Brandon Barker over Stewart

[StirlingGer]

Would rather have had Ojo than this Hibs reject. How has he ended up a paid employee of Rangers?

 

[TerrySilverLoyal]

Sooner Jones back up to speed the better as well

Then won't have to subjected to seeing that again

 

[Jelle1880]

I have no idea why this guy was signed. He has shown nothing at all.

 

[TN8]

It's called trying to stretch the game with a proper winger v 10 men. Not rocket science mate. Rage away though.

 

[The Harbour Master]

Absolute madness.

Barker I have yet to see him use any pace hes supposed to have control is woeful and can't beat a man.

Heart sunk when he came on

Bit of guile something different with Stewart not to mention the 2 goals against Hearts. Must be wondering what he needs to do.

Absolutely useless

yeah agree with this, no idea why Stewart wasn’t put on

 

[Disraeli]

Baffling decision.
Against a team defending deep we needed a bit of guile to unlock , Stewart was the obvious choice.
Not sure what Gerrard’s thinking was

 

[Haining84]

Barker is terrible.

 

[I believe in Eli]

Must admit my heart sank too when I saw him coming on.

 

[Deleted member 125]

Why do we want pace when they are down to 10 and sitting deep.

Stewart, Stewart and Stewart again.

He's literally the only player that's been capable of creating something amongst a packed defence thi season.

 

[TerrySilverLoyal]

Why do we want pace when they are down to 10 and sitting deep.

Stewart, Stewart and Stewart again.

He's literally the only player that's been capable of creating something amongst a packed defence thi season.

Exactly. They werent pushing chasing the game.

 

[Yankeeger]

Absolute madness.

Barker I have yet to see him use any pace hes supposed to have control is woeful and can't beat a man.

Heart sunk when he came on

Bit of guile something different with Stewart not to mention the 2 goals against Hearts. Must be wondering what he needs to do.

Absolutely useless

But you will get the staunch daftys saying Barker is a player

 

[GingerRanger]

Barker is in no way good enough.

 

[Graemeh89]

I thought the days when players of Barkers quality getting a game for us were long gone, he’s nowhere near good enough.

 

[Yankeeger]

I thought the days when players of Barkers quality getting a game for us were long gone, he’s nowhere near good enough.

3 year contract over our youth prospects Jesus Fock

 

[Danger Zone]

Barker had an impact when coming on and it's incredibly harsh to use him as the scapegoat today

What impact? Other than to take up space.

He got on the ball a few times in good positions and either miscontrolled or was brushed aside like a child. He was hopeless and didn’t bring anything positive.

 

[ca100]

SG was wanting to stretch the game!


2 strikers and 2 wide men!! If you can’t see the logic in this then I can’t help

Who was the other wide man that was stretching the game? Kent played right through the middle behind defoe and morelos for the majority of that time.

 

[TerrySilverLoyal]

Is it a 3 year deal?

%^*& me sideways

 

[bluetonic]

Absolute madness.

Barker I have yet to see him use any pace hes supposed to have control is woeful and can't beat a man.

Heart sunk when he came on

Bit of guile something different with Stewart not to mention the 2 goals against Hearts. Must be wondering what he needs to do.

Absolutely useless

An absolute nonsense substitution by Gerrard

 

[Fergie90]

Imo bringing Barker on evened out the red card.

I hate saying that but he just isn't good enough especially for a game like today

 

[bluetonic]

Criminal.

Not one bear in the stadium saw any possibility of good comning from that. Feel sorry for the boy.

Gerrard is really struggling with this aspect of the game. Bandly. Very very badly.

His subs are always wrong. The selections that aren't are too late and so still wrong.

It's amateur hour really.

He also had loads of time to change or formation to take advatage of their ten men, but we didn't.

 

[Fifty+five]

Absolute madness.

Barker I have yet to see him use any pace hes supposed to have control is woeful and can't beat a man.

Heart sunk when he came on

Bit of guile something different with Stewart not to mention the 2 goals against Hearts. Must be wondering what he needs to do.

Absolutely useless

I am just not seeing it with him.
Not a great ojo fan but has shown more than Barker.
But I would have had Greg Stewart on before either.

 

[Fifty+five]

We need better players to come off the bench, simple as that.

I think we had better players to come off the bench but not used . Stewart being the obvious one

 

[exeterbear]

Stewart seems to have a lot of composure on the ball and that's what we were crying out for, especially in their box.

 

[exeterbear]

Barker at one point knocked it past a Celtc player and went to run round him, but didn't seem to have the pace to get past him which surprised me as i can't see what he's actually got.

 

[TerrySilverLoyal]

Stewart seems to have a lot of composure on the ball and that's what we were crying out for, especially in their box.

Can thread a pass too.

Certainly not worse than what we had in the nench

 

[jonesy8]

Barker has been very poor in his fleeting appearances and certainly never looked like doing anything of note today.

 

[CaptainCourageous]

Crazy decision from Gerrard.

 

[Teddyjohn]

Absolute madness.

Barker I have yet to see him use any pace hes supposed to have control is woeful and can't beat a man.

Heart sunk when he came on

Bit of guile something different with Stewart not to mention the 2 goals against Hearts. Must be wondering what he needs to do.

Absolutely useless

It is totally baffling eh?

 

[tottie beck]

My heart sank when I saw him coming on (though in reality I had a gut feeling things werent going our way after Alfie missed the penalty) I kinda knew he wouldnt offer us anything in a game like that.

Not his fault we lost all the same

 

[IrvineLoyal]

The managers biggest fault for me is his use of subs



Always seems to leave it to late and never seem to have an impact when we are chasing a game.

 

[ca100]

I don't understand Gerrards reluctance to use Stewart. Anyone shed any light? He's no world beater but I'd guarantee he's more of a threat than Barker.

I just don't see it with Barker at all. My one memory of him at hibs was that he was absolutely rapid,and to be honest I haven't even seen that with us really.

 

[Worthy_Candidate]

Will be amazed if he's still here next year.

He is not, and never will be, Rangers standard.

The white Nemane.

 

[chucknorris]

Somebody will need to explain giving Barker a 3 year deal to me. Makes no sense at all.

 

[Marstonbear]

2 goals from Stewart last week and not a minute since. Can someone ask the gaffer that at the next presser?

 

[frankie_dux]

As soon as he came on then I knew it wasn’t our day

 

[dudzo]

made total sense to me - we needed pace

when he was Hibs he looked rapid, looks so slow for us.

 

[devilman]

Barker hasn't shown enough to suggest he should have come on. One of the critical things I have about Gerrard is his use of subs. He very rarely gets it right sadly.

 

[chucknorris]

Woukd rather have jamie Murphy to bring on over barker or ojo.

 

[abz_bear]

I could have sworn in the glimpses of him against us for Hibs that he was a pacey, tricky winger who did actually trouble us a few times.

The version we have seems to need a 2nd touch to control his 1st and appears to be on the verge of falling over all the time

 

[The Pontiac Bandit]

I would much rather see one of our youngsters get a chance ahead of Barker.

Let's be honest Barker isn't cut out to e a Rangers player.

 

[MSF]

Both big substitution decisions were a disaster to be honest. Defoe really wasn’t the right change either, we had even less control on the game. But bringing Barker on was a hopeless change that made us even worse.

Gerrard will have to take the heat for that because it just made life easier for them. He was so weak and so predictable I’d have fancied my chances up against him.

Every single time we’ve brought Defoe on with Morelos its killed the game.

Every. Single. Time

 

[CaptainCourageous]

Every single time we’ve brought Defoe on with Morelos its killed the game.

Every. Single. Time

He had one touch in 25 minutes as well. Fucking brutal. The substitutions didn't work one bit.

 

[Nerf Herder]

I rarely ever talk badly of our players but Barker is sh*te.

Not his fault we lost today though.

 

[Blue 9]

It's like asking Boyzone or Take That , when the reality is their both shite.

 

[Chester Loyal]

Brandon Barker is going to haunt my dreams.

 

[chucknorris]

It's like asking Boyzone or Take That , when the reality is their both shite.

I know we are all emotional mate but leave Take That out this

 

[Ubik]

barker over stewart was bizarre but i expect strange subs from our manager, strange subs that rarely benefit us.

 

[blue genes]

There’s not a manager out there that doesn’t make bad signings & unfortunately Barker looks like one of Gerrard’s. He hasn’t shown anything at all for us & here we are almost at the winter break.

A 3 year deal looked generous at the time, but now looks like madness.

 

[Bluerob]

Greg Stewart has more than earned some more match time , his contributions from the bench against Hearts prove as much

 

[JMCK]

I didn't like Defoe coming on for a midfielder, because I think if your man up the it's important to be much stronger in midfield; I'd rather maintain that strength by keeping the same number in the middle. Two seasons ago, at Ibrox, they had someone sent off and I'm sure Murty took a midfielder off and they, ironically, looked stronger than us. If Defoe was to come on then I'd rather it had been either Arfield or Kent off.