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Online PaulWinch again

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Re: Ross Barkley
« Reply #2880 on: January 04, 2025, 05:33:38 PM »
He’s been a really solid signing and his impact relative to minutes has been excellent.

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Re: Ross Barkley
« Reply #2881 on: January 04, 2025, 05:43:40 PM »
When he was at Everton, I recall he used to run with the ball. Quite similar to Rogers now. There were definitely flashes of that again today.

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Re: Ross Barkley
« Reply #2882 on: January 04, 2025, 06:33:49 PM »
Fair play to him. Great goal. Doing well for us. Pleased to see it.

Big, powerful player. Lots of skill and intelligence. Go on Ross.

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Re: Ross Barkley
« Reply #2883 on: January 04, 2025, 06:36:10 PM »
Our best player in an uninspiring game, well done him, good signing

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Re: Ross Barkley
« Reply #2884 on: January 04, 2025, 07:14:51 PM »
I wasn't all that impressed today actually (very good goal aside) and think he's been much better.

For the first sixty minutes he seemed to be where our (very limited) attacking momentum went to die.

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Re: Ross Barkley
« Reply #2885 on: January 04, 2025, 07:25:19 PM »
He had a dreadful first half I thought. Taking five and six touches on the ball when one or two was required to stretch their compact defence. But after the break he ran with it well a few times to commit defenders. Was backing up play nicely to get the ball for the goal on edge of the box and that was a brilliant strike.

Don't think we will get away with both him and Tielemans against better teams though. Tielemans was average at best today.

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Re: Ross Barkley
« Reply #2886 on: January 04, 2025, 07:27:21 PM »
I think he's been better, but I don't think it's fair to attribute our difficulties to him. They were very compact and we're lacking confidence, was just one of those. (I think the definition of 'dreadful' might have shifted conveniently over the years - I remember Danny Drinkwater giving us 'dreadful' a while ago!).

Agree that he improved a lot second half though, thought he showed strong personality and will to help keep us on the front foot and force the opening goal, which he obviously took superbly.

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Re: Ross Barkley
« Reply #2887 on: January 05, 2025, 02:37:27 PM »
He played well great goal.

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Re: Ross Barkley
« Reply #2888 on: January 05, 2025, 02:50:20 PM »
Yep, IMO our best signing last summer.

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Re: Ross Barkley
« Reply #2889 on: January 05, 2025, 03:00:05 PM »
Like a skud missile pin point accurate, hard and low
Fantastic finish

I thought he’d flopp this season but he’s definitely had some good moments

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Re: Ross Barkley
« Reply #2890 on: January 05, 2025, 03:02:14 PM »
I mentioned it in the match thread, but I think all the goals he's scored have been match winners or at least point getters? You could probably argue yesterday's one wasn't, but there wasn't much happening until he scored.

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Re: Ross Barkley
« Reply #2891 on: January 05, 2025, 03:05:37 PM »
That goals could be used for teaching kids to not lean back and strike the ball low and hard. Cracking goal.

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Re: Ross Barkley
« Reply #2892 on: January 05, 2025, 03:09:15 PM »
And Matty Cash and Watkins.

Offline Paul.S

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Re: Ross Barkley
« Reply #2893 on: January 05, 2025, 03:33:28 PM »
He deserved his goal yesterday. He drove  forward at their defence more than once and was at times our only threat.

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Re: Ross Barkley
« Reply #2894 on: January 05, 2025, 03:58:49 PM »
I thought he’d flopp this season but he’s definitely had some good moments

Strange comment after the season he had last year.  He was never going to be a starter here with a full squad, but definitely a contributor - and he's doing just that.

 


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