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Ross Barkley

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Yeah he put that first goal on a plate for Rom - he just had to brush off 4 players and slide a perfectly timed pass through to Naismith.
Yes but if you are in midfield on your own it was our only creative pass Rom did the rest other players were passing it to him back to goal RB pass was a forward pass in which Rom did brilliantly I agree!
 
Still persisting with this in behind the striker position next to Naismith aren't we.

I sound like a broken record but please give him a go as a centre mid. It's painful watching him stink the place out every week in the role he's being asked to play now.
 

I thought if there was a hole big enough to fit him he would have crawled into it tonight. Runs into areas packed with opposition players doesn't show for the ball but did do some running. The lad needs to be sent on holiday tomorrow and we start again next season. feel sorry for the lad he looks to have the weight of the world on his shoulders.
 
Still persisting with this in behind the striker position next to Naismith aren't we.

I sound like a broken record but please give him a go as a centre mid. It's painful watching him stink the place out every week in the role he's being asked to play now.

We're being linked with some CBs who would definitely be wanting to be starters. Jags has seasons left in him, we have Stones, and Galloway is meant to start pushing for a place.

Makes me wonder if we're planning on going 3 at the back with one DM + Barkley.
 
We're being linked with some CBs who would definitely be wanting to be starters. Jags has seasons left in him, we have Stones, and Galloway is meant to start pushing for a place.

Makes me wonder if we're planning on going 3 at the back with one DM + Barkley.

I really don't like the thought of lining up with 3 centre halves at home against the dross that have come to Goodison this year and parked the bus. It'd serve absolutely no purpose.

There's a time and a place for two holding midfielders (your big games away from home), but not when the onus is on us to break a team down.
 

Frustrated the hell out of me today.

So much talent but no confidence and where has all of the lads strength on the ball gone?

I think he needs to be restricted to cameo appearances for the foreseeable future - take some of the pressure off the lad and let him slowly regain his confidence.
 
Thought he was the only one who didn't get swept up in our second half momentum. just couldn't get in the game. Whereas Mccarthy and Lukaku revved up to top form, and even Naismith seemed to find pace and aggression, Barkley joined Mirallas in just hiding. I think he's got all the talent in the world and I know he can be a top player but its just not happening for him. Last season he was the brightest of all our young talents but this season even in fairly torrid times, Stones McCarthy and Lukaku have all kicked on ahead of him.
 
Frustrated the hell out of me today.

So much talent but no confidence and where has all of the lads strength on the ball gone?

I think he needs to be restricted to cameo appearances for the foreseeable future - take some of the pressure off the lad and let him slowly regain his confidence.

At least first half he was showing a bit of fight and actually making some runs into space in the first half unlike Mirallas and Naismith who were offering absolutely nothing especially for Garbutt and Coleman.
 

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