El Sid
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Did anyone notice that a soon to be Premiership striker knocked one in today?
Did anyone notice that a soon to be Premiership striker knocked one in today?
He would have scored more than one at the Amex today if he was still here. Chances going begging for a proper striker.
Come on THPP, you can't honestly believe that.He would have scored more than one at the Amex today if he was still here. Chances going begging for a proper striker.
Barnes is a quality player, always has been. I wish him every success with Burnley.
Come on THPP, you can't honestly believe that.
Had Barnes been playing today he to would have missed more than his fair share of half chances.
There was a point in the game, where the ball was dead in the north 6 yard area when Rodriguez just looked at it. Barnes would have thrown everything at it, leg, boot, ankle, referee, whatever to get it over the line.
I was thinking the very same as I watched 15,000 evacuate the building on 80 minutes.
Then my thoughts turned to the return of CMS.
*shudder* CMS would have been running about headlessly, alternating between directing traffic on the A27, polishing the silverware in the museum and serving coffee in the Privilege Lounge. Anywhere requiring frantic activity apart from that wee small area of the pitch where we require our strikers to ply their trade.
You're funny.
You never saw him play before his injury then?
Come on THPP, you can't honestly believe that.
Had Barnes been playing today he to would have missed more than his fair share of half chances.
How do you explain his goal scoring record if instinctively he's in the right place at the right time?Sorry but I genuinely do believe that. Ashley Barnes has a striker's instinctive, er, instinct for being in the right place at the right time. You can't teach it, you either have it or you don't. Players like, say, CMS, don't. Their game is based on running around a lot and being slipped a through ball. Which may work sometimes in the lower leagues, but won't work often enough here.
How do you explain his goal scoring record if instinctively he's in the right place at the right time?
Something doesn't add up, maybe there's a clue in the BBC match report:-
The former Brighton striker was only denied a second when his header was kept out by goalkeeper Ben Hamer at point-blank range.