Opus Finale .... A Warts an' all Exposé of Paintball's Very Own Megalomaniac

[Robbo]

Ad, you gotta remember that a lot of his haemhorroids will believe anything he says such that glaring omissions in terms of attribution of emails are as good as solid proof to some of the idiots he has following him.
As for his own employee interviewing him?
If you hadn't said it, I wouldn't have believed it ... But then again, it's barnett, anything is possible when it comes to that prihk.

 

[Dexter]

Love how he's called me out again, this time hes made me out to be some crazy stalker.
Did I buy the pants? yes I did
Did I have a laugh at it? Sure I did, the bloke hates me and they were custom made by him.
Have I said some "pretty nasty sh*t about shoreline"? If I have I have no recollection of it, I've always tried to be civil whenever I've dealt with them.
Oh and he says about me cuddling my wife or maybe play some paintball, while using a pic of me at an event I attended with my lass.

 

[oneijim]

Its 40 minutes long! My favourite quote within the first 5 minutes while discussing the charity situation is "nobody does accounts in the middle of a project". Why would anyone do accounts at the end of a project? If you aren't logging incoming money even if its just on a spread sheet then you are doing it wrong. At any point he should have been able to say how much he had and who it was from.

 

[Robbo]

Oh, so, let me get this right, he states he never accounted for any of the money coming in and in doing so, he implies he did the accounting at the end ... Which was when exactly?
Did he choose the end date?
Either way, when I was demanding he publish the accounts, Ledz told me that barnett had said him that he had them but didn't wish to publish them because he didn't see why he should just because I was asking for them.
And so, either Ledz is lying or barnett is, I know which one my money's going on :/

 

[Dusty]

As Pete knows I kept a running total of the Leezo fund and was happy to give access to a few trusted people all throughout. Afterwards Pete had a spreadsheet of all donations including the amount, date and time, contact details.

Not difficult.

 

[srichardscole]

I have until now said nothing on this matter except in private conversations. It is true that I wrote those e-mails to Mr Barnett shown in his new website. I did indeed make derogatory comments about Peter Robinson and Paul Banks with regard to how I felt they were victimising him and his company. I felt they were a completely unnecessary series of attacks on him who I considered to be a breath if fresh air in the industry , indeed I also made similar comments about Steve Baldwin and anyone who in my opinion were being paranoid about TB,s influence in the industry, I just could not understand it, why was this anger all being levelled at someone who was putting a little razzmatazz as I called it into the sport and industry we all loved. I thought it was out of spite and fear of losing business market share to the "new school" and it made me frustrated to say the least. I defended TB at every opportunity causing me to be the object of some tongue in cheek ridicule on more than one occasion. However I was warned to be careful, ". He will burn you at some point Simon" was a line I heard on more than one occasion. Nevertheless I stuck to my guns, as long as he didn't cross me, I would reply , I didn't have the luxury of picking and choosing my customers. Anyway the subsequent course of events we all know about took place and I "got burnt" so to speak, as detailed in the published transcript of a telephone conversation between myself and Peter Robinson. I did feel foolish, I was warned repeatedly and chose not to listen. This only proves one thing, I am a terrible judge of character, from both directions, those who deserve respect and time I chose to ignore and ridicule, and those who do not I chose to blindly defend and support.
The costs attributed to my short sightedness I will have to bear as time goes on, I am embarrassed that the contents of my ill thought out e.mails are made public and I hope Peter, Paul and Steve will understand and forgive my shortsightedness. As for the other characters in this " Soap Opera" as it now called, their opinion of me and more importantly, my opinion of them is valueless.
Long live Paintball.
Hugs to everyone.
Simon Cole.

 

[Where's My Tractor?]

I have until now said nothing on this matter except in private conversations. It is true that I wrote those e-mails to Mr Barnett shown in his new website. I did indeed make derogatory comments about Peter Robinson and Paul Banks with regard to how I felt they were victimising him and his company. I felt they were a completely unnecessary series of attacks on him who I considered to be a breath if fresh air in the industry , indeed I also made similar comments about Steve Baldwin and anyone who in my opinion were being paranoid about TB,s influence in the industry, I just could not understand it, why was this anger all being levelled at someone who was putting a little razzmatazz as I called it into the sport and industry we all loved. I thought it was out of spite and fear of losing business market share to the "new school" and it made me frustrated to say the least. I defended TB at every opportunity causing me to be the object of some tongue in cheek ridicule on more than one occasion. However I was warned to be careful, ". He will burn you at some point Simon" was a line I heard on more than one occasion. Nevertheless I stuck to my guns, as long as he didn't cross me, I would reply , I didn't have the luxury of picking and choosing my customers. Anyway the subsequent course of events we all know about took place and I "got burnt" so to speak, as detailed in the published transcript of a telephone conversation between myself and Peter Robinson. I did feel foolish, I was warned repeatedly and chose not to listen. This only proves one thing, I am a terrible judge of character, from both directions, those who deserve respect and time I chose to ignore and ridicule, and those who do not I chose to blindly defend and support.
The costs attributed to my short sightedness I will have to bear as time goes on, I am embarrassed that the contents of my ill thought out e.mails are made public and I hope Peter, Paul and Steve will understand and forgive my shortsightedness. As for the other characters in this " Soap Opera" as it now called, their opinion of me and more importantly, my opinion of them is valueless.
Long live Paintball.
Hugs to everyone.
Simon Cole.

I'm totally on the periphery of this given that I don't know either party, however just had to say that it takes a big man to write a post like this.

 

[777]

got halfway through reading what they've posted up and closed the web page.
couldn't put up with how they only highlighted and twisted the text to make it sound completely different to what was written.

 

[BIG MOZZA]

Totally support Simon Cole
I've known him for many years since he sold me my first marker
A True gent within our sport
always willing to help anyone if possible so to be treated like this beggers belief

 

[jitsuwarrior]

Simon,

I have stayed out of this trail and many other spin offs on Facebook etc, but you my friend are a true gentleman. You have the integrity and moral fibre that many others in this (and most businesses) fail to have. You have selfless commitment to paintball (yes you are hear to earn a buck on the way) but you look out for others as you do.

As for anyone wanting to quiz the way p8ntballer forum did what they did for Leezo. I am more than happy to discuss face to face. I have stayed out of this up until now, and have always just wanted to enjoy paintball... however it appears in the UK we are on a self destruct... can we not do what both are asking for? Vote with your wallets, if you don't like Barnett's fight club, masters, call to duty, or any other event he runs... at the same time if that is the area of paintball that you enjoy and you want to invest in then do so.

For me, I am getting too old for supair, and I am losing the interest in returning to the woods so I am running out of options... and no I am not a lover of Golf.... guess it's time to go back to target shooting.