John P

So, Steve McClaren essentially got told how the opposition and Twente were going to play by the 21 year old captain and the coaching staff. Just happened to coincide with the biggest success of his career.......

Hope we sign this guy, I think he's good enough for a midtable Premier League team, which is hopefully what we're aiming for next season.

I've got the belly of a professional athlete

No matter how much of a prick he is, surely even Ashley couldn't help but get swept up in that atmosphere on Sunday, and that was just for winning the Championship for Christ's sake. Give the man what he wants, we'll all be better off for it.

Don't think I've ever seen Gibson play. Is he actually any good? Is he just a big strong bruiser or can he play out from the back as well?

Heard Barnsley fans saying 'that looks fucking class' and several variations along the same lines at the weekend. Hats off to these guys, done an outstanding job with this.

Last few games he's been the player I thought he would be in the Championship. Started the season well from what I remember, but he had a good few months where he was pretty poor, was getting pushed off the ball, seemed to have no pace etc, don't know what went wrong with him. Let's hope the form from the last month or two is what he takes into the new season because I can't help but like him.

That was the only moment when my girlfriend nearly blew our cover in the away end, she didn't hear the whistle and couldn't contain herself

The two Barnsley fans I spoke to were actually appalled by the fans that were celebrating the Brighton goal. Said the ones letting the smokebomb off were a bunch of out of control kids. I think we can relate to that element amongst our support like. Looking from the gallowgate up to the away section it seemed to be a minority that were jumping up and down in celebration. I'm in the Gallowgate as well and that's how I seen it. Looked like a couple of hundred or so nearest to where our fans were and someone at the back set off a flare and was arrested for it about 15 minutes later. He must have thought he'd gotten away with it The rest of them didn't seem too bothered about the Brighton score. In fact they seemed like a pretty boring set of fans. Just sat there in silence for most of the match. I was sat in amongst them and you're right, it was a minority of their support nearest to our fans who were singing after the Brighton goal. Tragic nonetheless. You're also right about them being a boring set of fans, where I was sat there was no singing the entire game and everyone just sort of sat in silence, barely reacting to what happened on the pitch and just sort of accepted the sound beating they were getting. Was a bit odd as I thought most away ends would be very vocal.

This plane nonsense can't be allowed to happen. Having 'banter' on it is bad enough, but this banner referencing Bradley Lowery is just plain offensive. I also thought the post by cp40 was a joke and can't believe it isn't.

Bump. Thought he was great when he came on yesterday, aggressive in the challenge and good going forward (missed chance aside). Shame that he's been permanently injured for the last few years.

What a great day. We could only get tickets for the away end, so we were just sat smirking to each other as our goals went in. I have to say that the Barnsley fans chanting 'you're going to win f*** all' after Brighton scored was one of the most pathetic and tragic things I've seen for a while. They were completely silent up until that point and it took another team scoring for them to wake up and find their voices. (When they were 2-0 down. Playing an already promoted team. And they support f***ing Barnsley......) However, I also have to give some of their fans credit when news broke that Villa had equalised as a fair few of them actually stood up and applauded. It took pretty much everything I had not to go mental at that point, but I don't think I'll ever forget the roar that went up as our players were trotting back into position after the Gayle goal. From where we were it seemed to start in the North West corner and spread around the whole stadium from there. It must be one of the biggest roars I've ever heard at St James', up there with the Jonas goal against West Ham and I was sat in the home end for that one. The noise and singing for the few minutes following that was incredible, and the Barnsley fans near us were commenting on how loud it was. A few of them stayed behind to take photos of the presentation too and were applauding our players, so they made up in some way for the large number of bellends that they had. Was a great feeling watching the celebrations from up high and being able to see the entire stadium full of joy. One thing that is blatantly obvious from yesterday is that if Rafa can bring any sort of success to this club in the next few years, the celebrations and atmosphere would be on another level. I've got the feeling that we could be in for something special in the next few years, and I know I'm still drunk on the joy of yesterday but, f*** it, this is football and I'm overreacting and this is how it's supposed to feel to follow your team. I'm off to watch all the videos from yesterday again.......

The second coming of Albert Luque according to Youtube. Get the bastard signed.

Watched the second half of the Ajax game earlier and it was brilliant, so open and entertaining. Ajax look to have some great young talent coming through.

Just been told I've got a ticket for this, well chuffed. Apparently Barnsley didn't sell their allocation so some more home tickets have been made available?

When Stifler sees a comment regarding the law, he pounces. Our resident law expert.

One very obvious thing to come out of this is that Joey Barton is godawful when it comes to betting.

I can't see how this could end up with a points deduction, transfer ban sounds more likely of the two but we don't even know the details yet.

The Elliott thing is all a bit wally with the brolly like

Elliott aside, best team we could put out in my opinion.

Was in the same train carriage as the reserve team squad going up to Newcastle a few years ago. Went up and asked for a photo with Beardsley and he was the nicest guy you could ever wish to meet, dead friendly and chatty and he looks even happier than me on the photo. Seemed like a great guy.

As if Alan Pardew can speak any fucking Spanish man. He's got the wrong DNA for a start.

But it has betting odds in it too? Surely that gives it credence?

To be fair I've seen Wijnaldum getting some good comments from Liverpool fans recently. There's a good player in there, unlike Moussa who is just a bit of pace and power and very little intelligence or technical ability.

I have a feeling they will be very one-sided meetings.