By Oli, on August 30th, 2010
Where are those pre-season pundits now, those who once guessed at the certain doom of Barnsley. They’ve melted away into the shadows following the best start to a season since our promotion, and it is looking a lot like we won’t be playing catch up for once as well, what with our top 10 position. The latest scalp is Middlesbrough, leaving us with 7 points from 3 games, and two home wins.
It’s always a good sign when the club not only wants to keep the same XI but is able to. The defence had the question marks over McEveley and over the security of Foster/Shackell together, but I was very happy to see them starting again. Arismendi and Colace were set for a tough game in midfield against the generally excellent Julio Arca, but Lovre was looking at the same excellent opportunities as always. He had no direct marker again, and his constant and unpredictable drifting got him lots of time on the ball. He didn’t disappoint in terms of ball retention and creativity, which always assures that our attack isn’t just telegraphed. Read more»
By Oli, on August 27th, 2010
This has truly been one of the least eventful weeks imaginable. It’s the transfer window, clubs are signing players, but there’s been no real news at all. Plenty of Hume rumours, plenty of striker rumours, but nothing has happened, and I think it’s looking likely that we will be getting only loans from now on. Read more»
By Oli, on August 25th, 2010
Great Zeus, they’re back. Following such mind-numbingly (is that a word?) successful successes as the Player of the Decade (won by Bobby Hassell), the current best player (won by Colace) and whether Wednesday would get relegated (won by the world) I’m continuing to use a poll as my way of getting an interesting post out without having to write a lot. Read more»
By Oli, on August 24th, 2010
A year ago, shortly following the first few games, our now ex-manager Simon Davey cancelled the reserve team, citing the fact that there was a high cost and it brought very few benefits to the first team. Read more»
By Oli, on August 22nd, 2010
Anybody want to complain about our attack now? Thought not. I was as happy as the next guy to criticise how ineffective we’ve been up front so far but, man, was that overturned yesterday. And yes, I know that Bristol’s defence gave us a big hand with that, but it was 3 goals, and it could have been a lot more.
Goran Lovre had recovered from his head injury, and so we played exactly the same team as last Saturday. This includes Kieran Trippier, and unsurprisingly this meant that Hassell was totally safe all game, covered by a winger who knows how to defend. Read more»
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