Joey Barton's free-kicks and corners

[Stanley]

Truly shocking

If ever there was a game to confirm that fact, this was it.

Not once did he beat the first man, and when he did they sailed right over the danger area. Against Wigan the excuse was that it was windy, this time there's simply none.

All the more frustrating when we had a lot of big men in the box towards the end as we searched for an equaliser.

Buzz, SWP, Smith, Young - PLEASE let anyone else take them but JB.

[Naarven Mankey]

Truly shocking

If ever there was a game to confirm that fact, this was it.

Not once did he beat the first man, and when he did they sailed right over the danger area. Against Wigan the excuse was that it was windy, this time there's simply none.

All the more frustrating when we had a lot of big men in the box towards the end as we searched for an equaliser.

Buzz, SWP, Smith, Young - PLEASE let anyone else take them but JB.

Spot on Stanley. Douglas Barder would have been more accurate

[Stanley]

Spot on Stanley. Douglas Barder would have been more accurate

Quite right Naarven - prosthetic leg and all!

[vespa]

i decent hard and fast corner in the first half, the rest of the match pointless floating balls to no one, p iss poor.

[PedalR]

yeah, dead balls were probably our main chance of worrying them - would have been good to see HH roughing up that ponce Luiz and seeing his composure evaporate. As it was, we wasted our dead-balls and gave their defence an easy day out really.
I don't think Hughesy is a mug or will stand in awe of Joey (or anyone's) reputation and he will soon step in and pass dead-ball duties onto someone else if Joey goes slack.