3 teams. Bristol Rovers. 13th December. They lose their tenth consecutive game and are just above the relegation zone. Manager Darren Clarke sacked. 3 days later they appoint Steve Evans - a vastly experienced EFL manager. Decisive action by the BR board. Morecambe . December 6th. They lose 3-0 at h...

I can’t see what sacking Whing has achieved. If anything it has destabilised the club at a vital stage of the season. Looks more and more like a panic measure with no clear plan for a replacement. In the meantime who takes charge? Someone who was assistant manager at non league Hartlepool a couple o...

Usual hysteria over nothing. A plastic card will cost pennies. Will happily pay ten pence extra. Also the only times I ever go to the club shop is when ordering and buying my season ticket, buying cup tickets and buying away tickets. The shop would suffer from massively reduced footfall if plastic t...

Barry Diamond 1983-84. Barrow had been relegated from the Alliance Premier the previous season but bounced back by winning the Northern Premier League by 20 points losing only 3 games all season . Barry Diamond played in all 42 league games and scored an incredible 35 goals! Nearly as many as Cowps ...

Billy McAdams retired from football in 1968, having played 40 games in our promotion season the year before, although he had a brief stint in non-league with Netherfield. He remained in Barrow and was briefly joint manager in 1977 after Ron Yeats left suddenly in mid season. He was struck down with ...

Why the secrecy over the trialists? Surely they could be named with trialist in brackets after their name so at least the non-paying supporters would have a clue who they are watching.Are they out of contract players being looked at with a view to covering the current injury crisis? Or young local l...

Nonsense

Many Vale fans there?

Thanks CP and Saltcellar for responding to my query about the attendance. Last season 2966 (including 285 away) came to watch Manchester United u21’s in this cup although it was our first home game in the competition. Last nights attendance of 1463 was disappointing in comparison although it was som...

Attendance?

It is ridiculous that clubs can cancel an away game in such circumstances. The solution is simple. If before the fixtures come out and a L2 club thinks they may have players (current or through recruitment) who might be called up for international duty they should request a home game on internationa...

Having left the Lancashire Combination in 1968 it appears Barrow Reserves then joined the Lancashire League. In the 1970-71 season we were 15th out of 19 in Division one which was won by Everton A with runners up being Liverpool A. United and City A teams were 7th and 8th. In the 1971-72 we were aga...

I googled the Lancashire Combination and of course our reserves were members for many years as several posters have recalled. It seems however thatwe left at the end of the 1968-69 season- I can’t imagine we scrapped our reserve team then as we were riding high in the third division at the time so I...

It looks like most games are on mid week afternoons. I remember going to reserve games in the late sixties on Saturday afternoons when the first team was away. We played a lot of first division A teams which I suppose were similar to todays under 21 teams. I have a vague memory of an evening midweek...

Thanks for that. Looks like plenty of opportunities for everyone to get game time.