Truly awful game so far.
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Truly awful game so far.
Fanastic goal from Ayew. Potential offside though?
Ayew just scored for The Jacks.
Looked offside to me,
Yes looked off .Quote:
Originally Posted by Wash DC Blue
Goal reminded me of the Holiet type goals
Really lively. The first game was so insipid.
This game is already over
Swansea are a class apart from Barnsley whose tactics of kicking it very hard up the pitch and everybody runs after it is very under 12s
Anyone remember during our FA cup semi final against Barnsley when one of their strikers was straight through on goal and put it wide, late on in the game? Remember at the time, i couldn’t believe he missed, but breathed a huge sigh of relief!
Odejayi??Quote:
Originally Posted by William Treseder
Which is an anagram of donkey....
I still think that went in.Quote:
Originally Posted by William Treseder
They make us look somewhat composedQuote:
Originally Posted by binman
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Originally Posted by binman
Barnsley are making Warnockball look like Guardiola's sides.Quote:
Originally Posted by binman
This is a terrible game of football. How are these two teams in the play-offs?
A superb miss. Remember it well.Quote:
Originally Posted by William Treseder
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.
In fairness Swansea don't have to do much, they've got their goal just have to defend.Quote:
Originally Posted by LeningradCowboy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJpAMkmN7mwQuote:
Originally Posted by IanD
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.
Ended 0-1 to Jacks. Not a great game to watch, though.
This is the way I see it (though I didn't watch the game tonight).Quote:
Originally Posted by 19bluebirds27
Be more than happy to be proved wrong mind.
Every other championship fan watching that wondering how the hell Barnsley finished above their team this season
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."Quote:
Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee
And Ayew was offside for the goal but that didnt stop Sky saying he was onside.
StT.
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Thanks for that Eric. That was a worse miss than i remember!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee
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
What, no penalties! So they had to make do with an offside goal.
To be fair its was an entertaining championship game , as we know real football league with mistakes,passion ,bQuote:
Originally Posted by SunderlandBluebird
Odd bits of quality, end to end ,stupid fouls, whats not to like in this league?
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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by SunderlandBluebird
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee
The second half was entertaining but the quality was very poorQuote:
Originally Posted by SunderlandBluebird
Find out who wrote what you read and shoot the author!!Quote:
Originally Posted by BlueArmy 86
There have been 204 playoff matches across 3 divisions since the advent of the playoffs in the late 80s.
54 first leg ties have been won by the away side. Of those 54 ties, the away side won the second leg 18 times.
Of those 18 2nd leg away winners:-
4 home sides won on aggregate
5 home sides lost at home but won on penalties
8 away sides won on aggregate.
1 away side won away and won on penalties
Blackpool in 1996, Forest in 2007 and Cheltenham in 2020 all won 2-0 away in their first legs and lost by 3 goals at home to lose on aggregate.
34 sides won their first leg away from home by 1 goal. 10 of those lost at home in the second leg, 4 were saved by winning on penalties.
Yes, winning away in the first leg gives you a big advantage but 1 in 6 sides winning away lose the tie with that ratio being smaller for sides winning by only one goal.
You da man Eric 👍
You have to look twice to be convinced it didnt go in. One heart stopping moment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee
I remember the camera spanning onto Michael Parkinsons face.Quote:
Originally Posted by IanD
It was a picture
It was unusual to see him speechless.Quote:
Originally Posted by willo1927
I remember Swansea fans buying pompey tops when they beat us in the fa Cup and them turning up in Blackpool tops when we lost to them in the play offs
Good for Welsh football ?
Fellow Welsh club ?
I couldn't care less about all that romantic crap , I hope they get stuffed in the replay or lose in the final