Barnsley F.C.

Similar view to what you just said.

Speaking of Cardiff, they've lost 1.2 million quid and appointed the CEO of Barnsley FC.

I didn't notice that.

Yeah.

We may be entering spooky season, but the Royals kept the ghouls away by beating both Leighton Orient and Barnsley in the space of a few days.

A horrifying trip to inform Plymouth awaits.

With monsters like Lizby, Doakes and O'Connor in the side, Liam's team is capable of scaring anyone in this league.

Yeah, I think so.

I think so.

For your reference listeners and Ben, I have a lot to say about the Barnsley game and not a whole lot to say about the Leyton Orient game.

I watched both games, enjoyed both games, but I have a lot more to say about Barnsley.

All right, well, I'll tell you what, should we just do Leyton Oren really quickly then?

We've just signed him from Fylde, and he's got good technical ability.

And he scored against Barnsley a couple of times.

And so he clearly... is a promising prospect, but we spent so much money on him and he has this big weight of expectation and the expectation is weighing him down, clearly, because he didn't perform tonight.

Massara is a weird one.

And, you know, when I look at the sort of going back to Milton Keynes, we drew in Milton Keynes, we beat Plymouth, we lost to Oxford.

Beat Stockport, drew with Barnsley, lost to Peterborough.

Beat Doncaster, beat Bromley, lost to Luton.

It seems like it's, you know, don't lose two, then lose one.

So we obviously lost to Peterborough, which was disappointing.

But Bromley and Doncaster, we beat comfortably, really.

Barnsley, we probably should have won and that was just a slip-up.

That was a disappointing result.

And, you know, kind of on the flip side, Nathan Jones, you know, all of Nathan Jones attributes are in his football teams, aren't they? So that's generally what we're going to get from Doncaster.

Dangerous, but not, you know, not to the levels of Barnsley and Leicester.

So from an opposition point of view, This is the weaker of the three that we've played.

But like you say, because it's the third game after two pretty intense games of football, that's where the issues are physicality-wise.

I'm sure they will do on Tuesday night.

If we come out like we did on Saturday, they'll definitely get it because it was really, really good.

Their performance sparked the crowd because, you know, it was very quiet against Barnsley.

And that was sad because I thought some of the play in there deserved a bit more, but it's a historical thing, isn't it? Anxiety is the word that's been going around the last week that we've been discussing with Jack.

I mean, we talked about before we bought Erling to so-called improve the defence.

How much? I mean, Nick asked me a few times when I was questioning that, scouting of that and Nick asked me quite legitimately where are you hearing bad things about him and like from two sources one connected to Preston one connected to Barnsley who are both giving me the same answers slow like tall yeah head it away but if he's got loads of time he's okay bringing the ball out but Like, lack of pace, lack of pace, lack of pace, lack of pace.

We hear it all the time about...

And the defence is just soft.

But we're 19th and we haven't played well for whatever it is, nine or ten games.

If you add up, I haven't done this, this could be my bedtime reading.

If you add up the stats and the XG and the shots for and against for the last ten games since the first 20 minutes of Barnsley, I would be fairly confident it says that we have been pretty much You know, if that was one massive game, we'd have got hammered.

And this idea that we're normally really good and actually normally we're really resilient.

So that spell is going well for him.

Kieran Slicker seems to be the current number one at Barnsley now after Biden's time.

I don't know if that is through injury or just selection choice, but he's in the team now.

But they are struggling.

They lost 2-1 at Reading and a 23rd in the league.

Barnsley... problems there just can't Barnsley were sort of in the playoffs in the championship not that long ago was it Alan Ishmael he got them in the playoffs when Connor Chaplin had an excellent season for them staring down the barrel still early days but could be in league two But yeah, Kieran Slicker needs to play a game.

So hopefully he continues to rack up the minutes there.

There's been another manager change in the Football League at Sheffield Wednesday.

And their last five games, which I've forgotten the teams already.

I did a little game yesterday about if you could guess which teams they are, but it was something like Cheltenham, Barnsley, Exeter was the last one, Walsall and Rotherham, I think they were.

They beat...

Barnsley 4-1, they drew to someone, Walsall, and then they beat someone, then they lost, and then they lost again.

They're not going very well in League 2, to be honest with you.

Now, here's a little fun game.