Jon Moorhouse 0 Posted February 26, 2011 Excellent turnout from the yellow army today and noisy throughout - put the Barnsley ''fans'' to shame.Ratings:Ruddy 8 - one great tip over at 0-0 - assured throughout.Martin 7 - solid and commanded defenceWard 7 - bit of dodgy distribution but strong in the air and tackleWhitbread 7.5 - out muscled/fouled once in fist half - otherwise strongTiereny 7.5 - looked up for it throughout extra 0.5 for all the pretend long throws that went short.Crofts 8.5 - 2 good goals - especially the 2nd which looked a great finishSurman 8 - looked classy in a strong midfieldLansbury 8 - same as Surman - knocked it around for fun in midfield.Fox - 7 probably was as good as the others in midfield just didn''t notice him as muchHoolahan 9 - unplayable at the moment - was everywhere would have had a penalty but for an offside in build upHolt 7 - worked hard - didn''t look like scoring today.Barnsley fans I was talking to on way out were surprised that we didn''t stick more past them in the 2nd half and that was my only concern as a late goal from them could have led to a frantic last few minutes and would have been completely unjust from a dominant display.4-4-wes-1 worked a treat today! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phyxius 0 Posted February 26, 2011 Great day out and fantastic support. Didn''t hear the Barnsley fans sing once.Also overhead Garry O''Connor on the train back to Leeds saying Jason Shackell lost a tooth in the first half collision. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Excited Canary 18 Posted February 26, 2011 [quote user="Jon Moorhouse"]Excellent turnout from the yellow army today and noisy throughout - put the Barnsley ''fans'' to shame.Ratings:Ruddy 8 - one great tip over at 0-0 - assured throughout.Martin 7 - solid and commanded defenceWard 7 - bit of dodgy distribution but strong in the air and tackleWhitbread 7.5 - out muscled/fouled once in fist half - otherwise strongTiereny 7.5 - looked up for it throughout extra 0.5 for all the pretend long throws that went short.Crofts 8.5 - 2 good goals - especially the 2nd which looked a great finishSurman 8 - looked classy in a strong midfieldLansbury 8 - same as Surman - knocked it around for fun in midfield.Fox - 7 probably was as good as the others in midfield just didn''t notice him as muchHoolahan 9 - unplayable at the moment - was everywhere would have had a penalty but for an offside in build upHolt 7 - worked hard - didn''t look like scoring today.Barnsley fans I was talking to on way out were surprised that we didn''t stick more past them in the 2nd half and that was my only concern as a late goal from them could have led to a frantic last few minutes and would have been completely unjust from a dominant display.4-4-wes-1 worked a treat today![/quote]Thanks for that, sounds like a solid performance. Roll on Preston! OTBC [:D] Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CDMullins 435 Posted February 26, 2011 Barnsley''s players were terrible, fans were worst!Wes was outstanding today Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
burn down the ipswich 0 Posted February 26, 2011 A solid performance by the lads today, bit disappointed with the lack of goals for all the play we had in the midfield. Think it was more the fact that Barnsley were absolutely abysmal rather than we were so good. Dont''t think I''ve ever watched a professional team look so bad, and that''s including our performance at Charlton when we went down. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nuff Said 4,938 Posted February 26, 2011 [quote user="Jon Moorhouse"]Excellent turnout from the yellow army today and noisy throughout - put the Barnsley ''fans'' to shame.Ratings:Ruddy 8 - one great tip over at 0-0 - assured throughout.Martin 7 - solid and commanded defenceWard 7 - bit of dodgy distribution but strong in the air and tackleWhitbread 7.5 - out muscled/fouled once in fist half - otherwise strongTiereny 7.5 - looked up for it throughout extra 0.5 for all the pretend long throws that went short.Crofts 8.5 - 2 good goals - especially the 2nd which looked a great finishSurman 8 - looked classy in a strong midfieldLansbury 8 - same as Surman - knocked it around for fun in midfield.Fox - 7 probably was as good as the others in midfield just didn''t notice him as muchHoolahan 9 - unplayable at the moment - was everywhere would have had a penalty but for an offside in build upHolt 7 - worked hard - didn''t look like scoring today.Barnsley fans I was talking to on way out were surprised that we didn''t stick more past them in the 2nd half and that was my only concern as a late goal from them could have led to a frantic last few minutes and would have been completely unjust from a dominant display.4-4-wes-1 worked a treat today![/quote]Come on, Crofts deserves a 10 for the goal of the season! Impressed by Tierney, but not particularly by Surman. Hopefully he just needs more game time. Wes was genius as usual - some final touches were disappointing, but only because he''d worked so well leading up to them I just expected the magic to continue.I agree the only concern is why we didn''t make our superiority pay by scoring more. And a 1 for the Barnsley supporters - some of the few there were were leaving about 10 minutes before the end - and 10 for ours. We were great at Leeds but took it up several notches for this game. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites