Unlike many in here I saw some signs in the little amount of the all stars match I saw that JMK has altered his game a bit. He was running the ball a lot more than last year. It might not have looked like it was working with the All stars team, but perhaps this is something that Barrett has worked into our playing style for this season. We won't really know until we see him in action for us. In previous seasons he's shown that he has some toe when he runs the ball and has made the occasional really good line break. If he's able to do that at least once a game for us it'll be a good thing. So it just seems very harsh to be calling for him to be sacked before he's even had a chance to impress the fans in our colours.
I know plenty of people have written him off already. This kind of attitude is my least favorite thing about this forum. But given that part of the criticism of him over the last two years is for not running enough, maybe people could temper their hatred and at least hold off calls for his sacking until he's played in the team this year. He may or may not impress. But he's here for this year at least and no amount of complaining will change that.