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Two big lumps up front!!

Post by mkmel » Sat Aug 31, 2019 7:52 pm

Jamie Carragher just now describing Chris Wood and Ashley Barnes

Classless tosser

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Re: Two big lumps up front!!

Post by BOYSIE31 » Sat Aug 31, 2019 7:53 pm

That's how they looked tonight unfortunately
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Re: Two big lumps up front!!

Post by FactualFrank » Sat Aug 31, 2019 7:53 pm

Well done understanding what he was saying. I can never tell.
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Re: Two big lumps up front!!

Post by cricketfieldclarets » Sat Aug 31, 2019 7:53 pm

He was hardly beckenbauer himself.

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Re: Two big lumps up front!!

Post by fanzone » Sat Aug 31, 2019 7:55 pm

Chris Wood were absolutely appalling tonight, the decision to bring Barnes off was baffling
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Re: Two big lumps up front!!

Post by ceborame » Sat Aug 31, 2019 7:55 pm

Will he gob out of the window of his car at some kid on his way home ?

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Re: Two big lumps up front!!

Post by MACCA » Sat Aug 31, 2019 7:58 pm

Hes absolutely spot on, but our tactics showed them as that.
We didnt win a single header, the persisted to do it for the entire 93 minutes.

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Re: Two big lumps up front!!

Post by cricketfieldclarets » Sat Aug 31, 2019 8:00 pm

fanzone wrote:Chris Wood were absolutely appalling tonight, the decision to bring Barnes off was baffling
My thinking was that Dyche knew the game was lost and was A) saving Barnes and B) giving Wood a confidence boost by keeping him on.
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Re: Two big lumps up front!!

Post by fanzone » Sat Aug 31, 2019 8:03 pm

cricketfieldclarets wrote:My thinking was that Dyche knew the game was lost and was A) saving Barnes and B) giving Wood a confidence boost by keeping him on.
Saving Barnes for the game in two weeks?

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Re: Two big lumps up front!!

Post by FactualFrank » Sat Aug 31, 2019 8:04 pm

fanzone wrote:Saving Barnes for the game in two weeks?
Always a chance of picking up an injury later on in a game.

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Post by Nonayforever » Sat Aug 31, 2019 8:07 pm

cricketfieldclarets wrote:My thinking was that Dyche knew the game was lost and was A) saving Barnes and B) giving Wood a confidence boost by keeping him on.
C) ****#ng Vydra off even more.
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Re: Two big lumps up front!!

Post by fanzone » Sat Aug 31, 2019 8:08 pm

How many straws are you clutching.

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Re: Two big lumps up front!!

Post by cricketfieldclarets » Sat Aug 31, 2019 8:08 pm

fanzone wrote:Saving Barnes for the game in two weeks?
Or from a possible booking or red card or injury.

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Re: Two big lumps up front!!

Post by mkmel » Sat Aug 31, 2019 8:18 pm

It is still disrespectful and not something that a football pundit should be saying

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Re: Two big lumps up front!!

Post by DAVETHEVICAR » Sat Aug 31, 2019 8:22 pm

Wood played as well as most and better than some

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Re: Two big lumps up front!!

Post by scouseclaret » Sat Aug 31, 2019 8:32 pm

The most baffling decision was not to change it much earlier. We were pretty poor second half - Jayrod should’ve been on before the hour.

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Post by beddie » Sat Aug 31, 2019 8:38 pm

scouseclaret wrote:The most baffling decision was not to change it much earlier. We were pretty poor second half - Jayrod should’ve been on before the hour.
I think you could have brought Jayrod on as a 12th player and we still wouldn't have got past Virgil and his defence.

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Re: Two big lumps up front!!

Post by mkmel » Sat Aug 31, 2019 8:42 pm

I would not have minded if he said that today Barnes and Wood were ineffective

But to call them two big lumps up front showed a total lack of respect by a football pundit
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Re: Two big lumps up front!!

Post by nil_desperandum » Sat Aug 31, 2019 8:46 pm

For those who didn't hear the Carragher interview - (I can't stand him by the way) - maybe his choice of words was perhaps a little unfortunate, but he was essentially correct, and he described us on two occasions as outstanding, so let's not show ourselves to be "classless" losers.
He was very complimentary about us.

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Re: Two big lumps up front!!

Post by rufus lumley » Sat Aug 31, 2019 8:47 pm

I’m spitting feathers at his remarks what is he spitting and at who tonight?

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Re: Two big lumps up front!!

Post by mkmel » Sat Aug 31, 2019 8:50 pm

Yes afterwards he was very complimentary of Burnley and Sean Dyche

But those are the exact words that he used to describe Ashley Barnes and Chris Wood which any way you look at it is disrespectful to our two strikers

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Re: Two big lumps up front!!

Post by BennyD » Sat Aug 31, 2019 9:17 pm

MACCA wrote:Hes absolutely spot on, but our tactics showed them as that.
We didnt win a single header, the persisted to do it for the entire 93 minutes.
No he didnt; Rodriguez came on for Barnes. Personally I would have binned Woods instead.

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Post by MACCA » Sat Aug 31, 2019 9:24 pm

BennyD wrote:No he didnt; Rodriguez came on for Barnes. Personally I would have binned Woods instead.

Yes we did. I'm on about tactics not personel

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Re: Two big lumps up front!!

Post by BennyD » Sat Aug 31, 2019 9:29 pm

If you are so accomplished on the subject, I assume you manage a Prem team. Which one?

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Re: Two big lumps up front!!

Post by AngleseyClaret » Sat Aug 31, 2019 9:33 pm

They should both have been subbed in my opinion, we had nothing to lose by throwing on both JayRod and Vydra with 30 minutes left

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Re: Two big lumps up front!!

Post by CBT » Sat Aug 31, 2019 9:40 pm

fanzone wrote:Chris Wood were absolutely appalling tonight, the decision to bring Barnes off was baffling
Barnes always gets found out against bigger CLASS defensive players
Love Barnes as much as everyone does but be interesting to know how many he's scored against van diyk,fellani and more recently the frizzy haired freak from arsenal(guendiza?)
1 last week I know at least

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Re: Two big lumps up front!!

Post by Aclaret » Sat Aug 31, 2019 9:49 pm

The strikers thrive on good service.... where was it ?

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Re: Two big lumps up front!!

Post by BennyD » Sat Aug 31, 2019 9:58 pm

CBT wrote:Barnes always gets found out against bigger CLASS defensive players
Love Barnes as much as everyone does but be interesting to know how many he's scored against van diyk,fellani and more recently the frizzy haired freak from arsenal(guendiza?)
1 last week I know at least
IIRC, Barnes has scored against all of the big 6. How many can say that?

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Re: Two big lumps up front!!

Post by Spijed » Sat Aug 31, 2019 10:02 pm

Hasn't Barnes got 13 goals against the so called "Big six"?

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Re: Two big lumps up front!!

Post by Redbeard » Sat Aug 31, 2019 10:47 pm

What with not being able to understand most of what he says, I'm not sure Carragher wasn't talking about that Penelope Cruz film on the telly last night.

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Re: Two big lumps up front!!

Post by dougcollins » Sat Aug 31, 2019 10:49 pm

Unlike some, Barnes never looks over-awed regardless.

It was like we had some football tourists out for us today.
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Re: Two big lumps up front!!

Post by Iloveyoubrady » Sat Aug 31, 2019 11:11 pm

Can we just appreciate that Chris Wood successfully dribbled past Van Dijk, which didn’t happen in the whole of last season. He actually had a few good touches and just couldn’t find the finishes on his left foot.

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Re: Two big lumps up front!!

Post by Shore claret » Sun Sep 01, 2019 8:28 am

dougcollins wrote:Unlike some, Barnes never looks over-awed regardless.

It was like we had some football tourists out for us today.
Spot on, showed them far too much respect and looked over-awed and nervous all game.

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Re: Two big lumps up front!!

Post by Shore claret » Sun Sep 01, 2019 8:30 am

DAVETHEVICAR wrote:Wood played as well as most and better than some
No he didn't, he was by far our worst player.

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Re: Two big lumps up front!!

Post by diamondpocket » Sun Sep 01, 2019 8:36 am

They weren't two big lumps a few weeks ago when we beat Saints, gave it a good go at Arsenal and should have won last week at Wolves.
They've been shown up against arguably the best defence in the world and an individual mountain just awarded the best player in the world.
Stop being so fickle people!!
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Re: Two big lumps up front!!

Post by Woodleyclaret » Sun Sep 01, 2019 8:38 am

The spitting Scouser was praising them the other week
Its a shame hes allowed anywhere near our screen .To quote a scouse expression.
Hes got more faces than Big Ben

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Post by MRG » Sun Sep 01, 2019 8:45 am

Woodleyclaret wrote:The spitting Scouser was praising them the other week
Its a shame hes allowed anywhere near our screen .To quote a scouse expression.
Hes got more faces than Big Ben
For the record, the scouse expression that you refer to is, ‘he’s got more faces than Big Ben’

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Re: Two big lumps up front!!

Post by evensteadiereddie » Sun Sep 01, 2019 10:40 am

DAVETHEVICAR wrote:Wood played as well as most and better than some

Agreed.
Barnes spent the game throwing himself about by bouncing off their big lads and whining to the referee. I normally rate Barnes but he was out of his depth, unusually for him, today.

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Re: Two big lumps up front!!

Post by jrgbfc » Sun Sep 01, 2019 10:48 am

If Barnes is up against a top class centre half who won't be bullied then he doesn't really offer much.

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Re: Two big lumps up front!!

Post by RingoMcCartney » Sun Sep 01, 2019 10:51 am

Anybody would think we were up against the champions of europe yesterday and not laking a pub team!
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Re: Two big lumps up front!!

Post by TVC15 » Sun Sep 01, 2019 10:56 am

CBT wrote:Barnes always gets found out against bigger CLASS defensive players
Love Barnes as much as everyone does but be interesting to know how many he's scored against van diyk,fellani and more recently the frizzy haired freak from arsenal(guendiza?)
1 last week I know at least
Now someone has pointed out that he has scored against all the big teams have you changed your view about him always getting “found out against class defensive players” ?

The truth of it is that on a number of occasions defenders who cost 100 times plus more than Barnes do often get the better of Barnes and many other centre forwards they play against. And the other truth is that sometimes against all the odds Barnes gets the better of them.

There will be fans of every team outside the top 6 or 7 saying the same thing every week.
Did you see £20m Danny Ings yesterday ? He was embarrassingly poor - there was one point that he tried to push the ball past Lindelof and beat him for pace that if you didn’t know who he was you’d think he was a Sunday league player !

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Post by TVC15 » Sun Sep 01, 2019 11:02 am

jrgbfc wrote:If Barnes is up against a top class centre half who won't be bullied then he doesn't really offer much.
What does that even mean ?
Barnes has been brilliant all season and had lots of players and pundits saying he should have been in the England squad.
He has one poor game against the best defender in the world and a player favourite to be picked as the best player in the world and you get sh-ite like this posted.

Exactly which centre halfs “won’t be bullied” ?

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Post by jrgbfc » Sun Sep 01, 2019 11:23 am

TVC15 wrote:What does that even mean ?
Barnes has been brilliant all season and had lots of players and pundits saying he should have been in the England squad.
He has one poor game against the best defender in the world and a player favourite to be picked as the best player in the world and you get sh-ite like this posted.

Exactly which centre halfs “won’t be bullied” ?
It means what it says. A massive part of Barnes game is being physical, trying to bully defenders. If he can't do it he's far less effective. It's not difficult to understand. And outside of Burnley I don't think there's too many people pushing for him to be in the England squad.
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Post by TVC15 » Sun Sep 01, 2019 11:59 am

jrgbfc wrote:It means what it says. A massive part of Barnes game is being physical, trying to bully defenders. If he can't do it he's far less effective. It's not difficult to understand. And outside of Burnley I don't think there's too many people pushing for him to be in the England squad.
It’s meaningless because all defenders are bullied at some point - it’s just some more than others. Few teams do not have a big strapping centre back who on the face of it looks like he “won’t be bullied”....look at the freak who plays for Southampton - he didn’t get bullied by Rashford yesterday and had a great game yet he was awful against Barnes.

Wolves have got Boly - he’s a beast of a centre back who very rarely gets bullied by centre forwards - how did Barnes do against him last week ?

It’s nothing to do with what you are saying. It’s simply that players like Van Dyke will for the vast majority of games dominate all forwards they play against because they are so good. Lesser players like Luiz will sometimes look world beaters but often won’t - including a few times against Barnes.

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Post by claretblue » Sun Sep 01, 2019 4:03 pm

now this a big lump!

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Post by Bosscat » Sun Sep 01, 2019 4:11 pm

Perhaps he was referring to Kenny Dogleash's Daughter Kelly Cates :roll:

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Post by claretblue » Sun Sep 01, 2019 4:14 pm

Bosscat wrote:Perhaps he was referring to Kenny Dogleash's Daughter Kelly Cates :roll:
leave her alone - she's got where she is on merit...nowt to do with her famous dad! :roll:

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Re: Two big lumps up front!!

Post by CBT » Sun Sep 01, 2019 6:36 pm

TVC15 wrote:Now someone has pointed out that he has scored against all the big teams have you changed your view about him always getting “found out against class defensive players” ?

The truth of it is that on a number of occasions defenders who cost 100 times plus more than Barnes do often get the better of Barnes and many other centre forwards they play against. And the other truth is that sometimes against all the odds Barnes gets the better of them.

There will be fans of every team outside the top 6 or 7 saying the same thing every week.
Did you see £20m Danny Ings yesterday ? He was embarrassingly poor - there was one point that he tried to push the ball past Lindelof and beat him for pace that if you didn’t know who he was you’d think he was a Sunday league player !
Not changed my view on him massively underrated
Edited my post before anyone else commented when I remembered his goal from last week(wasn't aware of his record against top six which I think I stated)
Was answering a post as to way he was subbed instead of wood and I think it was because of my point of him being neutralised by van dijk
But accept I worded my post a little wrong
Think jrbfc sums it up better than I did

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