I didn't either, not really, not within the limits of normal good games and bad games. I'm being charitable arguendo and assuming all the slating of Barnes on this board was anchored in some sort of reality.
At the end of the day, you can make a player play who doesn't want to play, but you can't make a player who doesn't want to play well.
The gap between the kind of performance you need from a player, and the less-than-fully-assed kind that he can get away with giving you without crashing his...
A complete black hole, that, except for a lottery-ticket goal, and the teams involved sit 4th and 6th in the table, suggests visits from the fraud squad all around... Trade Descriptions Act, and all that.