Ban setback for loan ace

The Brazilian, on loan from Everton, was yellow-carded for a fifth time this season in the 1-1 draw at Charlton on Saturday and will be suspended when Barnsley take on Burnley at home on Saturday October 20.

The Championship takes a break for two weeks for international football to take centre stage.

Saturday's 1-1 draw retained Barnsley's play-off place and manager Simon Davey reflected: "It's credit to the players. We started off the season with a 4-1 home defeat and we needed to pull our socks up as a group. We're doing that at the moment.

"It's still early days, we're only 10 games into the season, but we're pleased with the way things are going."

Barnsley super-sub Martin Devaney made a crucial contribution, laying on Barnsley's equaliser for Kim Christensen, who also came off the bench.

Davey paid tribute to the winger, who has scored twice after coming off the bench, but hinted that he will keep Jamal Campbell-Ryce in his starting 11.

"Martin's doing well but Jamal did well for the 70 or 80 minutes before he came on," he declared.

"Martin keeps Jamal on his toes. As soon as Jamal's form dips, there's somebody ready and waiting to come on and take over."

Davey absolved Grant McCann from blame for missing a late chance to hit the winner following another centre by Devaney.

"We should have perhaps got three points, I'm not going to say we should have won it," the boss said.

"Grant has done well throughout the 90 minutes, he's kept going. Unfortunately for him it fell on his right foot."

Christensen, who got his first goal for Barnsley, agreed that a point was fair.

"It's always difficult when you play away from home especially against a team like Charlton," he said.

"We didn't deserve more than them but this is not the first time we've got points late in a game.".

Charlton boss Alan Pardew commented: "I thought as a Championship game it was one of the better ones.

"We are eight unbeaten. If you look at the results we've had, they're very, very strong.

"I couldn't fault the attitude of the players, we really did push the issue and perhaps in doing so drained ourselves.

"When we got the goal it was kind of 'Thank God for that', and that just opened up the door for them."

Barnsley owner Patrick Cryne and chairman Gordon Shepherd are guest speakers at a Barnsley Supporters Trust meeting at Oakwell at 7pm tonight.

n Sheffield Wednesday's players have held their own inquest into the setback against Leicester as they seek a way to escape the bottom end of the table.

Captain Lee Bullen has revealed that some home truths were spoken in the dressing room after the 2-0 defeat.

He said: "We are all together. We do believe in each other. One or two words were said in the dressing room, which is fine. We have to be able to take criticism from teammates."