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Re: We are going down!

Post by Jonty » Tue Mar 03, 2026 10:33 pm

WalneyOne wrote: Tue Mar 03, 2026 10:29 pm Even allowing for injured players miraculously returning tomorrow the squad as a whole isn't good enough.We could field a half decent 11 with a few decent subs but after 13/14 the quality just isn't there.Several currently playing shouldn't be anywhere near but we simply don't have other options and this comes down to poor recruitment.
Irrespective of games in hand barring miracles we're done, and it has been largely self inflicted.
Harsh reality right there.
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Re: We are going down!

Post by Barrow afc 2018 » Tue Mar 03, 2026 10:39 pm

Jonty wrote: Tue Mar 03, 2026 10:33 pm
WalneyOne wrote: Tue Mar 03, 2026 10:29 pm Even allowing for injured players miraculously returning tomorrow the squad as a whole isn't good enough.We could field a half decent 11 with a few decent subs but after 13/14 the quality just isn't there.Several currently playing shouldn't be anywhere near but we simply don't have other options and this comes down to poor recruitment.
Irrespective of games in hand barring miracles we're done, and it has been largely self inflicted.
Harsh reality right there.
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We are just far too soft, soft as the proverbial time to grow a pair boys and show us you really care. You do that show us you care and if we go down please please let’s go down FIGHTING.

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Re: We are going down!

Post by walney rock » Tue Mar 03, 2026 10:47 pm

30 years ive been watching barrow home & away, whats really getting me is the lack of any sort of commitment. Effort & Fight is a bare minimum players should be giving & let's be honest we've had very little of either this season
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Re: We are going down!

Post by AugustusCorpa » Tue Mar 03, 2026 10:52 pm

We’ve been shite all season. 3 wins in the last 4 months. There’s no fight in this lot whatsoever. I’m only seeing more defeats. Not the wins we need.

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Re: We are going down!

Post by liverpoolann » Tue Mar 03, 2026 11:09 pm

The players should be made to listen to the Barrow Social this week Whicker
I think gave a very honest and correct opinion of the teams performances and tactics of managers this season.Players look scared of own shadows.Not enough of them making 100 per cent effort regardless of ability which is unforgivable .

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Re: We are going down!

Post by HenneysKnee » Wed Mar 04, 2026 6:32 am

WalneyOne wrote: Tue Mar 03, 2026 10:29 pm Even allowing for injured players miraculously returning tomorrow the squad as a whole isn't good enough.We could field a half decent 11 with a few decent subs but after 13/14 the quality just isn't there.Several currently playing shouldn't be anywhere near but we simply don't have other options and this comes down to poor recruitment.
Irrespective of games in hand barring miracles we're done, and it has been largely self inflicted.
Completely agree, I can name a starting 11 that would stay up if we had everyone fit; but then after that you’re struggling. And as for the amount of injuries we’ve had in training…..

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Re: We are going down!

Post by Bluebirdboy » Wed Mar 04, 2026 7:48 am

In relegation now with Newport winning last night still 2 games in hand on team below us and 2 teams above us tho :skill:

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Post by Robwez10 » Wed Mar 04, 2026 7:57 am

Worrying thing for me is, these players haven’t shown anything to suggest we will win either of the 2 games in hand. Hard to stay positive when we’re served up sh** week in week out.

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Re: We are going down!

Post by mall » Wed Mar 04, 2026 8:20 am

Barrow afc 2018 wrote: Tue Mar 03, 2026 10:32 pm Dino will back himself and want to succeed, we just need to have some luck with returning players to give him more options.
Hope is not a strategy but that I’m afraid is all we seem to have at the moment.

Sick as a fcuking parrot it’s making me ill along with many more.
And me mate, it's totally sickening.
My glass is usually half full, not any more when I see how teams like Newport are prepared to fight hard for ninety minutes.
It's soul destroying-for the want of half decent recruitment.
I remember starting work aged fifteen in 1972 when we were voted out. Retired 48 years later on entry back into the FL.
As someone pointed out earlier, after 48 years, the re-entry back to the FL should have been the foundation on which to build a steady safe future for the club-instead, for the sake of atrocious recruitment-people's hopes and dreams, young and old are about to be extinguished.
It's so sad to think of how it might have been-could have been!
You never know, there is still a slim chance that it might 'still be' but, some of us have been around long enough to understand the writing on the wall.
It's over to you now Dino-for you are our last vestige of hope, don't let Barrow be your first failure.

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Re: We are going down!

Post by Cromwell58 » Wed Mar 04, 2026 8:35 am

Its the club's 125 years and would hate to think that the players are not prepared to go down fighting if they are not what are they doing in my club.

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Re: We are going down!

Post by Barrow afc 2018 » Wed Mar 04, 2026 9:17 am

For me the players have become totally disconnected from the fans and town, I wouldn’t even be surprised if their A590 song was “Barrows a Shithole I wanna go home”. Well do you know what it’s our town and we’re proud of it.

Theres no doubt we have some talented individuals (I use that term lightly) but if we pull together as a team that’s our only chance.

All the lads that have played higher up the pyramid you need to start showing belief all we ask is you show heart in our final games starting Friday and let’s show the other bottom feeder’s we’re not dead yet.

Come on lads pull us out of our depression.

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Re: We are going down!

Post by Cromwell58 » Wed Mar 04, 2026 10:00 am

We should have had a some sort of reserve team up and running young lads that might not be as skilful but more determined and willing to fight.

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Re: We are going down!

Post by WalneyOne » Wed Mar 04, 2026 10:12 am

Barrow afc 2018 wrote: Wed Mar 04, 2026 9:17 am For me the players have become totally disconnected from the fans and town, I wouldn’t even be surprised if their A590 song was “Barrows a Shithole I wanna go home”. Well do you know what it’s our town and we’re proud of it.

Theres no doubt we have some talented individuals (I use that term lightly) but if we pull together as a team that’s our only chance.

All the lads that have played higher up the pyramid you need to start showing belief all we ask is you show heart in our final games starting Friday and let’s show the other bottom feeder’s we’re not dead yet.

Come on lads pull us out of our depression.
Q.How many of the lads that have played higher up the pyramid are playing in their correct positions?
A.Not many.
Q.So why did we sign them?
A. To get bodies in to boost the squad.
Q. Why didnt we sign a right back instead of countless wingers given we dont play with wingers?
A.F#CK KNOWS!!!!
Poor recruitment has been our undoing.

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Re: We are going down!

Post by blue nige » Wed Mar 04, 2026 10:18 am

I expect us to be brave now F*** this present system we absolutely have nothing to lose, I'd get all player's together as well as those allegedly injured and ask who's ready for the fight if not we don't want them ,make it clear if you are not giving everything in the last few games wherever we end up you're gone, I like others are sick to death of words we want action now nothing more nothing else!

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Re: We are going down!

Post by HenneysKnee » Wed Mar 04, 2026 10:32 am

blue nige wrote: Wed Mar 04, 2026 10:18 am I expect us to be brave now F*** this present system we absolutely have nothing to lose
It Freddie Anderson is fit surely you just have to either play him at right back, or keep him at centre back and you use Joe Anderson left back and Ben Jackson at right back; but it just has to change, it’s probably already far too late but it’s madness we keep going with it

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