Can anyone at the game on saturday tell us if they saw Barton have a word with Diakite before he got sent off? Every armchair fan (and the BBC commentator who said as much) could see that Diakite, once booked, was going to get sent off if he continued diving in. I'm interested to see if Barton, as any half decent captain would have done, was seen to have a word to tell him to calm down/stay on his feet to prevent the invevitable red card. If not, perhaps that's the excuse MH needs to strip him of the captaincy. And can anyone tell me why Barton was back on free-kick/corner duty when Adel had previously demonstrated his were much more effective?
Just like all things QPR over the years ... it all remains a mystery. The board, management and players seem to have a blind spot when it comes to the bleedin' obvious. The main problem is that players (just like bankers) are grossly rewarded for failure and have contracts that allow them to continue in exactly the same way even though they are, in effect, destroying the club they work for. At the end of their time these players walk away and it is us, the fans, who are left looking at the mess they have helped to create. Barton is the prime example of any player, playing for any team, in the premiership who is being paid very well for their failure. He is failing on the pitch, in some of his antics off the pitch and as captain of our club.
MH, Barton and some of the senior players all should have done. I thought from the TV pictures SWP may have done, but maybe his talking was only to the Ref?
I didn't see Barton say anything to Diakite leading up to the sending off. And i was looking at Barton to see if he would. Like a lot of others around me we wondered why Hughes didn't have him off after the yellow. The only player that I saw talking and encouraging the players was Hill.
It looked like SWP was pointing out to the ref that Diakite was new to the prem. To be fair to O'Dowd he did give him quite a bit of leeway.
A charming understatement 9s. I think Diakite could have warranted as many yellows as Barton and Derry combined and gave the ref absolutely no choice. Makes me think that the French top flight must be like the infamous Battle of Santiago. (PS I did look for you given your fairly accurate seating position but it was difficult to make out one grainy pixel from the next.)
Was a bad performance in many ways then from MH and Barton if they didn't at least try and calm down Diakite. First half Saturday we played like strangers, surely MH has been with them long enough now to get them sorted better than that! 2nd half was better but the players didn't play with conviction. I'm not knocking Adel he created more than anyone, but most of shooting looked like he never thought himself he was going to score.
I was behind the right hand goalpost two rows back, brown top. Judoranger and SussexR were just to my left.
No, Clint Hill had a word. The ref had no choice, he could have gone before he did. However the ref bottled sending Dembele off when he pulled back one of our players, that was a nailed on 2nd yellow and its unforgivable not to give it when the other team is already down to 10.
that's unforgivable then. barton as skipper should be responsible enough to have a word. Everyone else in the stadium could see what was going to happen. Final straw for me. Demonstrates he's not a team player and certainly not captain material. Irrespective of him having a shocking run of form, continual moaning at Adel and Mackie and hogging all set pieces despite proving woeful at them. But has MH got the balls to make that call?
Barton was too busy shouting at Adel for not passing it out to Taiwo. Barton is completely deluded and needs to get back in his place. Hughes loves the stats so surely the atroscious performances of Barton and SWP must be shown up by now
One thing i dont understand is ,that why Diakate himself did not thought something wasn't right. Is he a player who goes on without thinkin ,that he must be more careful. He had at least 2-3 tackles before which were solid worth of yellow. That Dembele got away ,thanks to Dowd.....Mind you why didn't we get a cornerkick after SWP chance? That ball went dead certain off from Scwartcher.
I take it that this is the same Barton who, on several occasions, failed to pass to Onuoha who was in acres of space up the right hand side, instead playing the ball to someone with his back to the goal and two or three defenders round him (and getting a strop on when they didn't produce anything).
Barton is only the captain of his own mind dreadful display with Adel Saturday ... our team is playing through frustration it seems and are trying too hard
No I do not think so! mind you I am only a armchair supporter living over in Portugal, but what I saw he did nothing all the game as a matter of fact!
Yes he did, and he was our most creative player and the one most likely to score - he did get their keeper scambling 2 or 3 times. But, for me he was guilty of trying to do too much on his own, particularly when many of his shooting efforts lacked conviction.
Yes he did. But maybe he thinks he's the only one capable of getting us out of this mess....and he could be right!
