Barnsley - Swansea

[City123]

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This is a terrible game of football. How are these two teams in the play-offs?

In fairness Swansea don't have to do much, they've got their goal just have to defend.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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A superb miss. Remember it well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJpAMkmN7mw

[19bluebirds27]

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I can see the jacks getting the job done at home.
Barnsley’s chance was today.
I hate to say it but the jacks have a knack of winning finals too.

[tforturton]

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Ended 0-1 to Jacks. Not a great game to watch, though.

[MacAdder]

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I can see the jacks getting the job done at home.
Barnsley’s chance was today.
I hate to say it but the jacks have a knack of winning finals too.

This is the way I see it (though I didn't watch the game tonight).
Be more than happy to be proved wrong mind.

[Don Corleone]

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Every other championship fan watching that wondering how the hell Barnsley finished above their team this season

[Steve the Tea]

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Truly awful game so far.

The long ball count was 87-104. It was an awful game but you'd never have known it from the Sky commentators. Latest quote: "It's been a fantastic game of football."

And Ayew was offside for the goal but that didnt stop Sky saying he was onside.

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[William Treseder]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJpAMkmN7mw

Thanks for that Eric. That was a worse miss than i remember!!!

[SunderlandBluebird]

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Must be in the minority but thought it was a really good game. Low on quality but Barnsley caused a lot of problems, just couldn’t find the back of the net.

Give me that over some of the rubbish the PL serves up every day of the week

[Gofer Blue]

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What, no penalties! So they had to make do with an offside goal.

[life on mars]

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Must be in the minority but thought it was a really good game. Low on quality but Barnsley caused a lot of problems, just couldn’t find the back of the net.

Give me that over some of the rubbish the PL serves up every day of the week

To be fair its was an entertaining championship game , as we know real football league with mistakes,passion ,b
Odd bits of quality, end to end ,stupid fouls, whats not to like in this league?

[the other bob wilson]

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For a side that finished in the top six, Barnsley received remarkably little coverage on Sky during the regular season and so, besides the two games against us, I've seen barely anything of them this season and I've not been very impressed by them in anything I've watched. I put this down to just not being able to see them on a good day, but, watching them last night, it was hard to imagine how they possibly managed to finish where they did. To be fair, I only lasted until just before half time before falling asleep and, reading the report of the game on the BBC website, it sounds like they played quite a bit better in the second half and were unlucky to lose.

In one of the games I saw on Sky earlier in the season, it was quite impressive how they kept their levels of intensity going through the whole game and, on that day at least, they were a lot better than us in that department, but, based on what I've seen of them, I am left scratching my head somewhat as to how they finished ten points in front of us (I know Surge has said they made very effective use of their substitutes all season long and that's not really something you could say about us) - sometimes the table can lie if we're talking about gaps of a point or two, but not ten, they were definitely a better team than us over the forty six games.

Agree with others about the Swansea goal, I was surprised when the commentators talked about Ayew being clearly onside because it didn't look that way to me.

This thread shows how people can see the same thing and come to entirely different conclusions, because I thought the first match was a pretty good one for a Play Off game, whereas the half I saw of the other one was a, very, boring slog.

[A Quiet Monkfish]

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Must be in the minority but thought it was a really good game. Low on quality but Barnsley caused a lot of problems, just couldn’t find the back of the net.

Give me that over some of the rubbish the PL serves up every day of the week

Watched both games. Loved them both. Different, yes, but as I've said before I must prefer watching a game of football as opposed to PL footchess.

[BlueArmy 86]

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Even if Swansea win this leg, I don't think this is done and dusted. I'm amazed, in recent years, how many away teams in the second leg do well after losing at home first time around.

Im hesitant questioning the stat man, but I read only one team in the history of the championship playoffs have lost the first leg at home and gone through.