Barrow v Shrewsbury Town match thread

[Pedro]

Wasn't pretty from what I've seen and anyone expecting a good game of football Saturday are delusional bearing in mind the conditions.

Unbeaten run continues, gotta be happy with that surely?

On we roll to the next.

We are still short of a couple of players .
Anything other than a defeat is a plus.

[Jim]

As always Andy Whings post match interview on RC well worth a listen, he’s very honest about how bad it was overall

Can anyone give me a link to that interview?

[Main Stand SeasonTct]

As always Andy Whings post match interview on RC well worth a listen, he’s very honest about how bad it was overall

Can anyone give me a link to that interview?

Link to interview below

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0m6ssjk

[andyg]

Wasn't pretty from what I've seen and anyone expecting a good game of football Saturday are delusional bearing in mind the conditions.

Unbeaten run continues, gotta be happy with that surely?

On we roll to the next.

Agree with most of that. However, what concerned me was the second half as Shrewsbury's tactics were far better than ours playing a highish press into the wind. When they did attack they got far more players up and supporting their front men. At no time in the game did we press Shrewsbury as when we did get into their area they panicked due to confidence levels being low. A slightly missed opportunity for us.

[olbarrafancumbak]

Wasn't pretty from what I've seen and anyone expecting a good game of football Saturday are delusional bearing in mind the conditions.

Unbeaten run continues, gotta be happy with that surely?

On we roll to the next.

Agree with most of that. However, what concerned me was the second half as Shrewsbury's tactics were far better than ours playing a highish press into the wind. When they did attack they got far more players up and supporting their front men. At no time in the game did we press Shrewsbury as when we did get into their area they panicked due to confidence levels being low. A slightly missed opportunity for us.

Only seen short highlights but even if Shrewsbury played the better of the two, I still think it's a positive that we didn't concede and took a point.

Opening of the season, the worry was we were literally falling apart at the seams... Results like this and the other two show we are making decent progress! A lot of new faces still and it does take time integrating so many.
We have a half decent group of lads who now look like they are playing for eachother and the badge!!
I think there is more to come and I hope my gut feeling is right but I can see us doing ok this season..

My glass is definitely half full..

[Methuselah]

Apart from being out of position and looking like a headless chicken for most of his time on the pitch He lost possession in midfield in front of the dug outs that lead to a shot on goal and gave away a pointless free kick on the edge of the penalty area.
He offers the defence no cover from midfield and is not fit enough to commit to any kind of meaningful press.
He did have a shot that went over the bar but that's the only thing that he did right but it could be argued he should have scored....same with the chance he missed last week.

Rubbish he did ok yesterday sought to keep the ball moving and had a decent attempt at goal irrespective of your he should have scored were you there yesterday?, have you ever played in conditions like that it's so easy when you're watching but to keep the ball down in that wind is extremely hard !,the pointless free kick you mentioned was when the ball hit him on the arm and everyone around me thought it was harsh to say the least!
No mention of Fletcher who hardly put any effort in to close people down, no mention of Shipley whilst a brave player his distribution was erratic to say the least, our midfield consists of 2 players the support they got from the wingbacks and Mahoney and Fletcher was shocking!, Barkhuizen ( not his fault) but as a wingback it's a joke,
The whole team at times looks totally unbalanced at times it's hard to see exactly how or what formation we're playing is Booty brilliant no but he's not on his own, Whing said a LOT of player's were off it ,that was the understatement of the year, yesterday the conditions were horrendous BUT when it's like that you have too work really hard and try to help each other out ( which Shrewsbury did) it looked like we didn't want to lose!

Have to agree with your comments.The conditions definitely dictated the game.Having said that anyone who has played in those conditions knows if you kick the ball high up it,s going to come straight back.At times I kept wondering why people including Stanway kept doing it.You only succeed in conditions like that if you keep the ball low.I think Stanway must have realised that later in the game as he started to throw the ball out to a defender to move it forward.I do think we need to tighten up our passing though as at times it was quite wayward.He did make a couple of excellent saves though.
As a side issue though whoever picked man of the match got it totally wrong.I thought it should have gone to MJ Williams who worked his socks off and was also shouting instructions to the players around him.

[andyg]

Williams was outstanding and agree should have been MOM. I noticed also that Shrewsbury tended to drive the ball into the wind which technically is a lot better than our team wafting it into the air. However, they could because we didn't close them down quick enough when they had the ball. They didn't allow us any time on the ball and our passing became ragged because of it.

[bluessupporter]

Is it still the sponsors who pick the MOTM?

[Bingley Blue]

Is it still the sponsors who pick the MOTM?

Yes.
I’m not sure who picks Scapegoat Of THe Week though