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choirboy · 27-02-2016, 18:58

I agree 100% with Cashman and Football19 that we THREW AWAY 2 POINTS today!!
The first half to me seemed somewhat lacklustre and Barnet were looking happy to keep the score at 0 - 0 which I think they would have been happy with at full time. We had more of the possession in the first half but I don't remember us actually making a real scoring chance before half time. The Assistant Referee on the Whinney Hill side was hardly ever up with play and Barnet got away with some decisions fully three yards offside! The big lad Akinde up front was proving to be a handful and did more than his fair share of shoving but was rarely penalised!
The second half began with us providing a bit more 'Zip' and eventually our pressure told and we got the important first goal from Billy which was fully deserved.
I could see the Barnet players heads droop at this stage as they clearly expected us to go on and totally dominate and score more goals! The same Assistant Referee was still behind play as we got away with a couple of offside decisions too....at least he was consistent....CONSISTENTLY BAD!!
Barnet were clearly hanging on at this stage and I thought that, as we put them under increasing pressure, the Referee should have awarded us more free kicks than he actually did and he therefore he would have issued them with a couple of yellow cards for repeated fouls. Most of our threats were coming down the right wing via Pierro and Halliday. We duly scored the second goal which was great for Crooksy after the criticism that he received following the previous match.
Barnet made all three substitutions early and then one of their lads went off with a knock which left them with ten men for the remainder of the match. Had we been ruthless at this stage we would/should have scored again and won easily! Barnet continued with their direct style and we allowed them to dominate some possession even though they only had ten players. For their two late goals it was difficult from the Clayton End to see what was going on, down t'other of t'ground, but we seemed to give Akinde and his mates far too much respect and time on the ball and they nicked a couple of goals!! Having just watched Coley's interview on the Fishy site he took issue with the Referee about a foul for the first goal and a ball possibly being out of play for the second goal! I couldn't tell from the other end!?
This probably goes down as one of Barnet's best results of the season but really we simply let them off the hook. Coley should have brought on Shay McCarten when they scored their first goal to freshen our hold on the game. My view is that the best form of defence is attack. There were times late on when we had such an overwhelming amount of time to build attacks, due to them packing all of their players in defence, that our players almost got in each other's way but really we showed a basic lack of guile of how to break down their defence.
LEAVING THE GROUND TODAY FELT MORE LIKE A DEFEAT THAN ONE MORE POINT GAINED!
We definitely need to develop a much more RUTHLESS STREAK and KILL THESE TEAMS LIKE BARNET OFF.
I think that Coley should be harsh on the team this week and get them to think a bit more NASTY and RUTHLESSLY when we are in front, but also look at his failure to make an effective substitution or two when it was clearly needed!

COME ON STANLEY
RUTHLESS AND RELENTLESS
TRAMPLE THE OPPOSITION INTO THE TURF
THREE POINTS EVERY MATCH

COME ON YOU REDS

27-02-2016, 18:58	#11
choirboy Senior Member+ Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Clayton le Moors Posts: 3,011 Liked: 2202 times Rep Power: 230532	Re: Barnet match thread I agree 100% with Cashman and Football19 that we THREW AWAY 2 POINTS today!! The first half to me seemed somewhat lacklustre and Barnet were looking happy to keep the score at 0 - 0 which I think they would have been happy with at full time. We had more of the possession in the first half but I don't remember us actually making a real scoring chance before half time. The Assistant Referee on the Whinney Hill side was hardly ever up with play and Barnet got away with some decisions fully three yards offside! The big lad Akinde up front was proving to be a handful and did more than his fair share of shoving but was rarely penalised! The second half began with us providing a bit more 'Zip' and eventually our pressure told and we got the important first goal from Billy which was fully deserved. I could see the Barnet players heads droop at this stage as they clearly expected us to go on and totally dominate and score more goals! The same Assistant Referee was still behind play as we got away with a couple of offside decisions too....at least he was consistent....CONSISTENTLY BAD!! Barnet were clearly hanging on at this stage and I thought that, as we put them under increasing pressure, the Referee should have awarded us more free kicks than he actually did and he therefore he would have issued them with a couple of yellow cards for repeated fouls. Most of our threats were coming down the right wing via Pierro and Halliday. We duly scored the second goal which was great for Crooksy after the criticism that he received following the previous match. Barnet made all three substitutions early and then one of their lads went off with a knock which left them with ten men for the remainder of the match. Had we been ruthless at this stage we would/should have scored again and won easily! Barnet continued with their direct style and we allowed them to dominate some possession even though they only had ten players. For their two late goals it was difficult from the Clayton End to see what was going on, down t'other of t'ground, but we seemed to give Akinde and his mates far too much respect and time on the ball and they nicked a couple of goals!! Having just watched Coley's interview on the Fishy site he took issue with the Referee about a foul for the first goal and a ball possibly being out of play for the second goal! I couldn't tell from the other end!? This probably goes down as one of Barnet's best results of the season but really we simply let them off the hook. Coley should have brought on Shay McCarten when they scored their first goal to freshen our hold on the game. My view is that the best form of defence is attack. There were times late on when we had such an overwhelming amount of time to build attacks, due to them packing all of their players in defence, that our players almost got in each other's way but really we showed a basic lack of guile of how to break down their defence. LEAVING THE GROUND TODAY FELT MORE LIKE A DEFEAT THAN ONE MORE POINT GAINED! We definitely need to develop a much more RUTHLESS STREAK and KILL THESE TEAMS LIKE BARNET OFF. I think that Coley should be harsh on the team this week and get them to think a bit more NASTY and RUTHLESSLY when we are in front, but also look at his failure to make an effective substitution or two when it was clearly needed! COME ON STANLEY RUTHLESS AND RELENTLESS TRAMPLE THE OPPOSITION INTO THE TURF THREE POINTS EVERY MATCH COME ON YOU REDS Last edited by choirboy; 27-02-2016 at 19:02.