CHEWBACCA wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 30, 2022 9:56 pm

Nice to see him today,pre match in the pub....
Proper fan . !

Burnley Ace wrote: ↑

Sun May 01, 2022 9:44 am

Garlick flew in to Luton yesterday morning (someone said from Spain), went to the game and then flew back. It was still cheaper than the train!!

Inchy wrote: ↑

Sun May 01, 2022 9:49 am

I imagine the train from Spain to London isn’t cheap

bobinho wrote: ↑

Sun May 01, 2022 9:45 am

Started the recovery proper for me.

Question is, what will his legacy be?

Barry Kilby, the Burnley chairman who set us on our way back to the big time?

Or Barry Kilby, the man who saved men’s lives through this drive and determination to get us all checked for prostate cancer?

Either would be fitting I think.

Top man BK.

Burnley Ace wrote: ↑

Sun May 01, 2022 9:44 am

Garlick flew in to Luton yesterday morning (someone said from Spain), went to the game and then flew back. It was still cheaper than the train!!

Colburn_Claret wrote: ↑

Sun May 01, 2022 11:10 am

When they come to make a Hollywood movie on the Pheonix recovery of Burnley FC, then it should be based around Barry Kilby.
Open the movie with Black and White clips of the 60's, then cut to a young Barry on the Terraces at the Orient game.

He deserves every accolade he gets. Players, managers normally have a history of several clubs, different chapters to their lives, but Barry is Burnley, through and through, and for that we should be forever grateful.

Jamesy wrote: ↑

Sun May 01, 2022 9:36 am

Did he look well? I hope so. Top man top Burnley fan.

Jamesy wrote: ↑

Sun May 01, 2022 9:36 am

Did he look well? I hope so. Top man top Burnley fan.

Inchy wrote: ↑

Sun May 01, 2022 9:49 am

I imagine the train from Spain to London isn’t cheap

Rodleydave wrote: ↑

Sun May 01, 2022 10:37 pm

He is currently very well, working 5 days a week, and working on a book that will take us right up to the selling of the club.

Rodleydave wrote: ↑

Sun May 01, 2022 10:37 pm

He is currently very well, working 5 days a week, and working on a book that will take us right up to the selling of the club.

midsummersday wrote: ↑

Sun May 01, 2022 11:59 am

super ..super guy...played football alongside him at great harwood and travelled to burnley games home and away when we had a chance.
This was before his directorship. Usually sat together on our team bus going to away games and chatted about the clarets while surrounded by rovers
supporters.spent many hours with him on the longside and enjoyed every minute of his company.Also done a top class job for Burnley
THANKS BARRY..WISH YOU ALL THE BEST

Chester Perry wrote: ↑

Tue May 03, 2022 2:46 pm

I have been thinking about this since my last post on this thread was deleted

There is no doubt that Barry loves the club and did what he (and almost all Burnley fans) believed was right at the time for the club - he was what some/many view as the perfect type of owner of a football club - a benevolent benefactor (albeit one with pockets not as deep as he/many would have liked).

Yet with hindsight and a much wider understanding of football finances together with a wind change in what the consensus is on how to run football clubs well (or at least sustainably) we can look back and perhaps see a catalogue of traits that are now viewed as warning signs of great concern when seen at other clubs

- rights issues to fund player transfers and wages rather than operational growth (though that is how it was viewed at the time)
- consistent operational losses, even when achieving the supposed goal of Div 1/Championship football was meant to have eliminated the need
- selling off of club assets: Turf Moor and Gawthorpe etc
- new share issues and director/commercial loans almost every season to cover losses, we got used to living beyond our means
- speculating to accumulate again to get to the Premier League (we did for a season) and the view that would set us straight for at least a decade (it didn't we were borrowing record sums even with Parachute payments, only some of which was factoring to ease cash flow issues)

I have nothing against the him and am truly thankful for what he has done for us - particularly the hope that returned under his charge. Barry took responsibility for his misjudgements (particularly itv digital and the spending we had in anticipation of it's payments) and kept the club afloat - thereby taking care of staff and the numerous small and local suppliers that would have been deeply impacted by the administration route others chose for their clubs - an honourable and generous man, the kind that improves the world around them, as can be most noticeably seen with his work around the identification of prostate cancer

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Tue May 03, 2022 4:11 pm

I don't think Barry will mind me telling this story but his family lived in Clayton and when his dad Roy was at school he wanted to start watching football but his dad, Barry's granddad, wasn't into football. However, being a good dad he said he would take Roy to football the following Saturday. Burnley were at home that day, thank goodness it wasn't the other way round.

FCBurnley wrote: ↑

Tue May 03, 2022 4:42 pm

Wasn’t Charlie Kilby on the board at Accrington when they went out of the league ?

FCBurnley wrote: ↑

Tue May 03, 2022 4:58 pm

I think you will find Charlie was indeed on the board at Accrington. He certainly was in 54/55 season but I am not sure when he started his interest in Football. I guess when Roy was at school that would be pre war. My dad was born in 1920 so I would guess Barry’s dad was born around the same time. Maybe Roys love for the Clarets was the catalyst for Charlie’s interest in Football. Both Charlie and Roy were great characters

Mondsley wrote: ↑

Tue May 03, 2022 5:33 pm

As a teenager I travelled to some away games with Brian Wren who was very friendly with Roy Kilby. I seem to remember going to one game in Roy's Jag! My son and I chatted to Barry in a pub in Thornton Heath before an away game at Wimbledon when they were using Selhurst Park for home games. Lovely man. He now sits in the box immediately behind me in the James Hargreaves stand. I don't understand just why he and Sylvia sit there and not in the Director's box.

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Tue May 03, 2022 6:38 pm

Brian Wren - always travelled with Roy Kilby and one or two others. Hugely committed Clarets at the time although Wrenny opted to stop in the 80s and never came back other than for one game. I think from that group, only Jack Fairburn remains and I see him occasionally in the Longside Upper but not for a while.

I don't think Barry & Sonya were particularly welcome in the directors box.

Mondsley wrote: ↑

Tue May 03, 2022 6:59 pm

That last sentence is quite sad given Barry's dedication to the club over many years. For me he should have a seat in there for life.

Foreverly Claret wrote: ↑

Wed May 04, 2022 1:51 pm

Really nice , ordinary sort of guy. I remember some years ago I sponsored a pre match lunch for a dozen or so of our clients and whilst we were eating the match was postponed because of high winds and safety concerns in the JM upper .Barry came in and assured everybody that we could stay as long as we liked..the bar would stay open...and he spent a good twenty minutes chatting to us at our table...Tommy Cummings was with us too. About two o'clock a lady came over to our table ( I didn't know her but it turned out to be Barry's wife )...she singled me out and came over to whisper in my ear .Could I ask round very quietly to see if anyone wanted any pies ???!!! There were hundreds going begging and because they were already in the pie warmers they weren't supposed to give them away .Well how could we turn down an offer like that from BK's better half ?