ARTICLE: No centre-forward signed but Burnley get young Irish player

[ClaretTony]

Don't get excited, we haven't signed anyone, this is the first article in a new feature on the site and looks at the signing of a player a few years ago.

See link
http://www.uptheclarets.com/no-centre-f ... ish-player" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Silkyskills1]

Any idea who the centre forward was,CT?

[Longside4evr]

To this day hasn't changed I think we have pushed the boat out to a 15 million pounds player and really that's our bracket so this statement still reads true today from back then.
Today if we thought we had the chance of the right type of player who would give the forwards the punch we know the attack requires, but it would be useless signing someone no better than the players already on our books.”
Probably in them days 5,000 would be like a good few million today but we found that kind of money back then and without the vast amounts that get bagged today in the top league.

[Silkyskills1]

To this day hasn't changed I think we have pushed the boat out to a 15 million pounds player and really that's our bracket so this statement still reads true today from back then.
Today if we thought we had the chance of the right type of player who would give the forwards the punch we know the attack requires, but it would be useless signing someone no better than the players already on our books.”
Probably in them days 5,000 would be like a good few million today but we found that kind of money back then and without the vast amounts that get bagged today in the top league.

£5000 in 1950 equivalent to approx £166,000 today.

[ClaretTony]

Any idea who the centre forward was,CT?

I don’t I’m afraid. But what a good decision it was to go and watch him, without that we’d never have signed Jimmy Mac.

[Longside4evr]

£5000 in 1950 equivalent to approx £166,000 today.

I mean in today's market and valuation getting a player at nowadays prices
5,000 would be a good wedge in them times if only players would have stayed at the inflation that you mentioned pound for pound

[ClaretTony]

I mean in today's market and valuation getting a player at nowadays prices
5,000 would be a good wedge in them times if only players would have stayed at the inflation that you mentioned pound for pound

Remember,this was a young lad with limited experience in Irish football. It wasn’t a big signing at the time.

[Silkyskills1]

I mean in today's market and valuation getting a player at nowadays prices
5,000 would be a good wedge in them times if only players would have stayed at the inflation that you mentioned pound for pound

Yep, take on board what you are saying but am always interested in PPP and couldn't resist looking it up. Makes interesting reading though, well for me it does but my wife's eyes just glazed over.

[Claret Till I Die]

Maybe he was one of these lads

[Longside4evr]

It might not have been a big signing but in them days in Burnley you could have bought 10 houses top of the range car sat back on the rent and never have had to work again
Not bad for a young un

[FeedTheArf]

Don't get excited, we haven't signed anyone, this is the first article in a new feature on the site and looks at the signing of a player a few years ago.

See link
http://www.uptheclarets.com/no-centre-f ... ish-player" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Any chance these type of articles could have HISTORY or ARCHIVE or something similar in the title? I always get excited when I see something like this on NewsNow then click through to find it’s something that happened years ago

[MT03ALG]

Ronnie Lewis came over with Jimmy Mac from Ireland. Not sure if Ronnie was a centre-forward but I am led to believe Burnley actually went to Ireland to watch Ronnie and spotted Jimmy at the same time. Ronnie did not make the grade at Burnley but played at a high amateur level and went on to manage Trawden Celtic F.C. Ironically Ronnie, who still lived in Trawden, died a few months beore Jimmy and at the same age as Jimmy.

[California Colner]

Ronnie Lewis came over with Jimmy Mac from Ireland. Not sure if Ronnie was a centre-forward but I am led to believe Burnley actually went to Ireland to watch Ronnie and spotted Jimmy at the same time. Ronnie did not make the grade at Burnley but played at a high amateur level and went on to manage Trawden Celtic F.C. Ironically Ronnie, who still lived in Trawden, died a few months beore Jimmy and at the same age as Jimmy.

Your absolutely correct. Ronnie Lewis did come over with Jimmy, I palyed with Trawden when I was a school boy when Ronnie was there,they say that Ronnie was the better of the two but he like the beer to much.
Didn’t know he had died, but I haven’t been back in the UK for a while.

[Quicknick]

Interesting to know we put an offer in for Dennis Wilshaw. What a signing he would have been. If I'd known he turned us down, I'd have asked him why in 1979. He taught me at Crewe and Alsager College of Higher Education. A somewhat intimidating personality.

[ClaretTony]

Ronnie Lewis came over with Jimmy Mac from Ireland. Not sure if Ronnie was a centre-forward but I am led to believe Burnley actually went to Ireland to watch Ronnie and spotted Jimmy at the same time. Ronnie did not make the grade at Burnley but played at a high amateur level and went on to manage Trawden Celtic F.C. Ironically Ronnie, who still lived in Trawden, died a few months beore Jimmy and at the same age as Jimmy.

Ronnie Lewis & Jimmy Mac were in the same Irish youth team. Lewis was a centre-forward but he wasn't the player we'd gone to look at, he'd been at Burnley from the previous summer. He'd come to Burnley when Jimmy Mac went to Glentoran.

[ClaretTony]

Interesting to know we put an offer in for Dennis Wilshaw. What a signing he would have been. If I'd known he turned us down, I'd have asked him why in 1979. He taught me at Crewe and Alsager College of Higher Education. A somewhat intimidating personality.

Obviously before my time, but I'd no idea that we'd tried to sign him until I went looking for the Jimmy Mac signing.