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behind the goals wrote: ↑Sun Apr 10, 2022 3:02 pm Back to Non-League means walking to the turnstiles with money in hand with 5 minutes before kick-off, getting served at the bar more easily and enjoying a smoke on the open terrace, and no more noisy away fans singing at full time after another home defeat, and getting behind the goals at the cross bar end, what`s not to like.

blue nige wrote: ↑Sun Apr 10, 2022 3:18 pm

behind the goals wrote: ↑Sun Apr 10, 2022 3:02 pm Back to Non-League means walking to the turnstiles with money in hand with 5 minutes before kick-off, getting served at the bar more easily and enjoying a smoke on the open terrace, and no more noisy away fans singing at full time after another home defeat, and getting behind the goals at the cross bar end, what`s not to like.

Well how about the lost finance of around 1 million pounds? but hey the director's will keep throwing their money away!, so you can have a fag ,I hope you're not serious!

RedWeb wrote: ↑Sun Apr 10, 2022 10:09 am Whatever happens, happens. What I still can't understand is why Barrow have struggled so massively to adapt to the EFL. People on match threads keep saying how many bad teams there are in this league, no better than the National League. If so, why can't Barrow beat any of them, or even score more than the odd goal. Look at Sutton, taken to the EFL without breaking stride - nearly won a final at Wembley against an excellent Rotherham side. Harrogate are a solid mid-table team. It's only Barrow who seem to have made such heavy weather of it. Why?

I still think if we'd won the league after the full 44 games, come up with Evatt still as manager, that momentum and familiarity could have seen us pushing for play-offs. Instead the manager left, the captain left and we ended up appointing a complete novice. It kinda set a tone from which we've never really recovered. The board have made some poor decisions on managers but even they would surely have been entitled to expect the players on the pitch to have done more, like maybe win the odd home game.

Is it just never going to work for Barrow in the EFL? Will training in Bury, Macclesfield or wherever always mean a disconnect between the players and the town? Ideally the players need to be in and around the club every day. Training close by. Enjoying playing at home - even if it is windy. The current set-up just has the feel of veterans and mercenaries looking for a wage before moving on somewhere else - something they'll likely be doing soon.

Lightflood wrote: ↑Sun Apr 10, 2022 8:22 pm Is it realistic to offer a young footballer possibly married with young children of school age a one year deal and expect them to all move to Barrow or immediate area if he's based in central Lancashire and could possibly have the choice of other clubs with training facilities not too far away.
Already mentioned here a few are suggesting we should get rid several players if we succumb to relegation .Moving lock stock and barrel to Barrow probably isn't on most players minds when they sign for us and never will be I would suggest it would actively put lots of players off joining us

Lightflood wrote: ↑Sun Apr 10, 2022 8:36 pm My emphasis was in the main it would be for a year... for a start we don't own several houses when was the lasttime in recent years have we had a player move his family to the area ??

RedWeb wrote: ↑Sun Apr 10, 2022 10:09 am Whatever happens, happens. What I still can't understand is why Barrow have struggled so massively to adapt to the EFL. People on match threads keep saying how many bad teams there are in this league, no better than the National League. If so, why can't Barrow beat any of them, or even score more than the odd goal. Look at Sutton, taken to the EFL without breaking stride - nearly won a final at Wembley against an excellent Rotherham side. Harrogate are a solid mid-table team. It's only Barrow who seem to have made such heavy weather of it. Why?

I still think if we'd won the league after the full 44 games, come up with Evatt still as manager, that momentum and familiarity could have seen us pushing for play-offs. Instead the manager left, the captain left and we ended up appointing a complete novice. It kinda set a tone from which we've never really recovered. The board have made some poor decisions on managers but even they would surely have been entitled to expect the players on the pitch to have done more, like maybe win the odd home game.

Is it just never going to work for Barrow in the EFL? Will training in Bury, Macclesfield or wherever always mean a disconnect between the players and the town? Ideally the players need to be in and around the club every day. Training close by. Enjoying playing at home - even if it is windy. The current set-up just has the feel of veterans and mercenaries looking for a wage before moving on somewhere else - something they'll likely be doing soon.

Lightflood wrote: ↑Sun Apr 10, 2022 8:22 pm Is it realistic to offer a young footballer possibly married with young children of school age a one year deal and expect them to all move to Barrow or immediate area if he's based in central Lancashire and could possibly have the choice of other clubs with training facilities not too far away.
Already mentioned here a few are suggesting we should get rid several players if we succumb to relegation .Moving lock stock and barrel to Barrow probably isn't on most players minds when they sign for us and never will be I would suggest it would actively put lots of players off joining us