Brilliant win today! The Valley really WAS rocking! Delighted for Lee and all the players.
And thanks to His Excellency for coming to his first match. Safe to say he loved it and will be back as soon as possible. Onwards and upwards #cafc#COYR
He is Austrian, managers in that part of Europe are definitely more relaxed with their touchline fashion, but I couldn't help but laugh every time the camera panned to him. Looked like he jumped out of the away end and just decided to manage the team
He is Austrian, managers in that part of Europe are definitely more relaxed with their touchline fashion, but I couldn't help but laugh every time the camera panned to him. Looked like he jumped out of the away end and just decided to manage the team
Watched the stream with my dad and we thought exactly the same.
I was sat right behind him and he was hilarious all game. My favourite thing about him was that he'd throw his nice coat off in a rage every time something didn't go their way and stand there in his jeans and jumper for a bit. Then he'd get cold and have to scurry back and stick his coat back on, right up until the ref did something he didn't like again.
I was sat right behind him and he was hilarious all game. My favourite thing about him was that he'd throw his nice coat off in a rage every time something didn't go their way and stand there in his jeans and jumper for a bit. Then he'd get cold and have to scurry back and stick his coat back on, right up until the ref did something he didn't like again.
I was sat right behind him and he was hilarious all game. My favourite thing about him was that he'd throw his nice coat off in a rage every time something didn't go their way and stand there in his jeans and jumper for a bit. Then he'd get cold and have to scurry back and stick his coat back on, right up until the ref did something he didn't like again.
Was he the person the ref booked?
No, that was the coach who kept screaming 'LINESMAN! LINESMAN! 20 SECONDS!' in an Austrian accent because he thought Dillon was taking the piss with his timewasting when he had the ball in his hands. Which, to be fair, he was.
Too many people looking at too many stats, possession, passes, corners etc are all well and good but the only one that matters is goals scored and today we scored more than them. I'll take 5 more performances and results like today as we will be on 45 points and pretty much safe.
The proverbial six pointer and @Len\'s_little_girl considered it sufficiently important to come home for which made it all the more enjoyable for me.
I'm not sure this was a 'good' game but it was certainly a tense one and felt more like a play off semi final than an ordinary league match. I was washed out and relieved by the end.
We took it to them from the off and Lyle Taylor showed how important he was we kept him with a clinical finish to Jason Pearce's knockdown from Josh Cullen's free kick to give us that 1 goal breathing space.
Barnsley didn't come to The Valley to lie down and the defining moment of the game for me was Dillon's magnicficent diving save at full stretch to keep a Barnsley shot out which those of us behind the Covered End goal were convinced was in before Dillon somehow got there. Not quite Gordon Banks in the 1970 World Cup perhaps but justifies being mentioned in the same sentence for sure. Had Barnsley equalised then it could all have been very different. I had just turned to @Len\'s_little_girl to say 'Green hasn't done much has he?' when he in turn finished clinically just a couple of minutes before half time to give us a 2-0 lead at the break.
I hoped that blow just before half time would discourage Barnsley but they came out determined to get back into it but we weathered the storm and had a dood little spell ourselves and at that point Bow decided, understandably, to protect first Williams, replacing him with Forster - Caskey and a few minutes laterTaylor replacing him with Hemed. Suddenly Barnsley developed a second wind and some. They broke away down the length of the pitch to nick a goal out of nowhere and then we were under the cosh for the remainder of the game pretty much apart from a pinpoint cross from Green slap in front of goal which Hemed chose to ignore.
Somehow we hung on and grabbed a precious 3 points which is just as well given Wigan's win at Leeds today.
This was a team performance so I'm not mentioning individuals as they all put a shift in other than young Alfie Doughty who relished it and gave everything finally being substituted through fatigue after 88 minutes on the clock.
Anyone know why Lockyer got booked? I have no idea. Just one of a number of bizarre decisions by the referee.
Keep fighting like we did today and we should be ok.
Absolute stripey jumper job in the second half and you love to see it.
We all knew it was coming going I to halftime. It felt exactly like Cardiff. Cullen looked a bit off the pace, which is to say not brilliant and all conquering, understandably so. JFC worked really hard but he's clearly off the pace after a year and a half with maybe five games of senior football. The defense again struggled with set pieces and players running at them with pace, and dropped far too deep.
But, breathes in, we won. We were due some luck. This feels like a game a relegation team draws. And we didn't. I still think we're in danger. But I also know that Williams, Taylor, Hemed, JFC, Cullen, Green, Hemed, and Oztumer should all get fitter by the week. And those players, plus Davis, Smith, and McGeady, could make this into a completely different side in the coming weeks.
I was sat right behind him and he was hilarious all game. My favourite thing about him was that he'd throw his nice coat off in a rage every time something didn't go their way and stand there in his jeans and jumper for a bit. Then he'd get cold and have to scurry back and stick his coat back on, right up until the ref did something he didn't like again.
Was he the person the ref booked?
No, that was the coach who kept screaming 'LINESMAN! LINESMAN! 20 SECONDS!' in an Austrian accent because he thought Dillon was taking the piss with his timewasting when he had the ball in his hands. Which, to be fair, he was.
Massive result but very very fortunate. They forced a worldie from Philips and hit the woodwork at least twice.
Without Lyle and William's we looked very League 1..
Awful second half.
Thought Matthews played well.
Yeah good shout, think Matthews has been really solid all season. Very calm on the ball. Not a lot came down the right because he's a solid defender. He's turned out to be a great bit of business.
I was sat right behind him and he was hilarious all game. My favourite thing about him was that he'd throw his nice coat off in a rage every time something didn't go their way and stand there in his jeans and jumper for a bit. Then he'd get cold and have to scurry back and stick his coat back on, right up until the ref did something he didn't like again.
Was he the person the ref booked?
No, that was the coach who kept screaming 'LINESMAN! LINESMAN! 20 SECONDS!' in an Austrian accent because he thought Dillon was taking the piss with his timewasting when he had the ball in his hands. Which, to be fair, he was.
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Update-Lyle still has them on strings. The grammar in that is atrocious
Jeans and white trainers?
http://c.newsnow.co.uk/A/1018232248?-11197:833
No drama....players miss tackles. But we were wide open.
I'll take 5 more performances and results like today as we will be on 45 points and pretty much safe.
Rather that than play outstanding and draw 0-0
The proverbial six pointer and @Len\'s_little_girl considered it sufficiently important to come home for which made it all the more enjoyable for me.
I'm not sure this was a 'good' game but it was certainly a tense one and felt more like a play off semi final than an ordinary league match. I was washed out and relieved by the end.
We took it to them from the off and Lyle Taylor showed how important he was we kept him with a clinical finish to Jason Pearce's knockdown from Josh Cullen's free kick to give us that 1 goal breathing space.
Barnsley didn't come to The Valley to lie down and the defining moment of the game for me was Dillon's magnicficent diving save at full stretch to keep a Barnsley shot out which those of us behind the Covered End goal were convinced was in before Dillon somehow got there. Not quite Gordon Banks in the 1970 World Cup perhaps but justifies being mentioned in the same sentence for sure. Had Barnsley equalised then it could all have been very different. I had just turned to @Len\'s_little_girl to say 'Green hasn't done much has he?' when he in turn finished clinically just a couple of minutes before half time to give us a 2-0 lead at the break.
I hoped that blow just before half time would discourage Barnsley but they came out determined to get back into it but we weathered the storm and had a dood little spell ourselves and at that point Bow decided, understandably, to protect first Williams, replacing him with Forster - Caskey and a few minutes laterTaylor replacing him with Hemed. Suddenly Barnsley developed a second wind and some. They broke away down the length of the pitch to nick a goal out of nowhere and then we were under the cosh for the remainder of the game pretty much apart from a pinpoint cross from Green slap in front of goal which Hemed chose to ignore.
Somehow we hung on and grabbed a precious 3 points which is just as well given Wigan's win at Leeds today.
This was a team performance so I'm not mentioning individuals as they all put a shift in other than young Alfie Doughty who relished it and gave everything finally being substituted through fatigue after 88 minutes on the clock.
Anyone know why Lockyer got booked? I have no idea. Just one of a number of bizarre decisions by the referee.
Keep fighting like we did today and we should be ok.
COYR
We all knew it was coming going I to halftime. It felt exactly like Cardiff. Cullen looked a bit off the pace, which is to say not brilliant and all conquering, understandably so. JFC worked really hard but he's clearly off the pace after a year and a half with maybe five games of senior football. The defense again struggled with set pieces and players running at them with pace, and dropped far too deep.
But, breathes in, we won. We were due some luck. This feels like a game a relegation team draws. And we didn't. I still think we're in danger. But I also know that Williams, Taylor, Hemed, JFC, Cullen, Green, Hemed, and Oztumer should all get fitter by the week. And those players, plus Davis, Smith, and McGeady, could make this into a completely different side in the coming weeks.
Austrian accent?
I also thought it was going to turn nasty post match with Dillon and a couple of their players who didn't take to kindly to his game management.