Barnes
started out in the academies of Bristol City, Swindon Town and Southampton
before joining Toolstation Western League Premier Division side Bitton in early
2010.
In
July 2012, Barnes made the step up to then-Southern League Premier Division outfit
Chippenham Town and made 15 appearances, scoring 2 goals.
In
November 2012, he joined Southern Division One South & West side Paulton
Rovers on loan where he scored 3 goals in 3 appearances.
In
February 2013, Barnes returned to Paulton Rovers permanently, where he helped
them win the Somerset Premier Cup in 2013 and gain promotion to the Southern
Premier Division through the play-offs in 2013/14.
Barnes
made 106 appearances, scoring 46 goals for Rovers before, in March 2015, he
chose to make the move to New Zealand and subsequently joining Northern Premier
side Eastern Suburbs AFC, where he won the league, earning promotion to the New
Zealand Championship, as well as winning the 2015 Chatham Cup.
In
November 2015, Barnes joined Waitakere United where he made 9 appearances,
scoring 2 goals and the following February he moved across to Melbourne in
Australia and signed for National Premier Leagues Victoria 2 East (third tier)
side Dandenong Thunder.
While
with Dandenong, he helped them earn promotion to the National Premier Leagues
Victoria division (second tier), as well as finishing as the league’s top
scorer in 2016, 2017, 2018 and third in 2019.
Barnes
then made the decision to move back home after scoring 119 goals in 116
appearances for Dandenong, as well as being named player of the year three
times and being named players’ player of the year, also three times.
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