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the memory of Harris and De Cruz has actually made me feel a bit sick, Harris in particular was so poor

T1 consistently an embarrassment to this club

Surprised at some assessments on here, I thought he was totally anonymous today. In the first five minutes or so of the second half a glorious Windass cross went begging. Any striker worth their salt needs to be getting on the end of that

Solution is pretty simple: both teams are allowed to say if they want a replay before the game, with both needing to opt “no” for no replay to occur (and the tie to be settled on the day, on pens, or whatever). Similarly placed teams, dealing with the diminished status of the cup, and fixture pileup and what have you, will almost always both vote no. Fine. You’re only really incentivised to vote for a replay if you’re a small team going up against the big boys, which is exactly who replays benefit the most. maybe you only get one replay to stop eg Tamworth sitting 11 men in the box and farming revenue off 23 replays, but in general the system is sound

Odd reading that forum. A couple of pretty normal commenters and many still bitter. Put yourself in their shoes, they came pretty close given the disparity in resources/size of club. Could have taken their chances but in the end the superior outfit showed their class. Not unlike tonight's champion's league final Football fandom such a zero sum game. The amount of mental I went when that Windass header went in ... if I were a Barnsley fan I'd still be sick to my stomach a year on

Excellent. As close to a ‘cult hero’ type player as we have these days

I didn't make it to the semifinal but did get down for the final, so without the comparison it did feel really special for me. That said the atmosphere yesterday was a little flat because it was a flat and tense game - no surprise it felt a little more reserved after waves of attack against all the odds for the semifinal game. End of the day it's hard to knock the experience of 45 thousand Wednesdayites celebrating a last minute winner at Wembley

Was ready to jump on here and defend barnsley for loud support and a really tight game -even if a lot of refereeing decisions they’re moaning about were fine for me but a bunch of em are giving it the big one on the train now so fudge em. Woe to the vanquished - neutrals will only remember Wednesday from this season

he was the difference last night. shame about the injuries, we'd have gone up as champions if he started every week

Someone will snap up Luke Williams of Notts County fame, who's got them playing very attractive football, and an even more gut-wrenchingly insufficient points total in the national league. Salient points about disastrous structure of this club aside, I think it should be us. One thing that I find attractive about that sort of manager - McKenna, Schumacher, even Heckingbottom to a degree are all examples of this - is they've done the hard years of youth coaching, assistant coaching, etc, which I think is too often missed out by first-team coaches these days.

that went well ffs

Ffs I hate football

think his mum passed on a few weeks ago pal. said he didn't really feel up to making the video reviews. shame because we're missing that level-headed analysis now that everything's gone belly up

if Ipswich win theirs that's 9 on the spin for them. NINE! there really is one auto spot left to play for

horrible watch in a horrible little ground with horrible snide commentators. robbie savage poo-eating grin in the stands as well, it's like this whole spectacle was designed to enrage me