Barnsley FC chief Darrell Clarke urges players not to ‘wallow in self-pity’ as Reds seek to turn around ‘negative environment’.
BARNSLEY head coach Darrell Clarke has warned his players not to ‘wallow in self-pity’ as a ‘negative environment’ threatens to engulf the League One club in the final third of the season for the second year running. The Reds’ winless streak now stands at six games after losing the opening leg of a crucial derby double-header 2-1 to Huddersfield Town over the weekend. Clarke’s side, which is going for mid-table and is now off the play-off pace, will face another indifferent rival in Rotherham United this weekend. Barnsley exited the pitch to boos last Saturday, with rising dissatisfaction among the club’s supporters with the Reds hierarchy.
“When you get that and get back to winning games, it changes the whole atmosphere at the club because it is a negative environment at the minute.” Following Saturday’s setback, Barnsley’s dressing room was quiet, and Clarke was unimpressed with what he witnessed. While the Reds’ manager expressed his displeasure in no uncertain terms after the Reds’ proclivity to cede points from a winning position appeared once more, he would have hoped to see a little more rage from the players he was addressing.
Clarke feels he has a caring group, but one that now lacks a winning attitude. The data seem to back this up. His team is third in the first-half ‘table’ but 17th in the second half equivalent. Clarke went on: “I was angry. Nothing was said elsewhere. “Sometimes, I think, ‘Come on, I am giving you something here.'” It was an extremely quiet changing room. “I don’t believe for a minute that they don’t care. I’m not implying they don’t care; they do.
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