Barrow v Forest Green Rovers, match thread

[AugustusCorpa]

That was awful. We looked clueless tonight. Their first away win in 5 months. We looked like the team who are bottom of the league.

[MisterPleasant]

FT: 1 -2

Dreadful

[CH BAFC]

The bump in the road is a chasm at the moment, that was embarrassing.

[Craigthered]

Not convinced we will finish inside the top 7 tbh. Atleast we are safe though!

[Big_Bluebird]

That wasn’t good was it

[Kieran]

We need goals, yet highly-rated Telford sits on the bench once again?

You mean 32 games - 4 goals this season Telford?

Is that Telford's fault or is it down to the way we play? How many decent chances can you remember him missing? He's feeding off scraps. We've got possibly the best strike pairing in the division on paper in Telford and Stockton but I doubt they'll score 10 between them between now and the end of the season.

We've done fantastically well to be where we are, but we just don't create chances.

[MisterPleasant]

You mean 32 games - 4 goals this season Telford?

Is that Telford's fault or is it down to the way we play? How many decent chances can you remember him missing? He's feeding off scraps. We've got possibly the best strike pairing in the division on paper in Telford and Stockton but I doubt they'll score 10 between them between now and the end of the season.

We've done fantastically well to be where we are, but we just don't create chances.

Exactly this. Midfield is giving them nothing to run for, nothing to run on to. It's lumps up from Farman and hope to pick up bits and pieces.

[StephenD]

I guess we could have got a fortunate point on another day but we got what we deserved.

With Harrogate getting thumped the teams in 8th and 9th have negative goal difference if that came into play. But Gotts and Stockton aside play like that again and we could also get a Stevenage / Carlisle type thrashing.

[AFC Blue]

It's the Spence selection that surprises me. Subbed early on Saturday, subs bench today; he'd be just about the first on the team sheet for me.

Your right MP and that's what happens when your best 2 midfielders at the club are left on the bench.

[blue nige]

That was utter garbage, why play with wingbacks when we don't use them, with white as well we were like a back 6 at times.
We sit too deep , just long aimless balls played right into their hands, team's have sussed us out they close us down quickly and we struggle, we posed hardly any attacking threat tonight.
When we're at home we should be dictating the play but we concede space , team's now play a higher line against us but wild needs to rethink how we play at home!

[Matty]

Absolutely baffling team selection from the manager, interested to know if there were any niggles because our two standout midfielders were on the bench. I fear we are rinse and repeating last season, a great first half of the season followed by a serious tail off.

[WillBAFC]

Looked like we could’ve played all week and still wouldn’t have put something together. Stockton goal was quality, got to give credit. Awful football though, absolutely no creativity.

[farington blue]

The starting selection was baffling but the failure to take off one of the back three when we were chatsing the game is even more incredulous.

[Bakewell Blue]

Not a good night for us….I haven’t checked, but when did we last lose 2 consecutive league matches? Mansfield are looking strong, as are Crewe. I think top 3 is beyond us unless we really turn things around, so we need to make sure we finish in the top 7 - that would be a good achievement for the season and a step forward from last season. Fading off, as last season, would be such a disappointment.
We have been poor in the last 2 matches and less convincing since Christmas, but there is still lots to play for. Lots of teams have had good mini runs, so we can do the same.

[blue nige]

Not a good night for us….I haven’t checked, but when did we last lose 2 consecutive league matches? Mansfield are looking strong, as are Crewe. I think top 3 is beyond us unless we really turn things around, so we need to make sure we finish in the top 7 - that would be a good achievement for the season and a step forward from last season. Fading off, as last season, would be such a disappointment.
We have been poor in the last 2 matches and less convincing since Christmas, but there is still lots to play for. Lots of teams have had good mini runs, so we can do the same.

It's bad enough losing but it's the lack of commitment/ desire that I can't except!