Our new ROCFC President - Troy Barnes
ROCFC welcome Troy Barnes as the new ROCFC President for 2011
Troy Barnes (Barnsey) was born in Queensland and moved to Adelaide with his mother at the age of three.
He attended Blackfriars and Golden Grove High Schools and decided to move back to Queensland to live with his father in 1995 as a 17 year old.
This is where Troy’s passion for football really took off.
Troy and his father had season tickets to the Brisbane Lions and he decided to play for the local footy club - second division QAFL. Troy played a number of reserves grade games but by season’s end was a regular in the A grade side. By the following season his prowess in front of goal was evident and he went on to play every game and won the club goal kicking trophy. For the next three years Troy picked up three league goal kicking trophies and his best return was 99 goals in 2000.
At age 21 Troy gained a sales job at Carpet Call and worked weekends in retail and played football part time for two years and was able to play in a premiership.
Troy was presented with salesman of the Year in 2002 for Carpet Call Queensland and was nominated as the young retailer of the year. For the next four years Troy climbed the sales ladder and was the youngest area manager in the company’s history - overseeing five stores on Queensland’s Gold Coast.
For family reasons Troy came back to Adelaide in 2005 and picked up a job at Solomon’s Carpets. After a couple of years Troy brought a Solomon’s Carpet franchise at Gepps Cross . With years of industry knowledge and savvy business sense Troy has taken the Gepps Cross store to the No.1 Solomon’s franchise in Australia within his first 12 months.
Troy has always been passionate about his two main interests - footy (a passionate Crows supporter) and his work.
In 2007 Troy and his cousin, (ROCs player Matthew Paul) were talking footy, the next week Barnsey played a trial game against Broadview for the ROCS and kicked 10 goals.
Since then Barnsey has played bits and pieces in the C grade and continued to remain around the club.
“I love the playing culture at the ROCs and people around the club are the best I have been involved with,” Troy said.
“As I am no longer able to contribute on the field, I am looking forward to being a part of the club off the field as its president.
“I see a young playing group with experienced coaching staff and a great platform for future success, so I will be focusing my attention on ensuring coaches and players have every resource available to them to enjoy success as a club on and off the field.
“Playing football at a great club is something every player will look back on when they’ve retired and remember it as the best time of their lives.
“As anyone who is unable to play will tell you, ‘if I had my time again I would have tried harder’, so I want the current group to know if they put the effort in now, the years of drinking and talking about glory days are a whole lot better! We want our players to be talking about that time we won the flag as opposed to that time we came close.
“I encourage anyone involved at the club to approach me at any time if they need anything or wish to make suggestions and, especially, if they or someone they know needs flooring! GO ROCS, GO CROWS!!!”
I encourage all those within the ROCs community to introduce yourself to Barnesy and offer him any support you can.
Regards,
Paul Arnfield
Chairman ROCFC
