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Very rarely hear anyone boo ing Albion players at the Amex - someone had a go at Barnes a few games a go and got a load of abuse from others.
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Booing Barnes?!
- Thread starter BBassic
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Very rarely hear anyone boo ing Albion players at the Amex - someone had a go at Barnes a few games a go and got a load of abuse from others.
symyjym
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Ok if you are being hypothetical, if you worked really hard and scored two goals, you would be entitled to a MOM award. It's not as though there is just one a season, so I don't know why some on here are getting so precious about it.
Thunder Bolt
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The opportunity has been given to many. Not many go on to succeed.
Working class pride
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I think some people think Barnes is hard done by. Frankly I dont know but all I heard last season was that he and CMS kept missing chances. Either way, I doubt he's as hard done by as Dean "wendy" Wilkins. Now that was a bloke who got terrible stick for being a bit skillful and not "getting in there like Jimmy Case would". That's what football is about and I find stick, especially unjustified stick, very amusing
Working class pride
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Dean "Wendy" Wilkins used to get stick for being skillful and "not getting in there like Jimmy Case". Now that was a bloke who got stick he didnt deserve. I wont comment on Barnes, I dunno really, but he has missed loads of chances, as has CMS
symyjym
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Working class pride
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Yes that's right. Its a game of opinions but I thought he was a quality player and we needed more like him, but of course I called him Wendy. Why? I found it funny. Have things changed so much that people dont do the same anymore, unjustified stick goes back to the pantomime villain. Great entertainment.. just ask "John Crumplin Football Genius"
Can you imagine what NSC would have done to JC when he first joined the Albion, and for the first couple of seasons he didn't really shine?
I remember seeing his DEBUT in a sparkling 0-0 at Stoke, those were the days!
symyjym
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Yep pantomime season soon. But as you say, you rated him and you probably called him Wendy out of fondness, others used Wendy to mock him.
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Working class pride
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First couple of seasons he was a winger and both he and Geoff Cooper were shocking. Made to look worse because we were used to wingers like "Steve Penney on our wing, we've go.. Steve, Steve Penney, Steve Penney on our wing" ( for the proper football song. Not a dig just at palace as Im sure our lot are just as bad these days, but what is that Whooa Whooa rubbish!?)
Remember the Gulls Eye "Deadly Wingers" picture?! But Crumps went to right back and well, he was almost OK! Good old Crumps. He even marked John Barnes out of the game away at Anfield by sheer determination, and that is more than our current more talented squad did when they played hug a scouser under Poyet !
God loves a trier but doesnt mean we cant take the piss if you ask me!
Genuine fondness towards Crumps. I remember watching the Albion play at Blackpool in 87/88. Garry Nelson had scored in the first half, and our outside promotion chances were still ON, but Blackpool equalised in the 88th minute and it looked like we were out of contention.
JCFG then picked up the ball on the right wing, cut inside and as we collectively sighed hit a superb dipper from 30 yards into the net to a shocked and disbelieving 120 away fans. Garry Nelson then repeated the feat 60 seconds later.
Working class pride
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So do I. Remember that header against Leeds at home that made it 1-1. The year Leeds went up and brought 10,000 odd !?! That game was the first time I heard JFFG sung with affection. I also didnt mind him giving us the V sign at Watford away. He got stick and so fair enough he flicked a V. Crumps had a love / hate relationship with the fans but in the end he was a cult hero. I think the kids nowadays could learn something from that with all this Barnes stuff
Leonardhead
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I personally was very pleased Ashley Barnes was given MOM. Not just for his significant contribution for all 3 goals, but also his hard work and professionalism during the current injury crisis at the club.
He has had to pace himself to play the lone striker role for 90 minutes in all of the last 10 games and crucially managed to avoid suspension and injury.
As a Brighton fan I am proud to have a player with Ashley's commitment and in my opinion he thoroughly deserved MOM, not just for the Blackburn game but for his contribution over the last 10 games.
He has had to pace himself to play the lone striker role for 90 minutes in all of the last 10 games and crucially managed to avoid suspension and injury.
As a Brighton fan I am proud to have a player with Ashley's commitment and in my opinion he thoroughly deserved MOM, not just for the Blackburn game but for his contribution over the last 10 games.
Mmmm, a striker who has not scored a league goal in the the first third of the season..........confident in what exactly?
Thunder Bolt
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Scoring, which he did. Twice.
But why should he feel confident, having failed to score in the last 14 league games?
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Thunder Bolt
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It was Blackburn with Kean in goal. We've had 3 penalties in 3 games, this year since January against them, and scored all 3. Kean always dives to his right. Barnes knew exactly where to put that penalty. Once he'd scored then the pressure was off so he could play more freely and score again.
Seagull on the wing
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Just why people boo Barnes I don't know,he is one of us,runs and runs,in defence as well in attack,yes he misses goals,but what player hasn't...I'd rather have a grafter in the team than a two bit fancy boy who get's a goal and is king of the world.
Wouldn't have been the last time. Check out Barnes as Ulloa here:
The commentator saw through the disguise, though.
Because his confidence in this situation is about what will happen the next time he kicks the ball, not what happened the last time. Sometimes you just have a feeling.
If he had let Lopez take it and Lopez missed (Barnes missed a couple at the start of last season, following on from a season in which he scored his first six penalties - having a good record last season is no guarantee of a good record this season, and vice versa), and Lopez missed, people would be criticising barnes, who is desperate for a goal, who is our striker - the man employed to score, of being a coward, for backing away from responsibility when provided with a great opportunity to get his league goal tally going. A shot from 12 yards out, with no defenders - a great chance for a striker, and he doesn't want it? No wonder he isn't scoring...
I know such a sentiment sounds silly, but given how the people who criticised him for not scoring, because a striker is all about goals, then turned around and said so what if he got a couple of goals there's more to it than that, you know that it would have played out exactly like above if he handed the ball over to Lopez and Spanish Dave missed.