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RibbletonWhite said:
Are they fuck ridiculous. I don’t think he’s agreeing with offering Potts and Harrop contracts. There are too many players at this club who are average. Barky is one of them. Yes he can occasionally finish yes he has pace but he often plays through the
Motions.

I don’t think he’s a bad player but if he left on a free I wouldn’t be assed. Sinclair can go as well for me.
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He has played 185 times for us in the past five seasons starting 145 instances. He has scored 33 goals and 18 assists. That's a goal or assist every 4 appearances.

Getting rid of someone who has a tangible and clear attacking output over the past five years in the Championship that's madness! Who would we get instead who can do similar or better on our budget?

I don't trust PR et al to replace him with someone as good as or better with our scattergun transfer approach.

I do appreciate his honesty in what he says about playing here. It echoes the sentiments of the fans and mirrors what former players who have left have said too.

If he does go, all the best to him. He has been great for us but he needs to do what is best for himself/family.

I don't think fans realise what he brings to us as a side. He won't be fully appreciated until he is long gone like Hugill, Robinson, Pearson and Fisher. A good top end set of Championship players we never fully capitalised upon now being asset stripped by our hapless director Peter Ridsdale. Replaced with mediocre cannon fodder who are apparently as good as or better than we have seen before. Beggars belief our club.
 
Atko_pne956 said:
How many goals has Barky scored for us this season? I'm not sure he's worth a new deal, especially if he wants 17k a year. I'm not interested in what he did 3 or 4 years ago, what's he done this season or in the recent past?? Not one of those Preston players deserves 17k a week, absolute stealing a living.
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How many goals have our other wingbacks scored?
 
Mr. M said:
He has played 185 times for us in the past five seasons starting 145 instances. He has scored 33 goals and 18 assists. That's a goal or assist every 4 appearances.

Getting rid of someone who has a tangible and clear attacking output over the past five years in the Championship that's madness! Who would we get instead who can do similar or better on our budget?

I don't trust PR et al to replace him with someone as good as or better with our scattergun transfer approach.

I do appreciate his honesty in what he says about playing here. It echoes the sentiments of the fans and mirrors what former players who have left have said too.

If he does go, all the best to him. He has been great for us but he needs to do what is best for himself/family.

I don't think fans realise what he brings to us as a side. He won't be fully appreciated until he is long gone like Hugill, Robinson, Pearson and Fisher. A good top end set of Championship players we never fully capitalised upon now being asset stripped by our hapless director Peter Ridsdale. Replaced with mediocre cannon fodder who are apparently as good as or better than we have seen before. Beggars belief our club.
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Great post. All spot on.
 
anotherstaffor_ said:
if played through the middle as a striker alongside Riis I think he would do far better.
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I don't think that would work at all. Both are speedy but neither has the ability to hold the ball up and link play. The ball would be continually coming back on us.
 
Mr. M said:
He has played 185 times for us in the past five seasons starting 145 instances. He has scored 33 goals and 18 assists. That's a goal or assist every 4 appearances.

Getting rid of someone who has a tangible and clear attacking output over the past five years in the Championship that's madness! Who would we get instead who can do similar or better on our budget?

I don't trust PR et al to replace him with someone as good as or better with our scattergun transfer approach.

I do appreciate his honesty in what he says about playing here. It echoes the sentiments of the fans and mirrors what former players who have left have said too.

If he does go, all the best to him. He has been great for us but he needs to do what is best for himself/family.

I don't think fans realise what he brings to us as a side. He won't be fully appreciated until he is long gone like Hugill, Robinson, Pearson and Fisher. A good top end set of Championship players we never fully capitalised upon now being asset stripped by our hapless director Peter Ridsdale. Replaced with mediocre cannon fodder who are apparently as good as or better than we have seen before. Beggars belief our club.
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I can think of a number of adjectives to describe Peter Ridsdale, but 'hapless' wouldn't be one of them🤨
 
StevieNorthEnd said:
If we are going to stop with the mediocre player contracts I'd start by not renewing Barky, heart the size of a pea.
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Why bother with such a brainless comment. He didn’t have his best game yesterday, but he’s one of our better players. Do you think he’ll sign for any club who tells him that the plan is for him to be a right back in a flat back five. Of course he won’t, and he shouldn’t.
 
Schemer said:
I can think of a number of adjectives to describe Peter Ridsdale, but 'hapless' wouldn't be one of them🤨
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Do you know what?.......Every day’s a school day. Just googled “hapless”, a term I’ve often used to describe our “Head of Recruitment”. You’re absolutely correct he is not “unlucky”. 😜😜😜
 
bowlandwhites said:
They are welcome to him over rated .
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I’ll tell you what’s over rated, Preston’s support. < 10k home supporters in the championship is totally embarrassing. Don’t say “ if the football was better blah blah”. I’d live to know how people on this message board spew their opinions without even bothering to watch.
 
I very much doubt Barkhuizen will be offered a DJ/Browne sized contract...and nor should he. Would probably be in the region of a 100-150 percent pay rise.
Although considering the recent output of both Johnson and Browne, you kind of see his point of view.
Those two deals are starting to look like mistakes - I imagine they were reactionary to the Bens both indicating they had no interest in staying.
 
I think our problems started with the signing of Sinclair on £20k per week.. If Sinclair had hit the ground running it may have worked, but he was poor from the start and I think it unsettled players on a lot less money and who thought they were better than Sinclair.
 
Anthony Lormor said:
Why bother with such a brainless comment. He didn’t have his best game yesterday, but he’s one of our better players. Do you think he’ll sign for any club who tells him that the plan is for him to be a right back in a flat back five. Of course he won’t, and he shouldn’t.
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Where did I say it's based on yesterday, get your facts straight you complete moron.
 
Anthony Lormor said:
I’ll tell you what’s over rated, Preston’s support. < 10k home supporters in the championship is totally embarrassing. Don’t say “ if the football was better blah blah”. I’d live to know how people on this message board spew their opinions without even bothering to watch.
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Why so you can blame fans more, wind your neck in.
 
baldnobber said:
I very much doubt Barkhuizen will be offered a DJ/Browne sized contract...and nor should he. Would probably be in the region of a 100-150 percent pay rise.
Although considering the recent output of both Johnson and Browne, you kind of see his point of view.
Those two deals are starting to look like mistakes - I imagine they were reactionary to the Bens both indicating they had no interest in staying.
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Mistakes?
I give you Harrop.
Moronic decision which cannot under any circumstances be justified.
That is the yardstick by which others will be setting demands.
 
Libertine said:
I saw nothing from Barky today to suggest he should be offered a contract. He tweets a good game though.
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He’s weak as piss and has been looking after himself in games for too long.

I say that as someone who never boos a player and supports throughout the 90. I also rated him when he started for us but I think he’s looking after himself so that he can get a move.
 
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