A draw at home against Barnsley tonight,so a disappointing result for me and most Town supporters. I watched the game live on Sky TV and was quietly confident at halftime with Town leading by 1-0. All Town had to do was put in a similar second half and the game would have been won.

Unfortunately Barnsley had other ideas and all their players did better and were far more determined than Town. Instead of matching them, the Town players decided they would continually boot the ball into touch or play long balls up field to either no Town player or a Town player who could not hold play up and the ball went back to Barnsley and then straight back to around the Town penalty area and put Town under pressure for most of the second half. Barnsley had one chance in the first half and eleven in the second half! Town were poor in the second half and were a little lucky not to lose the game and Jason Scotland had a couple of chances for Barnsley. At one moment Dean Gurken decided to add to Town woes by slipping up on a back pass when under no pressure and slicing the ball out for a corner to Barnsley.

Town barely had any chances in the second half except for a lame penalty claim from Nouble right at the end. In fact Nouble and the Barnsley defender were both shirt tugging and Nouble fell down hoping for a penalty. It wasn’t a clear cut penalty and yet Aaron Cresswell got booked after the game for arguing with the referee that it was a penalty! What a needless and stupid booking!

I am not a fan of our midfield especially Luke Higham. Where were the midfielders in the second half? Always second to the loose ball and unable to get the ball and play. Tabb came on as a sub and had a sniff of a chance when their goalie fumbled a long range shot from Chambers and that was the best Town had all second half. Come on Mick, why not play Antony Wordsworth? At least start him on the subs bench. Taylor looked alright when he came on but Nouble is unlikely to win a game for Town.

The only good feature for me was Tommy Smith was a rock. He got a cut eye early on but played on bandaged up and was his normal solid self.

A poor performance and poor result tonight for the Town team. I really hope Town team learn to be more ruthless and determined soon because they do need to play with those qualities if they want to win games in this league…..October has finished and wasn’t a good month for Town and November hasn’t started with a bang or fireworks….COME ON TOWN the team has to do better this month!