2025/26 Thierno Barry

blackie_jones75 · 2025-12-03T20:15:19+0000

mahermi1 said:
Well does not show it on that clip, but does show it on the full match, just checked at 43:15 from point blank range he definitely heads against the post, they do a slo mo. So if you have the full match taped check that time out, if not you will just have to take my word.

I undeleted it from my sky recordings to check

he jumps with eyes closed and it sort of ricochets off his head to the post from about 2 cm away

Bedfordblue · 2025-12-03T20:22:52+0000

mahermi1 said:
Well does not show it on that clip, but does show it on the full match, just checked at 43:15 from point blank range he definitely heads against the post, they do a slo mo. So if you have the full match taped check that time out, if not you will just have to take my word.

Dunno what’s worse him not heading it or it actually hitting his head twice and still not getting it on target!

Still a little inconclusive for me if the first contact is the keeper punching it onto his noggin, before it ping pongs off his head against the post TWICE!

mahermi1 · 2025-12-03T22:12:33+0000

blackie_jones75 said:
I undeleted it from my sky recordings to check he jumps with eyes closed and it sort of ricochets off his head to the post from about 2 cm away

Sorry mate I had to squint and wait for the slo mo to even see it. :lol:

Rooney_Tunes · 2025-12-04T11:49:13+0000

Blue Neon said:
They certainly are! But think I'm right on this one!

Congratulations.

Rooney_Tunes · 2025-12-04T11:52:39+0000

mahermi1 said:
Sorry mate I had to squint and wait for the slo mo to even see it.

He was trying to thread it underneath the keeper's hand.

Drico · 2025-12-04T12:35:09+0000

RomanReigns said:

Is it just me or was DCL top of that list at some point last year, too?

Well done, Everton. Replace one dud with another. No, wait. Two!

Joey66 · 2025-12-04T12:52:35+0000

He really is our Dwayne Dibley is he not -

trueblue84 · 2025-12-04T12:53:52+0000

Drico said:
Is it just me or was DCL top of that list at some point last year, too?

Well done, Everton. Replace one dud with another. No, wait. Two!

I'm sure a read somewhere that we've had a player on that list in 5 of the last 8 years.

Saint Domingo · 2025-12-04T13:04:05+0000

I still reckon he’ll come good. He has about two gaping misses/offside/handball basically every game. At some point though these start going in. There’s nothing wrong with his penalty box movement and his touch is improving all the time. Once he gets the monkey off his back and starts taking chances a bit more calmly he’s going to score.

micknick · 2025-12-04T13:25:06+0000

Bedfordblue said:
Dunno what’s worse him not heading it or it actually hitting his head twice and still not getting it on target!
Still a little inconclusive for me if the first contact is the keeper punching it onto his noggin, before it ping pongs off his head against the post TWICE!

Whatever we think of him the boy seems cursed. This is unlucky but his awful control and then sliced shot that went in and was disallowed against Newcastle is the stuff of a witch doctor.

AndyP94 · 2025-12-04T13:30:55+0000

Hope he starts the next because I don't think it'll help his confidence if he's benched again and we start swapping and changing strikers again.

Mashtray · 2025-12-04T13:33:28+0000

He will come good.

To be 20ish and be the line striker in the premier League is a big ask. Least of all to do it for Everton which is even harder.

I view this period as the necessary exposure needed to grow.

I have faith

toffeeblue9 · 2025-12-04T13:45:02+0000

Saint Domingo said:
I still reckon he’ll come good. He has about two gaping misses/offside/handball basically every game. At some point though these start going in. There’s nothing wrong with his penalty box movement and his touch is improving all the time. Once he gets the monkey off his back and starts taking chances a bit more calmly he’s going to score.

He's at least started to get on the end of one or two things now.

What I would say though is that we are a much better side when he's on the pitch than when Beto is.

His hold up play, how he links up with others etc is actually pretty decent. He does have a languid look about the way he plays that people aren't going to love, but I'm convinced that there's enough talent in there that he could end up a decent option.

Beto still needs to be punted and we need another striker, but I'm beginning to think Barry might come good as at least a viable option.

Saint Domingo · 2025-12-04T14:37:10+0000

toffeeblue9 said:
He's at least started to get on the end of one or two things now.

What I would say though is that we are a much better side when he's on the pitch than when Beto is.

His hold up play, how he links up with others etc is actually pretty decent. He does have a languid look about the way he plays that people aren't going to love, but I'm convinced that there's enough talent in there that he could end up a decent option.

Beto still needs to be punted and we need another striker, but I'm beginning to think Barry might come good as at least a viable option.

He could legitimately have about 5 pl goals now. Tap in v Palace he just missed completely, the one v Sunderland he hit too hard over the bar, Tarkwoski offside v Fulham, marginal handball v Bournemouth, even the header that the keeper has called out under the post

This is all whilst he’s adapting to the league. Even if he’d mis hit a few of those he’d have one or two now. That tells me be’s getting into positions to score. The goals will follow.