Some say Barton was the weakest link..

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Others disagree.

-- Anonymous, September 26, 2001

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However Warren, statistically you are...but can be brilliant

+++Softie please report to the Barton Defenders Room+++

-- Anonymous, September 26, 2001


Looks more like Boris Becker.

-- Anonymous, September 26, 2001

It was the ease that DiCanio went past him to score that irks me. Oh and the fact that he gets dispossesed in front of goal so easily. And why are we fannying around with the ball in the penalty area? (ours)

-- Anonymous, September 26, 2001

He was sh*te on Sunday. Di Cannio makes most defenders look useless in a 1 on 1 situation but Barton didn't even make it hard for him. He had plenty of company in the sh*te stakes but that doesn't excuse him being awful. I only defend him when he is being singled out unfairly but most posters have recognised that he was surrounded by mediocrity and incompetence on Sunday with the worst failings being those who so completely vanished whenever we lost the ball. Making a half-arsed attempt to defend is marginally better than making no attempt to my mind.

-- Anonymous, September 26, 2001

I'm with Softie this one time, there's no point in picking on Barton for sunday when the WHOLE team (bar Bellamy) was shite....

-- Anonymous, September 26, 2001


Although Barton is not my favourite player I usually refrain from singleing him out. Last week against Manure he was on the field five minutes and he gets dispossesed 10 yards outside our area. He did the same again on Sunday. We were collectivley shite against wham. As I've said before Robert, Solano were no shows. Shearer and bellamy were starved of the ball and hence made to look toilet. Things need to change tonight.

-- Anonymous, September 26, 2001

Barton has been the weakest link for a long time. He has had maybe one and a halff good seasons of football since he joined us. He may have played for England while at Wimbledon but I've never seen anything to suggest he should be again. Like Quinn, he'll be a good first division player but I think premiership life has just been too good for him. Maybe the fact that he's only had decent left wing opposition on the pitch and not the practice ground for so long has hampered his development.

-- Anonymous, September 26, 2001

Andrew I think you meant to say games where you accidentally put seasons in the first line

-- Anonymous, September 26, 2001

Development? He should have been burnt at the stake as a negative. I have never seen a good game out of this bloke.

-- Anonymous, September 26, 2001

In which case Bok, you can't have seen him play a lot. I agree he's not been playing well every game, but he has had some MotM performances. As Gav said, he wasn't alone in his cr@pness against Wham.

-- Anonymous, September 27, 2001


Griffin again last night showed he was a class above barton.

Steph_ the young lad with you last night had Barton on his shirt get him telt.....

-- Anonymous, September 27, 2001


the young lad with you last night had Barton on his shirt

Nah, he's got Softie on the back of his shirt. And he won't be telt ;-) But he'll be chuffed you called him young!

-- Anonymous, September 27, 2001


Wasn't any young lad with me!

-- Anonymous, September 27, 2001

Griffin wasn't that good, particularly in the first half, when his distribution was every bit as bad as Barton's can be. He was mint in the second half, though..

-- Anonymous, September 27, 2001

Bloody hell!.All a bit serious.

Just trying to lighten things up a bit.

-- Anonymous, September 27, 2001



Sorry steph I thought the lad directly behind me 2 seats to your left was with you! Anyway he had Barton on his shirt obviously seriously misguided

-- Anonymous, September 27, 2001

I know the one you mean. Canny lad but needs a bit of edderkating about the players.

-- Anonymous, September 27, 2001

Well, I (amongst many others) have been on Barton's back for some time now!

:-(

-- Anonymous, September 30, 2001


The lad had a blank shirt on today - no names at all!

-- Anonymous, September 30, 2001

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