really, we are one of just a handful of teams they will play both ways 15:00 on a Saturday. Having said that [...]

It’s probably not as well known as it should be that many of this country’s professional teams have a supporters team to go with them. That includes us.
I’d heard of our team a fair few times before, but never really paid too much attention. Then I saw this video…
Below is a montage of some of [...]

Ah, what a fundamental and general question this is; Who’s Barnsley’s best player?
See, today I was having a discussion with a friend who knows a lot about football. I mean, a lot. Thing is, his knowledge comes on the international level, he follows top level leagues and the best players.
His knowledge of the Championship is [...]

Every week there seems to be an explosion of news stories after Saturday’s game. There’s usually so many of these that deserve at least a short post that I get confused and indecisive. Like Odejayi with the ball.
Yesterday, I dealt with where we are going to finish. Vital Barnsley started it, I carried it on, [...]

I noticed that at barnsley.vitalfootball.co.uk Gooderzone had taken a particularly optimistic view at where we are going to end up this season.
You see, we have spent our time under Mark Robins in the kind of inconsistent form that defines a talented squad destined to finish buried firmly in mid-table.
Yet, time and again we bring a [...]

Before the game Robins talked about the dangers of Blackpool’s attack, and how import it would be to stop them dead. That we did. There was not a second when any Blackpool player had any type of control over the game, which we commanded for 90 minutes. Our defence was rock solid; I can’t remember [...]

Last Saturday saw us complete an excellent double over the playoff challengers Cardiff, and that is a feat we can easily attempt to replicate against Blackpool.
Blackpool have become infamous this season as a bit of a surprise package. Holloway has certainly transformed this team. They sit 5 places above us in 7th. However, they have [...]

As is becoming a habit now, I’m offering up a video on Thursday.
This time round it’s Redtykes compilation of all the good stuff our Malta man has done this season.
Of course, they’ll be more stuff to follow from Boggy, so this shouldn’t be a complete tome of the on form striker’s exploits for long, but [...]

A new book about Barnsley is now being written.
But this isn’t like most books. It’s not got one author, instead Wolvestyke is aggregating your stories of commitment and passion for Barnsley.
Perhaps some of this was captured last season by Patrick Cryne with the words,
“Being a Barnsley supporter is not an easy journey as I know [...]

3 goals in 2 games tells us something about a forward; they are on form. In Bogdanovic’s case, so on form that even the Football League’s panel of ‘experts’ have had their eyes forcefully pulled onto Oakwell. This week’s Team of the Week might just be worth framing, because a Barnsley player has finally got [...]

I make a point of trying not to gloat too much.
I usually fail.
But I think we are all well within our rights and respectfullness to poke fun at Peter Risdale.
A lot of fun.
He’s got the buisness sense of drunk banker, but has got a propoganda machine like the U.S.A.
Nobody ever realises what his web of debt [...]

Hands up who saw that coming. I don’t really think I did, but this was no fluke. We deserved every one of the points despite some decent pressure from the Bluebirds. The goals were defended poorly, but finished masterfully, and in particular we have to highlight our defence who, with the almost untried youngster Luke [...]

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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.
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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 [...]

On September 3rd I used the lull caused by the sacking of Davey and the international break to begin an online blog; Barnsley ’til I Die.
I’ve had it easy so far, with Mark Robins’ appointment 7 days later, and his delivering of some great wins; West Brom, Blackpool, Middlesbrough, Cardiff.
At time of writing, 101 posts [...]

I thought it was about time I crawled out from underneath my stone to bear witness to my musings of 11 days ago. My goodness, how wrong I got it all, but surely nobody would have expected such a Davey-esque run on the fixtures we had, would they?An awa…

I thought it was about time I crawled out from underneath my stone to bear witness to my musings of 11 days ago. My goodness, how wrong I got it all, but surely nobody would have expected such a Davey-esque run on the fixtures we had, would they?An awa…