Number nine, Ashley Barnes!

edna krabappel · Mar 16, 2016

Played his first game of the season this week (for Burnley's development squad) after returning from cruciate ligament damage.

Wonder if he'll be fit enough to play any role at the Amex at the start of next month?

Always quite liked Ashley,, even though he had his moments, and I could understand why he frustrated other people. Think we missed him when he first went. Gray, Vokes and Barnes still to come in are great striking options at this level. Hope there's not something written in the stars about his return :ohmy:

LamieRobertson · Mar 16, 2016

edna krabappel said:
Played his first game of the season this week (for Burnley's development squad) after returning from cruciate ligament damage.

Wonder if he'll be fit enough to play any role at the Amex at the start of next month?

Always quite liked Ashley,, even though he had his moments, and I could understand why he frustrated other people. Think we missed him when he first went. Gray, Vokes and Barnes still to come in are great striking options at this level. Hope there's not something written in the stars about his return

WA (last night) ...didn't think Burnley had any strikers apart from Gray and Vokes

Ps bet he's aiming to get a place on the bench for that game

Acker79 · Mar 16, 2016

Maybe we can add him to the list of strikers to be interested in taking on loan with Murray and Ulloa.

SeagullofMalaysia · Mar 16, 2016

Burnley have a plethora of strikers (Jutkiewicz, Barnes, Hennings) and yet always rely on Vokes and Gray.

Marshy · Mar 16, 2016

unlikely he will force his way into the squad quickly enough for our game i would think.....escpecially with the run they are on.. cant see him being rushed back

Gwylan · Mar 16, 2016

Acker79 said:
Maybe we can add him to the list of strikers to be interested in taking on loan with Murray and Ulloa.

I'd have him back in a heartbeat.

I know I'm out on my own on this but I'd rather him than either of those two as well. You know that you'll get a shift from Ashley and that's the sort of attitude we'd need in a promotion run-in

LlcoolJ · Mar 16, 2016

I'd like to see a cameo sub appearance (after Gray gets injured obviously) where he manages to trip the fourth official over while coming on and is immediately sent off.

Cowfold Seagull · Mar 16, 2016

edna krabappel said:
Played his first game of the season this week (for Burnley's development squad) after returning from cruciate ligament damage.

Wonder if he'll be fit enough to play any role at the Amex at the start of next month?

Always quite liked Ashley,, even though he had his moments, and I could understand why he frustrated other people. Think we missed him when he first went. Gray, Vokes and Barnes still to come in are great striking options at this level. Hope there's not something written in the stars about his return

After just the one developmentsquad game, I think our fixure against them may come just a little bit too soon for him to be involved. Prior to last night he hadn't kicked a ball, (or a referee), in anger, for a very long time.

aolstudios · Mar 16, 2016

Even now, he'd still walk into this team, imo. We slid horribly after selling him & it set the tone for the next 18 months. Hope he's fit soon - but not that soon

One Teddy Maybank · Mar 16, 2016

aolstudios said:
Even now, he'd still walk into this team, imo. We slid horribly after selling him & it set the tone for the next 18 months. Hope he's fit soon - but not that soon

How I feel. Arguably one of our most underrated players.

darkwolf666 · Mar 16, 2016

One Teddy Maybank said:
How I feel. Arguably one of our most underrated players.

Strange I always had him in a sentence that contained Banjo and cows arse!

He has a scoring rate of 1 goal in ever 7 games for Burnley, so yep give him a place...

chaileyjem · Mar 16, 2016

aolstudios said:
Even now, he'd still walk into this team, imo. We slid horribly after selling him

In the 2nd half of 2013/14 our form and points per games was slightly higher after he left in January than when he was here in the first half.
Obviously it all went wrong everywhere in 2014/15 but there's a whole bunch of other reasons for that.

scamander · Mar 16, 2016

SeagullofMalaysia said:
Burnley have a plethora of strikers (Jutkiewicz, Barnes, Hennings) and yet always rely on Vokes and Gray.

Jutkiewicz - injured his cruciate in September during a match, s he's still nowhere near match fit and even back then it looked like we were trying to sell him.

Our backup strikers are Chris Long (very young striker signed from Everton) and Hennings. The latter is generally brought on though. So we don't have a plethora, more one untried youngster and a chap who is playing his first season in England.

I've be surprised to see Barnes near the squad yet (I'm a big fan btw), Dyche is very consistent with his team and doesn't bring players in unless they are 100% fit. This approach has caused some concern (there was a time when Boyd was playing poorly but never seemed to get dropped) but we seem to being doing fine!

aolstudios · Mar 16, 2016

chaileyjem said:
In the 2nd half of 2013/14 our form and points per games was slightly higher after he left in January than when he was here in the first half.
Obviously it all went wrong everywhere in 2014/15 but there's a whole bunch of other reasons for that.

He was scrapping upfront on his own without Leo for a significant portion of that, as Oscar mentioned several times. We sold him against Oscar's wishes soon after Leo's return & would've done significantly better than hang on for the remainder of the season with them both together. They certainly looked comfortable as hell in the Premiership the next season

chaileyjem · Mar 16, 2016

aolstudios said:
He was scrapping upfront on his own without Leo for a significant portion of that, as Oscar mentioned several times. We sold him against Oscar's wishes soon after Leo's return & would've done significantly better than hang on for the remainder of the season with them both together. They certainly looked comfortable as hell in the Premiership the next season

you said we slid horribly. except our form improved and we made the play offs.
would Barnes alongside Ulloa helped beat Derby (and/or QPR) etc ? Who knows ?
I'm not doubting he's a useful player, that it was odd to sell him and he's performed well for Burnley in the prem when he's played.

Medwayseagull · Mar 16, 2016

A thread on the return to fitness of the marmite man - I bet all the refs are digging out their old shinpads in readiness.

MattBackHome · Mar 16, 2016

Said it before and I'll say it again. I love the bloke.

I'd give him a big old clap if he were to make an appearance at the Amex in a couple of weeks time.

Whatever team they select it's going to be very tough.

aolstudios · Mar 16, 2016

chaileyjem said:
you said we slid horribly. except our form improved and we made the play offs.
would Barnes alongside Ulloa helped beat Derby (and/or QPR) etc ? Who knows ?
I'm not doubting he's a useful player, that it was odd to sell him and he's performed well for Burnley in the prem when he's played.

Our form improved very slightly, as you said but from where we could've been we slid horribly over the next 18 months as our striking options became thinner & less able. We were far worse with Leo without Barnes, as we were with Barnes without Leo. The former was avoidable & crucial, I feel. We were on the slide well before the Sami debacle

chaileyjem · Mar 16, 2016

aolstudios said:
We were on the slide well before the Sami debacle

I think the oscar season is underrated.

Thunder Bolt · Mar 16, 2016

You just know that if he's fit enough to play, he will score against us. He will certainly celebrate as he upset the Plymouth fans when he scored for us, by doing so.
I loved him and was sorry to see him go.

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