Is Barnes a dud or will he come good?

[poidy]

Hasnt quite lived up to the promise of last season just yet.

Granted its early days but from the 3 games ive seen this season he looks totally inept. On this form i would be gobsmacked if we got a return of 5-10 goals. Fair play to the lad hes clearly a tryer and he will chase down every ball. This was evident on a number of occasions today so i cant fault his committment or attitude.

Clearly needs a goal and one hopes that this will lead to him re-discovering his form from the tail end of last season.

Whats everyone elses take on this?

 

[Southwick_Seagull]

He's not a left winger. Thread closed.

 

[TrueFan]

I think Poyet should play him up top.

 

[Withdean Wanderer]

he's not up to it.

 

[Conkers]

He's not a left winger. Thread closed.

This.

 

[poidy]

He's not a left winger. Thread closed.

He wasnt playing left wing at Swindon was he

Thread open

 

[Reinelt12]

I think he has lost confidence and desperately needs a goal... was kicking himself in the warm up where the mid/strikers have shooting practice, whereas when any of the others missed they laughed, he seemed to really take it personally...

 

[TrueFan]

He wasnt playing left wing at Swindon was he

Thread open

That's one game...

 

[Conkers]

He wasnt playing left wing at Swindon was he

Thread open

Drogba didn't score today. He is SHIT!

 

[Seagulls4life]

He just needs a goal and he will get more after that i'm sure

 

[brightonmark1234]

i feel he will come good and he just needs a goal

 

[saltash seagull]

I have been saying all summer that people have been going over the top about barnes,a lot of my plymouth mates said they would have driven ashley to brighton he had a good spell on loan but was always gonna struggle to maintain anything like those standards.
my best mate summed him up when i asked him what he thought off barnes he said he will work his socks off but never looks like scoring.
Im not knocking him i think he will be a valuble member off the squad but he aint the star people were making him out to be

 

[SNOOBS]

Darren Purse is probably one of the best centre backs he'll come across this season.

 

[Gav1901]

Not too confident in Barnes at the moment. Hope he can prove me wrong though.

 

[bhaexpress]

Here we go, we lose narrowly thanks in no small part to some dodgy referee and the NSC 'experts' have written off another young player.

 

[Steve Foster]

Compared to Holroyd he is World class!

 

[Horney]

This is my major worry.
We have people saying " they are hoping that Barnes and Holroyd come good "
i.e we are going into an important campaign with two unproven strikers.
You knew where you stood with someone like Forster ( 15-20 gls guaranteed )
We all know we are at least 20 goals light of a play-off place.

 

[bhaexpress]

This is my major worry.
We have people saying " they are hoping that Barnes and Holroyd come good "
i.e we are going into an important campaign with two unproven strikers.
You knew where you stood with someone like Forster ( 15-20 gls guaranteed )
We all know we are at least 20 goals light of a play-off place.

Forster has been a sub since joining Brentford.