We need a leader in the middle of the park to put in a few hard challenges and set the tone. Too many pushovers in our squad. Hope he has a few players lined up already
Last night was a very very poor match played out by what looked like two very poor sides. We was absolutely awful with no one coming out for any praise apart from Nouble and Turgott who looked to be positive and run at their men when they received the ball.
Nouble should of had a nailed on penalty when he was clipped from the behind, but the referee bottled it in my opinion when he had a perfect position from 4 yards away from the incident, if its simulation then why no booking ref?
The windy conditions and bobbly pitch did not help either side play attractive football, but the first 20 minutes when we did have the ball, it was lumped aimlessly forward by Martin from the back into no mans land, and the back 4 looked extremely nervous with the ball.
Stokes was without a shadow of a doubt piss poor and was constantly bullied down our left side which they attacked him at will, certainly not a league one left back by any stretch of the imagination and its clear to see if you have played the game at a decent level, mind you Phillips was not much better himself last night on the other side.
The Midfield lacked composure, confidence and conviction and gave Samuel nothing balls to chase down, with tudgay being out muscled in the air everytime we lumped it up to him.
Changes were made far too late in the day when it was evident Barnsley were there to be got at with their defence looking like they did not want the ball when they got it.
Overall a very very average performance, its evident we need a battling midfielder who will stamp his authority on the midfield and play none of this ticky tacky triangles what so evidently got us into the shit last night on more than 5 occasions.
Alot of work to do on the training field, but one thing Mowbray can do instantly, is install confidence into the players again, as last night it was clearly evident that confidence was low.