Luke Garbutt

[Allezfan]

I'd like to see garbutt start one of the next two games, tbh.

None of the first team are undroppable on current form. We don't have enough players playing well that we can afford to leave anyone out who looks half decent right now and garbutt looks half decent.

 

[bluemangroup]

Barkley and Distin have a Barely played. Coleman hasn't covered himself in glory but he hasn't been as bad as Baines. I'll give you Howard. I've got a clue, I don't have a Baines fetish like half of you on here that blindly fap over performances that are, quite frankly, a shambles. He's at fault for an enormous amount of goals we concede and offers nowhere near as much of a threat going forward as the other two.

Hes been poor by his own standards but they are so high hes still been one of the better players. Just because people dont agree with you doesnt mean they have a fetish. But you carry on with the hyperbole m8

 

[Sunybay92]

Errr are you sure like?

Yeah dead sure. Well, outfield players anyway. He was as much at fault for the two goals as Howard on the weekend with his absolutely disastrous positional sense. That's without even examining his disgraceful efforts going forward. Slow, backwards, lethargic and Lazy.

 

[Sunybay92]

Hes been poor by his own standards but they are so high hes still been one of the better players. Just because people dont agree with you doesnt mean they have a fetish. But you carry on with the hyperbole m8

Bit Hypocritical that like since you've just labelled anyone who disagrees with your view a piss head.

 

[ijjysmith]

Against the weaker teams why not, points more to do with oviedo though, hes deserved to keep his place at times

That's the problem though.

Who are the weaker teams? We can barely beat any English teams.

 

[Sunybay92]

Hes been poor by his own standards but they are so high hes still been one of the better players. Just because people dont agree with you doesnt mean they have a fetish. But you carry on with the hyperbole m8

They were high, they aren't and he's been crap. If you can point me into the direction of something positive he's contributed to the team since November, as a left back then I'll take a look. But he's done SFA. At the back he's been at fault for a lot of our problems.

 

[bluemangroup]

Bit Hypocritical that like since you've just labelled anyone who disagrees with your view a piss head.

Because theres margins isnt there really? You can say Baines has been poor, you can say Oviedo maybe deserves a chance. But label him a disgrace and you get called a pisshead.

I accept your apology.

 

[Eric Djemba-Djemba]

Barkley and Distin have a Barely played. Coleman hasn't covered himself in glory but he hasn't been as bad as Baines. I'll give you Howard. I've got a clue, I don't have a Baines fetish like half of you on here that blindly fap over performances that are, quite frankly, a shambles. He's at fault for an enormous amount of goals we concede and offers nowhere near as much of a threat going forward as the other two.

Barkley's played plenty. Distin played plenty up until the new year and Coleman has sadly been dross for most of this season. Baines at least can create something, Coleman's looked a shadow of the player he was last season.

I'm also forgetting all these goals he's been at fault for.

 

[MD 1989]

Young Luke star of the future him ,Stones,Besic,McCarthy,Barkley,Lukaku even Coleman he is 26 there's 7 players to build the team and the squad round for the next few years,

 

[Furey1878]

He's a good prospect who could at the very least provide a decent fee if sold. The club aren't going to let him walk for free. He'll sign a contract, I challenge everyone to bookmark this post and get back to me at the end of the season.

 

[toffeestillidie]

Young Luke star of the future him ,Stones,Besic,McCarthy,Barkley,Lukaku even Coleman he is 26 there's 7 players to build the team and the squad round for the next few years,

Oviedo's only 25.

 

[toffeestillidie]

Barkley's played plenty. Distin played plenty up until the new year and Coleman has sadly been dross for most of this season. Baines at least can create something, Coleman's looked a shadow of the player he was last season.

I'm also forgetting all these goals he's been at fault for.

Don't think Coleman's been "dross." I think we all have a tendency to rate our best players like Baines and Coleman against what we know they're capable of, while looking at unproven players more charitably. Coleman has had a fine season for a right back in absolute terms, very few defensive errors, wins several corners a game, etc. We've relied on our fullbacks much less often this season, I'm guessing because we've been bleeding goals so keeping them out became the priority for Baines and Coleman. Now that we look a bit better defensively, the shackles seem to be coming off our fullbacks (both young boys legs, and against Leicester, the focus was on getting the ball to Oviedo/Luke and Coleman high up the pitch in a way we haven't seen much of this season).

I think Coleman had an unreasonably good season last year, very few fullbacks in the world can score for fun like that, and I don't think that should be the benchmark for evaluating his future performances.

Now that he seems to have license to venture forward more often, I think we'll see the offensive side of his performances improve as well.

 

[Hong Kong Phooey]

I personally would like to see Garbutt get a run of games in place of Baines.

Won't happen like, but I'd like to see it.

 

[AndyC]

Baines is one if the best left backs in the league. Garbutt is a good youngster. Stop moving the better player round.

But Baines isn't likely to get better at left back whereas he might add another dimension to his game and be able to act as cover to the improving Garbutt... a win win situation if handled correctly.

 

[markDee]

Baines is still first choice at the moment but I'd like us to try Garbutt LM. It worked for Bale.

Haha as if I've just compared him to Bale lol

I've had a beer soz