Marcus Browning was full of praise for debutant James O'Connor. He is quoted on BBCi as saying: "He had a great debut. He did ever so well at right-back, and then he's slotted in at centre-half for the last 40 minutes. It looks like he's going to be a good signing. We felt we'd done well in most of our away games but given away silly goals, but we've ground out a result here".
The Barnsley manager (Paul Hart), clearly disappointed at loosing to Bournemouth is quoted on BBCi as saying: "We weren't bad in the first half, but we were poor after the break. Having said that, we did not create enough going forward - Michael Boulding had two good chances from which he probably should have scored. The goal was a sucker punch, but we had told them all about Bournemouth's quick free-kicks".