His first touch and lay offs as good as it gets!
What ever the performance and what others think he is our number one centre forward

Said it in the line up thread, he did more on sunday against the frogs than what wood and vokes did over the last two games

I've said this before. You've got to love a player like Ash who obviously works really hard at improving his game

Took a neat penalty - and it's a long time since we could say that of any Burnley player.

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Thought he was still injured, wonder why he didn't start with wood last week it was our best team by far last year

I think we all know he’s our best striker by far. I think Dyche knows that, hence only a cameo in these gsmes

I'd agree he's our main man up front, unfortunately SD prefers Wood and it is close between them. Vokes number 3.

Should start every game
just need to find the best partner for him m last season was wood
they were making a good partnership. Vokes and Barnes have never done well together for me

I thought he was way below par. Vokes is outstanding. That guy could hold up a runaway train

Barnes is brilliant! Must be a nightmare to play against! Good to see McNeil get some game time and experience, Dyche made a point in saying that on BT in his post match interview

Some of his quick turns and dummy runs were really good. He gave that centre half a nightmare whenever the ball came over the top.

£450,000 as well. So think on Aberdeen fans and every Scottish commentator and journalist.

It's not much of a nickname though is it?



Barnes the Destroyer
Barnes the Magnificent
Barnes the Omnipotent

Nah just

Barnes the Difference

Barnes the BEAST

He's a menace but he also has an amazing eye for goal. What a player we have and I'm sure he'll play a big part this season

Both games looked perfect for Barnes.

The last 18 months has seen a dramatic improvement in Ashley. He can rough it if necessary but he has good touches and a good footballing brain. A real.legend now is our Ash.

I think hes comfortably our best striker

Love Ashley, his attitude is all I ask for. Gives everything and if others think he's not good enough I don't care

Did make a difference tonight although Taylor made a bigger one. Disagree he is our best goal scorer though. Wood has a far better goals per minute ratio than Barnes which is probably why Dyche seems to prefer him. Barnes 9 PL goals in 2159 minutes last season and 0 assists. Wood 10 goals in 1634 minutues and 1 assist. Wood had 1 assist last season to Barnes 0 so not like Ash is getting loads more assists either. Could argue that Barnes has a better all round game I guess.

Winding up the Aberdeen fans after Cork scored was my particular highlight, good to see shithousery isn't dead.

I always think we look more of an attacking force when we play Wood up front as the target man with Barnes playing more in the number 10 role behind him. We just look more balanced as a team with them two playing up front.

Vino blanco wrote:I always think we look more of an attacking force when we play Wood up front as the target man with Barnes playing more in the number 10 role behind him. We just look more balanced as a team with them two playing up front.

Last season we easily looked our best playing 4-5-1 with Wood up top and Barnes and Vokes on the bench. We look better when we switch to 4-4-2 during a game than when we play it from the start

I have not been a fan of Ashley Barnes for a while, primarily due to his desire to fall over, Premier League style, on every occasion he gets the ball, looking for a foul. The ref last night waved them away and Ash realised fairly quickly he was wasting his time with Plan A. He started well and just got better. When he cuts out the falling over and focuses on Plan B, he is a cracking centre forward and he definitely made a big difference last night.

Paul Waine wrote:Took a neat penalty - and it's a long time since we could say that of any Burnley player.

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Went under the radar....but that's our first penalty in months I think is it not?