Thierno Barry

[MayorFarnham]

He's missed a lot of headers on the end of thirty yard crosses. But his scoring rate with chances at his feet seems good. He is very comfortable when presented with a chance to score with his feet. He looks up and tries to finish rather than getting in range and lashing it towards goal.
In a more progressive team with a goal threat from more players he'd be really good.
He's a proper finisher who's confident passing the ball into the net.

[Free Agent]

He needs Hackney up there with him. They seem to have an understanding thats lacking when it’s Barry with KDH. Have KDH play a little deeper.

[Goaljira]

Can he really be the best finisher we've had in ages when he's missed more big chances than anyone else in the league?

Maybe 'least worst' might be a better way of phrasing it?

In the 10 years since Rom left we've had:

Arouna Kone
Sandro
Omar Niasse
Cenk Tosun
DCL
Richarlison
Ellis Simms
Moise Kean
Josh King
Solomon Rondon
Neal Maupay
Beto
Yousef Chermitti
Armando Broja

Imagine going into a season with any one of those as the only striker in the whole squad? We'd be going down.

Other than maybe Richarlison and DCL theyre all either absolute fucking trash or.....no theyre all just absolute trash. And DCL missed chances in games as well as all the chances he missed by being injured half the time.

[brap2]

I think that ‘finishing’ is one of the weirdest skill sets to discuss.

Cenk tosun was an excellent finisher, but he couldn’t get near prem cbs and couldn’t even really hang on a prem pitch. Game was too fast. Game was too direct. Opposition too strong and too fast, then he got injuries and was even worse.

But on a training ground or in a worse league he would probably knock the cones down 10/10 with his head or feet.

Walcott over his career showed brilliant one v one technique and composure from v young.

Gylfi Sigurdsson could twat a ball hard straight bent fizzed floated however you like into the top bin from wherever he wanted. Incredible goal catalogue. Does that make him a good finisher?

If you want to be very narrow and say - likelihood to finish a chance regardless of chance quality - you would have to say Barry has some refining to do frankly.

But if you were to say - likelihood to score in any given match, Barry has to be up there with Richarlison for me?

We’ve had players like dom who for me was a near perfect prem striker on his day - but would go through literally months of getting nowhere near the goal.

Barry - who’s shown a lot of promise elsewhere in his game, no matter what has shown that rare skill of popping up in front of goal. People won’t credit his movement or intelligence for reasons we shan’t get into now, but whatever else - he is always likely to pop up in front of goal and HAS shown the ability to slot a range of different chances.

It’s too narrow to talk about finishing imo.

Or call him a bad finisher who looks like he can score plenty of goals which might be right but also a bit weird.

[Bumble]

He is frequently the only player arsed to get in the box but still manages to find a bit of space every game to have a pop at goal.

He isn’t a natural finisher but he is a 15 goal a season striker. Which is about all we can ask for as a mid table club I guess.

[Lazarou II]

House got burgled on Thursday while at the game.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwm26rnyrk23o

[Cods]

Michael Owen praising Barry in post game comments.

[Bumble]

8 in 12.

[Cereal Killer]

Getting the golden boot

[Cozzie]

Should be on 9 as well if it wasn't for that disgraceful decision to disallow his goal against Ipswich.

Then again the chances he's actually had he could be on 15 now.

15-20 is achievable in all comps if he stays fit as he will be likely playing every game.

[brap2]

Should have had three tonight tbh.

Unbelievable ball magnet in the penalty box. Other worldly ability to attract chances. What have we stumbled upon here?

[Bumble]

Shades of Rom at the start of his spell with us, looking awkward and frustrating the fans and his team mates with his all round play.

But always in and around the action to miss and bag a few.

He's not a very good footballer but he's scoring so long may it continue.

[Risky]

TBH as simple as that finish was, what he did to get there is why I've a lot of faith in him now. Proper striker behaviour outmuscling his marker and following the shot in to capitalise on the situation. It sounds easy but it isn't.

Thought Moyes was a bit cunty post match. Really didn't want to credit him and implied it was going in anyway. Which it probably would have with the likes of dickhead burn too busy appealing instead of defending, but he's 100% right to have made sure by putting it in himself.

[dazfrancis]

Shite

[Cods]

Should have had three tonight tbh.

Unbelievable ball magnet in the penalty box. Other worldly ability to attract chances. What have we stumbled upon here?

It's exciting isn't it, and his effort is absolutely 100% almost chalk and cheese to last season.