Today's Championship games

[Sheebo]

Gentle? What on earth was he doing to you?

Gentle is a perfectly adequate description of someone. You pervert.

 

[Icy Gull]

Blimey! What a remarkable weekend. If you were one of the chasing pack our result last night must have been a complete sickener.

Especially if they watched the game. At the Murray sending off and the penalty I imagine they thought we'd dropped three points. Our joy must have been pretty well matched by their despair at what happened next

 

[Insel affe]

Interesting match in Febuary when we go up to Barnsley

This was their Yorkshire cup final, and few of that team will be off in the January window. So we won't face the same team with half the passion.

 

[Stat Brother]

Bridcutt isn't the player he once promised to be, is he? He was so dominant for us, the point around which all our good work revolved.

Now he's just a scrapper, has made a lot of errors today.

Hindsight would suggest he is the very epitome of round peg for a round hole.

Sure at the time, for the Albion, I thought he was a fantastic player destined for greatness.
But it's transpired he's just a footballer who for a short period of time had 10 other players designed to compliment his abilities.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

This was their Yorkshire cup final, and few of that team will be off in the January window. So we won't face the same team with half the passion.

Nevertheless, we don't have a good record at Oakwell.

 

[whitelion]

Hindsight would suggest he is the very epitome of round peg for a round hole.

Sure at the time, for the Albion, I thought he was a fantastic player destined for greatness.
But it's transpired he's just a footballer who for a short period of time had 10 other players designed to compliment his abilities.

Did they all clap and cheer him!

 

[Icy Gull]

Nevertheless, we don't have a good record at Oakwell.

We don't have a good record at most Northern clubs in this division, Leeds apart.

Huddersfield, Barnsley, Rotherham and Leeds are all going to be really tough games to win. Travelling up North in mid winter is not a happy hunting ground for the Albion historically, especially at night games.

 

[KVLT]

Hindsight would suggest he is the very epitome of round peg for a round hole.

Sure at the time, for the Albion, I thought he was a fantastic player destined for greatness.
But it's transpired he's just a footballer who for a short period of time had 10 other players designed to compliment his abilities.

Maybe the little fellow just felt more comfortable playing under our low ceiling?

 

[Insel affe]

We don't have a good record at most Northern clubs in this division, Leeds apart.

Huddersfield, Barnsley, Rotherham and Leeds are all going to be really tough games to win. Travelling up North in mid winter is not a happy hunting ground for the Albion historically, especially at night games.

That's what we said about Hillsbrough.... History is just that, this team has no fear and a never say die attitude and so should we.

 

[Icy Gull]

That's what we said about Hillsbrough.... History is just that, this team has no fear and a never say die attitude and so should we.

Absolutley, but it is engrained in me, as an Albion fan to expect absolutely nothing from these games. I was proved wrong at Sheffield but right at Preston. The team have a much better attitude than me obviously but all those games worry me.

 

[Ernest]

Could be playing Barnsley at the right time if Hourihane goes and the manager too

 

[Thunder Bolt]

We don't have a good record at most Northern clubs in this division, Leeds apart.

Huddersfield, Barnsley, Rotherham and Leeds are all going to be really tough games to win. Travelling up North in mid winter is not a happy hunting ground for the Albion historically, especially at night games.

Huddersfield is 50/50 for success rate away from home.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Could be playing Barnsley at the right time if Hourihane goes and the manager too

Bree will be OFF too for a decent fee.

 

[perseus]

Reading claw one back.

Means we have got an equal best home defence record of 7 conceded with Derby. I wouldn't have minded of Reading had got another goal.

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

How have Barnsley amassed so many coveted players, good transfer strategy, good youth system?

 

[warmleyseagull]

Travelling up North in mid winter is not a happy hunting ground for the Albion historically, especially at night games.

To be fair, the sample size for this brazen assertion is not vast. Midweek away games in winter in this season and last total just four: SW 3/11/15 0-0 (or is early Nov still autumn?), Rotherham 12/1/16 0-2 (suspect THE game that sticks in the mind) Hull 16/2/16 0-0 (promoted side); Blackburn 13/12/16 3-2. One bad result away in winter midweek games up North out of last 73 total matches hardly comprises a source of concern..

 

[warmleyseagull]

Especially if they watched the game. At the Murray sending off and the penalty I imagine they thought we'd dropped three points. Our joy must have been pretty well matched by their despair at what happened next

Exactly. This was psychologically a huge win for us as well as meaning SW are highly unlikely to catch us. We are clearly very strong mentally and other teams and managements must note this. You can't set up your team to counter this, it just is or it isn't.

 

[GT49er]

To be fair, the sample size for this brazen assertion is not vast. Midweek away games in winter in this season and last total just four: SW 3/11/15 0-0 (or is early Nov still autumn?), Rotherham 12/1/16 0-2 (suspect THE game that sticks in the mind) Hull 16/2/16 0-0 (promoted side); Blackburn 13/12/16 3-2. One bad result away in winter midweek games up North out of last 73 total matches hardly comprises a source of concern..

I suspect his sample size is a lot bigger than your's then. Going back to my uni. days at Liverpool I can recall many long, cold and pointless nights at the likes of Tranmere, Oldham, Preston and Southport. Points? I can't even remember us scoring any goals!
Obviously, you'll know we've never won a Hillsborough until this season - and I can't remember ever getting much joy at Hull or Rotherham either, Anyway, to go back over all those years would be a sample size nearer 2000 than 73!

 

[warmleyseagull]

I suspect his sample size is a lot bigger than your's then. Going back to my uni. days at Liverpool I can recall many long, cold and pointless nights at the likes of Tranmere, Oldham, Preston and Southport. Points? I can't even remember us scoring any goals!
Obviously, you'll know we've never won a Hillsborough until this season - and I can't remember ever getting much joy at Hull or Rotherham either, Anyway, to go back over all those years would be a sample size nearer 2000 than 73!

Fine if it is, so do the research and prove it, don't just make assertions based on getting cold and wet on the terraces long ago. Are you really serous that losing an away game at Southport in the 1960s has.ramifications for Huddersfield in 2017?

 

[Icy Gull]

Fine if it is, so do the research and prove it, don't just make assertions based on getting cold and wet on the terraces long ago. Are you really serous that losing an away game at Southport in the 1960s has.ramifications for Huddersfield in 2017?

Of course not, but 30 plus years of struggling in games up North tends to stick in the mind