The Longside Reference

Name: Joe Jackson

Date Of Birth: 3rd March 1993

Place of Birth: Barrow-in-Furness

Clubs: Burnley, Barrow(Loan)

Signed by Eddie Howe

Burnley Fee: from youth

Clarets Debut:21st April 2012, v Blackpool (A) L 0-4

Claret Honours:

Squad Number 2011/12: 44

Claret Stat: Joe is a powerful striker, who has been with the Clarets since 2002. He progressed through the Burnley Centre of Excellence to be offered a full time contract by Eddie Howe in May 2011.

Joe made the bench on January 7th 2012, when Burnley played Norwich City in the FA Cup third round, Burnley lost 4-1 and Joe unfortunately never got on.A few days later, Joe moved on loan to his hometown club Barrow, he made his debut the following night against Fleetwood Town where he came of the bench to score his first professional goal, Alex-Ray Harvey also played in the match completing the full 90 minutes.

Eddie Howe recalled Joe from Barrow with the intention of giving the youngster first team experience, and after a couple of selections in the matchday sixteen, Joe finally made his professional debut in the penultimate game of the season away at Blackpool

Below is a quote taken from the Citizen newspaper.

"Making the three-hour round trip from Barrow-in-Furnesstwice a week for training at the Centre of Excellence and coming back for games on the Saturday showed his commitment. He became an apprentice and settled in really well and woked tremendously hard. He's come on leaps and bounds and led the line really well this season. He's a determined young man and was going to give it his best shot, and this year he has made improvments again. He's scored goals this season, but he has missed them as well, and thats an area he will look to to improve on. He gets himself in good positions because of his work rate and intelligence up the field and he now he has to push that on now. He's not a six foot player - probably about 5ft 10in - but he's got a built up upper body and he's very quick." Martin Dobson Director of Youth