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Been reading glowing references on the Rangers forums about him today. He was moved into midfield and performed brilliantly. Heres a few snippets, sounds like a player we should be using not mis-using.
He's fucking huge!
Brilliant performance though.
I only listened to the game, but I heard he looks supremely talented on the ball.
No surprise that an Arsenal centre back is a better footballer than half our midfielders
I see where you're coming from, but I think Bartley is a lot leaner than TomHud.
Huddlestone looks like a power lifter, Bartley more of a muscular Thierry Henry. Both lads are absolute tanks though!
Superb debut by the big man. A mixture of Edu's athleticism and McCulloch's tough tackling. His ball retention considering he's a natural centre half puts Edu to shame and he managed to get through the hour he played without giving away countless stupid fouls like McCulloch does game in game out.
Bartley's gonnae get ye !!!! Likes a tackle eh ? He's a giant.
He is some size n all! It was funny watching the ref give him a warning.
Sounds exactly the type of CB we need, the continued highlighting of his power and size can only be good.
Begs the question why does Turnip feel the French dumb and dumber pairing are good enough and Bartley is not getting a chance.
Another case of Turnip rating average French rubbish better than they are.
couple contributions of note. important to remember that yeah, he dominated the midfield, but it was only motherwell, championship standard. give the lad a chance, we wont get a wilshere coming through every year, not every kid with promise is going to reach their perceived potential. i'd love to have a proper arsenal lad pushing song for his place in the middle and keeping squillaci away from the starting or reserve XI...
The SPL is the equivalent of the 1st division.Even Stokes is scoring goals up there.Would you have him back?.If Bartley cant perform at that level he really would be struggling
If he is good enough and if he is showing so well in midfield then I would like to try him there. As far as I am concerned we still lack a big physical tough tackling DM and if this guy can do the business then so much the better. Of course we cannot ignore the quality of the opposition tho I am still reluctant to slate the big two teams just because they play in the spl and I would question if the gult is as big as it used to be given the alarming slide in standards in the epl of late
augie wrote:If he is good enough and if he is showing so well in midfield then I would like to try him there. As far as I am concerned we still lack a big physical tough tackling DM and if this guy can do the business then so much the better. Of course we cannot ignore the quality of the opposition tho I am still reluctant to slate the big two teams just because they play in the spl and I would question if the gult is as big as it used to be given the alarming slide in standards in the epl of late
I would not be reluctant to say he is more mobile and has more awareness than the Brazilian crab
Rangers friend said the other day that he would never start Bartley against Celtic. Yesterday I spoke to him and he had changed his tune alot, in his words 'he better bloody start, he is brilliant - surprised you loaned him to us with the trouble you've got, he could get into your team already.'
I've never, ever heard him talk like this about a player before.
couple contributions of note. important to remember that yeah, he dominated the midfield, but it was only motherwell, championship standard. give the lad a chance, we wont get a wilshere coming through every year, not every kid with promise is going to reach their perceived potential. i'd love to have a proper arsenal lad pushing song for his place in the middle and keeping squillaci away from the starting or reserve XI...
Great ball out to the wing for whittaker leading up to Rangers 2nd. Dont care what level it is to pick the weight of a pass like that means you have got talent.
