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Tom Barkhuizen

Tom Barkhuizen

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Just how detrimental was that injury to him, because he looks like a different player. We always knew he was rapid, but usually struggled with the ball at his feet, but now surely he must be up there for the title of one of the best wingers in the league at the moment

And he’s developed an end product to boot
 
jamesOB said:
Just how detrimental was that injury to him, because he looks like a different player. We always knew he was rapid, but usually struggled with the ball at his feet, but now surely he must be up there for the title of one of the best wingers in the league at the moment

And he’s developed an end product to boot
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He's not a winger he's a wide forward
 
SuffolknWhat said:
He's not a winger he's a wide forward
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Quite - from a standing start way out wide with a fullback in front of him he is nothing special. As a centre forward he is hopelessly lightweight. But bursting through the centre from deep at full pace he can be close to unstoppable.
 
jamesOB said:
Just how detrimental was that injury to him, because he looks like a different player. We always knew he was rapid, but usually struggled with the ball at his feet, but now surely he must be up there for the title of one of the best wingers in the league at the moment

And he’s developed an end product to boot
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He's pacy, positionally disciplined and can finish too.

As a wide man*, he will inevitably have good games and bad games, but he's always been a favourite of mine.

*Subs, please check definition 🙂
 
You can tell he's a very driven, motivated young lad, who works incredibly hard on improving his craft. There's just an air of steely determination about him.

Still very young and improving all the time. A player who I now have full confidence in, and feel a sense of reassurance when I see his name on the team sheet.

He's started to embrace the crowd/club too (Was a tad ropey at the beginning due to him being a lasher) - you see him beating his chest, geeing the crowd up, going nuts running towards the fans to celebrate etc.

A brilliant asset.
 
He’s been one of the first names on Alex’s Neil team sheet since he started as manager, which says all you need to know. I think he’s currently showing the best form since he’s been here. His pace is phenomenal. His work rate is massive. He’s scoring goals and the weaker parts of his game, being his first touch and final ball have improved a lot this year.
 
jamesOB said:
Whatever ??
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Pedantic mode off!
What really impresses me is the way he covers the ground.
Often doesn't look like he's trying to run fast but leaves players who are busting a gut for dead.
As Ron Burgundy has so eloquently put it "gliding across the turf".
Improving all the time and a defenders nightmare.
 
I spent years on the Kop ( and away) whingeing about other teams that broke at 100mph on us and how I'd give my right arm for us to stop the slow build up shite and do the same.......... It's taken a few years to get there but here we are..and one of the main reasons is Barky....and the tactics of course..long may it continue. 🙂
 
Barkhuizen is a confidence player, if he goes on a run gets past his man and puts a quality ball in or gets a decent shot away his heads up. If he doesn’t get either of the above and the crowd gets on his back his head drops. This said he never fails to put a good shift in confident or not
 
Like many of our squad Tom is full of confidence and it shows.

Long may it continue.
 
One of the most important players in the team for his workrate and breathtaking pace breaking forward.

If he can learn to run, look up and cross all in one movement he will be a sensational player and premiership class no problem. Currently his just managing to do 1 or 2 of those things at once and the final ball not quite there. That’s what I’d have him working on in training , non stop .
 
Tommy B has been our favourite Player for the last 3 Years or so because we saw him at Morecambe when PNE weren't at Home.
Whilst we have always appreciated his pace when running into space and his work rate and the overall balance he gives to Teams, he has actually improved even more this Season by adding an end product. its telling that when he (as he always did) runs at pace he then takes that momentary pause to 'think' about that final ball.
On Saturday he slid a number of telling passes or crosses through.
Not sure that anybody who hasn't clocked this improvement in his Game either goes on or is watching him closely enough!!
One of the first on AN's Team Sheet I would imagine.
 
ernest said:
Quite - from a standing start way out wide with a fullback in front of him he is nothing special. As a centre forward he is hopelessly lightweight. But bursting through the centre from deep at full pace he can be close to unstoppable.
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So critical of Barky at every opportunity. He's made you look a fool. You're so wrong yet your position is so entrenched that still you resort to 2 different digs in order to 'compliment' him.

Clueless on this. Just stop. Please.
 
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