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Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 2:03 pm
by Rowls
Our official account re-posting a lot of Ashley Barnes classic goals to celebrate his 9 years a Claret.
Take a look. Well worth a few minutes of joy-scrolling:
https://twitter.com/BurnleyOfficial
Re: Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 2:18 pm
by Chester Perry
Rowls wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 2:03 pm
Our official account re-posting a lot of Ashley Barnes classic goals to celebrate his 9 years a Claret.
Take a look. Well worth a few minutes of joy-scrolling:
https://twitter.com/BurnleyOfficial
any mention of the share issue that paid for him or which of the two new board members that appeared in the following weeks was the one that actually paid for him
Re: Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 2:25 pm
by claretonthecoast1882
No, as it is by the football club appreciating an achievement by a player it is about football funnily enough
Re: Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 2:31 pm
by NottsClaret
Scored some beauties for us hasn't he - and some crucial ones - definitely more than just a bruiser.
Re: Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 2:31 pm
by martin_p
Chester Perry wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 2:18 pm
any mention of the share issue that paid for him or which of the two new board members that appeared in the following weeks was the one that actually paid for him
Yes, because that’s what’s the day is all about obviously!
Re: Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 2:34 pm
by Vegas Claret
Chester Perry wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 2:18 pm
any mention of the share issue that paid for him or which of the two new board members that appeared in the following weeks was the one that actually paid for him
doesn't matter who paid for him or when they paid for him, got to be one of the best 375K ever spent by the club
Re: Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 2:35 pm
by RVclaret
Chester Perry wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 2:18 pm
any mention of the share issue that paid for him or which of the two new board members that appeared in the following weeks was the one that actually paid for him
Re: Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 2:43 pm
by tiger76
Vegas Claret wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 2:34 pm
doesn't matter who paid for him or when they paid for him, got to be one of the best 375K ever spent by the club
I thought we paid about £1m for Ash with add-on's, still a heck of a bargain at that money.
He must be our longest serving player now following the exits recently, Jay was here in his 1st spell before Barnes arrived, but then of course moved on.
Re: Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 2:44 pm
by Vegas Claret
tiger76 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 2:43 pm
I thought we paid about £1m for Ash with add-on's, still a heck of a bargain at that money.
He must be our longest serving player now following the exits recently, Jay was here in his 1st spell before Barnes arrived, but then of course moved on.
I'm only going off what Dyche said in an interview, either way he's been well worth it imho
Re: Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 2:45 pm
by Nori1958
Chester Perry wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 2:18 pm
any mention of the share issue that paid for him or which of the two new board members that appeared in the following weeks was the one that actually paid for him
You really have a downer on the club at times
Re: Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 2:47 pm
by Spijed
Incredible for such a long ball side we scored some fantastic goals.
Can't be the case surely?
Re: Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 2:47 pm
by Burnley1989
Nori1958 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 2:45 pm
You really have a downer on the club at times
You can imagine him sitting the wife down to go through each line item on the bank statement
Re: Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 2:49 pm
by claretonthecoast1882
Burnley1989 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 2:47 pm
You can imagine him sitting the wife down to go through each line item on the bank statement
Reminds me of the guy in every group where there is 5 of you having a curry bill comes to £100 everyone chucks £20 in then he says you lot had 2 drinks and I only had one so there's my £15
Re: Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 2:55 pm
by Chester Perry
everyone missing the point that we only got him because someone dug into their own pocket to pay the fee, the club did not have the money
more than happy to celebrate the contributions of Ashley Barnes
I am just not forgetting how it was possible to sign him in the first place
Re: Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 2:56 pm
by Vegas Claret
to be fair to CP he's put in an awful lot of effort on the MM thread and also our takeover thread and given us a greater insight to the financials of our club..........but let Ashley have his moment man !!!
Re: Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 2:56 pm
by claretonthecoast1882
Nobody is missing the point, it is probably more that nobody else is arsed.
Re: Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 2:57 pm
by martin_p
Chester Perry wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 2:55 pm
everyone missing the point that we only got him because someone dug into their own pocket to pay the fee, the club did not have the money
more than happy to celebrate the contributions of Ashley Barnes
I am just not forgetting how it was possible to sign him in the first place
No one is missing the point, no one cares!
Re: Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 3:05 pm
by BurnleyFC
Love Bashley.
Re: Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 3:07 pm
by claretspice
Given that without that director digging into their own pocket, we might well not have gained promotion in 2014, and so everything that has gone since almost certainly would not have happened, perhaps we should care a little more.
That director is owed huge gratitude for the years of plenty that followed - as much, and perhaps more than Dyche, given that Dyche got paid pretty well for doing his job, and no director can necessarily be automatically expected to give their money to the club without a guarantee of getting it back (much less a return).
Can't see that a thread celebrating the goals Barnes has scored in his 9 years at the club is necessarily a bad place to start, personally.
Re: Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 3:12 pm
by tarkys_ears
Burnley1989 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 2:47 pm
You can imagine him sitting the wife down to go through each line item on the bank statement
Phone bill*.
Re: Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 3:14 pm
by martin_p
claretspice wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 3:07 pm
Given that without that director digging into their own pocket, we might well not have gained promotion in 2014, and so everything that has gone since almost certainly would not have happened, perhaps we should care a little more.
That director is owed huge gratitude for the years of plenty that followed - as much, and perhaps more than Dyche, given that Dyche got paid pretty well for doing his job, and no director can necessarily be automatically expected to give their money to the club without a guarantee of getting it back (much less a return).
Can't see that a thread celebrating the goals Barnes has scored in his 9 years at the club is necessarily a bad place to start, personally.
So start a new thread then.
Re: Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 3:32 pm
by Conroy92
The first one again against spurs is some finish you know. Worthy of any classy striker, not sure how you can generate that much power while curling it with the instep.
Also big mention for that winner against Palace. I was fuming when we let it get back to 2-2 and came on here berating us a little prematurely. Happy that Barnes put egg on my face.
Re: Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 3:34 pm
by martin_p
Conroy92 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 3:32 pm
The first one again against spurs is some finish you know. Worthy of any classy striker, not sure how you can generate that much power while curling it with the instep.
Also big mention for that winner against Palace. I was fuming when we let it get back to 2-2 and came on here berating us a little prematurely. Happy that Barnes put egg on my face.
Think that was an important game that season. In the first Dyche premier league season we’d lost leads at home and gone on to lose. This seemed like a turning point.
Re: Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 4:23 pm
by claretspice
martin_p wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 3:14 pm
So start a new thread then.
You'll have to forgive me for not understanding why that's necessary, when there's a perfectly good thread here reflecting on Ashley Barnes' contribution to Burnley FC and his point is relevant to it.
CP is a very informative and interesting poster - not sure he warrants the dismissive tones on this thread. He made a perfectly valid, and relevant, observation.
Re: Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 4:29 pm
by martin_p
claretspice wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 4:23 pm
You'll have to forgive me for not understanding why that's necessary, when there's a perfectly good thread here reflecting on Ashley Barnes' contribution to Burnley FC and his point is relevant to it.
CP is a very informative and interesting poster - not sure he warrants the dismissive tones on this thread. He made a perfectly valid, and relevant, observation.
It deflected the thread from its main purpose a celebration of Ashley Barnes.
Re: Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 4:36 pm
by Taffy on the wing
claretspice wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 4:23 pm
You'll have to forgive me for not understanding why that's necessary, when there's a perfectly good thread here reflecting on Ashley Barnes' contribution to Burnley FC and his point is relevant to it.
CP is a very informative and interesting poster - not sure he warrants the dismissive tones on this thread. He made a perfectly valid, and relevant, observation.
......it's just that he only ever talks about money!... Football is seemingly irrelevant to him.
Re: Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 4:39 pm
by Nori1958
claretspice wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 4:23 pm
You'll have to forgive me for not understanding why that's necessary, when there's a perfectly good thread here reflecting on Ashley Barnes' contribution to Burnley FC and his point is relevant to it.
CP is a very informative and interesting poster - not sure he warrants the dismissive tones on this thread. He made a perfectly valid, and relevant, observation.
.... Time and place....
Re: Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 4:48 pm
by halfmanhalfbiscuit
It's a relevant point and I don't think it deflects or detracts from the achievements of Barnes.
I actually think it adds to it - club needed someone to dip into their own pocket to buy him, then he goes on to be the player he's been and scored the goals he's scored.
Re: Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 4:49 pm
by Chester Perry
Taffy on the wing wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 4:36 pm
......it's just that he only ever talks about money!... Football is seemingly irrelevant to him.
I think I talk about the how and the why of things rather than the what for the most part - and in football that tends to involve money far to often for almost everyone's liking.
Re: Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 5:15 pm
by Rileybobs
You can imagine my disappointment when I opened the YouTube link and what followed was a video of all 50 of Ashley Barnes’ goals for Burnley rather than a 15 minute commentary piece about the club’s shareholding situation in 2014.
Re: Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 5:15 pm
by longside72
......it's just that he only ever talks about money!... Football is seemingly irrelevant to him.
Unfortunately , thats the football world we l8ve in now
Re: Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 5:27 pm
by boatshed bill
Spijed wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 2:47 pm
Incredible for such a long ball side we scored some fantastic goals.
Can't be the case surely?
Love this post, Spijed.
Re: Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 5:38 pm
by Nori1958
longside72 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 5:15 pm
......it's just that he only ever talks about money!... Football is seemingly irrelevant to him.
Unfortunately , thats the football world we l8ve in now
When I was looking through the posts, and viewing the goals, I have to admit my first thought was not about how or who paid for him.
Other people's brains work differently, fortunately some would say
Re: Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 5:40 pm
by Vintage Claret
Some brilliantly taken goals there.
Apart from the 2 against Blackburn think my favorite is the winner v Palace.
Might be remembering it wrong now but wasn't this very late in the game at 2-2 (after we had let a 2 goal lead slip) and Palace had just hit the post before we broke away for AB to score?
Re: Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 5:44 pm
by martin_p
Vintage Claret wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 5:40 pm
Some brilliantly taken goals there.
Apart from the 2 against Blackburn think my favorite is the winner v Palace.
Might be remembering it wrong now but wasn't this very late in the game at 2-2 (after we had let a 2 goal lead slip) and Palace had just hit the post before we broke away for AB to score?
It was very late, but astonishingly it was after we’d scored that Palace hit the post, Andros Townsend I think.
Re: Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 5:46 pm
by Spijed
martin_p wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 5:44 pm
It was very late, but astonishingly it was after we’d scored that Palace hit the post, Andria Townsend I think.
Yes, we were so close to throwing it away.
Re: Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 5:58 pm
by claptrappers_union
I've seen some magical moments as a Burnley fan, but after the Blackburn keeper attempted to get Barnes sent off in the first half, pushing the Blackburn goalkeeper into the net after scoring is the best thing I've seen any Burnley player do. It was pure Karma.
Re: Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 11:48 pm
by COBBLE
Vegas Claret wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 2:34 pm
doesn't matter who paid for him or when they paid for him, got to be one of the best 375K ever spent by the club
Maybe a look at the accounts of Park Lane textiles might be helpful but maybe not.
Re: Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2023 2:10 am
by IanMcL
Great forum to see Ashley Barnes - hope it is not a send off!
No need for the comments about Chester Perry, who has contributed much to the good debates on this board.
Re: Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2023 8:15 am
by TheOriginalLongsider
Has anyone seen the Monty python sketch about the argument clinic?
https://youtu.be/DkQhK8O9Jik
Re: Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2023 10:53 am
by Raconteur
To be honest, i would have found it strange if Burnley Football Club would have also mentioned that Brian Nelson joined the board of Directors at the same time and helped fund the signing.
Purely because clubs don't normally share that information on player appreciation posts on Twitter.
Re: Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2023 11:17 am
by NottsClaret
martin_p wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 5:44 pm
It was very late, but astonishingly it was after we’d scored that Palace hit the post, Andros Townsend I think.
I remember voting for it on a poll of favourite Burnley goals. Beating Palace at home in a mid-season league match shouldn't be up there but it was such a great game, and an unbelievable finish to it with Palace inches from making it 3-3.
Re: Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2023 1:29 pm
by arise_sir_charge
I can’t recall anybody top English club ever celebrating a players contribution by referencing how that player was funded. May have missed it.
Re: Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2023 2:19 pm
by Raconteur
arise_sir_charge wrote: ↑Wed Jan 11, 2023 1:29 pm
I can’t recall anybody top English club ever celebrating a players contribution by referencing how that player was funded. May have missed it.
I know, it's bizarre.
Don't get me wrong, I love reading some of the info CP gives on the money threads but this info is just not needed.
I've just been thinking about all the signing reveal videos on twitter over the summer. The Zaroury one for example. How come the club did not officially tweet thank you to Everton for signing Dwight for £20m as the money helped us purchase him.
Re: Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2023 2:04 pm
by Chester Perry
For all the mocking and comments of inappropriateness - and yes I do get why and even agree for the most part - the events surrounding the transfer of Ashley Barnes are effectively 'epoch' (i use the term lightly) defining in the history of our club. It is effectively the last of the Kilby era actions (yes Kilby stepped down a few years earlier) but Kilby's era was defined by money being put into the club (along with hope and ambition), Directors joining the board by buying newly issued shares rather than shares from other shareholders and thereby putting money into the club. not another's pockets.
Kilby's tenure came to an end with the dream of reaching the Premier League achieved, the dream of financial stability, even profitability, came not as direct result of that promotion, but took some time longer and required a much longer stay than anyone anticipated in the noughties. As it is, we are now in our 12th consecutive season suckling from the Premier League teat (with a minimum of 2 more to come). Since early 2014 no new shares have been issued and no new director has arrived by putting money into the club.
The Barnes transfer is the stepping stone between two eras, particularly when you remember the cost cutting events of the previous summer. There was renewed hope and this new, somewhat cautious, investment eventually enabled the transformation that we have since witnessed.
Re: Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2023 2:21 pm
by Nori1958
Chester Perry wrote: ↑Thu Jan 12, 2023 2:04 pm
For all the mocking and comments of inappropriateness - and yes I do get why and even agree for the most part - the events surrounding the transfer of Ashley Barnes are effectively 'epoch' (i use the term lightly) defining in the history of our club. It is effectively the last of the Kilby era actions (yes Kilby stepped down a few years earlier) but Kilby's era was defined by money being put into the club (along with hope and ambition), Directors joining the board by buying newly issued shares rather than shares from other shareholders and thereby putting money into the club. not another's pockets.
Kilby's tenure came to an end with the dream of reaching the Premier League achieved, the dream of financial stability, even profitability, came not as direct result of that promotion, but took some time longer and required a much longer stay than anyone anticipated in the noughties. As it is, we are now in our 12th consecutive season suckling from the Premier League teat (with a minimum of 2 more to come). Since early 2014 no new shares have been issued and no new director has arrived by putting money into the club.
The Barnes transfer is the stepping stone between two eras, particularly when you remember the cost cutting events of the previous summer. There was renewed hope and this new, somewhat cautious, investment eventually enabled the transformation that we have since witnessed.
.. Read the room
Re: Ashley Barnes Twitter Love-In
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2023 2:26 pm
by Chester Perry
Nori1958 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 12, 2023 2:21 pm
.. Read the room
read the post - fwiw I have never been interested in being popular or following the herd
