Blast_of_Cannock
Player Valuation: £25m
Fair enough. I think Moyes was hoping Beto could do a job for the start of the season, so he could ease Barry into it eventually. Just my opinion.
No doubt it was a great defensive block, but i don think Barry made it harder than it should have been. You only have to look at those images to know Barry could have been striking it way before the defender had the chance to get a block on it, if he attacked it imho.
Papa Shango
Player Valuation: £70m
I did.
Saying Beto is better than Barry is not praising Beto.
They both have different traits, I find Beto's to be slightly more useful than Barry's.
They both share the worst trait though of not being particularly good.
Bob Elstone
Player Valuation: £35m
Both utter crud.
The comments were still on when I posted it, was some belter ones in there as you’d imagine.Looks like the only post he's disabled comments on.
100% he'll start because Beto's cameo was absolutely horrific
Vaughan
Player Valuation: £35m
some suggesting he could have attacked the ball earlier, or put it in the near post rather than straight
It’s genuinely depressing watching him come on after watching Barry. I can’t believe how much we spent on such limited footballers.
I just laugh when I’m watching them now.
Both occasions last night people were screaming he missed 'open goals'.
Neither were close to open goals or tap ins. Could he have done better with both? Yes. Were they guaranteed goals? No.
The first one should have been a goal 100%
In his defence, I think it's easy for us to say that after the fact when we know he missed. It's the type of thing where if everything else happens exactly the same but the defender doesn't make the block you get Alan Shearer on MOTD saying 'it's perfect centre forward play, he holds his nerve, doesn't panic and rush the shot, just finds himself that bit of space and strokes it in cool as you like'. You can't continually miss chances like he did last night and some of his all round play was really poor too, but I do think that one was just one of those things myself, I don't think he did much wrong it just didn't go in.
I think so, but it's not an easy chance, he reacts fastest, running at full speed, defender grabbing his arm. Keeper is reset.
If he had got a shot on target, and the keeper saved it, nobody else was following in.
People seem to be finding any reason to criticise anything he does.
I like to pretend I'm crying with laughter but its amazing how many times we get it so wrong when it comes to transfers.
The crazy thing with Beto is he comes on against Brighton, makes a difference. Comes on against Fulham, makes a difference and then comes on last night and looks like he's never played football. From the first touch he loses, the tackle to get a yellow, the header that bounced off his shoulder, the last chance to hold the ball up and it bounces 10yds the other way, just simply not good enough at this level.
I said last night, Barry played his way out of the starting 11, only to be played back in as Beto was so bad.
Its absolutely killed us in so many games, last night if we'd have got that 2nd that would be game over.
I think if you were offering advice in hindsight, you say to just hit it hard.
