S-Clarke

Nope...tomorrow is as big as the game against Reading next week, therefore tomorrow we should play our strongest available team. None of this resting crap. Every game is now massive.

But it still doesn't mean that result turned our season, or will have any bearing on how it finishes - because it won't. We won plenty of games after that as I said, Bristol City were just a bit of a boggy side for us this year for some reason. And it would have been naive to think we'd win at home all season, it wasn't going to happen and when it did happen it would have been bloody frustrating - which it was. We're in an amazing position and it's a position I never expected us to be in, I thought we'd be in and around the top 10 - with a chance of the playoffs. This season has excelled expectations and we have to trust the guys to take us over the line, because they've been terrific for the last 3 years. They will not let us down, or themselves down.

This is almost as mental as your post last year suggesting we should rest our players and aim for the playoffs, even though we were sitting 2nd at that point. Play the best avaliable players for every game, that's what we've got to do. None of this resting ******** anymore.

No one thinks it'll be a cakewalk, no has said that. I think most people have been reasoned in their predictions that you'd expect us to win, but it won't be a thrashing - which is a fair view. You will come alive if we drop points tomorrow, you'll be in your prime. So let's hope we don't.

That is the biggest load of codswallop I have ever read in my life. How on earth is a result mid-season in December a turning point for the entire campaign? (and our first defeat at home in 27 odd games) We won plenty of games after that. If that result was a turning point, it would have equalled the spirial down the table. But it didn't. We got over it, and I think it's time you did as well.

Sorry, but you're the one whining. Just stop coming alive at the slightest sniff of a negative, you're so depressingly predictable.

26/27 to our 34. Not much in it anymore.

Their GK is a flaming joke.

The big thing is that they have a load of young loanies who probably couldn't give 2 hoots about the rivalry, they will go back to their parent clubs in a few weeks and will forget about Portsmouth. They will be like startled rabbits from the 1st minute tomorrow as they will not be able to match our intensity. The players I'd have been half worried about would have been Lawrence, Husseklep, Henderson their Gk.....but oh, they've not got any of those anymore. Anything but a comfortable win tomorrow will be criminal!

Always the way when results don't go our away, it always deflates you slightly. We could never effect the results though, it was always a case of hoping for miracles at the start of play. Tomorrow will be immense by the way.

Yeah he was, on loan from spurs. He looks to have come from the Tommy Forecast school of goalkeeping. Tottenham half produce some duffs don't they?

and the 2nd.

lol.

It's all gone horribly wrong

If WHU keep going for this, we could have a record score here. Barnsley are that inept.

They are simply atrocious. A sorry excuse for a football team.

God, this co-commentator does my head in. So clueless.

Not today, nope. But if they rack up a big score today which is looking likley, then our GD isn't as far away.

game well and truly over. Let's hope Barnsley can keep the score respectable otherwise our GD becomes catchable.

I was confident before this as I felt Barnsley could frustrate WHU, but an early goal has killed it IMO.

This will be a cricket score.

WHU's team looks pretty potent (kick off in 5mins) Vaz Te and Maynard in attack, lots and lots of pace....come on barnsley.

As you see with us though, it's not about individual talent - it's about getting the right sort of players and the right attitudes to build a team. Swansea know how each other play, Leon Britton isn't a world beater at all - but he knows his job and his team mates trust him. Having a proper 'team' is much more important than having loads of overpaid stars, IMO. I'm sure to opposition fans we have quite a few average players in their eyes, but we all function as a team which counts for more.

That sort of relaxed attitude can sometimes bring out the best in players..... It could go 2 ways. WHU could win comfortably without breaking sweat as Barnsley didn't get a s hit, or Barnsley could really throw an upset by relaxing and playing to their maximum - whilst catching WHU off guard.

I totally see your point, but being top most of the year and being within touching distance of winning something is too good to just shrug off. Promotion is obviously the important thing and the end goal is the same in either position, but to see us lift a proper championship trophy would be magic. We will probably never ever get the chance to win a league again. (not in my lifetime anyway!)