Opposition Fans Comments

[PsychoStanleyStone]

he he he he he, what a bunch of plonkers, i mean, who predicts 6 nil, lol, they cannot possibly know a thing about the beautiful game

[stirred]

he he he he he, what a bunch of plonkers, i mean, who predicts 6 nil, lol, they cannot possibly know a thing about the beautiful game

They didn't predict they would all come in injury time though :)

[Tricky]

he he he he he, what a bunch of plonkers, i mean, who predicts 6 nil, lol, they cannot possibly know a thing about the beautiful game

:D :D :D :D

[Sniffer Dog (Admin)]

Comments from Wycombe fans:

Taylor is amazing, can't believe he didn't play in the Champ til he was 29.

Up and down today against a decent side, lots of positives and we were a bit disjointed with the change's and injuries, too early to say we've got enough to stay up but I think the last couple of weeks shows we aren't a million miles away and it's definitely possible.

It's hard to be too down. Forest were much better than i thought they were, they'll move up the table pretty quickly now i think.

Not a bad performance by any means, but perhaps without the spark of recent matches, understandable given the amount of games. McLeary looked very exciting though, he made a huge difference. Such a shame Forest got their 2nd when they did, as we were starting to build up a head of steam and they were hanging on rather at that stage.

Lyle Taylor was the big difference though, as he so often is against us. Very classy player.

Weird that everyone always raves about Toney whereas I thought Taylor was often slightly under the radar despite also scoring bags of goals.

Some really good signs and we had Forest on the back foot for much of the match. Forest are a team who will be up near the top before long and we gave them a really good game.

Shame about the goals against the run of play as we looked at least an equal match with Forest for most of the game. Clearly Taylor made the difference, taking his chances when we didn’t.

[Sabricadabra]

“...we looked at least an equal match with Forest for most of the game”

Don’t know what they were watching. They looked like a team who will finish in the bottom three to me.

[Tricky]

Comments from Wycombe fans:


"................. and we had Forest on the back foot for much of the match". 

Since when as a 30 minute spell become most of the match?

[Fumanchew]

The Wycombe assistant praised us as being in a false position, being a very good side and should be up the top end of the table by the end of the season. I wonder what he’d think of us fans on this forum ? throwing in the towel most of the time

[Joe Baker Legend]

Barnsley Match Preview in their eyes....

The wait for football is over, as this weekend the Reds return to action and a clash with the Tricky Trees!

Whilst the November international break was ideal in terms of offering respite from the crazy fixture schedule this season, it may have come at a poor time for Barnsley having won three of their last four fixtures.

But it's about to get busy once again as the Reds tackle 11 league fixtures between now and the end of 2020. It all kicks off this Saturday with the visit of a Nottingham Forest side who've won their last two games after what had been a disappointing start to the 20/21 campaign.

It will be the third Oakwell meeting between the two clubs in a matter of months, after last season's 1-0 league victory back in July and then September's 1-0 win in the Carabao Cup. It's becoming a familiar fixture!

This is actually a fairly decent clash historically, in terms of the head-to-head record. Barnsley hold 32 wins to Forest's 31 in a fixture that was first played out in 1906.

As we say, the last time this league fixture was played out, the Reds edged it in the final seconds of the game thanks to Patrick Schmidt's cool finish in our final home match of the 2019/20 season.

The Reds go into Saturday's clash just a point ahead of their visitors from Nottingham. A surprising statement considering Forest were hotly tipped for promotion once again ahead of the new campaign.

But the Midlands outfit have probably suffered a little with a hangover from last season. When whilst the Reds were celebrating on July 22, our opponents this weekend were in despair having thrown away a playoff place against all odds.

That disastrous finale to last term didn't spell the end for Forest boss Sabri Lamouchi, but the former French international midfielder was replaced last month after their poor start by experienced campaigner Chris Hughton; a man known for promotion success at this level.

The former Newcastle United and Brighton gaffer has a plethora of quality players at his disposal, with two of the division's most prolific frontmen on the books in Lewis Grabban and Lyle Taylor.

Veteran central defender Michael Dawson is still present beside the Trent, although unused so far this year, but the likes of Joe Worrall and Carl Jenkinson also offer plenty of quality at the back.

Midfielders like Harry Arter, Jack Colback and Luke Freeman have all played at the highest level too, so it's certainly a squad that should be in the race for promotion, but if the Tricky Trees are to make that long-held dream a reality, they need to keep up the decent form since Hughton pitched up at the City Ground.

Barnsley have only lost one of their last nine league fixtures at Oakwell; that being the opening day reverse (0-1) against Luton Town. The Reds have kept seven clean sheets in that run. It's the sort of home form the club has become used to for the last few years, and after finally getting a deserved first win on their travels last time out against Derby County, confidence should be high going into Saturday's 3pm kick-off.

Followed by a few Barnsley Fans comments......

Tricky Trees! What's that all about lol

Tricky Trees?? Never heard Forest called that before.

Type Tricky Trees into Google and get back to me...

I've been following football and football teams for nearly 50 years and I've never come across that one before

That's two of us then mate. I wonder how many more......

I’m not doubting you. I just meant that I have never heard them called anything but Forest before. I wonder how many of their fans use that nickname?

I should correct myself though. I started in 1962 so that’s 58 years and not once have I heard that nickname

I Have, got a forest fan at work, allus refers to em as tricky trees.

There's an issue with Forest you see. When writing about them as a Barnsley man. Their common nicknames are Forest and Reds. Now, I'm not going to use the latter as that would either confuse our fans, or anger our fans ("we are the Reds, not them"). And I can't just refer to them as Forest completely. So you go with the next nickname. And that is apparently Tricky Trees. Can't say as I've ever heard of them called that out loud either. But it was that or Garibaldis and our fans would think biscuit.

Matt Forde and Matt Dyson, comedians and big Forest fans always call them the Tricky Trees on their Absolute Radio show.

[PsychoStanleyStone]

good work JBL, makes match day feel slightly closer, it's always good to listen to what fans who have been following there team for 58 years have to say and they are still willing to learn

[Paplane]

Funny that. My dad, a 79 year old lifelong fan, said last week he'd never heard of us being called the Tricky Trees.

[Tricky]

Funny that. My dad, a 79 year old lifelong fan, said last week he'd never heard of us being called the Tricky Trees.

About 15 years ago, I lived in Birmingham (for about a year in total for my sins!) and I worked for Transco for a while. On a Monday morning the lads would come in and give it the "Come on the Villa", "Up da Blues" or "Boing boing Baggies" so I would always give it the "Come on you Tricky Trees" just to let them know that there was life outside of Brum. They all started calling me 'Tricky' because of that, whence where my username (and nickname in some circles) originates from.

I think it is only in the past 20 years maybe, that Tricky Trees has become a nickname TBH and I would hasten to guess the Garibaldi is even less than that, despite us always played in Garibaldi red.

[Jon Moss]

First time ever I haven't seen them refer to us as scabs.